August 29, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
I asked a question on the newsgroup: how to delete the files with special names like “–name”, someone pointed me a great Unix FAQ page. It’s also a must read for FreeBSD users:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part1/
August 8, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
Different CPUs seem to make big difference in terms of performance.
My two FreeBSD servers have the same configurations (FreeBSD 5.3/Apache 1.33/PHP 4/MySQL 4) and the same memory (1GB ram). Server 1 uses AMD Athlon XP2400; Server 2 uses Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz. When executing a PHP script with a few MySQL operations, despite of more visitors and bigger database, server 2 is still significantly faster than server 1.
June 20, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
Today, I read two articles along with their comments about FreeBSD: Review: FreeBSD 5.4 and Linus compares Linux and BSDs, I think they can be summarized in one sentence: FreeBSD is not for general purpose and doesn’t work well as a workstation. Read More
June 15, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
Very occasionally my websites are inaccessible for several seconds, then back to normal, soon inaccessible again. The uptime is very good and unlikely to be a performance problem, the only reason I can think of is network congestion. Currently I’m using 10 MB uplink, and I have been wondering if 100 MB uplink is only for heavy servers, or most servers can benefit from it as well. Read More
June 11, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
FreeBSD Resource Collections
FreeBSD Handbook
FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages
FreeBSD Security Alert
FreeBSD articles on ONLamp.com
I’ll keep adding new websites, please let me know if you know any other websites which should be listed here.
May 9, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
I deleted the log files of Postfix and Apache manually, these files weren’t re-created even after I restarted Postfix and Syslogd, and it ended with a system reboot. I need to find a good way to rerotate Apache log files. Read More
April 19, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
It seems to be important to have a hostname which can be queried(nslookup or ping), especially for MTA. My ISP used something like myname.ispdomain.com by default, which I can’t add A record on my DNS server. Read More
April 13, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
Several important logs:
1. /var/log/messages
2. /var/log/auth.log
3. # dmesg -a
4. /var/log/maillog
March 31, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
Bind
Configuration file: /etc/namedb/named.conf
Start: # /etc/rc.d/named restart[start/stop]# rndc reload Read More
January 14, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
To add a new website on FreeBSD, here is the complete procedure, that’s what CPanel does when creating a new account. All commands are executed by root account. Read More
January 13, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
Finally, I solved the DNS problem, the following steps after that are much easier. Read More
January 5, 2005 Posted in FreeBSD General
My server is completely new, only the OS was installed. I installed some program and learned a little basics of FreeBSD yesterday, it’s fun 
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