Interesting posts here on ZFS tuning, espcially posts #34 and #35.
Post #37 has an interesting perl solution.

Both BSDCan and PGCon use Pentabarf for accepting and reviewing proposals for talks. An issue raised in 2009 highlighted the ability to see the speaker name when review the list of submissions. It is a bit of very useful information.
This year, I’ve found out that we can see that vital data. Provided […]

Tonight I encountered this problem when starting stunnel:

2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG7[43534:134656000]: Private key loaded
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG7[43534:134656000]: SSL context initialized for service 6000
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG5[43534:134656000]: stunnel 4.25 on i386-portbld-freebsd6.3 with OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG5[43534:134656000]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG6[43534:134656000]: file ulimit = 11095 (can be changed with ‘ulimit -n’)
2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG6[43534:134656000]: poll() used […]

I’ve been playing with OpenVPN since mid December. I like it. I like it better than IPsec. Why? Because OpenVPN can give me direct access to all my systems wherever I am. I can cvsup from my cvsup server at home from a hotel in Toledo (if I’m ever there). […]

Ever had a cactus remotely injected?
Sounds painful. Not really.

Just about everyone has been putting ads on their websites. I’ve been with BurstMedia since early 1999. They are very reliable. Their cheques have always arrived on time and I have never had reason to question their results.
Then Google AdSense arrived. I started using AdSense in April 2006. I was […]

I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.

FreshPorts is an automated reporting mechanism for the FreeBSD ports and package. You may be familiar with freshmeat, upon which FreshPorts is loosely based. The major difference is that FreshPorts is 100% automated; everything operates off scripts.
Features
The key features of FreshPorts includes a powerful search tool and the ability to create custom watch […]

I’m getting through the firewall upgrade process. The first error was forgetting to set up the NAT rules. That was a silly error.
Right now, I just have to get stunnel installed and configured. I used that for publishing my websites. From the web server, I run cvsup and get the latest files […]

I have a firewall that’s running FreeBSD 4.11. I’m planning to upgrade to 5.4 tonight. The backups are running (via Bacula [of course!]) now.
I installed 5.4 on a separate HDD a few weeks ago, but have not copied over the configuration files etc. I’ll have to do that tonight.
I’ll be documenting what […]