From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 25 08:20:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06890 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA06885 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA29156; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:20:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id RAA02821; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:07:49 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:07:47 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jamie@inna.net (Jamie Bowden) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie type environment References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Jan 23, 1997 21:28:25 -0500 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jamie Bowden wrote: > I have had several requests for the environment I setup for my wife, so > on ftp.inna.net:/pub/jamie/ is a file called newbie.tgz. You will need > to get that, put the zap perl script in /usr/local/bin, and compile and > install runas. All of these are in the .tgz file. I think it would be really great to see something like this becoming an official `port'. This way, we don't need to bloat the base system with it, but yet would have a fine method to provide a good newuser template. The only concern i would have with this approach is that this port should only depend from other ports that are available in package form on the CD-ROM (so people without Internet access will be able to use it). I haven't looked whether this applies to the stuff presented by Jamie (though i'd assume it). What i imagine is that this should be available in package form itself, maybe with an installation script that will be run during the package installation. Anybody feeling tempted by such a project? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)