Protecting files from unwanted deletion is very important security on the tasklist of Unix Administrators. On Linux boxes you can use the chattr command and that works  ine on all my Ubuntu based servers. On FreeBSD, this command doesn’t exist. An … Continue reading →

nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is an open-source web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under a BSD-like license and it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Microsoft Windows. My test server details: root@FreBSD-Unixmen:/root # uname … Continue reading →

The usage of MySQL for development is free. As you are not giving away that product (MySQL), no GPL restrictions apply. If you want to distribute MySQL in some form, the licenses apply. See: MySQL commercial license MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational … Continue reading →

Let’s use the same definition of rfxn, Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux, released under the GNU GPLv2 License. It is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge … Continue reading →

Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data … Continue reading →

Normally we are writing  more  about Linux here at Unixmen. But today, I will give you some tips about the FreeBSD upgrade system and packages. Question: How to update ports in FreeBSD? Answer: Let me give you some information about … Continue reading →

This article provides a short introduction to the Python programming language. Python is a free and open source programming language which is getting very popular . Statistical analysis and facts show that Python is taking the lead as one of … Continue reading →

I have installed Slackware Linux version 13.37 and have updated it to the latest version. How did I this? First, add to /etc/slackpkg/mirrors the 14.0 repository. In performed this:  http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/slackware/slackware64-14.0/ Now to sync and update the packages: # slackpkg check-updates … Continue reading →

LAMP is a combination of free, open source software. The acronym LAMP refers to the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software), and PHP, Perl or Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.[1]

How to enable su  in FreeBSD?