FreeBSD

Documentation

• The handbook
• FreeBSD made easy
• The FreeBSD Diary
• http://www.freebsdwiki.net/
• http://www.freebsd-howto.com/
• the releng stuff
• How to build *BSD CVSup mirror
• UFS FAQ
• FreeBSD Jails
• Locales

NFS

• http://freebsd.peon.net/quickies/5/
• http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nfs.html

Ports

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

Filesystems

• UFS
• ZFS

Networking

• http://www.erudition.net/freebsd/NAT-HOWTO
• natd examples
• ipfw-HOWTO
• http://freebsd.rogness.net/redirect.cgi?basic/nat.html

Tips and Tricks

• man intro
• man tuning
• mergemaster
• man pw

sysinstall

cd /sys/i386/conf ; make LINT

Rescue

• System: Accessing a dead freebsd installation

Snapshots

• http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/snapshot/

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
iostat

FAQ

Ports

exclude from csup

To exclude for example /usr/ports/japanese, put in /var/db/refuse

ports/japanese

(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

Timezones

• adjkerntz
• tzsetup
• ntp

Ports

Post install messages

/usr/ports/*/*/pkg-message

config options used for a port

/var/db/ports/*/options

ssh taking a long time

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config

UseDNS no

Using large ( >2T ) drives

gpt create mfid1

create a 'slice' of 200000 sectors (this will automagically create /dev/mfid1p1

gpt add -s 2000000 mfid1

create one taking up the rest (/dev/mfid1p2)

gpt add mfid1

Migrate users/accounts

http://www.ggis.biz/wiki/index.php/FreeBSD_-_Migrate_Users

After editing /etc/master.passwd run

pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd 

(careful with this not entirely tested advice )

truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory

kldload procfs
mount_procfs /dev/procfs /proc

But you're supposed to use sysctl?