Bind Error: “max open files (3520) is smaller than max sockets (4096)”
Just notice one of the DNS server has the error message 28-Jun-2010 16:28:24.283 general: max open files (3520) is smaller than max sockets (4096) It’s something to do with kernel setting, on FreeBSD, configure the following shell> sysctl kern.maxfiles=4096 shell>…
Change or Set User Password in FreeBSD
If you notice, during FreeBSD installation, it doesn’t have a step by step installation guides for creating user’s password for login credential. By default, FreeBSD installation only come with user “root”, and it doesn’t prompts for password setting for default…
How to Change Hostname in Unix FreeBSD
We have interesting hostname for our all our servers. Some of it is using Football Team like Manchester, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal. Part of it is striker name like Rooney, Ronaldo and etc. We also have like meganfox, milla, jessicaalba for…
How to Change User’s Shell Environment in FreeBSD
In FreeBSD, user’s default shell environment is either sh or csh and I have installed Bash in FreeBSD and would like to change user’s shell environment to Bash. To change user’s shell environment in FreeBSD. shell> chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash userid…
Quick File Copy on File Name with Sample Extension
By default, some of the application installation provide you a sample configuration file. Usually the sample of configuration will end with name like *.sample, *.default and so on. Let say you have 20 of *.sample files and it will take…
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