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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.8 to 7.9

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:30:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.9 of their OS on 19 May 2026, as their 60th release 💫

MariaDB 11.4 on OpenBSD 7.8: Install

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:15:00 +0900

Summary

MariaDB is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS), forked from MySQL by some of the original developers. It is open source licensed under GNU GPL 2, and ready for both community and enterprise use with long history and large knowledge to manage and maintain.

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.7 to 7.8

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.8 of their OS on 22 Oct 2025, as their 59th release 💫

PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 16 to 17 with pg_upgrade

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:10:10 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD gives us good documentation as a series of the project. (For example, the man pages are cared and kept maintained.) It’s applied to principal service packages as well as the OS. So is as to PostgreSQL.

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.6 to 7.7

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:30:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.7 of their OS on today, 28 Apr 2025, as their 58th release 💫

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.5 to 7.6

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.6 of their OS on 8 Oct 2024 as their 57th release 💫

PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 15 to 16 with pg_upgrade

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:00:10 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.4 to 7.5

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:30:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.5 of their OS on 5 Apr 2024 as their 56th release 💫

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.3 to 7.4

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.4 of their OS on 16 Oct 2023 as their 55th release 💫

Drupal 10.1 On OpenBSD 7.3: Install with Composer

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:40:44 +0900

Summary

Drupal is one of the content management systems aka CMS. It has long history and good stability, based on PHP and Symfony.

Joomla! 4.3 on OpenBSD 7.3: Install

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:05:00 +0900

Summary

Joomla! is one of popular PHP content management systems (aka CMS). It is good for portal-like websites as well as blogging platforms. The first version was released in 2005 and, after long progress, the latest major one was done two years ago (on 2021-08-17).

MariaDB 10.9 on OpenBSD 7.3: Install

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 11:40:40 +0900

Summary

MariaDB is one of the popular relational database management systems (RDBMS), forked from MySQL by some of the original developers. It is open source licensed under GNU GPL 2, and ready for both community and enterprise use with long history and large knowledge to manage and maintain.

PHP-FPM 8.2 on OpenBSD 7.3

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD 🐡 project and their community support Web service packages including those of PHP very well, thankfully.

Tor on OpenBSD 7.3

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:00:00 +0900

Summary

Tor 🧅 provides highly private access 👯 to the Web ✨

This post shows how to install it and run on OpenBSD.

PHP-FPM 8.1 on OpenBSD 7.3

Sun, 07 May 2023 15:00:00 +0900

Summary

To my belief, OpenBSD 🐡 and their community support PHP Web services well thankfully.

The core package is offered as pre-compiled binary through Ports packages system. In addition, important softwares such as extensions, Composer and PECL libraries are available. So are frameworks such as NextCloud and Zabbix.

OpenBSD 7.3 on VirtualBox 7: Installation as guest OS failed due to I/O APIC enabled

Sat, 06 May 2023 23:12:00 +0900

With VirtualBox 7.0, installing OpenBSD 🐡 7.3 as guest on Artix Linux 🐧 as host failed.

It was because of vbox Settings, in which checked (by default) was System - Motherboard - “Enable I/O APIC”…🤕

OpenBSD httpd 7.3: Web server

Sat, 06 May 2023 14:12:00 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD develops and maintains their own web server called “httpd” under ISC license. It is installed by default in OS installation.

PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 14 to 15 with pg_upgrade

Wed, 03 May 2023 17:08:10 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.2 to 7.3

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:46:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.3 of their OS on 10 Apr 2023🌷 It is their 54th release.

OpenBSD maintenance: OS reinstall

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD official documentation says:

If you have a running OpenBSD system, bsd.rd is all you need to reinstall or upgrade to a newer version.

Lemmy 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:17:25 +0900

Summary

Lemmy is one of Fediverse implementations, which focuses on link aggregators. It also works as a platform for forums and microblogging.

pict-rs 0.3.2 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:17:24 +0900

Summary

This post is a part of Lemmy 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2 about Lemmy.

The server is OpenBSD and Rust (rustlang) is installed. Also, there is _lemmy user whose home directory is /var/lemmy.

Lemmy UI 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:17:23 +0900

Summary

This post is a part of Lemmy 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2 about Lemmy.

The server is OpenBSD and Rust (rustlang) is installed. Also, there is _lemmy user whose home directory is /var/lemmy.

Lemmy Server 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:17:22 +0900

Summary

This post is a part of Lemmy 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2 about Lemmy.

The server is OpenBSD and Rust (rustlang) is installed. Also, there is _lemmy user whose home directory is /var/lemmy.

MinIO on OpenBSD 7.2: Configure network

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:01:02 +0900

MinIO is one of object storage suites. It has compatibility with AWS S3 and is open source written in Go (golang).

MinIO on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:52:25 +0900

Summary

MinIO is one of object storage suites compatible with AWS S3. It is written in Go (Golang) and offers high performance. It is also open source, and available as backend object storage service on private cloud and so on.

OpenBSD Disk Encryption: Change passphrase

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 11:36:39 +0900

Is it possible to change the passphrase after applying Full Disk Encryption by it to your OpenBSD server ?

Yes !! This post shows how. It’s a really simple way with bioctl.

Pleroma 2.5.0 with Elixir 1.11 on OpenBSD 7.1

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 13:18:19 +0900

Summary

Pleroma is one of the fediverse implementations for microblogging like Twitter and Mastodon. It uses Elixir which “runs on Erlang VM known for creating low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems”.

Announcement: Search is now available !!

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 22:50:57 +0900

We succeeded in implementing search in this website ;)

You can find the menu at the top (or jump there with the link in this post) !!!

OpenBSD Full Disk Encryption (on VirtualBox)

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:54:56 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD supports full disk encryption (FDE) with softraid and bioctl. The tutorial for it is officially provided. With FDE, even if you lose your computer, your data is strongly protected (as long as the key is in safety).

Announcement: RSS feeds are now available !!

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:39:39 +0900

We got request about RSS feeds of our blog via contact form.
Thank you so much for your interest on our update ;)

PostgreSQL 14.5 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:39:39 +0900

Summary

In OpenBSD 7.2 release, PostgreSQL was updated to 14.5. This post shows how to install it on the latest OpenBSD.

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.1 to 7.2

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:11:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.2 of their OS on 20 Oct 2022✨ It was their 53rd release.

How to change user password to the weak forcedly on OpenBSD 7.1 (not recommended)

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 22:18:00 +0900

When you try to change user password on OpenBSD and it is not strong enough, you will see the error:

$ passwd
Changing password for <youruser>.
Old password:
New password:
Please use a more complicated password.
Please use a different password. Unusual capitalization,
control characters, or digits are suggested.
New password:

You had better follow the messages.

PostgreSQL 14: TLS Connection

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:30:00 +0900

Summary

To use PostgreSQL as external database servers, it’s better to use TLS/SSL connection. This post shows how to generate certificates, configure servers and verify them.

PostgreSQL 14.2 on OpenBSD 7.1: Install

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 09:30:00 +0900

Summary

In OpenBSD 7.1 release, PostgreSQL was upgraded to 14.2. This post shows how to install it on the latest OpenBSD.

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.0 to 7.1

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0900

Summary

The OpenBSD project released 7.1 of their OS on 21 Apr 2022✨ It was their 52nd release.

OpenBSD acme-client For Let's Encrypt Certificates

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:55:17 +0900

Summary

acme-client is the default Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) client on OpenBSD, installed at the same time when the OS is.

node-sass: Build fails on OpenBSD - How to fix

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:20:23 +0900

When running npm install node-sass on OpenBSD, you may see the error below or similar one.

pecl commands on OpenBSD 6.7

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 18:00:00 +0900

Summary

PECL is “The PHP Extension Community Library”. In OpenBSD, some PECL libraries such as imagick are available as ports packages.

Lighthouse: Full marks got our website hosted on OpenBSD server (on 2022-02-20)

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:20:44 +0900

Yay, our website, obsd.solutions, on OpenBSD server got full marks on Lighthouse !!!

It is hosted on our OpenBSD server with httpd, their default web server. We deeply appreciate them for their solid OS, and also Cloudflare for their fast and flexible network. Also, their great mind on security.

OpenBSD ftpd 7.0: FTP server

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:20:00 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD has its own FTP server called ftpd.

ftpd, the FTP daemon, is installed and disabled by default. All what to do in order to use it is just run rcctl enable and rcctl start.

VirtualBox 6 and OpenBSD 7.0: How to create a vm

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:36:47 +0900

Summary

The post is about how to create a OpenBSD vm with Oracle VM VirtualBox briefly with some screenshots.

PHP-FPM 8.0 on OpenBSD 7.0

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:08:00 +0900

Summary

PHP-FPM, PHP FastCGI Process Manager, is a part of PHP package in OpenBSD packages nowadays. So installing PHP (php-?.? due to the version) comes with php??_fpm automatically 💃 This post will show you how to set it up.

OpenBSD httpd 7.0: Web server

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:07:00 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD has its own web server called “httpd”.

OpenBSD pkg_add didn't work due to incorrect system time

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:24:00 +0900

Summary

I met errors on pkg_add and syspatch just after installing OpenBSD on VirtualBox the other day. They were printed as TLS handshake failure and I solved by modifying /etc/installurl. However, I didn’t know what actually it happened and why.

PostgreSQL 13.5 on OpenBSD 7.0: Install

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD 7.0 was released and PostgreSQL was upgraded to 13.4 then. In addition, it is now 13.5. The installation process of PostgreSQL server in OBSD 7.0 is almost the same to that in the earlier.

OpenBSD pkg_add didn't work due to ocsp verify failed

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:24:00 +0900

Just after installing OpenBSD onto VirtualBox, I couldn’t use syspatch and pkg_add due to the error:

MariaDB 10.6 (and NextCloud): COMPRESSED Row is read-only by default

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:27:17 +0900

I upgraded OpenBSD 6.9 to 7.0 yesterday. It brought MariaDB upgrade: 10.5 to 10.6. I checked my.cnf change and it seemed all right. Nevertheless, trouble was found on a NextCloud server using MariaDB on OpenBSD.

OpenBSD Upgrade 6.9 to 7.0

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD 51st release on 14 Oct 2021 has arrived at 7.0✨

What’s New

This post shows how to upgrade OpenBSD 6.9 to 7.0.

Rainloop Webmail on OpenBSD 6.9

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:13:00 +0900

Summary

Rainloop is a “simple, modern & fast web-based email client”, written in PHP. It’s also open source licensed under AGPL v3. I installed it in OpenBSD server. It was really simple.

Grav CMS on OpenBSD: Install in a subdirectory

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:29:00 +0900

Summary

Installing in a subdirectory here means a website is accessed as http(s)://<root-dir>/<TARGET> instead of http(s)://<TARGET>. All what to do in order to install Grav CMS in a subdirectory on OpenBSD is to configure two files: Grav’s user/config/system.yaml and OpenBSD’s /etc/httpd.conf.

Grav CMS on OpenBSD 6.9: Install via Composer

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:35:00 +0900

Summary

Grav is one of CMS frameworks, which is open source and MIT Licensed. It is developed as a flat-file based one using Symfony PHP framework. Symfony officially introduces it on their own website. This post shows how to install it on OpenBSD.

PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 12 to 13 with pg_dumpall

Sat, 08 May 2021 12:49:32 +0900

Summary

In upgrading OpenBSD from 6.8 to 6.9, I had to upgrade PostgreSQL server (12.6 to 13.2), as written in OpenBSD’s Upgrade Guide. Here is how I carried it out due to the official readme of postgresql-server package:

OpenBSD Upgrade 6.8 to 6.9

Mon, 03 May 2021 20:04:03 +0900

Summary

Next OpenBSD release, 6.9, has been published on 1 May 2021✨

What’s New

The 6.9 Song is “Vetera Novis”, which means “old new” in Latin.

OpenBSD Upgrade 6.7 to 6.8

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:14:14 +0900

Summary

The latest OpenBSD OS is now 6.8 ✨ which was released on 18 Oct 2020.

LibreSSL: openssl Error due to missing v3_ca in extension

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:13:48 +0900

To use openssl, one of the utilities of LibreSSL, and create root and intermediate certificates with v3_ca extensions, error might happen in OpenBSD 6.7.

PostgreSQL 12 on OpenBSD 6.7: Install

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:24:14 +0900

OpenBSD 6.7 was released last month and PostgreSQL was upgraded from 11.7 to 12.2 then. The installation process of PostgreSQL server in OBSD 6.7 is almost the same to that in 6.5.

PostgreSQL 12: TLS Connection

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:12:42 +0900

To use remote PostgreSQL server as database server, it’s better to use TLS/SSL connection. This post shows a simple and easy way with self-signed certificate.

OpenBSD Upgrade 6.6 to 6.7

Thu, 21 May 2020 21:14:00 +0900

Summary

Happy news, again. OpenBSD project has released 6.7 😊

What’s New

Cute artwork ✨

Nextcloud 16/17 on OpenBSD 6.7: Update via command line

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:51:01 +0900

Summary

NextCloud, “the flexible open source file synchronization and sharing solution”, provides build-in updater. Thankfully, we can update/upgrade the software with its own updater.

NextCloud 16/17 on OpenBSD 6.6

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:30:05 +0900

Summary

NextCloud, a folk of OwnCloud, is one of the files sharing applications. It’s open source and suitable for self-hosted service. I will show how to install it in OpenBSD, well known for the ongoing efforts to archive proactive security.

Mailman mailing list on OpenBSD 6.7

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 22:05:17 +0900

Summary

With mail servers, Just forwarding emails to multiple addresses is easy. Also, we can build an advanced mailing list system. This post is about how to build a GNU Mailman server on OpenBSD.

OpenSMTPD 6.5: Mailing list

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:54:10 +0900

This post is about how to make maling lists in OpenBSD (whose current version is 6.5.)

With OpenSMTPD (and Dovecot, optionally), this method is perhaps the simplest.

OpenSMTPD 6.5: How to debug - OpenBSD's smtpd failed to start

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:37:12 +0900

This post is about:

# smtpd -dv -Tlookup

I wrote about how to debug rcctl and find why an error occurs in OpenBSD last year:

PostgreSQL 11 on OpenBSD 6.5: Install

Tue, 07 May 2019 10:51:53 +0900

This post shows how to install PostgreSQL on OpenBSD and set it up. I wrote about the same theme last year, and now the version of PostgreSQL in OpenBSD has been upgraded 10.3 -> 11.2 as the OpenBSD has 6.3 -> 6.5. Happily, what I had to do was just to follow the same process.

Let's Encrypt: Certbot with httpd on OpenBSD 6.4

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:56:11 +0900

Let’s Encrypt is “a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority”. Certbot is “an easy-to-use automatic client that fetches and deploys SSL/TLS certificates for your web server”, well known as “the official Let’s Encrypt client”.

PHP-FPM 7.2 on OpenBSD 6.4

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:43:00 +0900

Summary

PHP-FPM, PHP FastCGI Process Manager, is a part of PHP package in OpenBSD packages nowadays. So installing PHP (php-7.? due to the version) comes with php7?_fpm automatically 💃 I’ll show you how to set it up in this post 😃

Time Zone management on OpenBSD 6.4

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:25:18 +0900

Summary

This post is about how to check and configure the timezone in OpenBSD.

OS: OpenBSD 6.4 amd64

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Let’s check the current timezone with date command:

php72_fpm on OpenBSD 6.4 doesn't work by default: How to fix

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:54:00 +0900

Summary

In OpenBSD, installing PHP by pkg_add (of ports) is followed by installing php-fpm automatically. (It’s nice 😃)

rcctl: How to debug on OpenBSD 6.4

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:03:27 +0900

Summary

This post is about a single option around OpenBSD’s rcctl, utility to “configure and control daemons and services”.

OpenBSD ftpd 6.4: FTP server

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:34:56 +0900

Summary

OpenBSD has its own FTP server called ftpd. It’s sufficient to transfer files among hosts in a simple and secure way.

OpenBSD httpd 6.3: Web server

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:53:00 +0900

OpenBSD has its own web server called “httpd”.

It’s possible on OpenBSD to install Nginx and Apache (called “apache-httpd”).

PostgreSQL 10 on OpenBSD 6.3: Install

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 01:36:16 +0900

This post shows how to install PostgreSQL on OpenBSD and set it up.

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OS: OpenBSD 6.3
DB: PostgreSQL 10.3

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* note: In code areas, the leading # means execution by superuser; It is equal to using doas command (as root), while the leading $ means by general users.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.8 to 7.9

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MariaDB 11.4 on OpenBSD 7.8: Install

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.7 to 7.8

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PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 16 to 17 with pg_upgrade

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.6 to 7.7

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.5 to 7.6

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PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 15 to 16 with pg_upgrade

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.4 to 7.5

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.3 to 7.4

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Drupal 10.1 On OpenBSD 7.3: Install with Composer

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Joomla! 4.3 on OpenBSD 7.3: Install

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MariaDB 10.9 on OpenBSD 7.3: Install

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PHP-FPM 8.2 on OpenBSD 7.3

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Tor on OpenBSD 7.3

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PHP-FPM 8.1 on OpenBSD 7.3

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OpenBSD 7.3 on VirtualBox 7: Installation as guest OS failed due to I/O APIC enabled

Problem

OpenBSD httpd 7.3: Web server

Summary

PostgreSQL on OpenBSD: Upgrade 14 to 15 with pg_upgrade

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.2 to 7.3

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OpenBSD maintenance: OS reinstall

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Lemmy 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2

Summary

pict-rs 0.3.2 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Summary

Premise

Lemmy UI 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Summary

Premise

Lemmy Server 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Summary

Premise

MinIO on OpenBSD 7.2: Configure network

Intro

MinIO on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Summary

OpenBSD Disk Encryption: Change passphrase

Pleroma 2.5.0 with Elixir 1.11 on OpenBSD 7.1

Summary

Announcement: Search is now available !!

OpenBSD Full Disk Encryption (on VirtualBox)

Summary

Announcement: RSS feeds are now available !!

PostgreSQL 14.5 on OpenBSD 7.2: Install

Summary

OpenBSD Upgrade 7.1 to 7.2

Summary

How to change user password to the weak forcedly on OpenBSD 7.1 (not recommended)

PostgreSQL 14: TLS Connection

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PostgreSQL 14.2 on OpenBSD 7.1: Install

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OpenBSD Upgrade 7.0 to 7.1

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OpenBSD acme-client For Let's Encrypt Certificates

Summary

OpenBSD’s acme-client

node-sass: Build fails on OpenBSD - How to fix

The problem

pecl commands on OpenBSD 6.7