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From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD
Date: 16 May 1997 19:48:13 GMT
Organization: OpenBSD
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Message-ID: <DERAADT.97May16134813@zeus.pacifier.com>
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In-reply-to: Marco S Hyman's message of 15 May 1997 23:38:04 -0700
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3298
In article <x7k9kzorar.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes:
jvelasco@ecua.net.ec (Martin Velasco) writes:
> My problem is I don't know how to setup it, after it's installed. Linux
> and I think other BSDs come with generalized rc files, man pages
> installed, etc. but OpenBSD doesn't.
Huh?
travel$ uname -a
OpenBSD travel.codewright.com 2.1 TRAVEL#3 i386
travel$ ls /etc/rc*
/etc/rc /etc/rc.local.orig
/etc/rc.local /etc/rc.securelevel
And probably the important file /etc/netstart. In general we have
made an effort to provide commented documentation in every file in
/etc. There aren't that many files; it should not take more than 3
minutes to become familiar with most of them.
Note: the latest/greatest files
for /etc -- your rc.* files -- are not installed when you generate
a system from source. I solved this by
cd /usr/src/etc && make distribution-etc-root-var
then restoring any local changes from my backed up copies of important
files. I don't know if this was the correct thing to do, but it seemed
to work for me.
And... yes, you did the right thing. That's a problem we have no
solution for; it's a good thing that system configuration files don't
get tromped by a regular build.
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