If you `set watch = (0 any any)' in tcsh, you will be notified when
someone logs in or out of your system.
ZFS keeps a history of commands run against a specific pool using the
history subcommand to zpool:
zpool history
More details are available using the -i and -l parameters. Note that ZFS
will not keep the complete pool history forever and will remove older
events in favor of never ones.
-- Benedict Reuschling
Any user that is a member of the wheel group can use "su -" to simulate
a root login. You can add a user to the wheel group by editing /etc/group.
-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Handy bash(1) prompt: PS1="\u@\h \w \!$ "
-- David Scheidt
In order to make fetch (the FreeBSD downloading tool) ask for
username/password when it encounters a password-protected web page, you can set
the environment variable HTTP_AUTH to 'basic:*'.
To display the compression ratio for the ZFS dataset /var/log on the pool
mypool, run the following command:
zfs get refcompressratio mypool/var/log
The refcompressratio will only display the compression ratio for that specific
dataset, not the descendant datasets. To include the child datasets, the
command looks like this:
zfs get compressratio mypool/var
-- Benedict Reuschling
Do you wonder what a terminal program is doing at the moment? dd(1) does not
show any throughput? Hit "^T" (Control + t) to send SIGINFO to the process
and see what it is doing.
-- Lars Engels
sh (the default Bourne shell in FreeBSD) supports command-line editing. Just
``set -o emacs'' or ``set -o vi'' to enable it. Use "
paths.
When you want your users to be able to reboot or shutdown FreeBSD, add them
to the group "operator" and they are allowed to use shutdown(8) and poweroff(8).
-- Lars Engels