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From deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org Sun May 1 07:47:47 MDT 2011
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Date: May 1 07:47:47 MDT 2011
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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 4.9!
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This message attempts to describe the most basic initial 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 set up your OpenBSD system, refer to the
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"afterboot" man page (i.e. after you exit the mail subsystem, type
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"man afterboot"). If you are not familiar with how to read man pages, type
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"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 more easily; for instance, "man -k ethernet".
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The GNU "info" subsystem is also installed with further documentation
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resources: to read info pages type "info". (The info subsystem behaves like
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the popular emacs editor.)
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Again, PLEASE READ THE MANUAL PAGES. Our developers have spent countless
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hours improving them so that they are clear and precise.
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If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can
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find further information regarding configuration in the file /usr/X11R6/README.
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Several popular binary packages (pre-compiled applications) are available
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for most architectures. If you installed from a CD-ROM the packages
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are on the same CD-ROM you installed from in the directory 4.9/packages.
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CD-ROM space permitted us to include a subset of the full FTP packages
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for the most common architectures. Please see the FTP sites to see a
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full list of packages for each architecture:
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ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/packages/
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If you do not find a package you want on the CD, please go look at your
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nearest FTP mirror site.
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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
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# pkg_add -v /cdrom/4.9/packages/i386/emacs-22.3p6.tgz
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or alternatively install them via FTP this way:
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# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.9/packages/i386/emacs-22.3p6.tgz
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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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Please pay special attention to the Frequently Asked Questions section at
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http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/
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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 and
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testing work all take money and significant effort on the part of those who
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have made this OpenBSD release what it is. Please reward the developers who
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have made OpenBSD what it is, and thus make it possible for this wonderful
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process to continue. For more information on how you can help, please see
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www.OpenBSD.org/goals.html and visit www.OpenBSD.org/donations.html to see a
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list of those who have donated money, equipment, or other resources to ensure
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OpenBSD continues.
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If you wish to ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, please do us
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a favor (after you have your mail system configured!) and type something like:
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# (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) | \
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mail -s "Sony VAIO 505R laptop, apm works OK" dmesg@openbsd.org
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so that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. As shown,
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including a bit of information about your machine in the subject or the body
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can help us even further. We will use this information to improve device driver
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support in future releases. (Please do this using the supplied GENERIC kernel,
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not for a custom compiled kernel, unless you're unable to boot the GENERIC
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kernel. If you have a multi-processor machine, dmesg results of both GENERIC.MP
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and GENERIC kernels are appreciated.) The device driver information we get from
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this helps us fix existing drivers. Thank you!
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(If you wish to save it, use the "x" command.)
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