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In FreeBSD the primary start-up configuration file is /etc/defaults/rc.conf. System startup scripts such as /etc/rc and /etc/rc.d just include this file. If you want to add other programs to system startup you need to change /etc/rc.conf file instead of /etc/defaults/rc.conf. NEWER CHANGE /etc/defaults/rc.conf file! Example, if you wish to start squid proxy server, you need to do: # echo...

[How To] mport: The Midnig...

One of the most tedious tasks in setting up and maintaining a personal computer is installing software applications. The BSD community has historically handled this by providing users a ports system to compile software and later some package management software. This approach has worked well for power users. The Linux community has built some user friendly package management tools with command line and...

[Review] Ubuntu Tweak

Does Evil Nick have a pencil eraser? Why? It used to be just such the way on the path of Ubuntu – the OS was infallible and therefore, many felt, it should need no easy way to adjust things. A rocky time of some quite startling changes on the desktop has meant a renewed interested in messing with the way things were intended to be, but, in keeping with the essence of the OS, it’s always nice to...

[Review] VectorLinux 7.0

Ever since Mike Saunders forgot to include it in a distro Roundup in issue one of Linux Format Slackware has a had a loyal following. In some ways it’s the purest form of Linux, as its development team (we say team, but really it’s the work of one man – Patrick Volkerding) tends not to modify the component parts in the way that, say, Ubuntu does. We love Slackware. We also love Xfce....

[FAQ] Partitions and Files...

Why do we have to have so many different partitions and filesystems on a Linux system? A hard disk is divided into partitions – separate sections that each act as though they were a disk. Each partition then uses a filesystem to store data on that partition. Why does Linux use more than one? Windows doesn’t! Keeping different types of data separate can improve performance and security. Keeping...

[What is] RPM 5

RPM is one of the two most popular package management systems for Linux. Although originally designed for Red Hat Linux, it is now used by many distributions. Currently there are two versions under active development – rpm.crg (or RPM 4) and RPM 5. RPV14 is used by many distributions including Fedora. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenSUSE and CentOS. Former RPM maintainer, Jeff Johnson forked the...

[Review] 18 steps to bette...

01 We still use tar Back up with tar. The old ones are the best, and a full backup of your home directory with tar is easy to do and easy to restore from. Put it on a USB stick, external drive, cloud server, or just another computer and you’ll always have a safe copy of your precious data collection. 02 RAID your drives RAID array won’t be of any use if you accidentally delete some of your...