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• Mdconfig
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Vnconfig
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Cvsup
  ...ive versions at freebsd.org. '''cvsup''' stands for Concurrent Versioning System ([[cvs|CVS]]) UPdate. ...and completely do not need or want if you aren't running the [[X windowing system]]. cvsup also requires Modula-3 programming language dependencies.
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• Rsync
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Ssh
  ...ortable [[:Category:Ports and Packages | port]], is the [[:Category:System Commands | command-line tool]] used to securely access a shell prompt on a remote ne SSH is part of the FreeBSD base system, and if you enabled ssh logins during your install, you don't have to do mu
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• Ctm
  ...directory tree in sync with a central one. You can use it to keep both the system source and the ports tree current. ...or src-cur for the respective stable branches or the current branch of the system base
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• Su
  [[su]] is acronymic for '''switch user''', and is the system command used under FreeBSD and other unix-like operating systems to change ...th]]. This is intuitive, and works (although it's sloppy since it eats up system resources for a new shell without freeing the resources for the old one), b
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• Vi
  Since it is a part of the FreeBSD base system, [[vi]] will be both installed and in your [[path]], so you can start it by == Basic Commands in vi ==
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• Portupgrade
  ... and cvsup, you'll have the ability to keep all installed software on your system up to date, so long as it exists in the ports tree. ...exactly which ports will be updated, and know how to recover from a broken system. This is *NOT* recommended by any knowledgable FreeBSD user.
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• Init
  ... used (and more commonly at that) to describe what '''runlevel''' the unix system is in. It breaks down to: init 0 -- system halt (will drop you to the [[Sparc_-_Installing_FreeBSD|Open Boot Firmware]
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• Fsck
  ...ystem shuts down before it gets done -- say a power outage happens -- your system may suddenly have a corrupted filesystem or partition. ... over and see if it NEEDS repairs while it's mounted. If one of the basic system mounts like / or /usr or /var needs checking, it's highly recommended that
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• Exit
  '''Exit''' is the system command used to close a [[shell]] you're in. It is also very frequently us [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Pw
  ...ommand used to modify and rebuild /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd, and the system user account database generated from those files. [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Portversion
  [[Category:System Commands]] [[Category:Ports and Packages]]
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• At
  ... will be part of the '''at''' job scheduled. Once you're done entering in commands to be scheduled, you press CTRL-D (aka the [[eof]] character) and the sched You may also use the -f option to specify a file that contains the list of commands you wish to process - for example:
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• Grep
  ...rom the commandline, but is more often fed input in conjunction with other commands, such as [[find]], [[ls]] or [[cat]]: [[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]] [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ls
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Cd
  ...ol ''.'' (current directory), ''..'' (container directory), or ''/'' (file-system root directory). . the directory I am in. Not used very often with [[cd]] but more often with commands.
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• Type
  [[Category:System Commands]] [[Category:Linux Equivalents]] [[Category:Windows Equivalents]]
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• Fdisk
  '''fdisk''' is the system command used in FreeBSD and other unixlike OSes to handle partitioning hard [[Category:Windows Equivalents]] [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Which
  '''which''' is a very useful system command used to [[find]] out exactly what is going to get executed when you [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Where
  '''where''' is a very useful system command used to find out how many different versions of the same command or [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Whereis
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Find
  ...s is ''not'' a fast search and can take a very long time and burn a lot of system resources when used on large (or multiple) filesystems - in this example, e With the above, you won't waste time and valuable system resources thrashing all hard drives looking for a file you know can't be an
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• Cat
  Related commands are '''zcat''' (aka '''gzcat''') and '''bzcat''', for use with gzipped and [[category: System Commands]]
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• Man page
  [[category: System Commands]]
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• Shell
  ...ams and users to interface with the "kernel" (lower level of the operating system). Microsoft Windows users will compare the '''Unix shell''' to DOS. ...and line; or, to perform more complex tasks you can save a series of shell commands in files ([[shell script]]s), which can be executed from the command line o
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• Mkdir
  [[Category : Windows Equivalents]] [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Top
  Main commands in top: S toggle the display of system processes
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• Ps
  For a BSD-style ps on a [[Solaris]] system, use /usr/ucb/ps instead of the normal UNIX-standard ps. ;u: show system info on commands (user, pid, cpu% etc)
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• Sysinstall
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Rsh
  {{System-Commands}} [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Redirection
  | sends output to a program (frequently, a [[:Category:System Commands|system command]] like [[grep]]) ...e preconnected to the shell process running on your FreeBSD machine. Most commands that you would run from the command line expect these file descriptors to b
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• Chmod
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• MySQL, Simple Installation
  to the right place for your system To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:
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• Umount
  {{System-Commands}} ...ommand is used to unlink a file system from the local host, usually a file system previously linked using the [[mount]] command.
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• More
  [[Category:System Commands]][[Category:Windows Equivalents]]
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• Df
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Du
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Pwd
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Chown
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Nano
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Pico
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Emacs
  === Commands === ...ys move the editing point, [[backspace]] deletes text, and so forth. Other commands are invoked with [[modifier key|modified keystrokes]], using the [[control
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• Chsh
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Less
  ...n) but will allow you to move backwards (up) and allows use of [[vi]]-like commands (going to a specific line, searching with /, etc.). See the [[man]] page fo [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Scp
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Chgrp
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Man
  1. General Commands 2. System Calls
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• Umask
  [[Category:System Commands]] [[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]]
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• Cp
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Sudo
  ...user disabled by default, and the only way to get [[root]]-level access to commands on the OS X command line (in a terminal or from the command-line console,) ...ters), users will be able to exploit this to inconspiciously run arbitrary commands as root. Similarly, make very certain that users don't have write permissi
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• Visudo
  [[Category:System Commands]] [[Category:Ports and Packages]]
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• Sudo, configuring
  Info: Allow others to run commands as root '''Cmnd_Alias''' allows you to define which commands (full path '''must''' be given) are in a group
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• Shutdown
  ...orcefully, all pending writes will be performed, all disks sync'd, and the system will halt and wait for reboot. ...t a console message to all currently logged in users warning them that the system will shutdown in 5 minutes, at which time it will forcefully log them out a
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• Sockstat
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Touch
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Sed
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Who
  ...ame you logged in as. Compare to [[whoami]], which shows you what user the system thinks you currently are. [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Whoami
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• PATH
  ...contains the directories that your shell/command line interface checks for commands in. This can be set to a default in your [[skeleton_file]] or it can be set ...ram.exe, you can run it simply by typing '''program.exe'''. On a unixlike system, you would need to instead type in '''./program.exe''' to specify the curre
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• Rehash
  ...hash''' regenerates the system's cached info about what's contained in the system PATH. Commonly needed after installing new applications from the ports tre IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
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• Zcat
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Bzcat
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Apachectl
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ipfw
  ... you want to run '''ipfw''', you need to create a firewall ruleset and the system will dynamically load the kernel module when the rc.conf statement firewall [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Natd
  '''natd''' is the system daemon that handles [[Network Address Translation]] for FreeBSD systems act [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Routed
  '''routed''' is the routing daemon included with the base FreeBSD system. It's getting a bit long in the tooth, and most people seem to recommend [ [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Tcpdump
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Telnet
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ln
  {{System-Commands}} As the system administrator you tell marketing to update their design changes in the file
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• Kldload
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ifconfig
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Strings
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Nice
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Renice
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Rm
  ...practice is not recommended because you will eventually find yourself on a system that doesn't have that alias and make a mistake. However, you can alias a d [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Mv
  {{System-Commands}} The '''mv''' command is used to ''move'' files around the file system. It can also be used to rename files.
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• Apropos
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Whatis
  ...st a set of database files that contain short descriptions of system based commands and devices. ...within other text, one of which was 'krb5_verify_opt_set_secure(3)'. Both commands search in a case-insensitive manner.
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• Kill
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ee
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Echo
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Mount
  {{System-Commands}} The '''mount''' command is used to link a file system to the local host allowing access to files stored upon them. These file sy
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• Ports, Installing
  ...he Ports Tree | install]] it. If you have the ports tree installed on your system you should try and keep it [[Update the ports tree | updated]] with the mos (commands can be written in sequence like this one to install a port then distclean)
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• Pkg add
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Crontab
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Complete Workstation
  ...ileges. To make one of these login managers start when you first boot your system, modify this line in /etc/ttys: ..., [[elinks]], [[w3m]], etc. if your workstation does not have the X Window System installed, or if you want an alternative browser with good keyboard control
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• Errors To Avoid
  ... will clean /usr/ports/distfiles and any packages that were built for your system. * Make sure your backups are up to date before doing anything risky to your system, and always read at least the man pages!
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• Cu
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Webmin
  ... permits the administrator to configure virtually every aspect of the host system from a standard web browser. It is actively developed and (as at the time ...h makes it possible to maintain a Webmin-enabled server from any operating system that has a web browser (and quite possibly Opera Mini on a mobile phone!).
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• Tip
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Upgrading the base system
  Upgrading a FreeBSD system is relatively painless if the proper steps are followed. ...he new version then recompile the source and install. There are automatic commands for much of the process.
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• Updating the system
  In FreeBSD, the base system and ports can be updated independently if desired. Here's how to do it. == Updating the base system ==
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• Lsof
  The '''lsof''' command is used to determine the status of file system objects (directories and files) in use by users and processes. It is part The 'lsof' command is available through the [[ports]] system.
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• Pkg delete
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Pkg info
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Setuid
  [[setuid]] (and its fellow commands '''setgid''' and '''seteuid''') are all system calls that a program can use to change its user ID, group ID and effective The '''setuid()''' system call sets the real and effective user IDs and the
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• Edit
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Sshd
  ...sh/sshd_config (watch out for those underscores) and it's part of the base system. [[Category:Securing FreeBSD]] [[Category:System Commands]]
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• RAID1, Software, How to setup
  ...ert all system partitions - including / and swap - from using the original system drive to running on a mirror consisting of the original drive and a physica ...or filesystem, currently with a single physical drive in it - our existing system drive.
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• PostgreSQL
  PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system released under the terms of the BSD license. It is based on '''postgres''', ...quired in order to be ready to use PostgreSQL over a network : telling the system ''who'' can access ''what''. This is the role of the ~/data/pg_hba.conf fil
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• Source
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Pkg deinstall
  '''pkg_deinstall''' is used to remove installed [[ports]] from the system. '''pkg_deinstall''' first check the port's dependencies : if any port requ [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Newsyslog
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Make
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• CUPS
  CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) This makes it easy to add printers to your system and programs such as firefox will pick up the printer list automatically. F
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• Gotchas, Linux
  # The kernels are both modular, but the commands for loading/viewing/unloading kernel modules are different -- [[kldstat]], ...le init, rc is configured via a single config file (/etc/rc.conf) with the system rc scripts stored under /etc/rc.d, and local daemon startup scripts in /usr
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• Kldstat
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ssh keys, creating
  [[Category: Securing FreeBSD]] [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Ssh-keygen
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• SSH, limiting to SCP or Rsync only
  ... custom [[shell]] when they log in that will only allow them access to the commands that you want them to be able to use. ...' can use scp or sftp (if sftp is set up) or rsync (if rsync is available) commands with ssh, but cannot actually log into the box - remotely OR locally I migh
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• Ssh keys, using
  [[Category:Securing FreeBSD]] [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Fetch
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Fstat
  {{System-Commands}} The '''fstat''' command is used to determine the status of file system objects (directories and files) in use by users and processes. It is simil
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• Updating to FreeBSD 6.0
  There are potential problems updating a system from 5.1-5.3 to 6.0 directly. Although they do not affect everyone, it is h ==System Preperation==
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• Nslookup
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Ssh, passwordless authentication
  ... system. Scponly is mainly used to let people access a remote account with commands like "scp" or "rsync" over "ssh"to do secure remote backups.
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• X Windows Terminal
  192.168.1.2 = the client (may be a full freebsd system or pxeboot) You must allow incoming connections this is done with two commands
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• Pkill
  The pkill command searches the process table on the running system and prints the process IDs of all processes that match the criteria given o [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Kldunload
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Sbin/nologin
  ... accounts which are not intended for anyone to interactively log in to the system as. [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Unlink
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Alias (command)
  ...as]] command is used to create '''aliases''', and to get a list of aliased commands. [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Unalias
  The syntax is always the same - for example, we can see that this system has an alias causing 'foo' to be interpreted as 'bar': [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Sysctl
  ...alues. Invalid or incorrect settings could cause severe problems with your system. [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Cvs
  ...r Concurrent Versions System. As the name implies, it is a version control system. ''[[csup]]'', which comes with the base system, was useful to update ports from cvs repositories. [[cvsup]], which require
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• Runlevels
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• Dmesg
  '''dmesg''' displays the system message buffer. It's output is just like /var/run/dmesg.boot, although '''d [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Megarc
  ... functions. Since these [[RAID]] adapters are reasonably popular, and the commands are a bit scary and somewhat obscurely named, this page might prove helpful * To see the commands available, as root type:<br /><code>megarc ?</code>
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• HUP
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Ftp
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Sftp
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Xargs
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Rc.subr
  ...ubr''' is a subroutine library that was developed primarily for the NetBSD system and imported into FreeBSD where it was further developed. See [http://www. ...has an <code>="YES"</code> line in ''rc.conf'', the ''start'' and ''stop'' commands have no effect.
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• Sched
  * Show sheduled commands: [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Nohup
  [[Category : System Commands]]
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• Scanner, installing
  Connect your scanner to the USB and type the following commands. This should list your device, if it doesn't make sure you do the following commands:
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• Gbde
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• Dd
  [[Category: System Commands]]
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• RAID0, Software, How to setup
  ...s a real-working example written by the author actually configuring a real system. The system is intended to be a file server using Samba.
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• Tunefs
  ...orarily while s/he figures out how to permanently add storage space to the system: ...pense of performance and an increased risk of crashing applications or the system itself, depending on what's stored on that partition. The wise sysadmin wi
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• Installation on Ultra 5
  ...on regular x86 systems. The following covers the specifics of the Ultra 5 system installation. ...not work! If using the [[ports]] system only CD1 is required for the base system installation.
