Re: I just installed openbsd 3.4 and I think I bit off more than I can chew

[Stein Boerge Sylvarnes <Stein.Sylvarnes@student.uib.no>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:56:38PM -0600, suleyman wrote:
> I installed openbsd 3.4 via network install. I did not install X sets.
> This is to become a server- web, mail, smtp, pop & webmail for maybe
> 20 users.  First issue is I need to apply patches. To be be blunt I
> dont have a clue how to patch. I am looking at this url
> http://openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches I have installed wget on the
> server but used lynx to download 3.4.tar.gz (all patches for system to
> date, I think)
> 
> The matter of retrieving source code before patching has me quite
> confused. /usr/src/ is empty. What exact source code do I need to
> install to apply all patches?  For example this security fix "011:
> SECURITY FIX: February 8, 2004 An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists
> that could be used by an attacker to cause a denial of service attack
> against hosts with reachable IPv6 TCP ports." I have the patch for
> this but at least for me it is unclear what source code I need on my
> system before patching???
> 
You'll have to download src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz from /pub/OpenBSD/3.4
on your favourite OpenBSD mirror.  Follow the faq for patching the
system, then release(8) will guide you through the rest, specificly step
2 and 3.  Wether you update by CVS as described in release(8), or by
patches shouldn't really matter.

> I downloaded tepatche-0.85.tar.gz which I read about in sys admin.
> Figured it would be helpfulin patching. Obviously I am not a Sys Admin
> ;-) On the tepatche web site it states "uses Perl's Net::FTP module".
> "..ports (p5-libnet).  In looking through /3.4/packages/i386/ on a
> mirror, I can not find perl5, I find many p5-***** packages which look
> like modules to me.  I do not have ports installed though wishing I
> had installed ports now 
> 
Perl is in the base distribution.  Those ports you look at are indeed
perl-modules, to be installed through ports/packages.  To install the
ports collection, just grab ports.tar.gz from sthe same place as the OS
sources.

> Any help would be appreciated. Also if anyone can direct me to docs on
> the level of "OpenBSD for Dummies" that sure would help ;-) Thanks
> Suleyman
> 
see afterboot(8)

-- 
regards/mvh
Stein B. Sylvarnes
stein.sylvarnes@student.uib.no