Bash security vulnerabilities

update – September 25 4:00PM EDT (20:00 UTC):  Apparently the extent of the flaw in bash was not contained in just the original security report CVE-2014-6271 and initial update.  There is a similar security concern documented in CVE-2014-7169 which Red Hat says...

FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE now available

The FreeBSD Project officially announced the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. New features include the following: New Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework ZFS improvements from illumos project CAM Target Layer, a disk...

Setting Up Your First VPS FAMP Stack

by: Diego Montalvo   RootBSD VPS instances are installed with a current version of FreeBSD and with SSH access but nothing else. In this tutorial, you will learn how to update the ports tree and install PHP, Apache, and MySQL (FAMP Stack) on your VPS.  ...

Administering FreeBSD Using Webmin

by: Diego Montalvo Since I began using FreeBSD 4.x, I quickly learned of Webmin, a web-based server administration tool, which allows administrators to manage everything from: Mysql, Apache, Sendmail, system processes, networking and much more. One of the coolest...

How to mirror FreeBSD with CVSup

The following was done with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. CVSup is a highly efficient way of distributing files. It works similar to rsync, but was specially designed for use with CVS repositories. Requirements: 5.4 GB disk space ( an additional 10-20% more free space is...