How To Use Cron to Access Remote Script
From the shell you can use programs like wget and curl to access a remote script, however the same commands would fail when added to crontab. Here are my tips to…
VirtualBox 4.3.20 breaks FreeBSD Xorg
I updated to VirtualBox v4.3.20 (host and guest additions) and whenever I attempt to launch startx or startxfce4 on the guest I only see a blank black screen. The log…
FreeBSD Cannot Boot After Removing Second HDD
I deleted the second virtual disk image from my virtual machine's SATA Controller thinking I could boot and then delete the mount line from /etc/fstab. Wrong! I found the suggestion…
FreeBSD MythTV Backend VirtualBox Guest
After some trial and error, I thought I would share my virtual machine settings and setup tips for a FreeBSD guest running MythTV. I am using VirtualBox on a Windows…
Mythweb 0.27 on Lighttpd
I updated Mythweb to 0.27 and it broke! Well sort of....the mythweb.conf.lighttpd configuration file assumes you are doing a web root install but the port installs to /usr/local/www/mythweb, a sub-directory…
Dell Service Tag from FreeBSD CLI
To display your Dell's service tag, log in as root and run: # dmidecode -s system-serial-number No more trying to find the label! Source: http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/kcs/kcsarticles/articleview?docid=389572
Goodbye Free Dyn DNS
I have a home server. I don't direct the general public to this server but I do need to occasionally SSH to it. I know where that server is on…