Real FreeBSD Tips

You’ve got your FreeBSD web server up, server is running smoothly, and you’re getting a lot of hits. Great! Until your webserver stops responding, you log in, see no load, but all your httpd processes are running in zoneli state. You can’t kill them, the only way you can fix it is to reboot the [...]

Browsing through Digg today I came across a very comprehensive guide to configuring a LAMP server on FreeBSD. For those who do not know, LAMP stands for Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, and is one of the most common configurations for web hosting today.
Technically, on FreeBSD it should be FAMP, but who are we to nitpick, it is linux.com [...]

We have another quick bite of information from over at the FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD now has both an official forum and a YouTube channel.
BSDConferences aims to provide full video lectures about FreeBSD and other BSD flavours. From the press release:
This channel allows us to post full hour long lectures from FreeBSD conferences. The first four [...]

Just a quick heads up for everyone that 6.4 RELEASE is now available for download. Some of the features of the new release are:

New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client
Support for the Camellia cipher
Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes
DVD install ISO [...]

Brute force attacks are becoming more and more common in todays security landscape; if you receive security cron logs from your FreeBSD server you will know exactly what I mean. These attacks usually use automated software to try thousands of username and password combinations on SSH and FTP, continually aiming to find a weak account [...]