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Last Update: Mon Jan 8 21:40:10 2007

+ Problems installing GTK20 + When doing a port upgrade several X-based ports failed. After some struggling I found out the reason, the graphics/cairo port didnt ...

+ hda sound driver on Asus M2NPV-VM + Download latest from http://people.freebsd.org/ariff/HDA/kmod/ kldload ./sound.ko kldload ...

+ едц all over + I have never really got åäö to work properly on my system before. I got it working in samba but when doing ls at a ...

+ Continued problems with mount_smbfs + So mounted some samba directories and seemed to work fine. One of these was the root for a virtual host on my apache server and I got ...

+ Using fstab to automatically mount samba drives + It is possible to specify mount_smbfs-mounts in /etc/fstab. For instance it can be used to automatically mount Samba drives ...

+ Mounting a shared windows drive + I'm about to setup a photoblog for a friend and since he currently got his machine/server standing here I thought it could be ...

+ ClamD + Excidentally restarted my machine and got problems with clamd: ERROR: Socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket could not be bound: ...

+ IMAP stops responding + My qmail setup has worked quite well, though I have had a bit of irritating thing with it. After opening a number of folders in ...

+ Changing IP + So once more I changed ISP. Each time I do that the server gets really slow to ssh into, have not figured out yet why. But to speed up ...

+ Strange perl error while updating ports + When running /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -raI got several errors: ** Port marked as IGNORE: databases/p5-DBD-Pg: Needs DBI 1.38 which [...] and try again ** Port marked as IGNORE: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin: Needs perl 5.6.1 or higher, install lang/perl5.8 and try...

+ Problems installing Horde again + I have just made a total upgrade of my ports tree and ran into some problems. One was that Horde or rather php couldnt load any ...

+ Configure IPFW for BitTorrent + Here's an article that describes what ports are needed to open up to have BitTorrent to run efficiently. One comment recommend ...

+ Keeping installed packages up-to-date + This FreeBSDDiary article explains how to keep your installed packages from ports up-to-date. "The FreeBSD Diary -- Got ports? Here is ...

+ Installing qmail + I have been planning on installing mail on this server for quite some time but never really got around to do it, until now. So qmail ...

+ Upgrade 4.8 -> 4.10 + So once more I upgraded my system. It gets smother and smother. This time, the only problem I had was that I could not the machine to ...