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Ideas for articles

  • GEOM
    • recovering from a gmirror failure
    • gmirroring mismatched disks
  • Backups, 2 types of failures
    • Human
    • Machine
    • Different strategies, overlap, but purposes are distinct.
    • Highlight restore procedures
      • incremental vs. differential

If restore doesn't have '/etc/dumpdate' it is incapable of differential restore .... is this a catch-22?

ports / packages

  • adding options to configure

find a file in an uninstalled port : echo /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist | xargs grep fancyvrb.sty

RCNG tips?

  • rc_debug

Difference between 'single user' and a fully running system.

DEVFS

devfs.conf only works on device nodes that exist at the point in time the devfs.conf gets read devfs.rules does it on device attach

making jails do stuff (temporarily) like ping and tcpdump.

Profiling and performance tuning.

  • bsdsar
  • BASE tools, sysstat iostat, vmstat ...
  • Ports tools, htop, bsdsar

Printing from FBSD to Windows. http://screamingelectron.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-1311.html

Network monitoring, large and small

  • small tools like ntop, bmon, iftop
  • building blocks like mrtg + other stuff
  • larger tools like snmp, tkined

Bind

  • 'caching' server
  • subdomains
  • secure updating
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