bsdtalk
Summary: Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.
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Podcasts:
Interview with OpenBSD developer Marco Peereboom.
News: Sendmail security hole. Interview with Mark Kane from MKProductions
Thin Clients with XDMCP: edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and Xaccess. connect from thin client using "X -query server-ip".
Command line tip: viewing one page at at time with "ps ax | more" Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston
Man page tips: Search the man pages for keywords, for example "man -k process" Select the right section, for example "man 5 crontab" Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer
Interview with Matthew Dillon from DragonFly BSD
Interview with Stephen Jones of SDF. Super Dimension Fortress provides free shell accounts at http://www.freeshell.org
News: FreeBSD 6.1 and 5.5 Beta2 BSDCan program released Insecure Sharing with NFS: Very insecure, home net behind firewall only! NFS server should start portmap, mountd, lockd NFS server should add a folder to /etc/exports NFS client should mount server:/folder /mnt OSX required mount_nfs -P Tools: rpcinfo -p server, showmount -e server User ID Sync is a problem
Interview with Brian Tiemann, Author of FreeBSD 6 Unleashed.
Interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick, Computer Scientist and early BSD developer at UC Berkeley.
Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long. (Did I call it FreeBSDTalk in the intro? Oops!)
News: FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA1 released. Introduction to the vi editor.
Before connecting a new install to the Internet Make sure you have a strong root password Create a regular user account for your use Make sure you have applied all patches and updates Understand the purpose for any listening process Interview with PostgreSQL core developer Bruce Momjian
A rant on Desktop BSD. Interview with Dan Langille from BSDCan
Getting BSD: Order CD's online - choose one close to you - buy to support project Book Store - Many books come with CDs Local Users Group - Free CDs and Installfest Download ISO - http, ftp, mirrors, bittorrent Net Install CD Interview with Richard Bejtlich from www.taosecurity.com
