From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 19 16:56:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13866 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13827 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:56:47 GMT (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA21081; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:56:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980420095626.36066@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:56:26 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User friendly system config program? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Cohen on Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 12:31:46AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 12:31:46AM +0100, Ben Cohen wrote: > Hi! > > On SCO Unix V there is a menu-based system configuration program, sysadmsh > (scoadmin on SCO OpenServer). Is there an equivalent in or available for > FreeBSD? This is an area that various people are working on at the moment, but I don't know how soon we'll see anything. Depending on what you want to do, /stand/sysinstall might help. I don't use it myself so I can't say much about it. We tend to spend a lot of time using text editors on config files (hence my sig) which has advantages and disadvantages. For example, if you pull /etc/rc.conf into your favourite text editor, you can see and change a whole lot of stuff all at once, quicker than working your way through a series of menus. You have to be comfortable using a text editor first, though. Of course, both methods require you to know what you're doing. For me, menus give a dangerous impression that it's easy to do without understanding, and at the same time they limit what I can do when I do understand. My view, however, seems to be in the minority these days :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message