Blog category: FreeBSD
Automatic bootstrapping of pkg(7) in FreeBSD
January 1, 2014 by Paweł Biernacki
Since FreeBSD 10.0 pkgng becomes new default packaging management system. To start using it you need to
run /usr/sbin/pkg boostrap command that will fetch and install the whole new packaging system. It will politely ask
you if you are sure to proceed. The problem is when you want to automate your install you are hold by that interactive
question.
Peer to peer routing in FreeBSD
November 21, 2013 by Paweł Biernacki
Some hosting providers started offering IPs or IP aliases with /32 bit mask (for
example Hetzner). Virtual interfaces such as gif or tun have built-in ability to act as
peer to peer devices and ifconfig utility can use that ability to easily setup of these interfaces, but ethernet
devices need some special treatment.
In search of working devfs rules
November 18, 2013 by Paweł Biernacki
On 10th Oct 2013 in revision r256256 FreeBSD has changed
rc.d script for running jails. The new version uses configuraion from /etc/jail.conf file instead of /etc/rc.conf
entries. This change exposed a problem where devfs was not importing default rules anymore - therefore
option devfs_ruleset was ignored.
