Posts Tagged ‘ freebsd ’

Replace sendmail with ssmpt to send email via Gmail

Okay let’s set up your freebsd 8 system to use gmail as its MTA. This guide will assist you in setting up your server to send email via gmail with a secure logon. We’re replacing sendmail with ssmpt because ssmpt is so much easier to configure and sendmail is overkill when you just need to [ READ MORE ]

How to use Sendmail with FreeBSD

  • April 28th, 2010
  • Posted in Unix

Using sendmail with freebsd is easy. Here we will cover[ READ MORE ]

Enable FTP FreeBSD and Allow Only Localhost

  • February 3rd, 2010
  • Posted in Unix

Enable FTP on your FreeBSD server and allow only your localhost (local machine) access to the ftpd server[ READ MORE ]

Best freeBSD Firewall for a Web Server, PF Configuration and Testing

  • February 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Unix

You’ll see many articles discussing various firewalls for BSD. freeBSD comes with three firewalls but I’ll lay out what I believe is the best freebsd firewall for a web server, pf[ READ MORE ]

How to shutdown freebsd 8 and stop shutdown

  • February 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Unix

Shutdown freebsd now[ READ MORE ]

FreeBSD 8 LAMP Install for WordPress

  • February 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Unix

How to install FreeBSD 8 for WordPress. It’s a basic LAMP install but since we’re not using linux it should be called BAMP or maybe FAMP? Who cares.. here are the steps to install FreeBSD 8 with apache, mySQL, PHP then install wordpress. I’ll be using ports of course for this entire install. I’m assuming [ READ MORE ]

How to Keep FreeBSD Up to Date

  • January 7th, 2010
  • Posted in Unix

Keeping the freeBSD installation up-to-date is simple. # portsnap fetch # portsnap update # portmanager -u -l[ READ MORE ]