Upon logging in to your VPS for the first time, one of the first
things you will want to do is change the default root password
by typing passwd at the prompt. Don't forget this
password as there is currently no way to recover it.
It is customary on UNIX systems for the system clock to be set
to UTC. To set the local time zone, find your zone file in
/usr/share/zoneinfo/ and link to it at
/etc/localtime as follows:
ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Helsinki /etc/localtime
It is also a good habit to create a regular user account for
working, using su to obtain root privileges as needed.
To create a regular user account which is part of the administrative
wheel group:
adduser -m -G wheel <username>
This user will be in the wheel group and will be able
to perform administrative tasks by runing su to obtain
superuser privileges using the root password.
In your control panel at vps.sdf.org, note YOUR_IP (e.g. 192.94.73.255) on the top line, and YOUR_HOSTNAME (e.g. netbsd99).
Start your server, and log in via the console. (default= root:root)
Open /etc/rc.conf in an editor and, replacing the text YOUR_HOSTNAME and YOUR_IP with your own actual host name and IP number, add:
hostname=YOUR_HOSTNAME.sdf.org defaultroute=192.94.73.1 auto_ifconfig=yes ifconfig_xennet0="inet YOUR_IP netmask 0xffffff00"
Then put this in /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 192.94.73.120
Add this to /etc/hosts:
YOUR_IP YOUR_HOSTNAME.sdf.org YOUR_HOSTNAME
Run/Type:
/etc/rc.d/network restart.
On NetBSD you can now mount a pre-build (and still in progress) pkgsrc DESTDIR. Following the procedures below will effectively install the 2000+ included packages on your virtual NetBSD system.
Note that at the moment the pre-built pkgsrc assumes that its path is /images/pkg_neb501 - otherwise some programs won't work (will not be able to use their shared libraries). The instructions below will show how to make this work.
Simply:
mkdir -p /images/pkg_neb501 rmdir /usr/pkg ln -s /images/pkg_neb501 /usr/pkg rm -rf /var/db/pkg ln -s /images/pkg_neb501/db/pkg /var/db/pkg mount -t nfs 192.94.73.120:/images/pkg_neb501 /images/pkg_neb501 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin
It is read only.
To set this up on boot:
mkdir -p /images/pkg_neb501 rmdir /usr/pkg ln -s /images/pkg_neb501 /usr/pkg rm -rf /var/db/pkg ln -s /images/pkg_neb501/db/pkg /var/db/pkg |
(These commands are only necessary if you didn't execute the procedure above.) |
echo "nfs_client=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf echo "rpcbind=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf echo "192.94.73.120 vps" >> /etc/hosts echo "vps:/images/pkg_neb501 /images/pkg_neb501 nfs ro" >> /etc/fstab echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin" >> /etc/profile Note that you cannot use both this pre-build pkgsrc and pre-built packages from netbsd.org - it may be possible to set the system up so you can, however this is best left to the experienced NetBSD administrator. References
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