Re: fresh install of OpenBSD 5.4 on an old Sparc server fails to install wget

On February 9, 2014 at 3:05 AM Cory Smelosky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, dev wrote:
>
> <trimmed>
> >
> > Very cool .. however I don't know what it installed into /usr/local
> > but
> > I guess I can learn to live with that being a "do not touch" vendor
> > area as opposed to a "user may modify" area.
> >
>
> It seems to generally be up to the site to determine what /should/ and
> /shouldn't/ be the "user may modify" areas. `man hier` provides a
> guideline that I think at least a few people follow.  I know Solaris
> loves
> to shove things in /opt. ;)

Actually the specification states that all vendor software lives in
the /usr area and things that are from elsewhere must go to /opt/foo
where "foo" is the vendor name.  Therefore we see MySQL gets installed
into /opt/mysql for example. Logging must go to /var/opt/foo and config
must go to /etc/opt/foo area. Those are just very old rules that protect
the operating system from being mucked with and also to ensure that no
one drops a lib into someplace  searched by the runtime linker. Kaboom
is never a nice thing.

>
> Using /usr/local for this seems to date to Net/2 from the CSRG BSDs.
>  I
> can't track down SysV man pages to see if coming from Solaris had
> different conventions for stuffing files. ( I wonder where /usr/local
> and
> /opt became different things over the years...You then get the
> crazy /opt/local and stuff. ;) )
>
> Can anyone else chime in with the history of hier? ;)
>


I have to look around and get familiar with this new land. Thus far I
really like what I see. It is darn easy to install. I mean trivial. You
gotta love that. After install there are some setup thingies that I
need to look into. I don't quite get what is going on with ntpd.conf
and I need to figure out how to lock down the server to listen for
ssh connections and not much else. In fact, I like to set ssh to listen
on port 443 unless I have Apache running, which I don't yet. I find
that running ssh server to listen on 443 gets rid of the ba-zillion
silly login attempts by folks trying to use a password for root and
other common account names. I mean really, people still use passwords
out there?

Anyways, I really like what I see and with luck I will get to a point
where I can bootstrap GCC without too much magic.

dc