Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 22:34:00 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Do you have some neat configuration files? Message-ID: <19970909223400.JE31478@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <23971.873704247@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sep 8, 1997 00:37:27 -0700 References: <19970908153822.27586@lemis.com> <23971.873704247@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Greg has really placed two separate proposals here before you, the > first being the collection of some nifty startup file bits and "canned > user profiles" which Joe User might crib from, just as hackers on true > timesharing UNIX systems used to crib useful tidbits from various > admin personnel's startup files when left readable, and the second > being the actual incorporation of this data into the CVS repository > for more ongoing "skeleton file" work. I would rather suggest making this a port/package, something like a `defaultuser' package. Of course, we should learn from some L-system distributions, and work hard to avoid that people will actually be able to install this user setup without customizing it (thus sending out mail from an account named `default' or such later). Having said this, it now requires a volunteer... -- 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. ;-)
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