As big fan of FreeBSD ports, I like to play around with ports option, like when installing php4 I was prompted with a lot of build options : kongja# whereis php4 php4: /usr/ports/lang/php4 kongja# cd /usr/ports/lang/php4 then this ncurse option will popup ===> Found saved configuration for php4-4.4.6 ===> Extracting for php4-4.4.6

Cron is special utility that process command in periodic time such ; doing regular backup every night email special report every week etc cron access can be usefull but sometime not, depend on the command issued. As super user we can list all of entire user crontab entries using log locate in /var/log su-2.05b# tail […]

Convention in Linux for network interface simple and clear. eth for cable connection ath or wifi for wireless connection l0 for loopback sample from my ubuntu feisty fawn box : alamsyah@alamsyah-laptop:~$ ifconfig -a ath0  Link encap:Ethernet� HWaddr 00:14:A4:70:02:3E inet addr:192.168.12.100� Bcast:192.168.12.255� Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::214:a4ff:fe70:23e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST� MTU:1500� Metric:1 RX packets:8945 errors:0 […]

Very interesting to see progress of ZFS in FreeBSD, comitted in FreeBSD 7 ( will release in 2007). This excellent job done by Pawel Jakub Dawidek with collaboration with opensolaris  for suitable patch . Many feature that ZFS offer that make me hard to blink till see last pages of presentation Pawel also give quick […]