1From deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org Tue Oct 8 07:06:00 MDT 2024 2Return-Path: root 3Date: Oct 8 07:06:00 MDT 2024 4From: deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org (Theo de Raadt) 5To: root 6Subject: Welcome to OpenBSD 7.6! 7 8This message attempts to describe the most basic initial questions that a 9system administrator of an OpenBSD box might have. You are urged to save 10this message for later reference. 11 12For more information on how to set up your OpenBSD system, refer to the 13"afterboot" man page (i.e. after you exit the mail subsystem, type 14"man afterboot"). If you are not familiar with how to read man pages, type 15"man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing. Pay specific 16attention to the "man -k keyword" option, which will permit you to find the 17man page you are looking for more easily; for instance, "man -k ethernet". 18The GNU "info" subsystem is also installed with further documentation 19resources: to read info pages type "info". (The info subsystem behaves like 20the popular emacs editor.) 21 22Again, PLEASE READ THE MANUAL PAGES. Our developers have spent countless 23hours improving them so that they are clear and precise. 24 25Several popular binary packages (pre-compiled applications) are 26available from mirror sites. Mirror selection is usually automatic 27during install/upgrade -- a mirror URL from https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html 28is stored into the file /etc/installurl. Installation of packages is 29as simple as: 30 31 # pkg_add -v rsync chromium emacs--no_x11 32 33Significant efforts were made to centralize all system configuration in the 34/etc directory. You should be able to find each of the configuration files 35you seek there, lightly documented. In particular, much of the configuration 36has been centralized in the file /etc/rc.conf. You should not need to ever 37edit the file /etc/rc. The files /etc/rc.securelevel and /etc/rc.local exist 38for this purpose; the first is run before the system has gone into secure 39mode; the second is run afterwards (if in doubt, add your tools to rc.local). 40 41Please refer to our web pages for any other questions you might have. 42 https://www.OpenBSD.org 43Please pay special attention to the Frequently Asked Questions section at 44 https://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/ 45 46OpenBSD is free software. You can do with it as you like, subject to very few 47conditions (described at www.OpenBSD.org/policy.html). But free software isn't 48written without money. Network links, hardware costs, release engineering and 49testing work all take money and significant effort on the part of those who 50have made this OpenBSD release what it is. Please reward the developers who 51have made OpenBSD what it is, and thus make it possible for this wonderful 52process to continue. For more information on how you can help, please see 53www.OpenBSD.org/goals.html and visit www.OpenBSD.org/donations.html to see a 54list of those who have donated money, equipment, or other resources to ensure 55OpenBSD continues. 56 57If you wish to ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, please do us 58a favor (after you have your mail system configured!) and type something like: 59 # (dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors) | \ 60 mail -s "Sony VAIO 505R laptop, suspend works OK" dmesg@openbsd.org 61so that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. As shown, 62including a bit of information about your machine in the subject or the body 63can help us even further. We will use this information to improve device driver 64support in future releases. (Please do this using the supplied GENERIC kernel, 65not for a custom compiled kernel, unless you're unable to boot the GENERIC 66kernel. If you have a multi-processor machine, dmesg results of both GENERIC.MP 67and GENERIC kernels are appreciated.) The device driver information we get from 68this helps us fix existing drivers. Thank you! 69 70(If you wish to save it, use the "x" command.) 71 72