OpenBSD.

I have OpenBSD running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a home server hosting this wiki. I really enjoy the secure-by-default stance, quality documentation, and all the nice things they've added to the OS to help applications be more secure. It's quite well-suited for server applications.

I used to run OpenBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad X250 as a daily driver from 6.7 through 7.1, but something broke in the X windows system during the upgrade to 7.1 and I couldn't be bothered to fix it, so that ThinkPad runs Manjaro Linux these days. The Spectre/Meltdown mitigations and disabled Bluetooth are fantastic from a security standpoint, but don't lend themselves well to convenient computing like running a Linux distro does.

notes.

• update system: syspatch; pkg_add -u
• search for a package: pkg_info -Q ripgrep
• install a package: pkg_add ripgrep
• search manpages for "unveil" with apropos: apropos unveil
• introduction to the C libraries.
• mount sd card in OpenBSD:
  mount.exfat /dev/sd1i /mnt/sd
• mount thumbdrive in OpenBSD:
  mount /dev/sd1i /mnt/thumbdrive
• burn image to thumbdrive sd1 (verify with dmesg) in OpenBSD:
  dd if=some.img of=/dev/rsd1c
• execute a command over ssh as if it were a local shell:
  ksh -l -c your_command
• brother printer driver using cups on localhost and brlaser: http://localhost:631/printers/
• brother printer queue is at: http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp
• ksh has a user process data limit that can keep qemu from spawning VMs. You can view ksh's limits with ulimit -a and adjust the data limit to 4 GB with ulimit -d 4194304.
• specify compiler for GNU configure scripts:
  CXX=clang++ ./configure
• Free Pascal Compiler installation.
• Web log analysis using GoAccess.
• Getting a bunch of security(8) emails about mismatched /dev permissions?
  cd /dev; doas ./MAKEDEV

• schedule tasks with at:

  at 5am Oct 20 at "time am/pm" "month" "day" atq lists the user's pending jobs atrm deletes jobs, identified by their job number Ctrl-d once done editing use Ctrl-d to close the "at" entry shell

• specify /usr/local libraries for compiling with configure scripts and gcc:

  export CPATH=/usr/local/include export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

• Get accents to show up correctly in Vim by adding this to ~/.profile:

  LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL

• configure wifi with hostname.if:

  join home-net wpakey passwordhere join work-net wpakey passwordhere join cafe-wifi dhcp

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