4.4BSD Manual Index 4.4 Berkeley Software Distribution
Contained herein are postscript versions of those manuals distributed with 4.4BSD-Lite
4.4BSD User's Reference Manual 4.4BSD UNIX release--plus
additional pages for games and miscellaneous information. Even if you don't have a
4.4BSD system, you'll find this book helpful; many commands are identical to those in
other UNIX versions.
A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD This paper describes the design and implementation of a distributed shared memory facility we have implemented for the FreeBSD operating system (a descendant of 4.4BSD that runs on the PC architecture).
A Guide to UNIX and Darwin A simple guide to what you need to understand what Darwin is and how to get started.
A User's Guide to FreeBSD Programming Tools FreeBSD offers an excellent development environment. Compilers for C, C++, and Fortran and an assembler come with the basic system, not to mention a Perl interpreter and classic Unix tools such as sed and awk.
Adam Stanislav's CGI Tutorial A hands-on tutorial explains how CGI programming works. You learn by experimentation. Also contains a reference section about CGI programming, Unix, and FreeBSD in particular.
Advanced Graphics Programming Techniques This advanced course demonstrates sophisticated and novel computer graphics programming techniques, implemented in C
using the widely available OpenGL library.
Alternate Diskless Operation This document give a detailed description of the method used to set up a FreeBSD 2.x system as a
DISKLESS client server and the setup of those DISKLESS clients. It builds on documents by Todd Pfaff and
Martin Renters.
An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial One of the most important additions to UNIX in 4.2BSD was interprocess communication. These facilities were the result of
more than two years of discussion and research. The facilities provided in 4.2BSD incorporated many of the ideas from current
research, while trying to maintain the UNIX philosophy of simplicity and conciseness.
Automounter Utilities Documentation This manual documents the use of the 4.4BSD automounter tool suite, which includes Amd, Amq, Hlfsd, and other programs.
Basic NetBSD Networking This configuration can be extended to take advantage of NetBSD's many networking features.
BSD Firewall BSD Firewall Introduction and Requirements.
BSD on MC68LC040 This document is written in order to clear things up a little bit for users of MC68LC040-based machines who wish to run NetBSD/m68k(*) on their machines.
BSD Programmers Documentation Project The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project is a documentation effort about the BSD's themselves. This includes makefiles,
compilation, source overview, kernel internals, device drivers, and a lot more.
BSD Sockets Sockets are a generalized networking capability first introduced in 4.1cBSD and subsequently refined into their current form
with 4.2BSD.
BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer The socket is the BSD method for accomplishing interprocess communication (IPC). What this means is a socket is used to allow one process to speak to another, very much like the telephone is used to allow one person to speak to another.
BSD: Postfix Installation and Configuration. This small tutorial shows up where to get, how to install and how to configure Postfix - the sendmail-compatible MTA with enhanced security in mind.
BSDI Man Pages Man Page Lookup searches for man pages name and section as given in the selection menu and the query dialog. Apropos Keyword Search searches the database for the string given in the query dialog.
Build and update FreeBSD This document describe how to build and update the FreeBSD Web pages from the CVS repository on your local machine.
Building an ATM Firewall with BSD As a system administrator in a large academic institution, its obvious to me that network security should be a high priority when planning a network strategy.
Configuration of ipfilter on FreeBSD ipfilter is a small but efficient firewall package. It does everything done by other firewalls and even more. It's also a very portable package. FreeBSD versions above 3.3.3 have it already integrated and you only have to activate it via the kernel configuration.
Configuring FreeBSD as a PPP Dialup Router This document is based on the author's personal experience setting up FreeBSD as a PPP dialup router using FreeBSD's
kernel-mode PPP (/usr/sbin/pppd), and assumes the reader's familiarity with UNIX administration basics.
Configuring the X Windows System Unix/BSDs provide a great sturdy platform for running services that just need to be "going and going and ..." For this type of environment the Windowing Graphical User Interface is mostly unnecessary (or maybe totally unnecessary.)
