Disabling the Hardware Beep is different from system to system. In this article I will show you how to disable the Hardware Beep / Bell in FreeBSD and PCBSD. How to disable the Hardware Beep in PCBSD and FreeBSD: Type…
Disabling the Hardware Beep is different from system to system. In this article I will show you how to disable the Hardware Beep / Bell in FreeBSD and PCBSD. How to disable the Hardware Beep in PCBSD and FreeBSD: Type…
The Z shell (zsh) is a powerfull bash compatible shell. It can easily be installed on every Linux or Unix distro. In this article I will install zsh in FreeBSD and PCBSD and set zsh as the default login shell.…
In this article I will show you how to set the default text editor in the csh and tcsh shells. The default shell in FreeBSD and PCBSD is the C shell (csh), so this article is usefull for the *BSD…
The PATH is an environment variable that tells the shell where to look for the basic executables (commands) you use (such as ping, useradd, etc). Setting a new PATH depends on the shell, not on the Linux or Unix distro.…
Changing a Linux / FreeBSD hostname is an easy task. The hostname can be changed temporary or permanent. In this article, I will show you how to set a different hostname in the most used Linux distros and FreeBSD. How…
As you know, all the files from /etc are very important for the Unix / Linux systems. The /etc/shells file contains a list of all the shells available in the system. Sample of /etc/shells file: $ cat /etc/shells # /etc/shells:…
In Unix and Linux systems, there are a few commands for finding files and folders. The most used are find and locate. In this article I will show you how to use locate properly, in order to find the files…
It is very important to know how to manage services in Linux/Unix systems, in order not to reboot the entire system when not necesarry. In this article I will show you how to start, stop, restart a service in the…
In Linux, every service can be rebooted. This is very usefull because you don’t need to restart the whole system, in order get the modifications applied. In this article I will show you how to reboot the network (or networking)…
I am a Linuxer that moved to *BSD. Because I am used with the bash tricks, I will set bash as my user’s default login shell, in PCBSD 9.0 . Install bash with this command (if it is already installed,…