FreeBSD on Shami's Blog

XBOX LIVE With pfSense

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:14:25 +0000

A couple of months ago I switched from running OpenWRT on a TL-WDR4300 to running pfSense on a Netgate RCC-VE 2440. Not that OpenWRT is bad, it’s only because I’m a big fan of FreeBSD and I’ve been wanting to run a similar setup ever since I discovered custom firmware like DD-WRT and afterwards m0n0wall and Soekris. When I finally decided to get the hardware I thought Netgate had a better offering and I went for it.

Fixing Certificate Verification Error After Upgrading to PHP 5.6

Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:09:14 +0000

Since PHP 5.5 reached it’s end of life a while back I started upgrading my servers to PHP 5.6. This has caused some issues but the worst was:

1error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

Booting BSD Router Project On The Netgate RCC-VE 2440

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:22:04 +0000

I have recently acquired a Netgate RCC-VE 2440 which I intend to use as a router/firewall for my house. But I thought I might as well play with it a little before I do so. One of the things I wanted to test was the BSD Router Project to have in place of one of the routers we have here at work but I couldn’t get it to boot, it would always free with just a “\”.

FreeBSD SCP Chroot

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:09:39 +0000

Quick one here, if you want to create an SCP only user on FreeBSD just do the following

Real-Time Network Traffic Stats On FreeBSD

Sun, 08 May 2016 08:17:00 +0000

Quick one here, to get real-time traffic stats on FreeBSD just run the following command 1systat -ifstat

Bootstrapping PKGNG From Your Own Repository

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:47:42 +0000

I’ve been building my own PKGNG repositories with Poudriere lately. Some of the benefits include:

Rrdtool Showing Squares Instead Of Letters In Graphs

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:08:38 +0000

Tried installing Cacti on FreeBSD today and got the following:

Recursively Upgrade Package Dependencies With pkgng

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:05:36 +0000

Update: I now just use pkg upgrade since I have better control over my package repo and it is a much better way to upgrade.

Simulating Cron Runs On The Command Line

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:23:31 +0000

Does this sound familiar?

You write a new script, start it from the command line, everything works properly, you add that script to your crontab then go home, the next day, nothing. So you end up setting up a schedule to run this script the next minute, the script fails, you change something, update the schedule, rinse and repeat.