Some basic commands to get started on FreeBSD

In the past, I had some articles on FreeBSD, GhostBSD and other BSD's variants. However, I noticed that its been years now that I did not train myself on BSD. So, I decided to run a side server with FreeBSD and I am actually planning to migrate tunnelix.com from Linux to BSD. I believe this article should help in the future and I decided to share with my readers. [caption id="attachment_5138" align="aligncenter" width="556"] Photo credits: cloud7.news[/caption] Let's see some basics commands to get started on BSD: 1.Version of BSD running

root@freebsd:~ # freebsd-version 
13.1-RELEASE-p2
root@freebsd:~ # uname -ra
FreeBSD freebsd 13.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC amd64

2. Update your OS

freebsd-update fetch

3. Upgrade to a new OS version - Example from 13.1 to 14.1

root@freebsd:~ # freebsd-update -r 14.1-RELEASE upgrade

4. One of the way to install a package on BSD, you can install using ports or pkg. Let's say you want to install FISH - An interactive shell using pkg method:

pkg install fish

Or a different installation method using ports collection:

root@freebsd:~ # cd /usr/ports/shells/fish

root@freebsd:~ # make install clean

5. To see socket open for TCP/UDP in listening state: root@freebsd:~ # sockstat -4l 6. Routes root@freebsd:~ # netstat -rn 7. Adding a user to the group wheel for 'su' capabilties pw groupmod wheel -m <username> 8. I will keep this post updated, as I believe there are some improvements and adjustments to be done. Please feel free to comment.