Operating Systems Quick and Dirty: Installing Htop on FreeBSD 10.x jbower, August 31, 2015April 21, 2023 Htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer written for Linux. On most of my servers I have it up and running continually if I’m not actively on the box. It’s great to be able to quickly glance up and see the current state of a particular server or to see if… Continue Reading
Operating Systems FreeBSD pkg_add little trick jbower, August 19, 2009April 21, 2023 So don’t ask me why but I decided to run FreeBSD 6.0 on an older Dell Latitude laptop. Install goes fine. But now I’ve got an issue. When trying to install a package I get the troublesome ftp error (cannot find this location dummy). But this was quickly resolved with… Continue Reading
Operating Systems Stopping FTP Brute Force Attacks in FreeBSD and OpenBSD jbower, August 13, 2009April 21, 2023 Dealing with This is a great little article that I came across talking about stopping FTP brute force attacks in OpenBSD or FreeBSD (both of my favorite OS’s). It assumes that your using PF as your firewall (which you should!). You can easily stop bruteforce attacks by limiting connections per… Continue Reading