Questions tagged [openbsd]

OpenBSD is a multi-platform 4.4BSD-based operating system with a focus on security.

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OpenBSD was forked from by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995. The motto of the OpenBSD project is "free, functional, secure".

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pkg_add not working propely on OpenBSD

Would like to have emacs installed on my server running OpenBSD instead of just vi, reason because I am used to emacs. I am compleatly new to OpenBSD so I started reading the documentation, after tried pkg_add emacs, this is the…
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Repeated error when adding packages

Is there anyone actively monitoring OpenBSD questions here? I am trying to install nano and then xfce4 and then a few other programs, but every time I try to use pkg_add, I get the message: Fatal error: bad list v: No such file or directory at …
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Formatting OpenBSD partition

I have an (MBR) external hard drive with the following partitions: 250GB xfs, 600GB swap, 81GB vfat The swap partition is actually a placeholder for a single OpenBSD filesystem. I've tried using fdisk to change the partition type to OpenBSD (A6)…
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How do I support something like /etc/issue on OpenBSD?

Longtime users of Linux and most other forms of Unix (especially those which used to have startup frameworks based on the venerable SysV init) supported a special file /etc/issue which was displayed on local consoles and serial terminals prior to…