Been busy lately, very busy. Just got 2 XEON Dual Core servers, running FreeBSD 6.1 with SMP kernel compiled, running Intel Chipset. But the Intel PRO/1000 Network Card has given me some headache. Manage to solve it by downloaded Intel PRO/1000 driver from intel website. Download the latest driver that support FreeBSD 6.x
If you are [...]

To whom that stayed at my apartment during the weekend and complaint the wireless router was not working. Mine is ThinkPad X40, yours is ThinkPad X41, which is more advance than me. Mine works, yours don’t. Don’t complain my wireless AP :).

Loitering around Google and finding a way to archive/backup incoming email in Exim email server. I went through the documentation in Exim offical website and found out a solution to do that with $tod_log, substr and shadow_transport.
The below transport rule will backup copy of email into /mail/backup/datetime/domainname/userid

save_incoming_email:
driver = appendfile
file = /mail/backup/${substr_0_10:$tod_log}/$domain/$local_part
[...]

Am experimenting suphp on several servers for security reason. During installation, I have encoutered few error messages and problems. Here are what I want to share;
Error in suphp.c on line xxx
After suphp installation, fire up apache web server. Misconfiguration error message displayed on the site, and it said, “read error log file”. tail the error [...]

One of our mailserver having problem last week. It’s caused by the massive connections connected into the server sending out newsletter(large database unstoppable loops) from one host.
2006-06-15 08:50:06 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:20 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:24 Connection from [201.xx.xx.xx] refused: too many connections
2006-06-15 08:50:28 Connection from [...]

I have been having problems running port cvsup on one of my FreeBSD machines recently. Until there is a certainty of a line, it displays the error;

***
***
runtime error:
*** ASSERT failed
*** file “/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui/work/cvsup-snap-16.1h/suplib/src/FileStatus.m3″, line 616
***
I managed to solve the problem after 1 week. What I did was rename /usr/sup folder to another name, run [...]

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon ™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron ™, Athlon 64, and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team [...]

Wow.. FreeBSD new interface layout is clean and nice.

The new layout..

and we must remember the old