Create your own PPP configuration files By default, the FreeBSD installation process creates a number of sample configuration files in the /etc/ppp directory.
Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel As Linux and FreeBSD often run side by side, Linux administrators
would do well to learn how to configure FreeBSD to meet their needs.
Customizing the Login Shell This article won't cover shell scripting or advanced shell tweaks; instead we'll concentrate on some
differences between the C and Bourne shells. We'll also cover editing login and logout scripts, and learn
something about login and non-login shells along the way.
CVE Reference Map for Source OPENBSD This document lists the various references for OPENBSD and provides the associated CVE
entries or candidates.
CVE Reference Map for Source OPENBSD This document lists the various references for OPENBSD and provides the associated CVE entries or candidates. Candidates are marked with a ** at the end of their name so that they can be more easily distinguished from official CVE entries.
Die bsd-Firewall BSD-Unix ist die Plattform, auf der die weltweit erste Implementierung der Internet-Protokolle vorgenommen worden ist. Dementsprechend ist diese Implementierung sehr ausgereift und in der Praxis geprft.
DualOpenBSD This is geared for OpenBSD users - This is my setup for both home and office networking.
As you know, OpenBSD does its networking a wee bit differantly then FreeBSD and the need
to edit the network files for both home and office connect to the internet can, well,
sorta suck...
Dynamic Kernel Linker (KLD) The purpose of this document is to introduce the basics of programming and developing
KLDs under the FreeBSD operating system.
Fonts and FreeBSD This document contains a description of the various font files that may be used with FreeBSD and the syscons
driver, X11, Ghostscript and Groff.
FreeBSD Booting Process FreeBSD uses a three-stage bootstrap by default, which basically entails three programs which call each other in order (two
boot blocks, and the loader).
FreeBSD Cheat Sheets These Cheat Sheets present step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and maintaining a FreeBSD system.
FreeBSD Cheat Sheets. These Cheat Sheets present step-by-step instructions for installing,
configuring, and maintaining a FreeBSD system.
FreeBSD Cook Book This document is styled after the electronics cook books with
some recipes for some common types of installations.
FreeBSD Device Driver Writer's Guide This document describes how to write a device driver for FreeBSD. It is not intended to be a tutorial on unix device drivers in general. It is intended for device driver authors, familiar with the unix device driver model, to work on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD Documentation Release 2.1. Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release 2.1. This manual is a work in progress and is the work of many individuals.
FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors This primer covers everything you will need to know in order to start contributing to the FreeBSD Documentation Project, from the tools and software you will be using (both mandatory and recommended) to the philosophy behind the Documentation Project.
FreeBSD DRI for XFree86 XFree86's Direct Rendering Infrastructure is getting to be fairly well-supported on FreeBSD. This page covers using the latest code available and news on using open-source drivers for 3d hardware in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD Handbook FreeBSD is a 4.4BSD-Lite2 based operating system for Intel
architecture (x86) and DEC Alpha based computer systems. For an
overview of FreeBSD, see FreeBSD in a nutshell.
FreeBSD Handbook Release 2.2.8. This manual is a work in progress and is the work of many individuals. Many sections do not yet exist and some of those that do exist need to be updated.
FreeBSD PPP Man Page This is a user process PPP software package. Normally, PPP is implement
ed as a part of the kernel (e.g. as managed by pppd(8)) and it's thus
somewhat hard to debug and/or modify its behaviour.
FreeBSD SAM How to Install FreeBSD SAM 1.6 on FreeBSD 3.0 UNIX Systems.
To install FreeBSD SAM 1.6 in a FreeBSD 3.0 UNIX system it is necessary to run the "install" Script contained in the FreeBSD SAM 1.6 Distribution.
FreeBSD Security Information This web page is designed to assist both new and experienced users in the area of security for the FreeBSD Operating System.
