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FreeBSD

HardenedBSD: An interview with the core developers

2015-10-09 Felix Ehlers

We are pleased to interview Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, the core developers of the HardenedBSD project.

FreeBSD

freebsd-update fails on systems before 9.0

2014-02-20 Felix Ehlers

You want to upgrade your FreeBSD system before 9.0 through freebsd-update and it fails, showing the following error message:

The update metadata is correctly signed, but failed an integrity check. Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

FreeBSD

Switching into a jail by name

2013-04-18 Felix Ehlers

Let’s learn how to execute commands in a jail by referring to the jail name instead of the jail number.

Squid

Convert squid timestamps

2011-07-17 Felix Ehlers

When you work with a squid access log file you sometimes want to know when a site or resource was accessed. Squid does not store the date and time information for that in a human readable format.

Nginx

Nginx file extension whitelisting

2011-06-23 Felix Ehlers

Nginx is a great webserver that is flexible, feature rich and fairly well documented. But have you ever wanted to whitelist files upon their extensions and did not find a solution in the documentation reference? The bad answer is you will not find it.

The good answer is: It is possible.