Part III. System configuration, administration and tuning
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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
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. 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