Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Magic incantations for FreeBSD machines racked in distant datacenter

Loader.conf

console="comconsole,vidconsole"


you need console on serial for your terminal server. remote hands could really use console on vga for when they plug in the crash cart.

FreeBSD handbook serial serial console howto

rc.conf



fsck_y_enable="YES"


Please fsck after an unclean shutdown, instead of requiring intervention.

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