How to install and configure Shutter screenshot tool, so you can use a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of the current window or screen.
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These are my notes, tips and howtos about installing and maintaining FreeBSD and third party applications for FreeBSD. If you have feedback, feel free to contact me.
This is how you use the built-in rc utility, that controls the automatic boot process, to run a script at boot time in FreeBSD.
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Continue reading “How to upgrade PHP and PHP extensions on a FreeBSD server.”This guide helps you import a GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) public key from a sender into your email client for verifying and decrypting email.
Continue reading “How to import a GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) public key into email client.”This step by step guide will create your own key for signing and encrypting email messages for free with The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).
Continue reading “How to sign and encrypt email with The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).”This is the comprehensive procedure on how to use the FreeBSD update utility to safely upgrade the FreeBSD base system to newer minor and major releases of FreeBSD or roll it back. Tested with FreeBSD 13.4. Updated 2024-11-17.
Continue reading “How to upgrade to new minor and major releases of FreeBSD”FreeBSD themed wallpaper with the BSD daemon on dark red background for 1920×1080, 1920×1200 and 2560×1600 display resolutions.
Continue reading “FreeBSD wallpaper with BSD daemon on red background.”The page describes, how to setup an SFTP server with OpenSSH on FreeBSD. SFTP can be used for sharing and exchanging files with clients and users. Updated 2024-07-20. Tested on FreeBSD 12.3 and 13.3.
Continue reading “SFTP server with OpenSSH on FreeBSD.”Procedure for upgrading and auditing installed packages using the built-in pkg interface in FreeBSD. Tested on FreeBSD 14.2 on 2025-04-04.
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