Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:55:27 -0800 From: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> To: Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sysinstall as a post-install tool Message-ID: <B076D94E-8979-4EC3-B56C-664AD7D93AC7@fisglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <4F03C709.9@fuzzwad.org> References: <CAF6rxgnVAbRd-mrN%2BykDmXafPzQRJgaw9q=%2Bi%2BXqTzL26gWh5Q@mail.gmail.com> <F80CD5E2-0CC0-4872-9B25-72C4ABCC5F42@xcllnt.net> <4F03AF24.70102@freebsd.org> <4F03BE93.9040708@fuzzwad.org> <CAF6rxgnzLEfRr3jr1GiGC=zsmDFjwfd3r%2B_UVSEQnCudrNETgQ@mail.gmail.com> <964E978A-C016-4A53-A034-8959140CDF68@fisglobal.com> <4F03C709.9@fuzzwad.org>
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On Jan 3, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Ron McDowell wrote: >=20 >=20 > Devin Teske wrote: >>=20 >>=20 >> On Jan 3, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >>=20 >>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Ron McDowell <rcm@fuzzwad.org> wrote: >>>> I [Ron] just added myself to the sysinstall list. >>>=20 >>> Good >>>>=20 >>>> 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. Do= es >>>> "sysadmin" work for a name? I kinda like it. >>>=20 >>> 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? >>>=20 >>>> I plan on basically going through the sysinstall post-configuration me= nu: >>>=20 >>> [snip configure menu] >>>=20 >>> Do you plan on making this a C based program or a shell script? >>=20 >> If he plans on making it sh(1) based, then I wonder if he would be inter= ested in starting with host-setup as a very solid and robust substrate. >>=20 >> I was just about to start building the port Makefile and getting host-se= tup to fill this exact need. >>=20 >> We @vicor have been working on this exact thing for years now. >>=20 >> I feel that it would be a *very* simple task to add the remaining [missi= ng] menu items considering how hard it was to simply get this far. >>=20 >> host-setup ... (we can change the name; I'll have to sleep on "sysadmin"= -- leaning more toward perhaps "sysconfig" ... it's the logical name consi= dering we're taking the "Config[uration]" menu from "sys[install]", so the = name ought to perhaps be "sysconfig") ... is a multi-thousand-line shell sc= ript that uses a very full-proof approach to solving the problem. It's unbr= eakable in its current form and has undergone hundreds of hours of testing = (it's current version is 4.0.1). >>=20 >> Oh, and it's BSD Licensed. >>=20 >> Oh, and it's FreeBSD specific (originally works on both Linux and FreeBS= D, but we've stripped the Linux stuff to make it FreeBSD-clean). >>=20 >>=20 >>>=20 >>>> and as close as reasonable, stick to the same task flow. I plan on wr= iting >>>> it against 10-current and look at back-porting to 9 after it's somewhat >>>> stable. >>>=20 >>=20 >> If you use host-setup as a substrate, it works on FreeBSD-4.x up to 10-C= URRENT (tested 4.8, 4.11, 8.1, 9-CURRENT and 10-CURRENT). >>=20 >>=20 >>> I'd like to work with you on this, especially w.r.t to ensuring that >>> it meets the requirements for entering the base system. >>>=20 >>=20 >> I too would like to work with you on this, regardless of language used o= r whether you use host-setup as a substrate or not. >>=20 >> We also maintain a custom version of sysinstall in-house. So we're intim= ately involved with all of the code. >>=20 >>=20 >>>> One new, important, and not-so-difficult task will be: on exiting, che= ck the >>>> sanity of /etc/rc.conf and complain if needed, but allow the user to >>>> override the safety-switch if foot-shooting is really requested. :) = I'm a >>>> firm believer of not disallowing anything. >>=20 >>> Good on both counts. >>=20 >> host-setup actually leverages the power and safety of my sysrc(8) utilit= y (just added to ports tree as sysutils/sysrc). >>=20 >> In fact, sysrc was written as a test-script solely to feed back into hos= t-setup so that we could replace sysinstall's Configure menu. We're just no= t there with all the menu items (but we've got the most important ones -- I= MHO -- and made them rock-stable). >> --=20 >> Devin >>=20 >> Links: >> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ >> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt >> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/sysrc.txt >> _____________ >> The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confiden= tial. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message= and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any= manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aw= are that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and re= view by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. >=20 > Devin, thanks, this looks very intriguing, pulling it down now. And sysc= onfig is a good name, better than sysadmin. After sleeping on it, I'm actually thinking "bsdconfig" is a better name. My reasoning is that "sysinstall" was C-based and "bsdinstall" is sh(1) bas= ed. A "sysconfig" might imply sysinstall-roots, when in reality it's a rewr= ite based on sh(1) and thus my reasoning is that "bsdconfig" would be a bet= ter name. --=20 Devin _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.
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