Fun With Automounting on FreeBSD
by Renaud Waldura

Tired of having to login as root and type mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt everytime you want to read a CD-ROM? Automounting is for you! Once properly configured (the goal of this document), you will only have to insert the CD into your drive, cd to /cdrom and *wham* everything happens automagically! Read More

Making Friends with tcsh - Part 3
by Konrad Heuer

Konrad finishes his three part series with alias definitions, start-up files and hints concerning advanced csh and tcsh features. Read More

RADIUS
by Bill Moran

RADIUS stands for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service. It's purpose is to supply information and authentication for multiple dial-in servers. If you only have a single dial-in server then you probably don't need the complexity of RADIUS. However, if you want to provide dial-in services to clients in more than one area code, you'll probably have to rent "points of presence" from the phone company, and the phone company will expect you to have a RADIUS server. Read More

Japanese Language Support in NetBSD
by Hal Snyder

The intent of this article is to introduce NetBSD's Japanese language support to the English-speaking user. The approach will be to demonstrate a few common activities with commentary on the progression of ideas involved. Japanese language processing on a computer is more complicated than English language processing, because Japanese orthography involves four different writing systems - hiragana, katakana, kanji, and romaji - and uses many thousands of distinct characters... Read More

Multiple webservers behind one IP address
by Jan Sipke van der Veen

The article discusses a network setup where multiple webservers reside behind one IP address. Such a situation may arise when you need a specific webserver for one task and a different webserver for another task, running different operating systems or webserver software. With only one IP address available from the Internet, you could simply use Network Address Translation (NAT) with port forwarding. However, this forces you to give each webserver an ugly URL with a non-standard port number. Read More

DOSSIER and the Meta Project (Part 2)
by Rich Morin

Last month, I discussed some problems with the current state of Free and Open Source documentation. I then sketched out how DOSSIER and the Meta Project hope to resolve some of these problems. This month, I will discuss the goals and design of an online Meta system. Read More

C BSD Run
by Matthew Alton

The immortal Isaac Asimov on at least one occasion responded to an obvious question with a seemingly paradoxical answer. Dr. Asimov, who held a Ph.D in biochemistry, was asked why, when he had written literally hundreds of expository essays and books on such diverse topics as theoretical physics, computer science, and psychology, he had not seen fit to write on his chosen field. He answered, "It is too difficult. I know too much about it." Read More

Daemon's Advocate
by Greg Lehey

In the last few years, I've talked about all kinds of BSD-related topics, but the intention is always what's reflected in the name: advocacy. It's been some time since I discussed straightforward BSD advocacy; this month I'd like to consider whom we target with advocacy, and how we handle it. Read More

The Answer Man
by Gary Kline, Dirk Myers, and David Leonard

Greetings, salutations, and New Years best from your faithful Answer Team. This column addresses its usual wide variety of questions. Most are directed at the newer BSD user...but even long-time users are not current on the hows and whys of using grep. Or would rather not invest the hour or two to figure out how to get locate updating its database daily instead of weekly. If you understand the difference between the cua and tty /device files, then you may be well ahead of the majority of us BSD'ers. We make no pretense at being profound; instead we attempt to answer questions and de-mystify the idea that "Unix is so impossibly hard that it is only for the hard-core nerd". Read More