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<i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
3.8
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Released November 1, 2005<br>
Copyright 1997-2005, Theo de Raadt.<br>
<cite class=isbn>ISBN 0-9731791-6-3</cite>
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3.8 Song: <a href="lyrics.html#38">"Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a>
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<ul>
<li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
    a list of mirror machines.
<li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/3.8/</code> directory on
    one of the mirror sites.
<li>Have a look at <a href="errata38.html">The 3.8 Errata page</a> for a list
    of bugs and workarounds.
<li>See a <a href="plus38.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
    3.7 and 3.8 releases.
</ul>
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All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
files fetched via <code>ports.tar.gz</code>.
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<section id=new>
<h3>What's New</h3>
<p>
This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.8.
For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus38.html">changelog</a> leading
to 3.8.
<p>

<ul>

<li>Improved hardware support, including:
<ul>
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aps.4">aps</a>
driver for the built-in accelerometer found in some IBM ThinkPad laptops.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/art.4">art</a>
driver for Accom Networks Artery T1 and E1 cards.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/auixp.4">auixp</a>
driver for the ATI IXP series integrated AC'97 audio controller.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ciss.4">ciss</a>
driver for Compaq Smart ARRAY 5 and 6 RAID controllers.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/epic.4">epic</a>
driver for SMC 83C170 ethernet adapters.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ichwdt.4">ichwdt</a>
driver for Intel 6300ESB ICH watchdog timer.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcn.4">pcn</a>
driver for the AMD Am79c97x (PCnet) ethernet adapters.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/safte.4">safte</a>
driver for SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures, and a rewritten
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ses.4">ses</a>
driver for SCSI Enclosure Services, both allowing monitoring through
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.8">sysctl</a>
and
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sensorsd.8">sensorsd</a>.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ueagle.4">ueagle</a>
driver for Analog Devices Eagle ADSL modems.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uipaq.4">uipaq</a>
driver for iPAQ USB serial.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/viasio.4">viasio</a>
driver for VIA VT1211 LPC Super I/O hardware sensors.
<li>New
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/zaurus/zaudio.4">zaudio</a>
driver for the built-in Zaurus audio CODEC.
<li>Improved
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/com.4">com</a>
driver for serial port PCMCIA cards, such as cellular modems on Zaurus.
<li>Improved support for many
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umass.4">umass</a>
devices.
<li>Updated driver from X.Org for the Intel
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i810.4">i810</a>
family graphics chipset, including support for the external VGA output on laptops.
</ul>
<p>

<li>New tools:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a>,
a RAID management interface.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ipsecctl.8">ipsecctl(8)</a>,
a simple IPsec management tool.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/stat.1">stat(1)</a>,
displaying file status obtained from
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/stat.2">stat(2)</a>
or
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lstat.2">lstat(2)</a>.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hostapd.8">hostapd(8)</a>,
a wireless Host Access Point daemon.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifstated.8">ifstated(8)</a>,
a daemon monitoring ethernet interfaces status.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/watchdogd.8">watchdogd(8)</a>,
companion to the hardware
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/watchdog.4">watchdog</a>
devices.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/zaurus/ztsscale.8">ztsscale(8)</a>,
a tool to calibrate the Zaurus touch screen.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xidle.1">xidle(1)</a>,
a tool to run a program on X inactivity.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gzsig.1">gzsig(1)</a>,
create and verify cryptographic signatures built into gzip file headers.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sasyncd.8">sasyncd(8)</a>,
a daemon to synchronize IPSec SA's for failover gateways.
</ul>
<p>

<li>New functionality:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mount_udf.8">mount_udf(8)</a>,
providing UDF (DVD) filesystem support.
<li>Network interface aggregation, using the virtual
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a>
interface.
<li>Partial wide character and locale support in the C and C++ libraries.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wd.4">wd(4)</a>
disks have the security feature frozen before being attached to prevent
malicious users setting a password that would prevent the contents of the drive
from being accessed.
<li>On the <a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a> platform, StackGhost
buffer overflow exploit protection has been added.
<li>
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/zaurus/zaudio.4">zaudio(4)</a>
changes the mute values if the headphones are plugged in or out.
</ul>
<p>