FreeBSD SMP project The FreeBSD SMP project, often referred to as SMPng (SMP next generation), is focused on implementing fine-grained SMP support for the FreeBSD 5.0 kernel (scheduled for November 2002).
FreeBSD Splash Screens Just prior to the release of FreeBSD 3.1, a new feature was added to allow the display of "splash" screens during the boot messages. The splash screens currently must be a 256 color bitmap (*.BMP) or ZSoft PCX (*.PCX) file. In addition, they must have a resolution of 320x200 or less to work on standard VGA adapters.
FreeBSD's Internetworking FreeBSD includes what many consider the reference implementation for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP
protocol stack, thereby making it ideal for network applications and the Internet.
Getting started with SSH The following sections hope to provide enough information to setup a user new to ssh with the
appropriate files necessary for accessing remote hosts in a secure manner.
GRUB MultiBoot Manager GRUB is an attempt to produce a bootloader for IBM PC-compatible machines that has both the capability to be friendly to
beginning or otherwise non-technically interested users and the flexibility to help experts in diverse environments.
Guide to FreeBSD Programming Tools This document is an introduction to using some of the programming tools supplied with FreeBSD, although much of it will be
applicable to many other versions of Unix.
Handbook DTD Migration The FreeBSD Handbook is currently marked up using the LinuxDoc DTD. A variety of tools are then used to convert the Handbook to other formats, including HTML, ASCII text and Postscript.
Hardware Configurations for BSD/OS This text assumes the use of BSD/OS 2.1 or higher, and some of the hardware I recommend does not work on other systems
or on early versions of BSD/OS.
How to debug a BSD kernel Let's call a debug target machine "A" and a dubug work machine "B". We access to "tty01" of machine A through "tty00" of machine B.
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions FreeBSD-questions is a mailing list maintained by the FreeBSD project to help people who have questions about the normal use of FreeBSD. Another group, FreeBSD-hackers, discusses more advanced questions such as future development work.
IMP Imap webMail Program IMP is an IMAP client (reads and delivers mail) that functions using a Web Browser as the client, while operations are performed on the Web Server.
Install for FreeBSD 4.1 This is a guide illustrating the FreeBSD install program for those new to unix and/or FreeBSD.
This version is for a stand-alone system.
Install Preview for FreeBSD This is a guide illustrating the FreeBSD install program for those new to unix and/or FreeBSD.
Installing OpenBSD 2.7 on a GDT 6528RD RAID Installing OpenBSD 2.7 on a GDT 6528RD RAID
Below I explain what steps I took for installing OpenBSD 2.7 on my GDT6528RD (by ICP vortex) based RAID system.
IP Aliasing on FreeBSD IP aliasing is the process of adding more than one IP address to a
network interface.
IPv6 Using OpenBSD This is a short journal of how to setup a simple IPv6 host using OpenBSD 2.7beta as the base operating system and getting 6bone connectivity through the freenet6 project (www.freenet6.net).
Kpackage Handbook Kpackage is a GUI interface to the RPM, Debian, Slackware and BSD package managers, it is similar in some
ways to GLINT.
Laptop Compatibility for FreeBSD This document is meant to serve as a resource for identifying successes and difficulties running various versions of FreeBSD on laptop computers.
MIT Scheme User's Manual This document discusses many operating-system specific features of the MIT Scheme implementation. In order
to simplify the discussion, we use abbreviations to refer to some operating systems. When the text uses the
term unix, this means any of the unix systems that we support, including GNU/Linux, *BSD, HP-UX, Ultrix,
NeXT, and SunOS.
Multi-processor locking in 4.4BSD Lite2 In a multi-processor system locking between processors to serialize access to critical data structures and variables is necessary.
In 4.4BSD Lite2 this has been implemented by the addition of a generic lock manager, and the existing file system code has
been updated to use it.
