From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 15:26:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B1D14FF9 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([216.62.157.60]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FMR001VJ7RJMJ@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:26:08 -0600 (CST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA07868; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:28:33 -0600 (CST envelope-from chris) X-URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:28:32 -0600 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-reply-to: <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> To: Donn Miller Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Eric Jones , current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <19991214172832.V868@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) References: <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > Maybe we could call it "sysconfig", in honor of the old > /etc/sysconfig file that was superceded bt /etc/rc.conf. That's not very creative! I had "Trident" in mind. Only problem is that the name is used by a company that makes video card chips and another company that makes chewing gum. > I saw in CUBFM (the newsgroup) where a couple of people wanted to > do a GUI menu-based interfaced to the kernel configuration (as > opposed to editing a file by hand). I don't think this would be > too hard at all, but I wondered what the experienced FreeBSD > users thought of this idea? Just me. I'm not working with anyone on this. -- |Chris Costello |No program done by a hacker will work unless he is on the system. `----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message