Mark Sanborn . net

Recently I accidently changed the permissions of one of my files and I didn’t know what the correct permissions were suppose to be. I did know that the other files in the same directory were the correct permission. Using the ls -l command. I was able to see that the permission was set as, -rw-r–r–. (…)

Getting fetchmail to work in Linux or FreeBSD has always been difficult for me. The SSL certificates always seem to be a pain to configure. It has been particularly difficult to get fetchmail with Gmail working on FreeBSD since there are no complete guides written for FreeBSD.

By default FreeBSD does not come with a screen saver for console. It also does not come configured with a power saving mode. If you don’t use the console for some time I prefer to save energy and have my monitor turn off when it is not in use. Here is how you can install (…)

If you are using a Linux system and want to schedule a task to run in the future you will probably need to know cron. Cron is much like Window’s Scheduled Tasks. The only difference is that cron is conifgured by a simple text file. Although, that text file to the untrained looks very complicated. (…)

If you have heard about Linux or currently using it you are probably aware that it was derived from Unix. Linux is not the only variant derived from Unix. There has been a number of Unix variants one of which is, FreeBSD. Since FreeBSD recently announced a new release I thought I would give it (…)