FreeBSD related stuff

If you have any questions or comments on this, please look me up in #FreeBSDHelp on efnet. My nick is S_tammer

Application links

Mail stuff

• Quick and dirty disk IO speed test for ZFS pools
• Update FreeBSD across new versions (FreeBSD Upgrade Howto)
• Keeping ports current
• Check HTTP server via telnet
• Console improvements
• Dump/restore howto
• Screen cheat sheet
• Quick Apache self-signed cert howto
• Add a wireless access point to your BSD machine
• Antispam setup (dspam, postgrey, postfixadmin, postfix, virtual users, sieve)

For a long time I used portmanager and it is great way to upgrade ports and all their dependencies, but recently I grew tired of having it rebuild EVERY port that depends on the port getting upgraded, so I looked around and found a different tool, portmaster. It just seems cleaner and works a lot faster since it does a lot of things in parallel

This program caches all compiler output and then, on subsequent compiles, will pull things from the cache as needed. It is a HUGE timesaver.

Lightweight, easy to use editor that looks like pico, but you do not need to install pine to get it.

Brute force SSH attacks suck. Stop them cold with this!

This handy little port will let you set up commonly used knobs for other ports. Basically you set the build options you want to use and portconf does the rest. It works very well!