From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 19 17:03:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15266 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 17:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from violet.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@violet.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA15235 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:02:44 GMT (envelope-from bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk [131.111.212.250] by violet.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0yR42X-0004ib-00; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:02:29 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:02:32 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: Sue Blake cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User friendly system config program? In-Reply-To: <19980420095626.36066@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > On SCO Unix V there is a menu-based system configuration program, sysadmsh > > (scoadmin on SCO OpenServer). Is there an equivalent in or available for > > FreeBSD? > Depending on what you want to do, /stand/sysinstall might help. I don't use > it myself so I can't say much about it. Yes---/stand/sysinstall is OK for some things (e.g. choosing and extracting packages) but not brilliant for general configuration. > We tend to spend a lot of time using text editors on config files (hence my > sig) which has advantages and disadvantages. For example, if you pull > /etc/rc.conf into your favourite text editor, you can see and change a whole > lot of stuff all at once, quicker than working your way through a series of > menus. You have to be comfortable using a text editor first, though. > > Of course, both methods require you to know what you're doing. For me, menus > give a dangerous impression that it's easy to do without understanding, and > at the same time they limit what I can do when I do understand. My view, > however, seems to be in the minority these days :-) I agree with you on this---although the SCO sysadmsh is reasonably impressive in this respect. (But SCO is slightly different from FreeBSD.) Thanks... