How-To Guides

Many systems administration tasks are only achieved by following someone's How-To document. This is our attempt to contribute to those much needed pages on the World Wide Web.

Contents 1 Apple Macintosh 1.1 ExpressCard EVDO Cards 1.2 Mail.app 2 Networking 3 Electronic Mail 4 Cryptography/Encryption 5 Backups/Data Preservation 6 Databases 7 Log Analysis 8 System/Hardware Monitoring 9 Trac/SVN/Apache+DAV 10 Web Browsing 11 Document Handling / Formatting

[edit] Apple Macintosh

[edit] ExpressCard EVDO Cards

• Novatel Merlin EX720 with Sprint

[edit] Mail.app

• Transfer Mail.app

[edit] Networking

• IPv6 on FreeBSD 6.2
• IPv6 DNS
• DHCP6 Server on FreeBSD 6.2
• DHCP6 Client on FreeBSD 6.2

[edit] Electronic Mail

• Postfix Mail Server Hints
• Postfix Install

[edit] Cryptography/Encryption

• Secure Computing Root SSL and Various OS SSL Import How-To's: SCN-Root

[edit] Backups/Data Preservation

• How to Perform Dump Over SSH with FreeBSD
• Using gmirror on FreeBSD

[edit] Databases

• MySQL

[edit] Log Analysis

• Awstats and maillog

[edit] System/Hardware Monitoring

• BMC Nagios
  • A plugin for Nagios 2+ to monitor Dell BMC data.
• PDU Nagios
  • A plugin for Nagios 2+ to monitor SNMP data from enabled PDUs and UPSes.
• PDU Cacti
  • XML and scripts to monitor SNMP enables PDU's and UPSes.

[edit] Trac/SVN/Apache+DAV

• SVN & Whistles

[edit] Web Browsing

• secure browsing

[edit] Document Handling / Formatting

• Compress PDF