1From deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org Thu Oct 1 06:46:46 MDT 2009 2Return-Path: root 3Date: Oct 1 06:46:46 MDT 2009 4From: deraadt@do-not-reply.openbsd.org (Theo de Raadt) 5To: root 6Subject: Welcome to OpenBSD 4.6! 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 25If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can 26find further information regarding configuration in the file /usr/X11R6/README. 27 28Several popular binary packages (pre-compiled applications) are available 29for most architectures. If you installed from a CD-ROM the packages 30are on the same CD-ROM you installed from in the directory 4.6/packages. 31 32CD-ROM space permitted us to include a subset of the full FTP packages 33for the most common architectures. Please see the FTP sites to see a 34full list of packages for each architecture: 35 36 ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/ 37 38If you do not find a package you want on the CD, please go look at your 39nearest FTP mirror site. 40 41Select your architecture and download the tarballs of your choice. For example 42to install the emacs package for i386, execute: 43 # mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom 44 # pkg_add -v /cdrom/4.6/packages/i386/emacs-21.4p8.tgz 45or alternatively install them via FTP this way: 46 # pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/i386/emacs-21.4p8.tgz 47 48Significant efforts were made to centralize all system configuration in the 49/etc directory. You should be able to find each of the configuration files 50you seek there, lightly documented. In particular, much of the configuration 51has been centralized in the file /etc/rc.conf. You should not need to ever 52edit the file /etc/rc. The files /etc/rc.securelevel and /etc/rc.local exist 53for this purpose; the first is run before the system has gone into secure 54mode; the second is run afterwards (if in doubt, add your tools to rc.local). 55 56Please refer to our web pages for any other questions you might have. 57 http://www.OpenBSD.org 58Please pay special attention to the Frequently Asked Questions section at 59 http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/ 60 61OpenBSD is free software. You can do with it as you like, subject to very few 62conditions (described at www.OpenBSD.org/policy.html). But free software isn't 63written without money. Network links, hardware costs, release engineering and 64testing work all take money and significant effort on the part of those who 65have made this OpenBSD release what it is. Please reward the developers who 66have made OpenBSD what it is, and thus make it possible for this wonderful 67process to continue. For more information on how you can help, please see 68www.OpenBSD.org/goals.html and visit www.OpenBSD.org/donations.html to see a 69list of those who have donated money, equipment, or other resources to ensure 70OpenBSD continues. 71 72If you wish to ensure that OpenBSD runs better on your machines, please do us 73a favor (after you have your mail system configured!) and type something like: 74 # dmesg | mail -s "Sony VAIO 505R laptop, apm works OK" dmesg@openbsd.org 75so that we can see what kinds of configurations people are running. As shown, 76including a bit of information about your machine in the subject or the body 77can help us even further. We will use this information to improve device driver 78support in future releases. (Please do this using the supplied GENERIC kernel, 79not for a custom compiled kernel, unless you're unable to boot the GENERIC 80kernel. If you have a multi-processor machine, dmesg results of both GENERIC.MP 81and GENERIC kernels are appreciated.) The device driver information we get from 82this helps us fix existing drivers. Thank you! 83 84(If you wish to save it, use the "x" command.) 85 86