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    How to Type the Pi Symbol

    I don't screw up my head with remembering exotic key combinations for such rare for me cases, but usually ask google for such unique characters and when it bring something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_%28letter%29 I simply select and copy/paste such symbols over SSH sessions(where I work...
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    "Simple" multiuser databases

    I also don't like internal HSQLDB of LibreOffice, but I found the most quickest and simplest way to build multi-platform database solution with LibreOffice Base and MySQL(actually databases/mariadb55-server on its place) as a database backend. For a guys like me, for whom building such systems...
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    lightweight password manager

    Did you check your password against security/cracklib and rainbow tables that flowing around in underground freenet network ? I bet your passwords isn't looks like mine: M-Ha9p<S2c)io{V<1JfecDVTa)_+wni7 or A?pebjFCj=5qJhL5di6G}6SGG)%>wi$E By employing KeePass you need to remember only one...
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    System Integrity check for system installed in a datacenter?

    If a rootkit infected BIOS, it will recover itself even after fresh installation from a trustful CD. Infected code in a BIOS control access to a hard drive and usually drop some shit to a boot record that later using OS API to access some external sites to grab an actual rootkit and infect new...
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    System Integrity check for system installed in a datacenter?

    mtree do the same integrity checking for free(to compare with security/tripwire)
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    System Integrity check for system installed in a datacenter?

    1.) Only if it is your hardware(that you can trust) that is on collocation in a datacenter where your box is wrapped around with a huge chain and locked with an unbreakable lock. 2.)The whole point of a rootkit - to be a part of operation system, which means it can hook up any API and...
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    all in rc.conf or /etc files?

    rc.conf mkdir /etc/rc.conf.d Place then service's configuration to a separate file(s) in the directory /etc/rc.conf.d to a file with name equal to the service's name. So, for Apache it would be /etc/rc.conf.d/apache22 for MySQL it would be /etc/rc.conf.d/mysql-server and so on... No mess...
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    lightweight password manager

    In a datacenters where carrying cell phone is a strong "no-no" I connecting to my https server, where apache asks for authentication and do on success ProxyPass http://localhost:1234 where on http://localhost:1234 is running www/anyterm which is basically is kind of a SSH over HTTP. When...
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    Single user mode via telnet

    If there is a sign of corrupted files, I would use statically compiled /rescue/fsck -y I had once a corrupted /lib/libc.so.7 that prevented running /sbin/fsck and "/rescue/*" was a real rescue for me.
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    lightweight password manager

    IMHO you rejected it wrongly. http://keepass.info/ project is a very popular one and ported practically on any platform. It use single file database encrypted by industry's standard AES algorithm. DD pointed you out to the one of popular console version, but the same encrypted database file...
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    Strange Shell

    @Aaron_VanAlstine If your setup is exposed to the wild internet then make a favor for yourself and restrict usage of the bash to particular/trustful user(s) only that isn't used for running any network daemons. bash, gawk and other similar utilities are very powerful things that shouldn't be...
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    Cvs is deprecated (and so is cvsup!)

    The news should be actually in the "News forum", but I don't have permission to open new thread there. According to the latest /usr/ports/LASTCOMMIT.txt
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    FreeBSD.org intrusion announced November 17th 2012

    How much times did I say that CVS must be dropped because it doesn't have integrity checking? Finally learned... the hard way... Next prediction? There you go http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=114019&postcount=14 but wait... hard way is the passion... and what would happen with...
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    user ?

    See PR:167292
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    Flame bait: Why BSD is dying, or How I learned to stop worrying and love Linux

    And I pretty sure they will win again because of that! The scary things that Sheeple like it... less thinking, less problem... Windows 9 probably would be simplified to 5 big buttons: [Pron] [Eat] [Entertaiment] [What other likes] [I want that too]
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    sed | regex with tabulator problem

    We are in 21 century, use extended regex that is more common and more powerful. echo 'word word word after tab or blanks' | \ sed -E -e 's/^([a-z]+[[:space:]]+[a-z]+[[:space:]]+)([a-z]+)/\1\#\2/g' Will do what you want for the first string of your example but it won't catch a...
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    /bin/sh - aliases

    It isn't 140k and get just a little fat (3.5kb difference between FreeBSD 7 and 9). ;) FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE # ls -laoFG /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 116584 Jan 1 2012 /bin/sh* FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE # ls -laoFG /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 118512 Apr 22 2012 /bin/sh*...
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    Emulating tcsh history-search in bash

    Drop it bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward' bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward' to the bash_profile or the same without bind to the .inputrc in home user's directory.
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    Crash issue with 9.1-RC2

    I afraid that SU+J isn't production ready yet.
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    Permisson problem

    You probably did something very incorrect things with your system, something like # cd / && chmod 777 -R / # <= DON'T DO THIS (!!!) The best way IMHO, - is reinstall your setup, but you can try to fix it by resetting permissions to default ones: # cd / # mtree -U -f...
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