Manual installation on FreeBSD

System requirements

At least 1GB of RAM
FreeBSD with release >= 14.0
ARM64 or AMD64 architecture
CTFreak configuration folder must not be located on a network drive
An active internet connection during installation
An active internet connection for at least 2 hours per day to allow license check (only required for the STARTUP & PRO Edition)

Installing

To install CTFreak as a service, we will rely on rc.d.

Copy latest ctfreak binary to /usr/local/bin and make the file executable:

sudo curl https://ctfreak.com/download/release/latest/freebsd/amd64 --output /usr/local/bin/ctfreak
# OR "sudo curl https://ctfreak.com/download/release/latest/freebsd/arm64 --output /usr/local/bin/ctfreak" for ARM64 architecture
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ctfreak

Create rc.d service file:

sudo touch /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ctfreak
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ctfreak

Create/Choose a user account to run CTFreak, we’ll call it myuser for now

Edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ctfreak (replace myuser with your real user):

#!/bin/sh
#
# PROVIDE: ctfreak
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

ctfreak_runAs="myuser"

name="ctfreak"
rcvar="ctfreak_enable"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"

# Env Setup
export HOME=$( getent passwd "$ctfreak_runAs" | cut -d: -f6 ) # Gets the home directory of the runAs user

command="/usr/sbin/daemon"
command_args="-r -t CTFreak -u ${ctfreak_runAs} -o /var/log/${name}.log -P ${pidfile} /usr/local/bin/ctfreak run"

load_rc_config $name
: ${ctfreak_enable="NO"}
run_rc_command "$1"

Enable & start CTFreak:

sudo service ctfreak enable
sudo service ctfreak start

At startup, CTFreak will create its dedicated config folder $HOME/.config/ctfreak to store its configuration file, embedded database and log files.

Navigate to http://localhost:6700.

To complete this installation, we encourage you to configure a reverse proxy and update the global settings.

Upgrading

Update /usr/local/bin/ctfreak with new binary and restart the service:

sudo curl https://ctfreak.com/download/release/latest/freebsd/amd64 --output /usr/local/bin/ctfreak
# OR "sudo curl https://ctfreak.com/download/release/latest/freebsd/arm64 --output /usr/local/bin/ctfreak" for ARM64 architecture
sudo service ctfreak restart

Uninstall

Execute:

sudo service ctfreak stop
sudo service ctfreak disable
sudo rm /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ctfreak
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/ctfreak