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

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, dev wrote:

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> 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.
>

Solaris' way of doing it is certainly a bit more...complex.  It keeps 
things a lot neater, though.  Look at linux with /opt AND /usr/local, 
though!

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>> 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? ;)
>>
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> 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?
>

OpenBSD is definitely a bit different coming from Solaris. ;)  There's no 
svcadm, however.  I actually LIKE svcadm!

You could keep ssh on 22 but install fail2ban.  I _think_ fail2ban can 
hook in to pf.  You'll definitely want to take a crack at pf though.  See 
the manpages for it.  It's absurdly powerful...there's good documentation 
on the website, too.

> 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.

Shame clang doesn't support SPARC well yet. :(

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> dc
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