From deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org Wed Apr 8 04:50:00 MDT 1998 Return-Path: root Date: Wed Apr 8 04:50:00 MDT 1998 From: deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org (Theo de Raadt) To: root Subject: Welcome to OpenBSD 2.4 This message attempts to describe the most basic first questions that a system administrator of an OpenBSD box might have. You are urged to save this message for later reference. For more information on how to setup your OpenBSD system, refer to the "afterboot" man page. If you are not familiar with how to read man pages, type "man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing. Pay specific attention to the "man -k keyword" option, which will permit you to find the man page you are looking for easier. The GNU "info" subsystem is also installed with further documentation resources; to read info pages type "info". If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can find further information regarding configuration in the file /usr/X11R6/README. Several popular binary packages (pre-compiled applications) are available for most architetures. If you installed from a CD-ROM the packages are on the same CD-ROM you installed from in the directory 2.4/packages. Those packages (and others) are also available via ftp at ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.4/packages/ Select your architecture and download the tarballs of your choice. For example to install the emacs package for i386, execute # mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom; pkg_add /cdrom/2.4/packages/i386/emacs-20.3.tgz or # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.4/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz Other important packages which are not permitted on the CD (due to patents) are available on our FTP servers (as described above). In particular, we provide the USA and international versions of both SSH and PGP. The filenames are: ssh-usa-1.2.26.tgz ssh-intl-1.2.26.tgz pgp-usa-2.6.3.tgz pgp-intl-2.6.3.tgz You are STRONGLY urged to install one of the above ssh packages and use ssh instead of telnet, rlogin, or rsh. Significant efforts were made to centralize all system configuration in the /etc directory. You should be able to find each of the configuration files you seek there, lightly documented. In particular, much of the configuration has been centralized in the file /etc/rc.conf. You should not need to ever edit the file /etc/rc. The files /etc/rc.securelevel and /etc/rc.local exist for this purpose; the first is run before the system has gone into secure mode; the second is run afterwards (if in doubt, add your tools to rc.local). Please refer to our web pages for any other questions you might have. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD is free software. You can do with it as you like, subject to very few conditions (described at www.OpenBSD.org/policy.html). But free software isn't written without money. Network links, hardware costs, release engineering and testing work; all these things take money and significant effort on the part of those who have made this OpenBSD release what it is. Please reward the developers who have made OpenBSD what it is, and thus make it possible for this wonderful process to continue. For more information on how you can help, please see www.OpenBSD.org/goals.html and visit www.OpenBSD.org/donations.html to see a list of those who have donated money, equipment, or other resources to ensure OpenBSD continues. (Thus far, most of those who have donated have been developers themselves). If you wish to ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, please do us a favor (after you have your mail system setup!) and type dmesg | mail dmesg@openbsd.org So that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. We will use this information to improve device driver support in future releases. (If you used 'mail' to read this message and it scrolled by too quickly, type "more .")