Alpine Linux

The initial setup is done with setup-alpine, you can enable the community repository from there too.

Alpine has a bunch of setup- scripts to get started, for example to setup a desktop run setup-desktop.

• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:FAQ#Why_don't_I_have_man_pages_or_where_is_the_'man'_command?

The man command (see notes:man) and manpages are not installed by default

apk add mandoc

Install the documentation for a given package

apk add PACKAGE-doc

The docs meta package will immediately install the documentation sub-package for all of the currently installed packages, plus the mandoc reader, if not installed. docs additionally ensures that documentation sub-packages are installed/removed automatically for any packages that one may add/remove in the future.

apk add docs

Search installed manpages with apropos (the equivalent of the man -k command)

apk add mandoc-apropos
apropos KEYWORD

• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Syslog
• https://man.archlinux.org/man/busybox.1#syslogd
• https://man.archlinux.org/man/busybox.1#logread

Show all available options for syslogd found in busybox(1) manpage.

syslogd --help

Configure syslogd to use the -C option in /etc/conf.d/syslog.

# /etc/conf.d/syslog
SYSLOGD_OPTS="-C1024"

When syslogd is configured with the -C- option, read the logs with logread.

logread [-f]

• https://alpinelinux.org/
• https://docs.alpinelinux.org/
• https://docs.alpinelinux.org/user-handbook/0.1a/Working/apk.html
• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages
• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/
• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Package_Keeper
• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Software_management
• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_configuration_management_scripts
• https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi