Netbsd
Debian Lenny is one of my favorite Linux Distribution (when I have to run Linux… ;) Here’s how to install and run a Lenny domU under a NetBSD/xen dom0 installation.
My dom0 is running NetBSD 5.1_STABLE/amd64 and Xen version 3.3.2.
The domU will be running Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (i386).Continue reading...
The Apache 2.2.17 package shipped in pkgsrc 2010Q4 comes with a nice <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#chrootdir">ChrootDir</a> directive that allows simple chroot configuration.
First, you will need Apache in at least version 2.2.10. Then:
# vi /usr/pkg/etc/httpd/httpd.conf (...) #DocumentRoot "/usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs" ChrootDir "/usr/pkg/share/httpd" DocumentRoot "/htdocs" (...) # ln -s /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs /htdocsContinue reading...
The NetBSD/xen port is able to run M$ Windows domU, since you have a CPU that features the Intel® VMX instruction.Continue reading...
For quite a long time now, I’ve been using the black console. My first contact with *N?X was around 1998, when my father brought me a Slackware CD from a hacking magazine that I don’t recall the name right now. At that time, I was using DOS and Windows 3. That was quite a change ; especially without any Internet access :) I quite often had to go to the bookshop to get UNIX books that were offering CD sets. That how I started fighting with Slackware and Debian distrib :)
About 2000, I got a mid-term job at the Jussieu University of Paris. That’s also when I started getting told that Linux was for kiddies and that real admins use BSD. I know that’s not really a good reason to start using an Operating System, but that’s how I came to the *BSD systems :)Continue reading...
Those are the directions I used to setup an almost complete OpenSource Mail server running NetBSD and pkgsrc.
The Mail server will feature:
E-mail exchange (MX) role on the Internet; E-mail gateway (SMTP) for internal LAN users ; E-mail access (IMAP) for internal LAN users ; Secured (TLS and SASL) access for internal users; Greylisting, RFC check and RBL mail filtering ; Directory (LDAP) for e-mail entries ;Continue reading...