I have used BSD & GNU/Linuxk, etc., since 1997--and since about 2006 - '8 (academic year) almost exclusively--but I am relatively new to OpenBSD and this may be my first post in a UNIX newsgroup/listserv, though I have been to a LUUG and Freenode #openbsd for a few months (with nick 'darwin.') Last year I earned a BS CS from CWU (Washington state,) which included passing a challenge test for credit for the UNIX class (which would have used GNU/Linux, which was not apparent in my test,) but in my last school years I tried to focus more on a BS Mathematics (and was part of one course away) than CS, so there are things I forgot about CS, though I maintain a few Slackware (GNU/)Linux package builds and my own server... but I am sure doing that is not as advanced as some of the stuff many/most of you do.
I installed OpenBSD 5.3 for amd64's Statusnet 1.1.0 package, had problems, went to #statusnet IRC. Statusnet will not let me subscribe to accounts in the Statusnet federation (I tried FSF on status.fsf.org, and an account of someone in #statusnet, who helped me test.) It says 'Unable to find services for <my user@host>.' I set up a Statusnet log, and though it logs some stuff, there was no log of trying to subscribe to a remote account, though there may have been logs when the person on the channel tried to find my Statusnet account in the various possible ways and failed. I was surprised Statusnet also cannot log in its own directory, but it will log in /tmp. If I get Statusnet to fully work, I would like to know how to do an Apache URL rewrite command for it, and for Mediawiki. Since these packages have been added, but OpenBSD people recommend not installing newer Apache if avoidable, it would be really helpful to anyone using such packages on to know how to rewrite URLs as suggested by installation instructions, to conceal what sort of setup one is using, or just make URLs shorter. The newer Apache syntax will not work, and it took me months to figure out how to do it for OpenBSD's Apache. Perhaps I had not seen it was documented, though I am currently not a regular expression expert. Maybe this is off-topic (as much as my introduction, if this is a more technical newsgroup/listserv,) but I am trying to find an actual BSD organization selling an original type general/standard/generic BSD daemon t-shirt, that I would probably wear at least once to science/CS-related events (though now I usually dress like I am too intellectual for t-shirts,) and so I can support a BSD. I asked this specific question on IRC and was suggested the first distinctly OpenBSD daemon t-shirt. First I am trying to find an original general/standard/generic BSD one, because I started with FreeBSD at college, then used NetBSD for a desktop for several years, and I like them and OpenBSD and would use all three if I had enough reasons, (virtual) machines, and time to. Maybe after I get or make a standard BSD one, I will get the first types of ones for each of the three more CS-oriented BSDs, but I am not sure. David http://www.cwu.edu/~melikd/
