Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:35:30 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Lee Johnston <lee@uk.freebsd.org>, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons Message-ID: <200003100835.IAA00469@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:25:57 GMT." <20000310012557.A22043@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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> Something else to consider -- I'd like to get example config files,
> scripts, and so on, for /usr/share/examples, for the UK.
>
> For example, a /usr/share/examples/ppp/uk/ directory, with sample ppp.conf
> files for Demon, Pavilion, Freeserve, BT, ..., DNS configurations, and so
> on.
>
> Perhaps a /usr/share/examples/isp/uk/ directory hierarchy might be better,
>
> .../examples/isp/uk/$ISP/ppp
> namedb
> sendmail
> leafnode
> inn
> squid
>
> and other directories, each one containing commented configuration files
> suitable for $ISP (Demon, Pavilion, Freeserve, and so on).
If others jump on the bandwagon, this'll be good. If they don't, it
may look a bit half baked (witness the PGP keys in the handbook -
*VERY* slow to materialise !).
I can supply configs for a lot of these services for Demon,
Force9, Pavilion and BT. It's interesting though, I think what we
actually need is a script/program that will generate the config files
based on a database of "isp specifics". These specifics would
contain things like phone numbers, dial strings, DNS negotiation flags,
web proxy name, news server name, newsfeed or inews style posting,
hostname or domain and finally, services supported. The script would
then get some generic templates, prompt for account specifics (if not
supplied on the command line) and build the requisite config files.
So, how about
/usr/share/isp/defaults
/usr/share/isp/uk/defaults
/usr/share/isp/uk/pavilion
/usr/share/isp/uk/demon
/usr/share/isp/uk/bt
/usr/share/isp/uk/force9
etc ? These files would contain the standard bourne shell variable
assignments, and then there'd be
genconfig [-pnmlis] [otheroptions]
where the above flags generate configurations for ppp, named, mail,
leafnode, innd and squid respectively. We'd also want flags like
-d domain to auto-specify your domain etc.
Any interest in something like this ?
> Obviously, there needs to be a big hefty disclaimer at the front of all
> these advising the user to double check them before using them, but it
> might help save new users some trouble.
>
> The PPP configuration in sysinstall could then be modified to ask the user
> whether they want to use a canned configuration for an ISP, and if so, to
> select the ISP from a list. . .
>
> Thoughts?
I think the main thing here is to make it easy to add new options -
for example:
/usr/share/isp/uk/someisp
phone=1234567
services=ppp
domain=someisp.co.uk
Would tell the program that it can generate a ppp.conf with the
standard template and only the phone number specified. It would then
prompt for your authname/authkey and ask if you want to use a login
script (it would generate one with \\U & \\P). Or
/usr/share/isp/uk/demon
phone=1234567
pppdns=false
proxy=www-cache.demon.co.uk
services=ppp,squid,leafnode
where it prompts for your host/domain, authname and authkey, and allows
you to configure squid using the given proxy) and leafnode using the
standard news.domain.
> N
> --
> Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95.
> Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission,
> hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless.
> Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
> -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery
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