A common problem I have ran into while using freebsd 5 and 6 with jails is that ssh will hang on login.  This happens just after authentication and it is because there is no /dev filesystem mounted.  What happens is that in freebsd 4 you can use makedev.  However, in freebsd 5 and 6 this does not work.  You have to mount_devs:

#mount_devfs devfs /usr/jails/code-dev/dev

When you do this, ssh should work properly.

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I am using Jails within freebsd on my server to create services for development, backup, and versioning.  The importance of it being on a jail is in decending order.  Development is great to have in its own world.  However, backup and versioning are good because they can later be moved to their own machine or onto some more complex setup at a later time without much effort.

So I haven’t posted in a while.  I lost several days of hard work due to being in LA.  Though the days were not entirely lost.  The sites are just on notepads and not in text editors.

Two of my sites I generated are part of a larger effort by me and are kept in hiding until I get all the acompanying sites up and it will be a fun supprise.

The newest site of mine is Penny Stock Guru It is a wordpress site with a basic topic.  Hopefully no one sees it with the generic template and I have something unique up there in time

So I decided to join Mike over at Retire Young and Wealthy in his 28 day challenge. Basically he has commited to creating 28 sites in the days of February. This is quite an interesting challenge, and I think it is a good idea for internet marketers to do. Not just for the amount of work it will force to be completed, but because it really speeds up how long you think of the timeline for building a site.

For my first site I created U2E Business Directory. I know it is a pretty simple site and runs a standard script etc, but it took a good amount of time to enter in all the domains and clean it up etc.

Unfortunately I am going to LA this weekend, which will possibly cause some problems with my timeline of generating and uploading sites. Though I have the EVDO wireless from Sprint, I doubt there will be much work time while I am over there. I will try to utilize the 5 hour flight each way to my advantage and build some sites and get some layouts ready for implementation on my future pages over this time.

The fact that I am even considering getting a legit amount of work done on a plane flight shows how this challenge can really change perspective of getting work done from a theoretical sometime to today. Which is great.

You can see mike’s progress here:

Day 1 - 28 Site Challenge