From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 13:59:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E1A37B402 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 890FE3FC46; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:59:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:59:38 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meet fish (read on) Message-ID: <20020227225938.E16555@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <20020227223901.C16555@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020227164952.A66094@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sDKAb4OeUBrWWL6P" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020227164952.A66094@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:49:52PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --sDKAb4OeUBrWWL6P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:49:52PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: Hi Michael, > What I'd like to see in such a tool is a "drop-box" containing a list > of legitimate values for each option. This would require maintaining > a separate table of rc.conf values, however. Something like that > would make freeBSD much easier to administer, especially for the > point-and-click crowd. Yes, in fact that's also on my TODO list. I want to enable a kind of sanity check so the program won't allow illegal values for certain critical rc.conf variables. Having a menu of legal values would be very nice too. I'll work on it. =20 > So, why call it fish? I couldn't come up with a better name when I imported it into the p4 repo, I'm open to suggestions for a name too :) Cheers, --=20 Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! --sDKAb4OeUBrWWL6P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8fVbJnLctrNyFFPERAjt2AJ9JwPR5gOxQj6LSAGDF1GXHxeLa9ACeJSLa NrgnRQq0udtQCkSUiGF3lNk= =EIBg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sDKAb4OeUBrWWL6P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message