The Effects of Tuning a FreeBSD Box for High Performance
by Gilbert Gong

A stock FreeBSD installation delivers a system which is designed to meet the needs of most users, and strives to provide the best balance of safety, reliablity, and performance in a multi-user environment. It is therefore not optimized for use as a high performance dedicated network server. This article investigates the effect of tuning a FreeBSD for use as a dedicated network server. Read More

The NetBSD rc.d system
by Will Andrews

There's been a lot of hubbub the last few months about NetBSD's new rc.d system being the successor of 4.4BSD's. At the USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2001 in Boston, MA, I had the pleasure of sitting down to listen to Luke Mewburn of Wasabi Systems discuss the new rc system NetBSD introduced in their operating system in the 1.5 release earlier this year. Read More

Implementing Security in FreeBSD UNIX System, Part I
by Matt Dillon

This is part I of a two-part security series on DaemonNews. Part I describes security in general terms while Part II drills down into specific strategies for securing common services. Read More

FreeBSD Security Guide, Chapter 1
by Aeon Flux

This chapter talks about the lockdown procedures of a freebsd machine. This article assumes the end user has a general level of familarity with FreeBSD, and unix, in particular, file permissions, kernel configuration, file editing, and basic ssh usage. Read More

Linux and BSD, Open Source Giants
by Dan Shearer

Anyone influencing information technology decisions should know something about the most widely-used operating systems. Two of these are Linux and BSD, relatively unknown to the world of corporate computing. Read More

Answerman
by Gary Kline, Dirk Myers, and David Leonard

Welcome back! This month we scare, titilate and automate you. Several questions to help you get comfy with the BSD family this issue. These range from forwarding root's mail on host1, host2,...hostN to one convenient account to the worthiness of rdate, to the leading ways of making your system crack-proof. (--Okay, if not crack-proof, then crack-resistant.) Read More

Daemon's Advocate
by Greg Lehey

There's been a lot of news about BSD lately. It's mainly related to FreeBSD, but just as Linux news has proved good for BSD in the past, news about FreeBSD will prove good for the other BSD projects. Read More