FreeBSD

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

Ports

• http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html

Networking

• http://www.erudition.net/freebsd/NAT-HOWTO
• natd examples

Tips and Tricks

• man intro
• man tuning
• mergemaster
• man pw

sysinstall

cd /sys/i386/conf ; make LINT

Rescue

• System: Accessing a dead freebsd installation

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

Ports

exclude from csup

To exclude for example /usr/ports/japanese:

/var/db/refuse

(or a refuse file in whatever base you defined in supfile)

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