From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 04:09:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9C4106567B for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:09:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFEA8FC1C for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q043eM6N019985; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:40:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q043eMLG019982; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:40:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:40:22 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Ron McDowell In-Reply-To: <4F03C38D.1080909@fuzzwad.org> Message-ID: References: <4F03AF24.70102@freebsd.org> <4F03BE93.9040708@fuzzwad.org> <4F03C38D.1080909@fuzzwad.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:40:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:09:29 -0000 On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Ron McDowell wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Ron McDowell wrote: >> >>> I [Ron] just added myself to the sysinstall list. >>> >> >> Good >> >>> What I envision is a text based system administration suite that will >>> [hopefully] do everything that the "Configure" option on the top level of >>> the sysinstall menu does. I see it as being part of the base OS, such >>> that >>> once one has rebooted from HD after the install and logged in as root [or >>> user+su], a menu can be brought up by entering "sysadmin" or such. Does >>> "sysadmin" work for a name? I kinda like it. >>> >> >> Do you plan on this tool being run "late in the game" after the system >> has been used for a while or this is a "welcome new user" only tool? >> > > I want it to be both. Similar in concept to scoadmin on SCO, sysadm on SVR4, > smit on AIX if you're familiar with any of them. bsdinstall already does some of these config things in the last menu. It really ought to be split into two pieces, bsdinstall to do the installing, and "bsdconfig", to do the configuring. bsdconfig would just be the pieces that are already there, run by bsdinstall after the installation but also useful separately. And then bsdconfig could have all the added config functionality that everyone loves about sysinstall.