Did you ever wanted to remove a single line from your shell history? This is how you can easily do it: use: history -d line number to remove the line, for example history -d 431, […]
Category: bsd
A Magic Trick From ZFS
This is a short description about how to recover a single or multiple files from a ZFS snapshot on FreeBSD. The same trick might work on Linux, I haven’t tried, if you did please let […]
How’s YOUR server doin’?
If you are using FreeBSD then you must be familiar with daily run output or daily security run output messages. They can be found in the root user’s mailbox by simply typing mail as root. If you’re […]
The Power Of CTRL+T
Did you know that you can check what a process is doing by pressing CTRL+T? Has it happened to you before that you were waiting for something to be finished that can take a lot […]
% and crontab
Crontab is a wonderful tool to run tasks at scheduled times. I noticed that my cron jobs fail if I use the percentage sign (%) in it. Why? It works if I just execute the […]
zfs allow
By default many zfs operations needs elevated/root privileges. For example receiving a snapshot on a remote system. One does not want to open ssh to root user. With zfs allow permissions can be delegated to […]
Beastie stockings
The perfect Christmas present for a FreeBSD fan You can have yours from https://www.etsy.com/listing/496638945/freebsd-beastie-christmas-stocking
Bandwidth limiting on OS-X [Yosemite, El Capitan or *BSD]
Since Yosemite OS-X is not using ipfw but pf. So if you’re using those ipfw commands to limit your bandwidth, well… they won’t work. You’ll have to learn and implement some pf rules. The usage of […]
Beastie On the Bike
A very special drawing by JRD The original BSD Daemon is copyrighted by Marshall Kirk McKusic. BSD Daemon Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved.