Arto's Notes re: FreeBSD

Creating a User Account

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/users-synopsis.html#users-adduser

$ sudo pw useradd -m -c "Buildbot slave" -u 999 -n buildbot

Changing the Login Shell

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/shells.html#changing-shells

$ sudo -u arto chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

Adding sudo Privileges

Look under /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/.

$ pw usermod jhacker -G wheel

$ cat /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/wheel
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Tracing System Calls

$ ktrace date && kdump
$ truss date

Release Information

$ freebsd-version
10.1-RELEASE

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: ...

Using the NFS Client

$ echo 'nfs_client_enable="YES"' > /etc/rc.conf.d/nfsclient
$ sudo service nfsclient start
$ mount nfs.example.org:/home/jhacker /home/jhacker

Installing PKGNG

$ /usr/sbin/pkg

Documentation

$ sudo pkg install en-freebsd-doc

Core Utilities

$ sudo pkg install bash
$ sudo pkg install sudo
$ sudo pkg install curl
$ sudo pkg install wget
$ sudo pkg install rsync
$ sudo pkg install tree
$ sudo pkg install git
$ sudo pkg install screen
$ sudo pkg install tmux

Text Editors

$ sudo pkg install joe vim-lite emacs-nox11

Toolchain

$ sudo pkg install gmake autoconf automake libtool pkgconf
$ sudo pkg install gcc49

Build Automation

$ sudo pkg install buildbot-slave