<li>New functionality for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a>,
the Open Shortest Path First Daemon:
<ul>
<li>ospfd is now able to redistribute static, connected and default routes.
<li>ospfctl is now able to display all relevant information.
<li>Interoperability with cisco and Extreme has been improved.
<li>Support for parsing and displaying parsed configuration file, similar to bgpd.
<li>Support for cryptographic authentication has been added.
<li>Interface finite state machine has been reworked, primarily to improve interoperability.
<li>The performance of the shortest path first calculation has been improved.
<li>Numerous bugs have been discovered and fixed during the last 6 months.
</ul>
<p>

<li>New functionality for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>,
the Border Gateway Protocol Daemon:
<ul>
<li>bgpd is now able to redistribute static and connected routes dynamically.
<li>Full route label support;
    <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>
    can filter based on information bgpd attaches to the routes.
<li>An additional per prefix weight has been added used to evaluate prefixes
    with equal AS path length.
<li>New route decision tunable <i>rde med compare always</i> to force bgpd
    to compare the MED independent of the peer AS.
<li>IPv6 support.
</ul>
<p>

<li>Assorted improvements and code cleanup:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.3">malloc(3)</a>
has been rewritten to use the
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a>
system call, introducing unpredictable allocation addresses and guard
pages, which helps in detecting heap based buffer overflows and prevents
various types of attacks.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/intro.3">libc(3)</a>
source code has been converted to ANSI C.
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/realpath.3">realpath(3)</a>
is now thread safe.
<li>Several pathname races and potential buffer handling problems have been
fixed in
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pax.1">pax(1)</a>.
<li>Problems with signal delivery on <a href="sparc.html">OpenBSD/sparc</a> and
<a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a> have been fixed.
<li>Reliability of signal handlers using floating point on
<a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> and
<a href="macppc.html">OpenBSD/macppc</a> has been improved.
<li>NFS write performance has been improved greatly.
<li>Countermeasures against various blind ICMP attacks have been implemented.
</ul>
<p>

<li>OpenSSH 4.2:
<ul>
<li>Adds a new compression method that delays the start of zlib
    compression until the user has been authenticated successfully.
    The new method ("Compression delayed") is on by default in the
    server and eliminates the risk of any zlib vulnerability
    leading to a compromise of the server from unauthenticated users.
<li>Added support for the improved arcfour cipher modes from
    draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02. The improves the cipher's
    resistance to a number of attacks by discarding early keystream
    output.
<li>Many improvements to connection multiplexing, including a new
    opportunistic multiplexing mode, automatic fallback to plain
    connections when multiplexing fails and support for multiplexed X11
    and agent forwarding.
<li>Many additional bug fixes and improvements, as described in the
    <a href="https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.2">release announcement</a>.
</ul>
<p>

<li>Over 3200 ports, 3000 pre-built packages, improved package tools.
<p>

<li>As usual, many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
<p>

<li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
<ul>
<li>X.Org 6.8.2 (+ patches, and i386 contains XFree86 3.3.6 servers
(+ patches) for legacy chipsets not supported by X.Org)
<li>Gcc 2.95.3
(+ <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gcc-local.1">patches</a>)
and 3.3.5
(+ <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gcc-local.1">patches</a>)
<li>Perl 5.8.6 (+ patches)
<li>Apache 1.3.29, mod_ssl 2.8.16, DSO support (+ patches)
<li>OpenSSL 0.9.7g (+ patches)
<li>Groff 1.15
<li>Sendmail 8.13.4, with libmilter
<li>Bind 9.3.1 (+ patches)
<li>Lynx 2.8.5rel.2 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
<li>Sudo 1.6.8p9
<li>Ncurses 5.2
<li>Latest KAME IPv6
<li>Heimdal 0.6.3 (+ patches)
<li>Arla 0.35.7
<li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
<li>Gdb 6.3
</ul>

</ul>
</section>

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<section id=install>
<h3>How to install</h3>
<p>
Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
form of install.  The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
purchased a CDROM instead.
<p>

<hr>
Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.8 on your machine:
<p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/i386/INSTALL.i386">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/vax/INSTALL.vax">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/vax/INSTALL.vax (on CD1)</a>
<p>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
<p>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
<p>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/cats/INSTALL.cats">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/cats/INSTALL.cats</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
	.../OpenBSD/3.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
</ul>
</section>

<hr>

<section id=quickinstall>

<p>
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!

