Computers-freebsd-helpful

From Hugme.org

1. sysctl hw.model # CPU model
2. sysctl hw # Gives a lot of hardware information
3. sysctl vm # Memory usage
4. dmesg | grep "real mem" # Hardware memory
5. sysctl -a | grep mem # Kernel memory settings and info
6. sysctl dev # Configured devices
7. pciconf -l -cv # Show PCI devices
8. usbdevs -v # Show USB devices
9. atacontrol list # Show ATA devices
10. camcontrol devlist -v # Show SCSI devices

Keeping up to date

• This will upgrade the entire operating system to the version you specify
  • freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade
• upgrade to the newest patch release
  • freebsd-update fetch
  • freebsd-update install
• Update your ports collection
  • portsnap fetch update
  • portsnap extract
• Update and patch the ports you have already installed. This will require you install ports-mgmt/portupgrade
  • portupgrade -af