Installing VSFTPD
1.Install it from the ports cd /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd make config make install clean 2.Edit the vstfpd.conf file in /usr/local/etc/vsftpd.conf to customize the settings 3.To run it […]
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How to save a remote image to local disk
$image_url = “http://example.com/image.jpg”; $ch = curl_init(); $timeout = 0; curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); // Getting binary data curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, […]
How to delete .svn folders recursively
There is a very simple way of doing this. We use the find command to get all the s/.v .svn folders in a folder. The […]
Checklist of applications to install
A reference list of all installed apps required for use on FreeBSD 8.0 or later abiword – Word processing application aterm – Better alternative to […]
Spara beta version is launched
We have beta launched Spara – a free online service for taking backups of your Facebook data. This should be a godsend for people who […]
Recovering from a corrupt rc.conf
Sometimes we may make a mistake in the rc.conf file – either a syntax error or loading something which causes the system to crash. In […]
Apache post-install issue with mod_unique_id
If after installing Apache and starting the server the following message shows in the error logs and the apache server does not start: hostname nor […]
Installing Mysql 5.x
The commands are given below. Though this was used to install mysql 5.5.4 , it is applicable to older versions also (and perhaps newer ones […]
Setting Background Wallpaper in Fluxbox
First of all you need images to show as wallpaper. You can easily get them from various wallpaper sites on the web. Make sure you […]
Always Keep root shell as part of base OS
Most people keep bash as their preferred shell program in FreeBSD. The problem with bash is that it does not come as part of the […]