FreeBSD – Page 36 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Aug 1 2006

Burst and Google make a good team

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, The FreeBSD Diary / By Dan Langille / August 1, 2006

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 still using Burst, but added AdSense as a personal campaign. That is, if Burst could not fill a particular ad slot, AdSense […]

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Jul 23 2006

Fundraising for new hardware

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, The FreeBSD Diary / By Dan Langille / July 23, 2006

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

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Sep 23 2005

Over 1 year of uptime

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Open Source / By Dan Langille / September 23, 2005

This is the webserver you’re reading from: $ uptime 5:31AM up 366 days, 12:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.45, 0.41, 0.50 This server does about 10 websites, and about 45GB a month, and does mail for about 15 domains.

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Jul 17 2005

Avoiding deadlock on FreshPorts

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / July 17, 2005

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 lists that allow you to track changes to any port and receive automated notification via email. FreshPorts uses

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Jul 17 2005

Firewall upgrade – progress

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD / By Dan Langille / July 17, 2005

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 from my CVS repository. Hopefully, I’ll have the firewall on 5.4 and running later this week.

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Jul 15 2005

Upgrading the Firewall

Leave a Comment / Bacula, FreeBSD, Open Source / By Dan Langille / July 15, 2005

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 is required and post it on The FreeBSD Diary.

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