How to Create and Maintain a ZFS Mirror in NAS4Free
NAS4free is an open source NAS (“Network Attached Storage”) platform based on FreeBSD that supports file sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. Support for ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T, email reports, CIFS FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, HAST, CARP, Bridge, UPnP, and Bittorent, are among its many features – all […] Read More →
Check if a Device or File System is Mounted
Occasionally I find myself needing to mount a remote file system on a local *BSD or Linux machine. On one such occasion recently I had mounted an NFS file system from a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server to a local machine running FreeBSD, for the purpose of backing up some of the files to yet […] Read More →
Content Scraping and Attribution
Last week I recieved a “pingback” on this post. I was curious about what may have been discussed so I navigated to the site and discovered they had simply scraped the entire post, representing it as their own. Content scraping is nothing new of course and happens all the time on large, popular sites, but […] Read More →
How to Use Portmaster to Update Ports
(20170315 — The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software — iceflatline) The Ports Collection is a set of Makefile, patches, and description files stored in /usr/ports. This set of files is used for building and installing applications on FreeBSD, and other BSD-based operating systems. This post will […] Read More →
How to Securely Login to Your WordPress Web Site Using SSH Port Forwarding
This post describes how to securely login to your web site using an SSH (“Secure Shell”) tunnel created using dynamic SSH port forwarding. You will need to have access to an SSH connection to your web hosting account. Most web hosts should be able to provide you with one. While this post uses a WordPress-based […] Read More →