MultiBoot - OpenBSD and FAT/NTFS Windows This instructions discuss how you can use Boot Managers to configure your system to boot either OpenBSD or your MS Windows OS.
NetBSD 1.3 - Using the NetBSD Packages These notes are from my experience of setting up and using NetBSD 1.3.2's packaging system. They assume that you have got NetBSD installed on your system.
NetBSD Documentation Power Management This documentation describes some of the power managemnt facilities available in NetBSD, including the Advanced Power Management (APM) support found in most modern laptops.
NetBSD IPv6 Networking IPv6 code is merged into the NetBSD distributions in June 1999. It will be included in official releases
from NetBSD 1.5. IPv6 configuration is mostly the same as IPv4 configuration, so you may want to check
the documentations for IPv4 networking.
NetBSD Maintenance These documents describe how the NetBSD operating system is installed, configured and updated in our environment.
Network Address Translation - Case Example Network address translation allows you to have a private internal network that is separate from the Internet, but yet can receive information from it.
Network Address Translation for OpenBSD The purpose of this document is to explain and give and overview
of installing and configuring Network Address Translation ("NAT")
on an OpenBSD machine. This document is meant for users with a
beginning to intermediate level of knowledge in UNIX, TCP/IP, and
networking technologies.
Network Address Translation for OpenBSD This document is meant for users with a
beginning to intermediate level of knowledge in UNIX, TCP/IP, and
networking technologies. The user is assumed to have already set up
and configured an OpenBSD machine with two network cards (one
connected to the Internet and the other to the local network).
Official FreeBSD Installation Guide Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release 4.2. This manual is a
work in progress and is the work of many individuals.
OpenBSD - X Windows System Simple and easy-to-follow guide to installing the X-Windows system on OpenBSD.
Porting audio applications to OpenBSD This document currently deals with sampled sounds issues only. Contributions dealing with synthesizers and waveform tables are welcome.
Porting BSD UNIX to a New Platform The source code of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) UNIX system is freely available. This document is a guide for
those who wish to port this system to a new architecture.
Porting OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire This paper outlines how and why Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD operating system to create a successful Internet appliance.
Porting Zzipp to OpenBSD This document provides instruction about how Zzipp.3.1.01 was ported to OpenBSD 2.6.
Porting Zzipp to OpenBSD This document provides instruction about how Zzipp.3.1.01 was ported to OpenBSD 2.6.
POSIX.1e Implementation for FreeBSD Posix.1e is a standards paper describing security extensions to Posix and surely better than nothing when it
comes to security.
PPP - Pedantic PPP Primer This is a step-by-step guide for configuring FreeBSD systems to act as a dial-up router/gateway in a Local
Area Environment.
README for XFree86 4.0 on OpenBSD README for XFree86 4.0 on OpenBSD. XFree86 is a port of X11R6.4 that supports several versions of Intel-based Unix
Running Orion Server with FreeBSD Running Orion Server with FreeBSD (FBSD) is much easier than most people expect. Majority of the work is in compiling, and redirecting the traditional port above 1024 to run as a non-root user.
Setting up the FTP Server Default ftpd behaviour is to allow all users access to the root-directory, this can be a significant compromise.
SMM Manual The information in these documents applies to the 4.4BSD system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
Stopping Spam and Malware with Open Source A properly configured mail server running BSD (or any other UNIX-like operating system) can protect users, including those running other operating systems on their client machines, from these nuisances while rejecting virtually no legitimate traffic.
Symmetric MultiProcessor Support Documentation and other information about taking advantage of
multiple processors under FreeBSD.
Syslog-ng Reference Manual This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation.
Teaching OpenBSD 2.8 ISDN ISDN support for various BSD flavours was done by Hellmuth Michaelis and is called isdn4bsd or short i4b.
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project is a documentation effort about the BSD's themselves. This
includes makefiles, compilation, source overview, kernel internals, device drivers, and a lot more.
