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NetBSD Tips and Tricks

• Package Management
  • pkgin
    • Enable pkgin:
      • export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.3/All"
      • pkg_add pkgin
  • Apps installed to /usr/pkg/bin/

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antiX Tips and Tricks

Quickies

• Services
  • Enable: update-rc.d [basename] defaults
  • Disable: update-rc.d [basename] disable
• Couldn't recognize the image file format for file: apt install librsvg2-common
• NFS client - no_root_squash is not supported
• When setting up, no ethernet use dhclient
• For antiX VMs, make sure to install qemu-guest-agent to honor reboot/shutdown signals.

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KDE

Tips and tricks for KDE.

How To's

• Installing KDE
  • Debian: apt -y install task-kde-desktop
• Rebooting KDE
  • killall plasmashell
  • kstart plasmashell
• Remove discover: dnf remove plasma-discover

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Alt-F

Tips and tricks for Alt-F.

How To's

• Native NFS client
  • ssh into Alt-F. Example ssh -p 2222 localhost
  • cd /etc
  • Update fstab
  • In web ui, go to Services -> Network -> rmount -> Configure
• Mount the newly added mounts

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DragonFlyBSD

How To's

• Register hostname with DHCP

  • /etc/dhclienf.conf: send host-name "hostname";
    • send host-name "server-01";

• Network Time Protocl: dntpd

  • /etc/dntpd.conf: server [server/ip address]

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Cabin Hardware

cabin-ap

DD-WRT

Startup

log() {
    echo "---------------------------------------" 2>&1 >> /tmp/flossware.log

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SCM

Bitbucket

• SSH-RSA key rejected with message "no mutual signature algorithm: ~/.ssh/config: PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa

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DD-WRT Tips and Tricks

Quickies

• Install Entware
• Anonymous samba share: mount.cifs //[host]/[share] [local dir] -o rw,noperm,guest,workgroup=[workgroup],sec=ntlm
  • Example: mount.cifs //192.168.168.2/exports /opt/debian/mnt/family-ap/exports -o rw,noperm,guest,workgroup=FLOSSWARE,sec=ntlm
  • Note the sec=ntlm option
• To use things like cifs, nfs server, etc, use modprobe in your startup commands:
  • /sbin/modprobed cifs
  • /sbin/modprobe nfs

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Common *nix Tips and Tricks

• D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open “/var/lib/dbus/machine-id”: dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
• Port Scan: nmap -sU [URL]
• Make an ISO: mkisofs -V FREEBSD_INSTALL -J -R -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -o ../FreeBSD.iso .
• Register Hostname with DHCP Server: /etc/dhclient.conf: send host-name [host name];

Window Managers

JWM

• GitHub
• Configuration v2.3

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Bare Metal and VM Configuration

Notes

Much of the information contained here can be externalized to Ansible.

Common

AutoFS

Home Page

• /etc/auto.admin-ap