DragonflyBSD post-installation

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Network configuration and sshd

Afer first reboot, you shall enable networking and the ssh daemon.

Define your hostname, ip/mask and gateway,

cd /etc/

vi rc.conf

like,

keymap="fr.iso.acc"

hostname="dfly.example.local"

ifconfig_lnc0="inet 10.1.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0"

defaultrouter="10.1.1.254"

sshd_enable=yes

note. for a jail guest, use a /32 netmask (just like the ip alias on the jail host)

apply,

rcrestart netif

Define your files and dns name resolutions,

vi hosts

vi resolv.conf

Note. 'hosts: files dns' is configured by default in nsswitch.conf

Configure the ssh daemon to enable logins (dfly only permits without-password namely with authorized keys),

cd /etc/ssh/

cp sshd_config sshd_config.dist

sed '/^#/d; /^$/d;' sshd_config.dist > sshd_config

vi sshd_config

add/change,

PermitRootLogin yes

PasswordAuthentication yes

ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

apply,

/etc/rc.d/sshd restart

Don't forget to setup root's password,

passwd root

You can now login remotely.

Timezone

Define the timezone,

cd /etc/

ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris localtime

A few binary packages and shell installation

Choose a mirror (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mirrors/). For France, ftp://dfly.nfrance.com/ is fine. Install at least bash and pdksh,

setenv PKG_PATH ftp://dfly.nfrance.com/packages/amd64/DragonFly-2.8.2/stable/All

pkg_radd bash pdksh screen wget lftp vim lynx

cd /bin/

ln -s /usr/pkg/bin/bash

ln -s /usr/pkg/bin/ksh

echo '/bin/bash' >> /etc/shells

echo '/bin/ksh' >> /etc/shells

chpass -s /bin/bash

#chpass -s /bin/ksh

Note. ast-ksh (ksh93) isn't always available as binary package (it probably doesn't compile)

Environment

Configure your shell,

cd ~/

mkdir -p .trash/

mv .* .trash/

vi .bash_profile

like,

source $HOME/.bashrc

and,

vi .bashrc

like,

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$HOME/bin

export PATH

HOSTNAME=${HOSTNAME:-`uname -n`}

[[ $USER = root ]] && \

PS1='${HOSTNAME%%.*}# ' || \

PS1='${HOSTNAME%%.*}> '

case "$-" in *i*)

alias rm='rm -i'

alias cp='cp -i'

alias mv='mv -i'

alias ll='ls -alkF'

#alias vi='vim'

alias reboot='shutdown -r now'

who

;;

esac

# linux

#alias shu='shutdown -P now'

# bsd

alias shu='shutdown -p now'

# pkgsrc

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin

export PKG_PATH=ftp://dfly.nfrance.com/packages/amd64/DragonFly-2.8.2/stable/All

apply immediately,

source .bashrc

You can now re-login remotely to check your shell and environment.

Syslog configuration

Configure the system logs,

cd /etc/

mv syslog.conf syslog.conf.dist

vi syslog.conf

like,

*.* -/var/log/messages

and secure them,

cd /var/log

chmod 640 messages

apply,

/etc/rc.d/syslogd restart

GNU Screen configuration

Configure GNU Screen (previously installed),

cd /usr/pkg/etc/

wget http://pbraun.nethence.com/code/misc/screenrc

cd /etc/

ln -s /usr/pkg/etc/screenrc

cd ~/

wget http://pbraun.nethence.com/code/misc/.screenrc

apply,

screen

Indexing

Generate the locate db,

/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

While indexing is going on, and since gnu screen is configured, you can continue in another window. Nevermind, on dfly it's freaking fast, anyway.

Crontab configuration

Disable 'at',

vi /etc/crontab

comment that line,

#*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun

Additional notes

pkgsrc from source

Fetch the intial pkgsrc repository from the net,

cd /usr/

make pkgsrc-create

Note. to update,

make pkgsrc-update

thttpd installation

Install and configure thttpd,

pkg_radd thttpd

cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/thttpd /etc/rc.d/

rm -f /usr/pkg/share/thttpd/index.html

#mv -f /usr/pkg/share/thttpd/index.html /usr/pkg/share/thttpd/index.html.dist

cd /etc/

ln -s ../usr/pkg/etc/thttpd.conf

echo 'thttpd_enable=yes' >> rc.conf

apply,

/etc/rc.d/thttpd restart

References

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/

http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/