In my experience as a Systems Administrator, it has come up quite often to create a script to rotate and compress rather large log files. Read More
Software RAID in Linux
Tweet Several occasions have arisen where a client requested software raid-1 between two IDE drives in their server. Obviously the servers in question had no hardware raid capabilities, and compromising disk I/O read/write times for increased redundancy was more important. Below is a simple tutorial for setting up software raid in Linux, using MDADM. The [...] Read More
Creating a FreeBSD wireless access point
To set up a wireless access point using FreeBSD, you need to have a compatible wireless card. We are using a Prism 2-based chipset. For a complete list of cards that are supported, consult the man page for wi, or visit the Wireless Network Interface Section of the FreeBSD documentation site. Read More
Monitoring raw traffic on a Juniper Netscreen
Tweet Occasionally I will run into situations where the only way to definitively diagnose network related problems is to perform raw traffic dumps on a main internal / external interface. The reasons for needing to perform this could be anything. I thought I’d share the quick and easy steps to perform in order to do [...] Read More
Dual Monitors in FreeBSD
One of the headaches I've encountered is trying to get my Dual monitors working with my Ati/Radeon video card in FreeBSD. I've written a little tutorial to help those who may need help or are thinking of implementing a second monitor. Read More
Optimizing the FreeBSD kernel
Without getting into too much detail, here are several things that we usually "omit" from the kernel options during make buildworld / buildkernel to provide for a 60-70% kernel footprint reduction Read More
Welcome to the new Star Dot Hosting Blog!
Tweet We at SDH have made the decision to start a technology / hosting related blog. Expect to see more interesting things here soon! - SDH Team Read More