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Unofficial submission tracking of OpenBSD Ports.
http://www.infomatrix.ca/obsd/index.html
Guide to setting up a multiboot system with OpenBSD and Windows. Covers partitioning your drive and booting the OS with an appropriate boot loader.
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=8> nomoa.com/bsd OpenBSD multiboot with FAT Windows These instructions should work well for installing OpenBSD dual-boot with Microsoft Windows on the same hard-disk. Multi-booting between OpenBSD and other operating systems gives you the opportunity to learn the advanced features of OpenBSD while still using your favourite Windows...Whitepaper by Marshall Kirk McKusick and Gregory R. Ganger on eliminating synchronous writes in the Fast Filesystem. Included in OpenBSD since OpenBSD 2.7 Release.
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USENIX Technical Program Abstract USENIX 99 The use of soft updates obviates the need for a separate log or for most synchronous writes. Indeed, the ability of soft updates to aggregate many operations previously done individually and synchronously reduces the number of disk writes by 40...Unix System Administration class taught at the University of Colorado that focuses on OpenBSD.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~tor/saclass-2001/
A table displaying common services with the name of the program in OpenBSD, how to manage system services, configuration files locations and additional notes.
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Ian Darwin: OpenBSD: Administration Functionality This is stated as a warning for those from certain other UNIX-like systems where man pages are a bottom priority. The OpenBSD developers passion for completeness and accuracy shows in many facets of the system, including the man pages. New...Walkthrough on sync'ing your OpenBSD system to -current or -stable sources.
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OpenBSD Upgrading Mini-FAQ Current for the content formerly in this page OpenBSD: upgrade-minifaq.html,v 1.239 2005/02/09 20:38:54 nick Exp...Whitepaper exploring the benefits of Soft Updates and journaling, comparing their behavior on both micro-benchmarks and workload-based macrobenchmarks.
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USENIX Technical Program Abstract USENIX Annual Conference, General Session June 2000 Journaling systems use an auxiliary log to record meta-data operations and Soft Updates uses ordered writes to ensure meta-data consistency. The commercial sector has moved en masse to journaling file systems, as evidenced by their presence on nearly every server...Learn how to configure removable storage devices, manage software packages, administer users, installing the bash shell and other miscellaneous tips.
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=8> nomoa.com/bsd OpenBSD General Configuration Aids for newbies Management adding programs Example: Installing a nice little editor Example: Installing Bash 2 local Example: Installing Bash 2 ftp Example: Don't know the package or ftp directory User Administration Adding a New User Specifying root access privileges Changing details of...Guide for building a PPP and PPPoE gateway using OpenBSD.
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Guide for building a PPPoE Gateway and Firewall using OpenBSD 3.0 Two slight modifications to the ppp.conf file pflogd and tcpdump Added a route flush command to rc.local just to make sure I do embedded systems stuff am looking for a job. Here is my CV: http www.realo.ca/cv.html Full Changelog Introduction...Configuration guide on setting up virtual hosts and providing redundant mail service for high-availability on OpenBSD.
http://nsacom.inri.net/openbsd/txt/sendmail_redundancy.txt
Instructions on configuring Roaring Penguin's PPPoE client on OpenBSD.
http://home.sprynet.com/~minaret/pppoe/
Nick Holland explains how to use fdisk to configure OpenBSD to recognize >8GB disk drives.
http://www.sigmasoft.com/~openbs...penbsd-misc/200102/msg01792.html
Instructions on setting up ISDN on OpenBSD.
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OpenBSD 2.8 ISDN Step by step installation 5 Example configuration 6 Special features 6.1 Dialin configuration 6.2 Callback configuration 7 Troubleshooting 8 Feedback Other resources 1 Introduction ISDN support for various BSD flavours was done by Hellmuth Michaelis and is called isdn4bsd or...Implementation of the Intel PXE bootstrap protocol for OpenBSD.
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Welcome to www.kano.org.uk I have had reports of infinite loops on IA64 machines, can anyone with a machine confirm this/help me track it down I do not have one of these boxes myself. August 30, 2002: pxe 1.3 released. This is mainly code...Learn how to setup the basic networking features of OpenBSD and turn it into a secure Internet router for your home network.
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O'Reilly Network: Introduction to OpenBSD Networking What are those funny green links? BSD Content All Articles Big Scary Daemons Free BSD Basics OpenBSD Explained Securing Small Networks BSD TopicsAdministrationApplication DevelopmentArchivingCommunityCompatibility IssuesEmailFirewallsFreeBSDGetting StartedKernelNetBSDNetworkingOpenBSDSecurityWeb Design and Development ONLamp Subjects Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Security Sites...A walkthrough of the process to recompile your OpenBSD kernel to achieve optimum performance.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/31/OpenBSD.html
Short article discussing how to install, configure, secure, and automate network services.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/27/OpenBSD.html
Detailed installation instructions and configuration for OpenBSD 2.9.
