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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: Guide Newcomers Better
From:       Steve Brown <openbsd () prayforwind ! com>
Date:       2002-01-06 18:34:17
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This is a default installation of 3.0 Generic, I definitely am su'ing to 
root, I am seeing the #, and I am getting "permission denied" errors. Am 
I being told that this is abnormal? man securelevel tells me "page not 
found", so do most other man <somecommand> that I'd otherwise expect to see.


I'm seeing other strangeness too, such as dmesg spewing non-ascii, 
windows-like freezing, slow to the point where machine freezes if I type 
too quickly. I'd give up on OBSD as a bad job (on my particular 
machine), except for one thing: Booting from the CD makes all of these 
problems disappear (CD boot recognises -all- my hardware and boots fast 
& clean, generic times out all over the place and takes 3 minutes to boot.)

Is there some way of booting for real using the cdrom30.fs instead of 
bsd, and is the code availiable for it?


Thanks, Steve

David S. wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:43:18AM -0500, Generic Player wrote:
> 
>>>But it seems to me that there's some areas where OBSD behaves very
>>>differently from standard *NIX, with no corresponding explanation in
>>>
>>the man
>>
>>>pages or openbsd.org site, at least none that I can find.
>>>
>>You type "su" to get root, just like every other unix on the planet.
>>Its not different, that's why it doesn't tell you anywhere that it is
>>different.  Root is allowed to do anything, you perhaps b0rked your
>>system?
>>
> 
> Well, not exactly.  Depending on the the securelevel the system is 
> running under (see securelevel(7)), 'root' may not be able to do
> some things it can under other Unix systems.  But the securelevel
> shouldn't have any bearing on the problems the previous correspondent
> describes.
> 
> David S.
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