FreeBSD
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Documentation
- The handbook
- FreeBSD made easy
- The FreeBSD Diary
- ipfw-HOWTO
- http://www.freebsd-howto.com/
- the releng stuff
- How to build *BSD CVSup mirror
- UFS FAQ
- FreeBSD Jails
- Locales
Networking
Tips and Tricks
- man intro
- man tuning
- mergemaster
- man pw
sysinstall
cd /sys/i386/conf ; make LINT
Rescue
Kernel modules
kldload kldstat etc
Hardware info
kenv pciconf -lv grep -i cpu /var/run/dmesg.boot sysctl hw.ncpu
Checking resources
systat -pigs fstat -f /var systat -vm
FAQ
Upgrading
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/
portupgrade -P -f -a
Courier-imap certificates
check out /usr/local/share/mkimapdcert
crontab: temp file must be edited in place
Happens when you set EDITOR=vim. Fix it by setting :set nobackup and :set nowritebackup in .vimrc
ping: sendto: Permission denied
sysctl:
security.jail.allow_raw_sockets: 0
Ports
Post install messages
/usr/ports/*/*/pkg-message
config options used for a port
/var/db/ports/*/options