Need to see your routing table? Type "netstat -rn". The entry with the G

flag is your gateway.

-- Dru

Simple tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%# '

You can use "whereis" to search standard binary, manual page and source

directories for the specified programs. This can be particularly handy

when you are trying to find where in the ports tree an application is.

Try "whereis firefox" and "whereis whereis".

-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis

To change an environment variable in tcsh you use: setenv NAME "value"

where NAME is the name of the variable and "value" its new value.

To save disk space in your home directory, compress files you rarely

use with "gzip filename".

-- Dru

If other operating systems have damaged your Master Boot Record, you can

reinstall it with gpart(8). See

"man gpart" for details.

If you want to recursively copy a directory preserving file and directory

attributes use

"cp -a source target"

-- Lars Engels

Forget when Easter is? Try "ncal -e". If you need the date for Orthodox

Easter, use "ncal -o" instead.

-- Dru

You can press Ctrl-L while in the shell to clear the screen.

"man tuning" gives some tips how to tune performance of your FreeBSD system.

-- David Scheidt

You can use the 'fetch' command to retrieve files over ftp, http or https.

fetch

will download the beastie image from the FreeBSD web site.

Forget what directory you are in? Type "pwd".

-- Dru

nc(1) (or netcat) is useful not only for redirecting input/output to

TCP or UDP connections, but also for proxying them with inetd(8).

Do you want to run a program directly after some other process has ended? Use

"pwait pid && new_program"

-- Lars Engels

You can use the 'fetch' command to retrieve files over ftp, http or https.

fetch

will download the beastie image from the FreeBSD web site.

"man hier" will explain the way FreeBSD filesystems are normally laid out.

-- David Scheidt

You can change the video mode on all consoles by adding something like

the following to /etc/rc.conf:

allscreens="80x30"

You can use "vidcontrol -i mode | grep T" for a list of supported text

modes.

-- Konstantinos Konstantinidis

You can limit the depth of the displayed datasets in the "zfs list" output

using the -d parameter. To display only the first level of datasets below

mypool/usr and not the ones deeper than those, run this command:

zfs list -d 1 mypool/usr

-- Benedict Reuschling

Don't let your zpool fill up completely by creating a dataset with

reservation.

# zfs create -o refreservation=<5% of total pool space> /reserved

You can always shrink the reserve if you need the space, but your pool will

always have space left this way.

-- Benedict Reuschling

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