Part III. System configuration, administration and tuning
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Part III. System configuration, administration and tuning

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5. The first steps on NetBSD
5.1. Troubleshooting
5.1.1. Boot problems
5.1.2. Misconfiguration of /etc/rc.conf
5.2. The man command
5.3. Editing configuration files
5.4. Login
5.5. Changing the root password
5.6. Adding users
5.7. Shadow passwords
5.8. Changing the keyboard layout
5.9. System time
5.10. Secure Shell (ssh(1))
5.11. Basic configuration in /etc/rc.conf
5.12. Basic network settings
5.13. Mounting a CD-ROM
5.14. Mounting a floppy
5.15. Installing additional software
5.16. Security alerts
5.17. Stopping and rebooting the system
6. Editing
6.1. Introducing vi
6.1.1. The vi interface
6.1.2. Switching to Edit Mode
6.1.3. Switching Modes & Saving Buffers to Files
6.1.4. Yanking and Putting
6.1.5. Navigation in the Buffer
6.1.6. Searching a File, the Alternate Navigational Aid
6.1.7. A Sample Session
6.2. Configuring vi
6.2.1. Extensions to .exrc
6.2.2. Documentation
6.3. Using tags with vi
7. The rc.d System
7.1. Basics
7.2. The rc.d Scripts
7.3. The Role of rcorder and rc.d Scripts
7.4. Additional Reading
8. Console drivers
8.1. wscons
8.1.1. wsdisplay
8.1.2. wskbd
8.1.3. wsmouse
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
9.7. Starting X
9.8. Customizing X
9.9. Other window managers or desktop environments
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
10.4. Using Linux browser plugins
10.5. Further reading
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 multi-session 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
13.17. Creating ISO images from a CD
13.18. Getting volume information from CDs and ISO images
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. NetBSD Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configuration
17.1. Anatomy of NetBSD Logical Volume Manager
17.2. Install physical media
17.3. Configure Kernel Support
17.4. Configure LVM on a NetBSD system
17.5. Disklabel each physical volume member of the LVM
17.6. Create Physical Volumes
17.7. Create Volume Group
17.8. Create Logical Volume
17.9. Example: LVM with Volume groups located on raid1
17.9.1. Loading Device-Mapper driver
17.9.2. Preparing raid1 installation
17.9.3. Creating PV, VG on raid disk
17.9.4. Creating LV's from VG located on raid disk
17.9.5. Integration of LV's in to the system
18. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
18.1. About
18.2. Introduction
18.3. Terms and conventions
18.3.1. Definitions
18.3.2. Usage examples
18.4. PAM Essentials
18.4.1. Facilities and primitives
18.4.2. Modules
18.4.3. Chains and policies
18.4.4. Transactions
18.5. PAM Configuration
18.5.1. PAM policy files
18.5.2. Breakdown of a configuration line
18.5.3. Policies
18.6. PAM modules
18.6.1. Common Modules
18.6.2. NetBSD-specific PAM Modules
18.7. PAM Application Programming
18.8. PAM Module Programming
18.9. Sample PAM Application
18.10. Sample PAM Module
18.11. Sample PAM Conversation Function
18.12. Further Reading
19. Tuning NetBSD
19.1. Introduction
19.1.1. Overview
19.2. Tuning Considerations
19.2.1. General System Configuration
19.2.2. System Services
19.2.3. The NetBSD Kernel
19.3. Visual Monitoring Tools
19.3.1. The top Process Monitor
19.3.2. The sysstat utility
19.4. Monitoring Tools
19.4.1. fstat
19.4.2. iostat
19.4.3. ps
19.4.4. vmstat
19.5. Network Tools
19.5.1. ping
19.5.2. traceroute
19.5.3. netstat
19.5.4. tcpdump
19.6. Accounting
19.6.1. Accounting
19.6.2. Reading Accounting Information
19.6.3. How to Put Accounting to Use
19.7. Kernel Profiling
19.7.1. Getting Started
19.7.2. Interpretation of kgmon Output
19.7.3. Putting it to Use
19.7.4. Summary
19.8. System Tuning
19.8.1. Using sysctl
19.8.2. tmpfs & mfs
19.8.3. Soft-dependencies
19.8.4. Journaling
19.8.5. LFS
19.9. Kernel Tuning
19.9.1. Preparing to Recompile a Kernel
19.9.2. Configuring the Kernel
19.9.3. Building the New Kernel
19.9.4. Shrinking the NetBSD kernel
20. NetBSD Veriexec subsystem
20.1. How it works
20.2. Signatures file
20.3. Generating fingerprints
20.4. Strict levels
20.5. Veriexec and layered file systems
20.6. Kernel configuration
21. Bluetooth on NetBSD
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Supported Hardware
21.3. System Configuration
21.4. Human Interface Devices
21.4.1. Mice
21.4.2. Keyboards
21.5. Personal Area Networking
21.5.1. Personal Area Networking User
21.6. Serial Connections
21.7. Audio
21.7.1. SCO Audio Headsets
21.7.2. SCO Audio Handsfree
21.8. Object Exchange
21.9. Troubleshooting
22. Miscellaneous operations
22.1. Installing the boot manager
22.2. Deleting the disklabel
22.3. Speaker
22.4. Forgot root password?
22.5. Password file is busy?
22.6. Adding a new hard disk
22.7. How to rebuild the devices in /dev
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