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OpenBSD 2.9 Installation Instructions dpsite.com Browse through the official OpenBSD website, at http www.openbsd.org It has quite some information, and it just might grow on you. Do not type in single quotes, such as they only signify comments and commands, unless otherwise noted. Links to...Instructions on how to update the IPF packet filtering code to the latest revision.
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Upgrading IPFilter on OpenBSD Mini-How-To This article assumes a few things. First, that you've built an OpenBSD kernel before and are relatively comfortable with the process. Second, that you know how to download OpenBSD's CVS trees to your machine. Third, that you are familiar with...Short list of tasks to do after installing OpenBSD.
http://a.area51.dk/mongers.org/OpenBSD/post-install.php
Whitepaper by OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt, and AT&T researcher, Charles D. Cranor, describing the development and concepts of the Anonymous CVS source file distribution mechanism.
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USENIX Technical Program Abstract USENIX 99 S is an advanced source file distribution mechanism we created to allow open source software projects to distribute source code and information about code to Internet users. Built on top of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) revision control system, Anonymous...Instructions on running OpenBSD in Connectix Virtual PC.
http://slagheap.net/openbsd
Instructions on creating custom, bootable OpenBSD CD-ROM images.
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How to make a bootable OpenBSD CD You can get cdrecord from http www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/ employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html (wrapped It's also in the Ports collection. So, let's assume that you've got everything you want on the CD in C:OpenBSD. The command you need to run is: c:isotoolsmkisofs v r T...Information and HOWTOs for OpenBSD.
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PureBSD OpenBSD and FreeBSD resources P U R E B S DOpenBSD and FreeBSD resources /root OpenBSD FreeBSD Main Artwork Sections About News Reactions Advocacy Links Contact Feedback License Copyright 2000,2001,2002,2003 PureBSD.com Hosted by: Atomicvoid.NET...Various OpenBSD ports and documents
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IDEALX OpenBSD Contributions X means to give away on this site its own contributions to the Open Source (Free Software) community. Contact:webadmin@IDEALX.org Home documentation ports projects CVS IDEALX contributive website IDEALX Contributions to the OpenBSD project Rationales: We (IDEALX) massively use OpenBSD in...Provides the pgrep and pkill commands, which, respectively, scan for and send signals to processes that are matched by command line options.
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SourceForge.net: proctools Provide feedback on this page Recently changed page Site Status SF.net Projects proctools Summary proctools Stats RSS Summary Admin Home Page Forums Tracker Bugs Support Requests Patches Feature Requests Mail Tasks Docs Screenshots News CVS Files Sponsored Downloads About proctools...Configuration information for setting up OpenBSD in the university resnet environment.
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This documentaton assumes you have a working ethernet card that is supported by your kernel. Before you begin: Before your computer will connect to the campus network through your Ethernet connection, you must register your NIC's hardware address with ResNet....Configuring OpenBSD to work as a router for IPv6 networks.
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My 6bone router using OpenBSD German see here to see what this looks like in German. I am using OpenBSD 2.9-RELEASE (was using 2.7 and 2.8 with the same config) on an i386 box (Toshiba Satelite Pro 420 CDT laptop) with a 3com PCMCIA ethernet...Setup information for using OpenBSD with PPPoE on a xDSL connection.
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Using OpenBSD, xDSL, and PPPoE D is one of the most secure operating systems, you wisely chose to install an OpenBSD firewall between you and the Internet. But how do I use the xDSL line with the OpenBSD box? That's where this mini-tutorial comes in....Effort to produce a reduced installation of OpenBSD for more secure usage in server environments.
ftp://ftp.wiretapped.net/pub/sec...rating-systems/openbsd-stripped/
Describes how to set up Sendmail with SMTP AUTH [RFC 2554] support on OpenBSD.
http://www.gnutec.com/~amonk/wri...l/howtos/obsd-sendmail+sasl.html
Hardening OpenBSD for multiuser environments. Mike Schiffman (a.k.a route) gives us Trusted Path Execution patches for 2.8 and 2.9.
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Stephanie Hardening OpenBSD for Multiuser Envrionments With an emphasis on security and integrated cryptography, it carries an excellent reputation for plain old you-just-cant-hack-this-ness Not perfect, but nothing is, at least they're not wearing suits and lying to you. There are a few roles where i believe...A directory of ports in the current release.
http://puffy.nu/ports/
Quick notes on configuring the Transparent Cryptographic File System on OpenBSD.
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Setting up TCFS with OpenBSD 2.7-CURRENT S is in a development state, this is to explain how to use it. Todd Fries post got me started at, http x57.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=636500281 Upgrade OpenBSD to -CURRENT cd /usr/src;make includes;cd usr.bin/tcfs;make install This gives us tcfsuse, tcfsmng, mount_tcfs Add option...