Installing extra packages on pfSense 2.0.1

Posted on January 10, 2013.

Adding extra packages to pfsense is simple.

First enable SSH in System > Advanced and connect to your pfSense box using your favourite SSH client. Once connected choose 8 to open a shell.

Once in a shell add a FreeBSD repository to the PACKAGESITE environment variable like,

setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/`uname -m`/packages-8.1-release/Latest/

1	setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/`uname -m`/packages-8.1-release/Latest/

You may want to add this command to /root/.tcshrc so its set each time you login.

Now you can add packages from the FreeBSD8 repository using pkg_add -r [name].

Examples:

pkg_add -r iftop pkg_add -r nano pkg_add -r freecolor

Find the full list of packages at http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/

Update

After installing a new package, run the command rehash in order for it to be usable from the command-line (or log off and back on again).

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WordPress reinstall

Posted on January 10, 2013.

This wordpress installation had been originally installed in 2004 with WordPress version 1.0. I was having problems installing some new plugins and it was about time I reinstalled from a fresh code base.

Also created a child-theme of TwentyTelve with a few changes for a simplistic, functional layout.

Disable SugarSync Drive

Posted on January 8, 2013.

I don’t know what is wrong with developers today, but it is a growing trend to make things “just work” at the expense of leaving any sort of options for the user to self-configure. Extra or advanced options seem to be a taboo with new applications, which is a real shame.

SugarSync v2 beta is one of these applications. Even the installer asks no questions, not letting me choose an installation folder, or where to put the SugarSync folder to begin with.

Well, one thing it installs is a virtual disk driver that enables a new SugarSync virtual drive, in my case G:. To disable this, open device manager as an administrator and disable the virtual disk driver.

You will need to show hidden devices to see it. Right click the device and disable.

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Installing TShock Terraria Server on Debian Wheezy

Posted on January 6, 2013.

The following is how I installed TShock Terraria Server on a clean Debian Wheezy machine. The same method has been tested working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise).

One important difference to other howtos is it does not install mono-complete and the plethora of dependencies that requires (including x11-common). This only installs the required libraries to run, nothing more.

Run these commands individually, this is not to be copy pasted into your shell in full.

Update: A few users are complaining of missing packages, however I have re-run the instructions in a fresh Wheezy guest and found no issues (see transcript of installation here).

Update2: I have successfully tested the following instructions using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise (transcript here)

Update3: Tested working with TShock 4.2

Make sure you are using Debian 7 Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise.

# Need root
sudo su -

# Install dependancies
apt-get update && apt-get install unzip screen \
   mono-runtime libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-sqlite4.0-cil libmysql-cil-dev \
   libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-web4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil

# Add terraria group and user
sudo groupadd --gid 70001 terraria
sudo useradd --gid 70001 -d /home/terraria -m --uid 70001 -s /bin/bash terraria

# Change user to terraria
su terraria
# Make and change to bin folder
mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin

# Download and extract TShock Terraria Server
wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/TShock/TShock/TShock-4.0.zip
unzip TShock-4.0.zip

# Fix case-insensitive folder
ln -s serverplugins ServerPlugins

# Run Terraria for first time, create world
# (note down auth code for admin access, and exit-nosave)
mono TerrariaServer.exe -ip 0.0.0.0 -port 7777 -maxplayers 8
# Change server password
TERRARIAPASSWORD="password";
sed -i "s/("ServerPassword": ")[^"]*(",)$/1${TERRARIAPASSWORD}2/" tshock/config.json

# Terraria is now installed, keep reading to setup startup init script

# Go back to root
exit

# Download init script to /etc/init.d/
wget -O /etc/init.d/terraria-server http://www.nooblet.org/blog/download/terraria-init.sh
# Fix permissions
chmod +x /etc/init.d/terraria-server
# Insert to startup
insserv -v /etc/init.d/terraria-server

# At this point you may want to edit the init script if you are using a
# different world-file or server-port
# Also by default, the script does not save on exit, see variable: EXIT_COMMAND

# Start the server
invoke-rc.d terraria-server start

# Check its running in screen (press Ctrl-a then d to exit)
invoke-rc.d terraria-server connect

# Need root

sudo su -

# Install dependancies

apt-get update && apt-get install unzip screen \

mono-runtime libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-sqlite4.0-cil libmysql-cil-dev \

libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-web4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil

# Add terraria group and user

sudo groupadd --gid 70001 terraria

sudo useradd --gid 70001 -d /home/terraria -m --uid 70001 -s /bin/bash terraria

# Change user to terraria

su terraria

# Make and change to bin folder

mkdir ~/bin

cd ~/bin

# Download and extract TShock Terraria Server

wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/TShock/TShock/TShock-4.0.zip

unzip TShock-4.0.zip

# Fix case-insensitive folder

ln -s serverplugins ServerPlugins

# Run Terraria for first time, create world

# (note down auth code for admin access, and exit-nosave)

mono TerrariaServer.exe -ip 0.0.0.0 -port 7777 -maxplayers 8

# Change server password

TERRARIAPASSWORD="password";

sed -i "s/("ServerPassword": ")[^"]*(",)$/1${TERRARIAPASSWORD}2/" tshock/config.json

# Terraria is now installed, keep reading to setup startup init script

# Go back to root

exit

# Download init script to /etc/init.d/

wget -O /etc/init.d/terraria-server http://www.nooblet.org/blog/download/terraria-init.sh

# Fix permissions

chmod +x /etc/init.d/terraria-server

# Insert to startup

insserv -v /etc/init.d/terraria-server

# At this point you may want to edit the init script if you are using a

# different world-file or server-port

# Also by default, the script does not save on exit, see variable: EXIT_COMMAND

# Start the server

invoke-rc.d terraria-server start

# Check its running in screen (press Ctrl-a then d to exit)

invoke-rc.d terraria-server connect

Debian init-script

The following init-script can:

Connect to the screen console with ./terraria-server connect
Exits the server cleanly by issuing the “exit” or “exit-nosave” command to the server console
Fits perfectly if installation was made by the above howto

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Create md5 checksum files for each sub-directory

Posted on October 7, 2012.

This bash script creates checksum files for each subdirectory and the files within.

If the script is run, and there are no changes, then there is no output. This makes it safe to put into a cronjob without fear of getting spammed.

Output can be forced with a “-d” flag.

Requires “md5sum” package to compute checksums.

Syntax:
md5-all-dir.sh [-d] <directory>

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