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recent news

[2018-06-17] kvmlib now supports up to 10 network cards, a serial console, and shutdown of JunOS based devices via serial console

[2018-06-02] How to use dehydrated on FreeBSD to automatically get SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt

[2018-05-22] Minimal logging with Apache

[2018-05-05] pomavold 0.7 comes with a udev rules file

[2018-05-02] pomavold 0.6 prevents multiple instances per USB device

[2018-04-15]

Tvhead2TVB exports program schedules from TV-Browser to Tvheadend
Scripts for VMware Fusion
How to create self signed certificates

[2018-04-08] released graypold-0.7

[2018-02-22] AuthFail version 2 for OTRS 6

[2018-02-07] Added a small section to kvmlib about booting from an iSCSI lun and passing a PCI device from the host to a guest

[2018-01-07] How to netboot and install NetBSD/sparc updated due to Meltdown and Spectre ;-)

[2017-11-12] Upgrading PostgreSQL with pg_upgrade on FreeBSD

[2017-11-05]

PostgreSQL with replication slots on FreeBSD
New release of ampcontrol comes with an improved RC script and a command line option to avoid logging each single request

[2017-10-31] New release of ampcontrol allows you to adjust the volume in 5dB steps by simply clicking on the volume display

[2017-10-05]

initramfs for LVM may be of help if your Linux root filesystem resides in an LVM volume
initramfs for Btrfs may be of help if your Linux root filesystem resides on a multi-device, i.e. mirrored Btrfs volume

[2017-09-25] watchdog.sh is a simple shell script for FreeBSD to demote local carp announcements if a daemon is not running

[2017-09-22] New version of check_tvh.py checks whether another instance is already running, and will exit if it has been running for 42 seconds

[2017-09-19] imapnotes is a Python script to read and write notes stored on an IMAPS server

[2017-09-03]

nsnitro.sh is a shell script for the NITRO API of a NetScaler loadbalancer
Put patch-postfix-11y-queuelifetime.patch in /usr/ports/mail/postfix/files on your FreeBSD box, and reinstall Postfix. Then, maximal_queue_lifetime and bounce_queue_lifetime default to 4096 days, and may be set to a maximum of 10000 days.

[2017-08-11] Latest kvmlib implements the restart commandline option in order to restart a virtual machine.

[2017-08-10] check_tvh.py checks and restarts webcamd and Tvheadend on FreeBSD

[2017-06-17] New version of ampcontrol fixes some issues with various browsers

[2017-05-21] licq-1.8.2.20170520.patch is a patch for licq 1.8.2 to build on a recent Gentoo Linux box

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