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From deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org Wed Apr 8 04:50:00 MDT 1998
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Date: Wed Apr 8 04:50:00 MDT 1998
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From: deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org (Theo de Raadt)
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To: root
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Subject: Welcome to OpenBSD 2.3
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This message attempts to describe the most basic first questions that a
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system administrator of an OpenBSD box might have. You are urged to save
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this message for later reference.
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For more information on how to setup your OpenBSD system, refer to the
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"afterboot" man page. If you are not familiar with how to read man pages,
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type "man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing. Pay specific
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attention to the "man -k keyword" option, which will permit you to find the
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man page you are looking for easier. The GNU "info" subsystem is also
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installed with further documentation resources; to read info pages type "info".
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If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can find
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further information regarding configuration in the file /usr/X11R6/README.
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Binary packages of the following packages are available on most architectures:
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bash-2.01.1 emacs-20.2 gmake-3.76.1
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id-utils-3.2 ircii-2.8.2-epic3.004 pine-3.96
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screen-3.7.4 tcsh-6.07.02 unzip-5.3.1
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The files are in the directory
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CD2:/packages/ (ie. mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom; cd /cdrom/packages)
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or ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/
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Select your architecture and download the tarballs of your choice. For example
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to install the emacs package for i386, execute
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# mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom; pkg_add /cdrom/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz
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or # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz
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Other important packages which are not permitted on the CD (due to patents) are
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available on our FTP servers (as described above). In particular, we provide
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the USA and international versions of both SSH and PGP. The filenames are:
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ssh-usa-1.2.22.tgz ssh-intl-1.2.22.tgz pgp-usa-2.6.3.tgz
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pgp-intl-2.6.3.tgz
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You are STRONGLY urged to install one of the above ssh packages and use ssh
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instead of telnet, rlogin, or rsh.
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Significant efforts were made to centralize all system configuration in the
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/etc directory. You should be able to find each of the configuration files
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you seek there, lightly documented. In particular, much of the configuration
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has been centralized in the file /etc/rc.conf. You should not need to ever
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edit the file /etc/rc. The files /etc/rc.securelevel and /etc/rc.local exist
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for this purpose; the first is run before the system has gone into secure
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mode; the second is run afterwards (if in doubt, add your tools to rc.local).
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Please refer to our web pages for any other questions you might have.
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http://www.OpenBSD.org
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OpenBSD is free software. You can do with it as you like, subject to very few
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conditions (described at www.OpenBSD.org/policy.html). But free software isn't
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written without money. Network links, hardware costs, release engineering
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and testing work; all these things take money and significant effort on the
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part of those who have made this OpenBSD release what it is. Please reward the
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developers who have made OpenBSD what it is, and thus make it possible for this
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wonderful process to continue. For more information on how you can help,
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please see www.OpenBSD.org/goals.html and visit www.OpenBSD.org/donations.html
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to see a list of those who have donated money, equipment, or other resources
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to ensure OpenBSD continues. (Thus far, most of those who have donated have
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been developers themselves.)
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If you wish ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, please do us
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a favor (after you have your mail system setup!) and type
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dmesg | mail dmesg@openbsd.org
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So that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. We will
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use this information to improve device driver support in future releases.
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(If you used 'mail' to read this message and it scrolled by too quickly,
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type "more .")
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