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10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD

Here’s a list of useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD. For all you admins out there… MTR MTR is a traceroute…sort of. It uses ping packets though, not the standard traceroute icmp packets (configurable)   SCREEN Screen keeps your terminal session … Continue reading

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Multiple ipaddresses on one device in FreeBSD

How To configure multiple ipaddresses on one ethernet device FreeBSD (7.x, 8.x) As it is possible to configure multiple host-/domain names for 1 ipaddress, it is also possible to configure multiple ipaddresses for one ethernet device. Physical ethernet card configuration … Continue reading

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Installing Sun Java on Ubuntu

Sun Java 6 is missing from a standard Ubuntu installation, as well as missing from all of the APT repositories that come prepackaged with Ubuntu – including metaverse, universe, or any other. Ubuntu 10.04 With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 … Continue reading

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Zombie processes and how to handle them

If you are an experienced UNIX or Linux administrator you probably know this already, but this question came to me lately, and I found it worth a little article. What is a Zombie Process ? A zombie process is a … Continue reading

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