Complete noob...

[George Goodman]

Ok, so I'm a complete noob, but not a fool (I hope)... Can anyone help
me find some decent HELPFUL documentation for a new OBSD user?

Sure I have read most of the stuff on the OBSD site... took me 18
hours, have got the animal installed and running, no errors, now I
need to know how to use it. Seems to me all the docs are written by
experts who assume too much.

Here are a few examples of problems I am having, may sound stupid, but
believe me I have spent hours on trying to get answers from the web
and I am quite frustrated:

Firstly, how do I log out! Stupid huh? I type "logout" and that
doesn't work... and the the man page for logout looks like
instructions for a programming function, doesn't help me at all!

Next how do I update the sytem to the latest stable? Sure there is an
instruction here
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches but it really is not much
help to me because it tells me to fetch the patch from from CVS or the
errata page or wherever, but nowhere does it tell me HOW! so I am
stuck...

I hope someone can help point me in the right direction to decent
doc's, or give me some pointers, because I really like the philosophy
of OBSD and want to use it, but I have spent a week on it already, and
I am really battling to get anywhere. If I can't make progress soon, I
will have to go over to Linux where there is more documentation for a
noob.

I have looked in the archives and I see there a recent thread about
documentation, and sadly the "powers" seem to believe the docs for
OpenBSD are adequate. Well they may be for them because they already
know all the stuff, but for me there is a HUGE gap for beginners. Note
that I am a sysadmin with 8 years of experience on "commercial" ;)
systems and so I am by no means a complete noob when it comes to
computer systems.

GG.