• FreeBSD ¹⁾
• 15.1

• Alira = Dell Precision M6500 ²⁾
• 2026/03/04: hw-probe

uname -aKU

ssh '192.168.1.152' -T 'uname -aKU'

FreeBSD Alira 15.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 15.1-PRERELEASE stable/15-n283063-43caeea1eac8 GENERIC amd64 1500507 1500507

• https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/

FreeBSD-15.0-STABLE-amd64-20260416-e4f02a72f7f6-283007-memstick.img

• Packages (Tech Preview)

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-partitioning
• Auto (UFS)
• MBR

DEVICE         MAJ:MIN  SIZE TYPE                                    LABEL MOUNT
ada0             0:111  466G MBR                                         - -
  <FREE>         -:-     512 -                                           - -
  ada0s1         0:113  466G BSD                               gpt/freebsd -
    ada0s1a      0:117  462G freebsd-ufs                                 - /
    ada0s1b      0:119    4G freebsd-swap                                - SWAP

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-components
• [x] base
• [x] optional

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-sysconf
• [x] sshd
• [x] powerd

• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-hardening
• [x] Everything

• Invite to other groups: wheel
• Shell: sh

• Manual Ethernet (bge0)
• Static IPv4
• No IPv6

• Continue from ssh

su -

ntpd -g -q

su -

pkg update -f

pkg upgrade

sync && shutdown -r 'now'

su -

pkg install en-freebsd-doc htop libressl

• hw-probe

fastfetch lsblk

clear && fastfetch -l 'freebsd_small' && uname -aKU && date

ssh '192.168.1.152' -t 'clear && fastfetch -l 'freebsd_small' && uname -aKU && date'

• malloc.conf

su -

echo 'abort:false,confirm_conf:false,abort_conf:false,percpu_arena:phycpu,dirty_decay_ms:-1,muzzy_decay_ms:-1,stats_print:false,junk:false,zero:false,utrace:false,xmalloc:false,zero_realloc:free,trust_madvise:true,retain:true' | tee '/etc/malloc.conf' > '/dev/null'

su -

ee '/boot/loader.conf'

autoboot_delay="1"
hw.bge.allow_asf="0"

security.bsd.allow_destructive_dtrace=0

su -

ee '/etc/rc.conf'

clear_tmp_enable="YES"
syslogd_flags="-ss"
hostname="Alira"
ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.152 netmask 255.255.255.0"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
sshd_enable="YES"
powerd_enable="YES"
moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="NO"
nginx_enable="YES"
php_fpm_enable="YES"

vsftpd_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"

• TODO

• vsftpd ³⁾
• Following few commands are done from regular user and not root

exit

mkdir -p ~/'.local/scripts' && ee ~/'.local/scripts/freebsd-updater.sh' && chmod +x ~/'.local/scripts/freebsd-updater.sh'

#!/bin/sh

'/usr/sbin/ntpd' -g -q > '/dev/null'

'/usr/sbin/pkg' update -f
'/usr/sbin/pkg' upgrade -y
'/usr/sbin/pkg' autoremove -y

'/usr/sbin/service' 'vsftpd' stop

'/bin/sync'
'/sbin/shutdown' -r 'now' 'FreeBSD OS Updater'

# End

su 'root' -c ~/'.local/scripts/freebsd-updater.sh'

ssh '192.168.1.152' -t "su 'root' -c ~/'.local/scripts/freebsd-updater.sh'"

• Daily 06:00:00 AM (Alira)

su -

ee '/etc/cron.d/freebsd-updater'

#
SHELL=/bin/sh

0 6 * * * root '/home/espionage724/.local/scripts/freebsd-updater.sh'

# End

• See misc