Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category

Cacti 0.8.7b on FreeBSD - Invalid PHP_SELF Path

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

I have just installed Cacti on a new FreeBSD 6.3 machine that I've been playing with, and the latest version from ports seems to be broken, displaying the error "Invalid PHP_SELF Path" when I browse to it with a web browser. A Google search reveals that it seems to be a ...

Mounting FreeBSD UFS2 file system on Ubuntu Linux

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I needed to read data from a USB connected hard disk formatted as UFS by FreeBSD 6.x on an Ubuntu Linux system. As it turns out, it was easier than I expected, as Ubuntu (well, Ubuntu Server at least) has built in read-only support for UFS file systems. $ dmesg ...

Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris net5501

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Today I installed and configured FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris Engineering net5501 (which was purchased by mail order from Yawarra Information Appliances in Victoria, who have been very helpful). It will be functioning as an office firewall/gateway. This particular unit has a 433MHZ AMD Geode Integrated Processor and 256MB of ...

FreeBSD 4.x SMP kernel panic on non-SMP machine

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Following the death this afternoon of a (somewhat critical) FreeBSD 4 machine here in the office, I hurriedly swapped the hard disk out of it's original machine (a white-box Pentium 4 of some description which hangs every few minutes) in to the first available "spare" machine I found; a single ...

FreeBSD 6.2 on Dell Poweredge SC440

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The Dell Poweredge SC440 is an entry level "tower" server designed for small business environments. We have a couple of these in the rack in the office now, they're quite decent machines -- decently priced and well featured. Operating system support is generally good, it supports Linux out of the box ...