The FreeBSD Handbook This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release 4.0.
This manual is a work in progress and is the work of many individuals
The FreeBSD VM System FreeBSD implements a more involved paging queue for cached and free pages in order to implement page coloring. Each of
these states involves multiple queues arranged according to the size of the processor's L1 and L2 caches. When a new page
needs to be allocated, FreeBSD attempts to obtain one that is reasonably well aligned from the point of view of the L1 and L2
caches relative to the VM object the page is being allocated for.
The NetBSD operating system This guide describes the installation and the configuration of the NetBSD operating system. It addresses mainly people coming from other operating systems in hope of being useful for the solution of the many small problems found when one starts using a new tool.
The SysVR4 Emulation This page describes an SysVR4 emulator for FreeBSD. It is currently capable of running (or walking, in some
cases) a wide-ish variety of SysV executabls taken from Solaris/x86 2.5.1 and 2.6 systems.
Unix Computer Security This document shows system administrators how to secure their systems better.
UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents This volume contains documents which supplement the manual pages in The UNIX Programmer's Reference Manual for the
4.4BSD system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
UNIX Signals and Process Groups This document describes the four common UNIX signalling environments, including their interfaces, and contrasts each. In
addition, it describes the concepts and interfaces behind both BSD and POSIX process groups.
UNIX Signals and Process Groups This document describes the four common UNIX signalling environments, including their interfaces, and contrasts each. In
addition, it describes the concepts and interfaces behind both BSD and POSIX process groups.
UNIX Signals and Process Groups This document describes the four common UNIX signalling environments, including their interfaces, and contrasts each. In addition, it describes the concepts and interfaces behind both BSD and POSIX process groups.
UNIX System Manager's Manual This volume contains manual pages and supplementary documents useful to system administrators. The information in these
documents applies to the 4.4BSD system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
UNIX User's Supplementary Documents This volume contains documents which supplement the manual pages in The Unix User's Reference Manual for the 4.4BSD system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
Unixguide.net FreeBSD FAQ Hand Book Primary Site more links.
UnixPages.com A help/howto site for the BSD's, as well as Linux and various other Unix or Unix-like OS's
User's Guide to FreeBSD Programming Tools This document is an introduction to using some of the programming tools supplied with FreeBSD, although
much of it will be applicable to many other versions of Unix.
Users Guide to FreeBSD Programming Tools This document is an introduction to using some of the programming tools supplied with FreeBSD, although much of it will be applicable to many other versions of Unix.
Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems This document discusses how to make FreeBSD coexist nicely with other popular operating systems such as Linux, MS-DOS,
OS/2, and Windows 95.
Word Processors on FreeBSD This paper provides a short comparison and overview of six word processor programs which run on Unix, specifically FreeBSD: AbiWord, Applix Words, FrameMaker, KWord, StarWriter, and WordPerfect.
Writing a pseudo device This document is meant to provide a guide to someone who wants to start writing kernel drivers.
Writing an ISA device driver This document may be considered as a chapter from an imaginary Device Driver Writer's Guide. It concentrates on the issues relevant to writing a driver for an ISA device. Because when its writing started there was no description of general bus-related issues available this document describes them too, but with attention on their use in the ISA drivers.
XSTEP Reference Manual XSTEP is a faster and small toolkit designed do make easy the creation of C/C++ applications for any UNIX running the X Window System (version 4 or later), with the
look and feel of NeXTSTEP. The XSTEP Reference Manual have a good reference for all widgets upto version 3.5 of XSTEP.
Curso Bsico de Unix El S.O. Unix fu creado a finales de la dcada de los 60 sobre la base de varios trabajos realizados conjuntamente por el MIT y
Laboratorios BELL. Dichos trabajos (proyecto MULTICS) iban encaminados a la creacin de un macrosistema de computacin que
diese servicio a miles de usuarios. El sistema encontr muchos entusiastas y se hizo portable al reescribirse casi ntegramente en lenguaje "C", y se suministr en
cdigo fuente a las universidades como objeto de formacin. As, la universidad de California en Berkeley retoc dicho sistema (
fundamentalmente, comunicaciones y diversas utilidades como el editor "vi") , y liber lo que luego sera el BSD , uno de los dos
"dialectos" principales del UNIX.
