Complete noob...

[runman]

To log out and shut the machine down & turn the power off do

# halt  -p

or

# shutdown -h now

more info is at

# man halt(8)
# man shutdown(8)

To upgrade to the -stable try the instructions here :
http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html

the docs are the man pages.  try typing in 
# man man(1)		- to learn about the manual pages
# man afterboot(8)	- to learn about what to do after installing
# man hier(7)		- to learn about the file layout

Welcome to OpenBSD.  All you ever want to know is in the manual pages and
Google is your friend.

Greg Canter



-----Original Message-----
From: openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org
[mailto:openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org] On Behalf Of George Goodman
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 5:53 PM
To: openbsd-newbies at sfobug.org
Subject: Complete noob...

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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