How to mount a Western Digital ShareSpace NFS share
This might become handy if you want to connect the drive on a FreeBSD or Linux machine to easy transfer files to it.
Enable NFS on your Western Digital ShareSpace
Log into your web interface and goto Advanced Mode
Goto the tab Network
Goto Services
Here check the Enable checkbox and add the IP of the machine you want to grant access
Next goto Storage
Edit the share preferences
Enable NFS support for this share
Goto Users
Edit the user preferences
Grand optional write access to this user
Connect to NFS mount of ShareSpace on FreeBSD
List mounts
showmount -e 192.168.2.3
Connect mountpoint
# Read only mount -t nfs 192.168.2.3:/DataVolume/backup /mnt/ # Read / Write mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.2.3:/DataVolume/backup /mnt/
Add share to /etc/fstab
172.16.32.44:/DataVolume/backup /backup nfs rw 2 2
Mount with mount -a
How to gain some more performance for MySQL without compiled Linux threads on FreeBSD
I notice a lot of people I talk to are compiling MySQL with Linux Threads to gain performance with MySQL, there is another way!
You can use the thread libraries of FreeBSD to gain some more performance by altering the libmap.conf file to use libthr instead of libpthread.
Add the following to /etc/libmap.conf
[mysqld] libpthread.so libthr.so libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 libpthread.so.3 libthr.so.3 libpthread.so.4 libthr.so.4 libpthread.so.5 libthr.so.5 [/usr/local/libexec/mysqld] libpthread.so libthr.so libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 libpthread.so.3 libthr.so.3 libpthread.so.4 libthr.so.4 libpthread.so.5 libthr.so.5
Restart mysql
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server restart
Check if you are really using libthr.so
ldd /usr/local/libexec/mysqld
Now you can benchmark your installation and check the performance gain.
Note: In the newer versions of FreeBSD/MySQL libthr.so is used by default, you can skip how to.
How to trap or catch Keyboard Interrupt in Bash on Linux/FreeBSD
This is a simple code snippet, I think it explains it self.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | #!/bin/bash myCleanup() { rm -f /myapp/tmp/mylog return $? } myExit() { echo -en "n*** Exiting ***n" myCleanup exit $? } trap myExit SIGINT # main loop while true do echo -n "Enter your name: " read x echo "Hello $x" done |
If you have any questions, just ask 
Fix write access problem for Mac OS X 10.6.x to Samba share on FreeBSD or Linux
Nothing is more irritating than not being able to copy the files you want to a share.
This problem has been bugging me since the release of Mac OS X 10.6.
The fix seems to be quite simple, I added the following to my global block in smb.conf:
[global] dos charset = UTF8 unix charset = UTF8 display charset = UTF8 unix extensions = no
Now we can work without errors again.
Ps. Don't forget to unmount and re-mount your share before the changes take effect.
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