Contributed by jj on from the need-no-course-to-crash-my-obsd dept.
Jem Matzan plans to write one for each upcoming release, and have put the sample up for viewing here.
This sample is about inetd, apache and databases you may add from ports.
Lastly, he also plans to donate any profits to the OpenBSD project, so if you have $10 you don't know how to spend, buy the online publication from them to show that this kind of efforts are a viable enterprise for OpenBSD writers.
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By belenus (belenus) belenus@gmx.net on
Wrong, all modules listed in httpd.conf are disabled by default.
By Marc Espie (espie) espie@openbsd.org on
Judging from the excerpts I read, I would not pay any amount of money for it.
- mysql: where does he get that mysql will start automatically by just adding a line to rc.conf.local ?
- sqlite: does not even bother to explain why there are two versions.
(In case you're wondering, it's simply because databases from both versions are not compatible. The plus side of sqlite3 being that the databases are hardware-independent: you can move them from i386 to sparc64 without any issue).
- posgresql: why encourage people to build stuff from ports, where there are perfectly sane packages available ? Besides, the author obviously does not know about SUBPACKAGE=-doc make install
This is just from casually reading the excerpt ONCE. I shudder to think how many more factual errors or misconceptions are in this text.
The idea was nice, but the execution is very much lacking.
Let's rename it to `OpenBSD crashing course'...
By Anonymous Coward (70.179.123.124) on
By Anonymous Coward (74.115.21.120) on
By Anonymous Coward (153.2.246.31) on
He doesn't seem to know what a backslash means in the shell. Kind of scary for someone who is writing a unix tutorial and encouraging people to paste commands.
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By belenus (belenus) on
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> He doesn't seem to know what a backslash means in the shell. Kind of scary for someone who is writing a unix tutorial and encouraging people to paste commands.
Actually it should have been two lines... right now the echo would probably just get ignored because he forgot to add a ; or didn't copy&paste it correctly himself.
By Fred Crowson (fredcrowson) fred@crowsons.net on http://www.crowsons.net/puters/zaurus.php
That said some newbie might find it usefull - but the OpenBSD faq is a better source of information.
That's my 0.002 euro's worth...
Fred
By JFJ (212.182.106.114) on fred.gnook.org
the best books about BSD or unix in general were released long time ago
e.g. Vahalia Uresh one, or the dragon book. However still I'm waiting
for a good book where all internals of moders UNIX system will be explained because IMHO the good book about OS is the book where all
internals are explained.
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JFJ