System configuration, administration and tuning

Table of Contents

8. Editing

8.1. Introducing vi

8.1.1. The vi interface

8.1.2. Switching to Edit Mode

8.1.3. Switching Modes & Saving Buffers to Files

8.1.4. Yanking and Putting

8.1.5. Navigation in the Buffer

8.1.6. Searching a File, the Alternate Navigational Aid

8.1.7. A Sample Session

8.2. Configuring vi

8.2.1. Extensions to .exrc

8.2.2. Documentation

8.3. Using tags with vi

9. X

9.1. What is X?

9.2. Configuration

9.3. The mouse

9.4. The keyboard

9.5. The monitor

9.6. The video card

9.6.1. XFree 3.x

9.6.2. XFree86 4.x

9.7. Starting X

9.8. Customizing X

9.9. Other window managers

9.10. Graphical login with xdm

10. Linux emulation

10.1. Emulation setup

10.1.1. Configuring the kernel

10.1.2. Installing the Linux libraries

10.1.3. Installing Acrobat Reader

10.2. Directory structure

10.3. Emulating /proc

11. Audio

11.1. Basic hardware elements

11.2. BIOS settings

11.3. Configuring the audio device

11.4. Configuring the kernel audio devices

11.5. Advanced commands

11.5.1. audioctl(1)

11.5.2. mixerctl(1)

11.5.3. audioplay(1)

11.5.4. audiorecord(1)

12. Printing

12.1. Enabling the printer daemon

12.2. Configuring /etc/printcap

12.3. Configuring Ghostscript

12.4. Printer management commands

12.5. Remote printing

13. Using removable media

13.1. Initializing and using floppy disks

13.2. How to use a ZIP disk

13.3. Reading data CDs with NetBSD

13.4. Reading multisession CDs with NetBSD

13.5. Allowing normal users to access CDs

13.6. Mounting an ISO image

13.7. Using video CDs with NetBSD

13.8. Using audio CDs with NetBSD

13.9. Creating an MP3 (MPEG layer 3) file from an audio CD

13.10. Using a CD-R writer with data CDs

13.11. Using a CD-R writer to create audio CDs

13.12. Creating an audio CD from mp3s

13.13. Copying an audio CD

13.14. Copying a data CD with two drives

13.15. Using CD-RW rewritables

13.16. DVD support

14. The cryptographic device driver (CGD)

14.1. Overview

14.1.1. Why use disk encryption?

14.1.2. Logical Disk Drivers

14.1.3. Availability

14.2. Components of the Crypto-Graphic Disk system

14.2.1. Kernel driver pseudo-device

14.2.2. Ciphers

14.2.3. Verification Methods

14.3. Example: encrypting your disk

14.3.1. Preparing the disk

14.3.2. Scrubbing the disk

14.3.3. Creating the cgd

14.3.4. Modifying configuration files

14.3.5. Restoring data

14.4. Example: encrypted CDs/DVDs

14.4.1. Introduction

14.4.2. Creating an encrypted CD/DVD

14.4.3. Using an encrypted CD/DVD

14.5. Suggestions and Warnings

14.5.1. Using a random-key cgd for swap

14.5.2. Warnings

14.6. Further Reading

15. Concatenated Disk Device (CCD) configuration

15.1. Install physical media

15.2. Configure Kernel Support

15.3. Disklabel each volume member of the CCD

15.4. Configure the CCD

15.5. Initialize the CCD device

15.6. Create a 4.2BSD/UFS filesystem on the new CCD device

15.7. Mount the filesystem

16. NetBSD RAIDframe

16.1. RAIDframe Introduction

16.1.1. About RAIDframe

16.1.2. A warning about Data Integrity, Backups, and High Availability

16.1.3. Getting Help

16.2. Setup RAIDframe Support

16.2.1. Kernel Support

16.2.2. Power Redundancy and Disk Caching

16.3. Example: RAID-1 Root Disk

16.3.1. Pseudo-Process Outline

16.3.2. Hardware Review

16.3.3. Initial Install on Disk0/wd0

16.3.4. Preparing Disk1/wd1

16.3.5. Initializing the RAID Device

16.3.6. Setting up Filesystems

16.3.7. Migrating System to RAID

16.3.8. The first boot with RAID

16.3.9. Adding Disk0/wd0 to RAID

16.3.10. Testing Boot Blocks

17. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

17.1. About

17.2. Introduction

17.3. Terms and conventions

17.3.1. Definitions

17.3.2. Usage examples

17.4. PAM Essentials

17.4.1. Facilities and primitives

17.4.2. Modules

17.4.3. Chains and policies

17.4.4. Transactions

17.5. PAM Configuration

17.5.1. PAM policy files

17.5.2. Breakdown of a configuration line

17.5.3. Policies

17.6. PAM modules

17.6.1. Common Modules

17.6.2. FreeBSD-specific PAM Modules

17.6.3. NetBSD-specific PAM Modules

17.7. PAM Application Programming

17.8. PAM Module Programming

17.9. Sample PAM Application

17.10. Sample PAM Module

17.11. Sample PAM Conversation Function

17.12. Further Reading

18. Tuning NetBSD

18.1. Introduction

18.1.1. Overview

18.2. Tuning Considerations

18.2.1. General System Configuration

18.2.2. System Services

18.2.3. The NetBSD Kernel

18.3. Visual Monitoring Tools

18.3.1. The top Process Monitor

18.3.2. The sysstat utility

18.4. Monitoring Tools

18.4.1. fstat

18.4.2. iostat

18.4.3. ps

18.4.4. vmstat

18.5. Network Tools

18.5.1. ping

18.5.2. traceroute

18.5.3. netstat

18.5.4. tcpdump

18.6. Accounting

18.6.1. Accounting

18.6.2. Reading Accounting Information

18.6.3. How to Put Accounting to Use

18.7. Kernel Profiling

18.7.1. Getting Started

18.7.2. Interpretation of kgmon Output

18.7.3. Putting it to Use

18.7.4. Summary

18.8. System Tuning

18.8.1. Using sysctl

18.8.2. memfs & softdeps

18.9. Kernel Tuning

18.9.1. Preparing to Recompile a Kernel

18.9.2. Configuring the Kernel

18.9.3. Building the New Kernel

18.9.4. Shrinking the NetBSD kernel

19. Miscellaneous operations

19.1. Creating a custom install/boot floppies for i386

19.2. Synchronizing the system clock with NTP

19.3. Installing the boot manager

19.4. Deleting the disklabel

19.5. Speaker

19.6. Forgot root password?

19.7. Adding a new hard disk

19.8. Password file is busy?

19.9. How to rebuild the devices in /dev