From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 5 07:58:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA24183 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 07:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA24123 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 07:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16010; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:59:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:59:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new command: doconfig In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > > > > > I would like to add this as a new command to FreeBSD. I mentioned it a > > I use sometimes SCO, and there is (almost only :-) one thing that I liked: > > curses-driven program to tune running system parameters (such as mbufs, > > sysadmin's tool for tuning system's parameters. What do you think? > Modularity :) > > I think a kernel configuration subsystem is fine on its own, as a single > module. Later somebody can easilly wrap it in a more general kerneltuner > program (which tunes and configures), but there is no reason to over-do > one thing in complexity... (IMHO) Seems OK. There is a question of consistent user interface, though. Do you use libdialog? I remember there was discussion on the subject of using/not using it. What I don't remember is the final conclusion... :-) Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------