Binary Mechanic

OpenBSD does not come with the dos2unix command which is used to convert Windows text files to UNIX format by removing the pesky ^M carriage returns.

Fortunately there is an alternative we can use in the shape of the UNIX tr command, the tr command reads from standard input to standard output and allows for the substitution or deletion of selected characters.

For example the following takes a Windows created text file and converts it to a more friendly UNIX format:

tr -d ’15’ < dirty-windows-file.txt > clean-unix-file.txt

Whilst configuring virtual hosting in Apache I kept getting the following error message when starting httpd “*:80 has no VirtualHosts”

After a bit of Googling I was still none the wiser but it turns out that you need to remove or comment out the  ’NameVirtualHost *:80′ directive in ‘/etc/apache2/ports.conf’ file and the warning goes away.