From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 01:16:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7A01065670 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895058FC12 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so3598358fxm.13 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.81.76 with SMTP id w12mr219956fak.26.1297414383930; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:53:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n1sm211088fam.40.2011.02.11.00.53.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:53:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D54F8EE.5020409@my.gd> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:53:02 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <1297396433.7232.9.camel@dt.vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <1297396433.7232.9.camel@dt.vicor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:16:36 -0000 On 2/11/11 4:53 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've > developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest > of the world. > > http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt > > host-setup(1) is a dialog(1)-based utility (written in sh(1)) designed > to make configuring FreeBSD more efficient. > > We have this script configured to be run as root's initial login > immediately after "first-boot". The field engineer uses our custom > installer to install RELENG_8, and after the machine presents a login > prompt, they login with the pre-configured root password. After which > they are presented with this dialog (image attached: > host-setup.pub.png). > > The dialogs should all be intuitive, and I hope that you like my work. > I've worked very hard to make this utility smooth, robust, > fault-tolerant and even enjoyable to use. Not only that, but it helps > prevents mistakes that could arise in doing these steps by-hand (like > forgetting to unmount active NFS-mounts before executing "route flush"). > > Please give it a try and let me know what you think. > -- > Devin > > P.S. This is not a trivial script. ``More nuclear reactor than bike > shed'' ^_^ > > P.P.S. Should be backward compatible to RELENG_4. > > P.P.S. I know the screenshot says "host-setup.pub" -- that's only > because our in-house-only version has more functionality than the one > I'm releasing to the general public today (no functionality that anyone > in the public audience would ever care about though). > Hi Devin, Thanks for sharing, but I'm afraid the list automagically strips away non-text attachments, you'll have to upload your screenshots somewhere :)