A couple of months ago I switched from running OpenWRT on a TL-WDR4300 to running pfSense on a Netgate RCC-VE 2440. Not that OpenWRT is bad, it’s only because I’m a big fan of FreeBSD and I’ve been wanting to run a similar setup ever since I discovered custom firmware like DD-WRT and afterwards m0n0wall and Soekris. When I finally decided to get the hardware I thought Netgate had a better offering and I went for it.
XBOX LIVE With pfSense
2016-10-07 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Fixing Certificate Verification Error After Upgrading to PHP 5.6
2016-09-25 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Since PHP 5.5 reached it’s end of life a while back I started upgrading my servers to PHP 5.6. This has caused some issues but the worst was:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Booting BSD Router Project On The Netgate RCC-VE 2440
2016-06-30 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
I have recently acquired a Netgate RCC-VE 2440 which I intend to use as a router/firewall for my house. But I thought I might as well play with it a little before I do so. One of the things I wanted to test was the BSD Router Project to have in place of one of the routers we have here at work but I couldn’t get it to boot, it would always free with just a “\”.
FreeBSD SCP Chroot
2016-06-29 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Quick one here, if you want to create an SCP only user on FreeBSD just do the following
Real-Time Network Traffic Stats On FreeBSD
2016-05-08 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Quick one here, to get real-time traffic stats on FreeBSD just run the following command
systat -ifstat
Bootstrapping PKGNG From Your Own Repository
2015-03-13 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Rrdtool Showing Squares Instead Of Letters In Graphs
2014-12-10 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Recursively Upgrade Package Dependencies With pkgng
2014-11-11 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Update: I now just use pkg upgrade since I have better control over my package repo and it is a much better way to upgrade.
Simulating Cron Runs On The Command Line
2014-10-15 by Mohammad H. Al-Shami
Does this sound familiar?
You write a new script, start it from the command line, everything works properly, you add that script to your crontab then go home, the next day, nothing. So you end up setting up a schedule to run this script the next minute, the script fails, you change something, update the schedule, rinse and repeat.
About Me
Sysadmin, ex code-monkey and all around geek