My preferred server OS is FreeBSD. Each time I install it, I have to go through numerous steps to secure it. So, to avoid that effort, and to make sure I get it right each time, I’ve created an Ansible playbook to automate the entire process. You can learn about it here. Some of the…
I often have a need for a fresh FreeBSD install, to host a server, or perhaps just experiment with. My usual solution is FreeBSD jails. However, I’ve recently gotten interested in Ansible and AWS. There are quite a few advantages to installing infra with AWS, however the one I’m most interested in is automating the…
I’ve been using FreeBSD jails for a while, and was looking for a simple way to create jail filesystems. After some reading, I came up with this simple script which creates full FreeBSD filesystems. The filesystem can then be used via jail.conf. #!/bin/bash JAILNAME=$1 echo “kjail “$1 JAIL_HOME=/tank/kjail/ FTP=http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/ # # get packages # if…
I’ve been trying forever to get a mobile IPSec connection up between my OS X laptop and pfsense. Finally, thanks to this outstanding blog post, it works. I’m especially excited that it works with the default OS X and Android VPN clients. My pfsense config closely mirrors the one specified by Mike Murray pfsense…
I have a number of disks in my FreeBSD box which exist only as backups of data. I prefer that they not be mounted all the time, but instead mounted on use. They are 2x internal SATA disks and an external USB3 disk. This blog post explains how they are set up to auto-mount….
Some printers, like the one I have (HP 8600 Pro), have “Print-to-Folder” capability. Unfortunately, I have no Windows server, only a FreeBSD box to print to. I can mount folders from the FreeBSD box on my MacBook.. if I can get files to scan there. So, to do that, I need a Samba…
I’ve updated the u-boot bootloader for Crochet-FreeBSD Wandboard to 2014-10, from 2014-07. The updated image is here, and the boot log is here.
This build is for FreeBSD-11, Alpha 2. Binary image, and bootlog.
There is a new build of FreeBSD 10.1 for Soekris here. The source tree revision is r276913.
I recently got interested in the technical details of how ARM OS’s work, so I decided to try my hand at writing a simple one. This blog post is not about the OS itself, but about setting up the development environment. In my case, I’m developing in a terminal session, on FreeBSD 10 on an…