From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 9 16:51:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16603 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16589 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA19602; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:21:11 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970910092111.09646@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:21:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Do you have some neat configuration files? References: <19970908153822.27586@lemis.com> <23971.873704247@time.cdrom.com> <19970909223400.JE31478@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19970909223400.JE31478@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:34:00PM +0200 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 On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:34:00PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > 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). Good idea. > Having said this, it now requires a volunteer... I suppose I volunteered. Now let's have some suggestions how to do it. As you probably know, I'm up to my eyeballs getting the next edition of CFBSD out, so it'll be a couple of weeks before I can do anything, but since I want to refer to it in the book, it would be a good idea to get our act together. Greg