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• Gmirror
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Uptime
  The '''uptime''' command shows the length of time since the system booted up. The output is displayed on the [[standard output]]. ... It also had two users logged on. The three load averages values show the system utilisation as at 1, 5 and 15 minutes ago respectively.
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• Uname
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Iostat
  ...erage of all I/O activity on each device averaged over the entire time the system has been up, whereas succeeding lines refer to the activity between the tim [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Netstat
  ... interfaces, including total packets in, out, error, and collided over the system's uptime. [[Category:System Commands]]
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• W
  The '''w''' command (literally a lower-case 'W') shows the uptime of the system as well as the users who are logged on and certain details about them. This shows the uptime of the system in the same format as the [[uptime]] command (see that article for details)
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• Newfs
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• GNU Project
  ...//www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation] and exists to create an operating system similar in operation to UNIX while not containing any UNIX code. This is w ...t kernel is a long way from completion the operating system tools, such as commands, shells, etc. have been developed and in existence for well over a decade.
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• Route
  {{System-Commands}} ...ers in usage from the Microsoft command of the same name which can confuse system administrators migrating across platforms.
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• Syslog
  The '''Syslog''', or System Log service, is a background process that receives events from other runnin | System corruption of a database, for example.
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• Background, running jobs in
  ...append a single ampersand at the end of a bunch of double-ampersand linked commands in order to cause the whole kit and kaboodle to run in the background, whil ... any particular user - or anyone at all - is interactively logged into the system.
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• Syslog-NG Installation
  The '''Syslog-NG''', or System Log Next-Generation, service is an updated version of the default [[Syslog] ...e. The options page is displayed when running [[make]] from the [[ports]] system. This will install the 'mysql-client' automatically (not to be mistaken wi
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• Mkfifo
  {{System-Commands}} ...First-In First-Out, command creates a form of 'pipe' somewhere on the file system with special properties. This pipe can be thought of as a file in the trad
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• IPMI
  ...hich system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system. Several dozen companies support IPMI. Dell, HP, Intel Corporation and NEC ...n when the OS has started, and offers enhanced features when used with the system management software. IPMI gives only the structure and format of the interf
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• File
  [[Category:System Commands]]
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• ZFS, booting from
  ...d adjust as appropriate, and of course if you have more drives, copy these commands for those drives as well. ==Optional: Create ZFS datasets specifically for a FreeBSD system==
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• Commonly used commands
  == Commonly Used Commands == halt to stop system before manual power off
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• Email
  ... use your FBSD system as a workstation. For the purpose of using your FBSD system as a gateway/firewall/email server/web server the built in email client app The mail client application is a very simplistic command line driven system that assigns a sequence number to each individual mail message in your mail
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• Locate
  list files that have been removed from the system. This is because locate only reports files that are present in the database will reveal all filenames on your system to all login users.<br>
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• Defending Against Attacks
  The most common program used to probe is nmap. It's even in the ports system as, security/nmap. Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security au ... sending IP address using the FreeBSD port ppars-1.0 See Abuse reporting system
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• Example of configuring OpenSSH
  ... example we have a FreeBSD system which we will call the host. This is the system that remote users want to have login access to. We have an Remote FreeBSD system which is located some where on the public internet, we will call this the F
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• User Account Admin
  ...ser accounts. FBSD only allows users that have a predefined account on the system to have access to its facilities. The account name/ID and password is what
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• Personal Scripts
  ...uild a simple shell script and place the command I use, or the sequence of commands I used to perform repetitive tasks, I can give the script a long name that
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• Disaster Recovery Scheme
  ...om scratch is much more of a effort than just restoring the backup of your system. Professional users have an even more pressing need for back ups as they ar ...in an emergence caused my hard drive failure or security compromise of the system or just plain stupid administration operator errors. Having a pre-tested do
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• Desktop, light setup
  After installing and configuring the base system, here are instructions on how to get a light desktop up and running quickly ...ollowing input is sufficient to install the programs for a running Desktop system:
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• Csup
  ...p is a drop-in replacement for [[cvsup]]. This program comes with the base system since FreeBSD 6.2, so it does not require bloated dependencies to run. [[Category:System Commands]]
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• Etc/
  ...ific purposes or override other ''etc/'' directories. Most system start up commands and configuration settings go here. .... Most user customizations shouldn't go here, since this can be updated by system processes. This explains why a process may work temporarily after adjusting
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• Printing, about
  The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS: {{port|print/cups}}) framework supports more printers than LPR and L ...sr/local/etc/cups/printcap}}. On the command line, CUPS uses BSD LPR style commands.
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