The Pledge of the Network Admin, from one of those book authors:
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-will-not-mindlessly-paste-from-howtos.html
:D

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Marko Cupać <marko.cu...@mimar.rs> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 10:41:19 -0500
> Bryan Harris <bryanlhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My preference is to purchase a book. I have had a good experience with
> > Absolute OpenBSD, Httpd & Relayd, the tarsnap book, and the Book of
> > PF.
> >
> > I would buy a book about OpenSMTPD and also ikev2 but I didn't see
> > any.
> >
> > Just my $0.02, I like books better than online tutorials.
>
> Couldn't agree more. Those are good books.
>
> However, back in a day when I was completely fresh to OpenBSD, I
> preferred to copy/paste someone's working solution, and then discover
> which config line does what, how, and why. That's because I had no
> clue about anything. It was valuable to read how people designed
> solutions to their needs, what combination of software they used etc.
> Only at the later stage I was able to dive into documentation.
>
> I was particularly fond of this set of howtos:
> http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd.html
> --
> Before enlightenment - chop wood, draw water.
> After  enlightenment - chop wood, draw water.
>
> Marko Cupać
> https://www.mimar.rs/
>
>

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