One year ago, I purchased a VPS from QuickWeb. I found the deal at my one of my favorite sites for cheap hosting: www.lowendbox.com. The deal was:
I ordered …
more ...I was running ntpd locally on a server and wanted to check in on ntpd's status. ntpq -p was not producing any output even though ntpd was running.
# ntpq -p
localhost: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
This is because I had the option "restrict default ignore" set in …
more ...Thanks to: http://scottspare.com/bsdfun/?p=75 for pointing me in the right direction. Compiling port updates can take a while and slow down your server. What you can do is use the 'nice' utility to force the processes to a lower priority. This will help your server to …
more ...I lost power while freebsd-update fetch was downloading patches up to 8.0-Release-p3. When the server came back online, I ran a freebsd-update fetch again and it still found two files that needed updating. after running freebsd-update install, got this error:
# freebsd-update install
Installing updates...gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end …So the spanking new freebsd-update doesn't work for sparc systems... boo. Have to do everything manually. Here's what I remember. Let me know if I forgot something, or its wrong.(very likely)
Install cvsup:
# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui/
# make install
install fastest cvsup:
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup …