steamcmd not working on netbsd 9 i386 <stderr.txt>
Maybe you're simply missing a trust store? You need to do that manually on NetBSD. Assuming you want the usual set of public CAs in place, here is it.
export PKG_PATH="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/.../All"; pkg_add mozilla-rootcerts cp -i /usr/share/examples/openssl/openssl.cnf /etc/openssl mozilla-rootcerts install echo Q | openssl -connect somesiteforchecking.tld:443 curl -I https://somesiteforchecking.tld/ HTH