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

I recently got back from a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  Our resort was cool and all that jazz.  The most interesting part of the trip was taking the scenic photo of the downtown area.  To do this, Allie and I decided to climb up the hill into the city to try to get a great view of the downtown area.

This is when the adventure begins.  We start going up the mass of stairs and hill to find a spot to take a picture.  After every corner we of course look back to see if we have a view.  When we got about 1/3 the way up the hill we stoped and took a picture of a birthday party or something out on the street (complete with a pinata)  and continued our journey upwards.  There were lots of small roads and such that wound around and after about an hour we saw one that looked like it would have a promising view.  Now this wasn’t your ordinary road, this was more of a stairway going several stories into the air and has a very sketchy looking railing.  On one side was a bunch of houses, and the other almost certain death. Perfect.  About half way up we ask a local if there are any spots where we can take a picture of the sunset from up there.  He advises us that there is a dirt hill at the top of the stairs we can climb, but warns us of an impending death by way of sharp jagidy rocks if we miss our step.  So we go up there, and there is really nothing to see because of trees and wires.  Then we talk to the man again and he tells us to go up on the roof of the top house from the stairs.  This sounds like an equally great idea, so we do this.  The view from up there was great.  Photo can be seen here: