Complete noob...

[Allie Daneman]

The BEST docs are the man pages. They're the best ones I've seen and generally 
get you going completely or started. 

P.S. BTW...try "exit" to logout ;)

On Sunday 06 August 2006 14:52, George Goodman wrote:
> 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.
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