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Updating FreeBSD 8.1
After the box that was hosting the old FreeBSD box (version 6.x) finally gave up the ghost and knowing that I wanted to skip 7.x, I just finished a fresh install of 8.1. After setting up my accounts the next … Continue reading
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Updating FreeBSD 6.2
Ah good old FreeBSD sometimes you forget that you actually have to patch it. While I am fairly good about keeping my release current, this is one of the few times that I have had to update because of an … Continue reading
Creating Certificate Authority (CA) for a SSL Certificate
1) Create the certificate authority certificate and key. Make sure you remember the password you use. You will need to use it repeatedly. mkdir /CERTS/ldap-certs/ca cd /CERTS/ldap-certs/ca openssl req -new -x509 -keyout ./ca.key -out ./ca.crt echo 01 > /CERTS/ldap-certs/ca/serial touch … Continue reading
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Updating FreeBSD 6.0 to FreeBSD 6.1
Preliminary Work 1) First make sure that you have cvsup installed pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui rehash 2) Setup your standard-supfile to update to the Release English 6.1 Sources cp /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile ~/ 3) Edit the standard-supfile file: vi standard-supfile Change *default release=cvs … Continue reading
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Notes on Keeping FreeBSD 6 up to date
Updating FreeBSD 6.x Before you start Setup environment for packages: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp2.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ Using freebsd-update to update standard kernels 1) Add freebsd update package: pkg_add -r freebsd-update 2) Setup and use freebsd-update: cp /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freebsd-update.conf mkdir /usr/local/freebsd-update freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update … Continue reading
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