FreeBSD and Debian Computer Howto's

An odd assortment of tutorials for FreeBSD and Debian.

I am an avid gardener, network engineer, systems administrator, and have had maintained my own website since 1995. I run a very old web based chat and a site on dryland farming, homesteading, and figs. Having these computer howto on the dryland farming site didn't make much sense so I began moving these to their own site in Jul 2025.

A lot of this is just a brain dump so to remember how to do things, and in a small part to guide others interested in these projects. Most recently I set up email from scratch on Debian and FreeBSD. Forum users have lamented on the lack of up-to-date email from scratch howto's. I also setup kamalio phone proxy to run some tests. Other howto's include LAMP or FAMP install, FreeBSD bhyve VM's with ipfw to forward ports, and howto connect to a remote server console with IPMI.

In newer howto's I enclose 'file contents' OR 'file edits' after the nano edit line. Here is an example of edits to a file called /etc/postfix/main.cf...

nano /etc/postfix/main.conf
# --- start of content
<file content or changes>
<here>
# --- end of content

Or just...

nano /etc/postfix/main.conf
# ---
<file content or changes>
<here>
# ---