Systems & Networking

Zetacoin is another SHA-256 crypto-currency based on Bitcoin. It's only been around since August 2013 and it's mining difficulty (as of Nov 2013) is not yet as insanely high as Bitcoin. Zetacoins have some value in the market, but I think I'll hold on to mine for the time being. I wanted to get a Zetacoin node running alongside my Bitcoin and Litecoin nodes. After a few failures I determine it's currently not possible (at least with what I know) to build Zetacoin on FreeBSD.

The Bitcoin and Litecoin ports don't include any rc.d start up and shutdown scripts for FreeBSD. So I went ahead and made some. In order to use these scripts you must do some additional work after installing the respective ports.

Roundcube has a nice little plugin named "password" that allows your users to change their passwords using the Roundcube Webmail interface. However, the current "drivers" do not work very well in a secure environment. Most drivers need you to have the "sudo" command installed and enabled for the Apache HTTP user. Others require that they be run as root.

There comes a time when your FreeBSD root partition (or slice) is just too small to be of any use. You've already moved /var, /usr, and /tmp to separate disks, you've tried cleaning up some logs, clearing cache, and even run pkg clean. There just isn't anything else you can delete. The problem is it was initially created too small when FreeBSD installed.

Updated: 2020-12-05

Sometimes it's useful to create .tbz packages of all the installed ports on your FreeBSD system. Whether it's for a backup or for use on other similar systems, using the ports that are already built to your liking can save lots of time.