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1. Mailgraph on OpenBSD (chroot)
(Computer/BSD)

I've written this howto because there is little documentation to get mailgraph working in a Chrooted OpenBSD environment. Thanks to a couple of sites including the archives of Neohapsis and this little ...

2. GD with freetype support chrooted
(Computer/BSD)

... part2=`uname -r | cut -d"." -f 2` cd /tmp wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/i386/xbase$$.tgz cd / tar xzpf /tmp/xbase$$.tgz *freetype* tar xzpf /tmp/xbase$$.tgz ./usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.* ...

3. Ioncube for OpenBSD 4.2
(Computer/BSD)

I have helped the guys from ioncube to make the ioncube loaders available for OpenBSD 4.2. The instructions to make this work are really easy. First download the ioncube loaders from the loader page. ...

4. Any program to chroot (apache)
(Computer/BSD)

I've written a script to copy any program to the chrooted environment of apache with its libraries. Just load the script and use the full path as the first parameter. Example. If you call the script ...

5. FFmpeg Openbsd with chroot howto
(Computer/BSD)

I use this program in OpenBSD for Gallery2. FFmpeg needs some X libraries. The file it uses can be found in the xbaseXX.tgz package. You don't need to install the whole package. Just extract it in /tmp ...

6. OpenBSD Mailserver
(Computer/BSD)

...  Anti-virus with clamav Fetchmail to fetch remote email and inject it in your mailserver Squirrelmail for webmail. What to install At the time of writing I use OpenBSD 4.2. I make ...

7. Requeue Postfix mail
(Computer/BSD)

After messing around with the Postfix configs last night, I noted this morning that I wasn’t getting any mail.  I found this interesting because I had made some changes to main.cf and master.cf but didn’t ...

8. Rename without rename
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

Here is a one-liner to rename everyfile in the current directory without using the command rename. (this command isn't available on OpenBSD, so I had to use this solution) for i in ./* ; do mv ...

9. Unison 2.17.1 on Ubuntu
(Computer/Linux)

I upgrade my OpenBSD to version 4.2 and installed the new unison package. This is now version 2.17.1. Unfortunately Ubuntu 7.10 still uses the older one (2.13). So I had to upgrade by hand. This is how ...

10. Apache LDAP authentication
(Computer/BSD)

To have a user authorize himself (via Active Directory) to access some directory you can use the following config. This configuration has to be in /var/www/conf/httpd.conf or included into that file. ...

11. libWWW perl library, scriptkiddies denied
(Computer/Joomla)

... default enabled in OpenBSD. See this section for more information about OpenBSD.   ...

12. website/username with community builder
(Computer/Joomla)

... virtualhosts (if you use this) allows your .htaccess to be read and used. I use OpenBSD with apache and the default configuration says: AllowOverride None So what I need to do was to create ...

13. ImageMagick to Chrooted Apache
(Computer/BSD)

I've made a script to make an upgrade of OpenBSD just a little bit easier when you use ImageMagick in your Chrooted environment. This script copies 3 executables and its libraries to the chrooted environment ...

14. PHP mail function in OpenBSD
(Computer/BSD)

... there are some components which uses the PHP mail function. The downside of the PHP mail function with OpenBSD is, it wants to use sendmail. This is ofcourse a NO GO in a chrooted environment. So the ...

15. access to / failed
(Computer/BSD)

[Tue Oct 30 08:58:20 2007] [error] [client 217.169.232.211] (13)Permission denie: access to / failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path meaning there is a "x" , directorylisting, ...

16. Setting up a webDAV
(Computer/BSD)

Todays howto is setting up a webdav with apache in OpenBSD. First thing to do is installing the mod_dav (I use OpenBSD 4.0), and follow the steps (enabling mod_dav) pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/mod_dav-1.0.3p1.tgz ...

17. openbsd, encrypted, nas, howto
(Computer/BSD)

Always wanted to have a very secure NAS server which you can trust... Take a look at the following howto.

18. MySQL commands and recovery
(Computer/Other)

Thanks to nixCraft Changing your password mysqladmin command at shell prompt as follows: $ mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD However if you want to change (or update) a ...

19. phpBB + LDAP auth
(Computer/Other)

This article will tell you how to configure phpBB to authenticate to a Windows 2003 Active Directory Server. As a server I use OpenBSD 4.0 with php5-core-5.1.4p1-hardened and mysql-server-5.0.24a. How ...

20. Apache, SSL + rerwrite, CAcert howto
(Computer/Other)

... ^/admin/ https://%/admin/ [R,L] Once you're done, restart apache and find out if it is working. NOTE: for non OpenBSD viewers, you'll maybe have to enable some apache modules to get things ...

21. OpenBSD phpMyAdmin
(Computer/BSD)

(At the time of writing I use OpenBSD 4.0) phpMyAdmin can be used to administer mysql from a webfrontend. This is very useful if you do not master the art of MySQL. To install phpMyAdmin use the following ...

22. OpenBSD Bittorrent
(Computer/BSD)

Tijdens het downloaden van bepaalde bestanden kreeg ik wel eens de volgened error: killed by IO error: [Errno 24]. Ik wist niet zo goed wat ik hiermee aan moest. Als eerste had ik wat instellingen veranderd ...

23. OpenBSD PF
(Computer/BSD)

Some info: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ https://solarflux.org/pf/ http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/long-firewall.html#PREFACE http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/firewall.htm#ipfilter  ...

24. Newsyslog for Apache
(Computer/BSD)

I didn't get logrotating working in Apache so I made it possible by shutting down apache and rotate the logs and putting apache back on. See my script below that is used in crontab. Script: #!/bin/sh ...

25. OpenBSD apache
(Computer/BSD)

file: /var/www/conf/httpd.conf Ik zal niet de hele configuratie bespreken aangezien die behoorlijk voor zich spreekt. Wel behandel ik een aantal punten die van belang waren voor mij, of helemaal niet ...

26. OpenBSD /etc/security
(Computer/BSD)

Below you'll find the normal piece of the security file. Linenumber 424 - 433 I've editted this because of the mailserver setup I use. This is described here: Mailserver. This way I only get an insecurity ...

27. OpenBSD /etc/login.conf
(Computer/BSD)

I changed this file because it was nessecary for Bittorrent . from line 40. default:\ ... :openfiles-cur=64:\ ... changed to: default:\ ... :openfiles-cur=256:\ ...

28. OpenBSD /etc/changelist
(Computer/BSD)

In the directory /etc you'll find the file changelist. This file is used to keep track of changes on files. In this changelist-file you'll see a list of files which are being monitored. Also files listed ...

29. OpenBSD Profile
(Computer/BSD)

Here you'll find the profile I created for OpenBSD. This profile is based on KSH. The first is the user profile, the second the root profile. User Profile ####### Aliases ####### alias ll='ls -lhF' ...

30. Screen
(Computer/BSD)

Screen is a virtual terminal manager which makes live at bit easier to run programs in the background or just to use more shell within only 1 window. How to use screen can be found here: http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/screen-3.9.4/html_chapter/screen_toc.html ...