Category: freebsd

  • installing anti-virus software

    This document serves to remind me later what steps I took to get anti-virus software up and running on my FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 system. I'm using the stock sendmail 8.12.9 that comes with FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE (by my count it's at roughly patchlevel 2..) I also plan to only use one copy of the MTA rather than…

  • Patches I’ve Submitted to FreeBSD

    ports/79937 – Upgrade graphics/head to version 2.3 ports/65236 – Upgrade graphics/jhead to version 2.1 ports/57144 – Upgrade mail/dspam to version 2.7.1 misc/50299 – Allow underscores in hostnames and domain names in the FreeBSD resolver ports/41126 – Update graphics/jhead to version 1.8 to resolve some flash detection issues on Canon and Fuji digital cameras ports/38457 –…

  • FreeBSD 4.x on a Satellite 3005-S304

    This page describes my experiences installing FreeBSD on a Toshiba Satellite S3005-S304 series laptop. This should be the exact same procedure as the Satellite S3000-S304 series laptop. Page layout and things are heavily borrowed from Dan Pelleg's FreeBSD on a Thinkpad X23 page. This page assumes you know how to install ports, compile kernels, and…