From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 23:10:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA10415 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA10409; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id QAA29753; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:08:33 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA26679; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:38:23 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970908153822.27586@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:38:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Do you have some neat configuration files? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan and I have just been discussing adding some contributed configuration files to the distribution CD-ROMs. I'm primarily thinking of .rc scripts for editors, mail readers, window managers and such. The background is the second edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", in which I'm trying to improve the introduction to FreeBSD for people who've never used UNIX before (or even for those who've used a different version). In the course of doing this, I'm describing a usable setup, which uses various configuration files which are, of course, derived from what I run on my own system. In order to make things easier for the user, I'm putting them on the CD-ROM, so anybody who wants to use this version can just load the stuff from CD-ROM and have a relatively functional system. One size doesn't fit all, of course, and there's a good chance that there are other versions out there which many (even most) people will prefer. So why not supply them too? If you have anything that you feel is worth sharing, please let me know. About the only thing I ask is that the files don't contain too much dead wood (I know mine do :-) I haven't decided on a structure for storing these files yet, though Jordan has suggested a top-level directory /usr/share/skel/extras. I'd suggest one subdirectory for each unrelated set of config files. Any other suggestions? Greg