Documentos BSD Documentos 4.4BSD. Si te gusta leer los manuales de BSD online, aqu tienes una
versin hipertexto de los documentos 4.4BSD.
Informacin de Seguridad en FreeBSD El objetivo de esta pgina es orientar a los usuarios, tanto noveles como experimentados, en el rea de seguridad del Sistema Operativo FreeBSD.
Commandes OpenBSD Les commandes en gros depuis OpenBSD Amrique du Nord vers n'importe o dans le monde.
Le Systme d'exploitation NetBSD Ce guide dcrit l'installation et la configuration du systme d'exploitation NetBSD. Il s'adresse principalement aux personnes venant d'autres systmes d'exploitation en esprant apporter la solution aux petits problmes qui ne manquent pas de survenir en utilisant de nouveaux outils.
Linux et BSD Bienvenue sur ce site ddi Linux et BSD.
Les informations sur ce site sont destines aux dbutants et aux utilisateurs avertis.
Ce site contient diffrents articles relatifs aux systmes d'exploitation Linux et BSD.
Netbsdfr Site Francophone De Netbsd le site francophone de netbsd trs complet contient des howtos, des news,des aides pour l'installation,et une faq,.....
Pages de manuel de FreeBSD Le systme de fichiers de prifriques ou devfs donne accs aux noms de prifriques du noyau partir du
systme de fichiers global.
Retour de BSD Le retour de BSD - Que sont les diffrents systmes
FreeBSD-Dokumentation FreeBSD-Dokumentation. Manual-Pages - die Manual-Pages von FreeBSD.
T-DSL mit OpenBSD 2.7 nutzen Ich wollte ueber T-DSL mein OpenBSD 2.7 auf 2.8 bringen, stellte aber fest,
dass sich diese Sache selber in den Schwanz beisst.
Вопросы и Ответы по FreeBSD Этот документ является сборником вопросов и ответов, опубликованных в конференциях FidoNet(tm) RU.UNIX.BSD и RU.UNIX, конференции Usenet comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, которые посвящены обсуждению вопросов, связанных с функционированием операционной системы FreeBSD, свободно распространяемого варианта ОС UNIX(r).
Il sistema operativo NetBSD Questa guida descrive l'installazione e la configurazione del sistema operativo NetBSD e si rivolge principalmente a persone
provenienti da altri sistemi operativi nella speranza di essere di aiuto per la risoluzione di alcuni di quei piccoli problemi che si
incontrano quando si alle prese con un sistema con il quale si ha poca familiarit.
Il sistema operativo NetBSD Questa guida descrive l'installazione e la configurazione del sistema operativo NetBSD e si rivolge principalmente a persone provenienti da altri sistemi operativi nella speranza di essere di aiuto per la risoluzione di alcuni di quei piccoli problemi che si incontrano quando si alle prese con un sistema con il quale si ha poca familiarit.
Utilizzo di BSD Sendmail come relay centralizzato Questo documento frutto del lavoro di implementazione
del sistema di posta elettronica presso la sezione di
Milano dell'INFN. Nelle prime due parti vengono dati
concetti di base e direttive per l'installazione e la
configurazione di BSD Sendmail.
Procedimentos de Instalao e Configurao IPv6 em FreeBSD Esta pgina descreve a instalao e configurao do pacote IPv6 do INRIA na Frana para o i386 FreeBSD.
O FreeBSD "um sistema operacional UNIX BSD avanado para computadores 'PC-compatveis' que oferece
recursos de ponta como: rede avanada, performance, segurana e compatibilidade".