http://www.bsdspot.com/blog FreeBSD Systems Administration Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:38:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, I know pidgin binaries are available for Lenny, but let's build Pidgin 2.4.3 from source anyway... Lenny will be the new "stable" soonish (September?) and the Pidgin team don't provide Debian binaries for stable. (This will probably work on etch. I posted build instructions here for Pidgin 2.4.1 ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/35 1. KeePassX depends on the Qt libraries so fetch the necessary dependencies first apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui libpng3 2. Get the debian package from http://www.keepassx.org/downloads 3. Install it dpkg -i KeePassX-0.2.2.deb http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/34 We need these to build it apt-get install gettext libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev perl-xml libraries may also be needed apt-get install libxml-perl To build it with ssl (needed for msn and google talk), we need the gnutls development headers apt-get install libgnutls-dev Get the source http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pidgin/pidgin-2.3.1.tar.bz2 Build it tar jxvf pidgin-2.3.1.tar.bz2 cd pidgin-2.3.1 ./configure --enable-gnutls=yes make make install pidgin is at /usr/local/bin/pidgin http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/33 I've tried to get Flash working with Firefox on FreeBSD a number of times, but haven't been able to get it just right until recently. I'm using, FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 with firefox-2.0_2,1. The following worked for me (Thanks to a post from Lluis López: here). 1. First ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/31 I just installed Java on my FreeBSD box. In the past it has been a nightmare to install Java due to licensing issues - BUT - the FreeBSD Foundation has negotiated a license with Sun to distribute JRE and JDK binaries for FreeBSD. Installation is now very easy! Download the ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/25 There are plenty of times that you need to stop Qmail for maintainence purposes. The qmailctl script generally does a good job of stopping qmail, but sometimes it does not quite shutdown all of the qmail processes. [root@here]# qmailctl stop Stopping qmail... qmail-smtpd qmail-send [root@here]# qmailctl stat /service/qmail-send: up (pid 32436) 358918 seconds, ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/24 To get awstats to work with qmail log files I use this little script from Bob Hutchinson called qlogs4awstats. Download the file and edit the lines below to reflect your local paths. Most likely only the third line below will need to be edited, to reflect where you have installed awstats. chdir("/var/log/qmail/qmail-send"); my ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/22 When installing ports from the ports tree, I was intrigued by this message for a long time: root@t2# make ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found I never really had time to check out what the vulnerability check was and what the database it refered to was. Some time later, in an ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/17 Part of my daily security routine is to check machine logs for signs of suspicious activity. Recently I found a few shell commands showing up in the Apache error log of one of the machines. It took a long time to track down the problem. In the end I found ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/19 Welcome to BSDSpot. We specialise in FreeBSD systems administration. If you're looking for long term systems administration or one off systems adminstration you've come to the right place. BSDSpot has been doing systems administration for a number of private clients for the past 3 years. During this time we have configured ... http://www.bsdspot.com/blog/archives/7