<h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>

<p>
Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
<i>CD1:3.8/i386/floppy38.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.

<p>
Use <i>CD1:3.8/i386/floppyB38.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
support, or <i>CD1:3.8/i386/floppyC38.fs</i> for better laptop support.

<p>
If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in
the included INSTALL.i386 document.

<p>
If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.i386.

<p>
To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
at <i>CD1:3.8/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
use the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>
utility. The following is an example usage of
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>,
where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
&quot;rfd0a&quot;.

<blockquote><pre>
# <kbd>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>

<p>
Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
<a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.

<h3>OpenBSD/vax:</h3>

<p>
Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.

<h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>

<p>
The 3.8 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
your BIOS options first.
If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
To do this, write <i>CD2:3.8/amd64/floppy38.fs</i> to a floppy, then
boot from the floppy drive.

<p>
If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
INSTALL.amd64 document.

<p>
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.

<h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>

<p>
Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
<i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.

<p>
Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
/3.8/macppc/bsd.rd</i>

<h3>OpenBSD/sparc:</h3>

<p>
The 3.8 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
ROM.

<blockquote><pre>
ok <kbd>boot cdrom 3.8/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
or
> <kbd>b sd(0,6,0)3.8/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>

<p>
If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
To do so you need to write <i>CD3:3.8/sparc/floppy38.fs</i> to a floppy.
For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
depending on the version of your ROM.

<blockquote><pre>
ok <kbd>boot floppy</kbd>
or
> <kbd>b fd()</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>

<p>
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.

<p>
If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
INSTALL.sparc file.

<h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>

<p>
Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.

<p>
If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
<i>CD3:3.8/sparc64/floppy38.fs</i> or <i>CD3:3.8/sparc64/floppyB38.fs</i>
(depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.

<p>
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.

<p>
You can also write <i>CD3:3.8/sparc64/miniroot38.fs</i> to the swap partition on
the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.

<p>
If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.

<h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>

<p>
Write <i>3.8/alpha/floppy38.fs</i> or
<i>3.8/alpha/floppyB38.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.

<p>
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.

<h3>OpenBSD/cats:</h3>

<p>
After updating the firmware to at least ABLE 1.95 if necessary, boot
<i>3.8/cats/bsd.rd</i> from an ABLE-supported device (such as a CD-ROM
or an existing FFS or EXT2FS partition).

<h3>OpenBSD/hp300:</h3>

<p>
Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.

<h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>

<p>
Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
<a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.

<h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>

<p>
Copy bsd.rd to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot it from the PROM.
Alternatively, you can create a bootable tape and boot from it. Refer to
the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.

<h3>OpenBSD/mac68k:</h3>

<p>
Boot MacOS as normal and extract the Macside "BSD/Mac68k Booter" utility from
<i>3.8/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk.  Configure the "BSD/Mac68k
Booter" with the location of your bsd.rd kernel and boot into the installer.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.mac68k for more details.

<h3>OpenBSD/mvme68k:</h3>

<p>
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
for more details.

<h3>OpenBSD/mvme88k:</h3>

<p>
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
for more details.

<h3>OpenBSD/sgi:</h3>

<p>
Burn cd38.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your machine and
select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance menu.

<p>
If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd".
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.

<h3>OpenBSD/zaurus:</h3>

<p>
Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
openbsd38_arm.ipk package.  Reboot, then run it.  Read INSTALL.zaurus
for a few important details.
</section>

<hr>

<section id=sourcecode>
<h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
<p>
<code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
in a separate archive.  To extract:
<blockquote><pre>
# <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
# <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
# <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
<code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
To extract:
<blockquote><pre>
# <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
# <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
# <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
Using these files
results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
</section>

<hr>

<section id=upgrade>
<h3>How to upgrade</h3>
<p>
If you already have an OpenBSD 3.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
<a href="faq/upgrade38.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
</section>

<hr>

<section id=ports>
<h3>Ports Tree</h3>
<p>
A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
<blockquote><pre>
# <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
# <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
read the <a href="faq/faq15.html">ports</a> page
if you know nothing about ports
at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
OpenBSD ports system.
<p>
The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1">cvs(1)</a> if
you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
like:
<blockquote><pre>
# <kbd>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_8</kbd>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>
[Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
server.]
<p>
Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
packages for the 3.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
<p>
If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
would like to know more, the mailing list
<a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
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