Blog entries tagged freebsd

remote syslog

Brad Waite — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:04 +0100

syslog is the standard system logging tool on most flavors of unix. It stores records of system events in a number of user-defined files. On FreeBSD, these files live by default in /var/log. syslog has a configuration file, /etc/syslog.conf, that determines which file to log system events.

What a lot of people don't know is that syslog can send events to a remote syslog server. This means you can have all of your logs from multiple machines stored on a single hoRead More...

Create SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with OpenSSL for Apache

Brad Waite — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Overview
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For new SSL servers:

1. Generate new server key
2. Generate CSR
3. Have key signed
4. Install signed key

For existing SSL servers:

1. Generate CSR
2. Have key signed
3. Install signed key

Generate new server key
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This creates a new 1024 bit server key named website.key:

# openssl genrsa -out website.key 1024
GenRead More...

Mount a Windows XP share under FreeBSD

Brad Waite — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:00:00 +0100

mount_smbfs -U -I -W ///

Example:

mount_smbfs -U fred -I fileserver -W WORKGROUP //fileserver/files /mnt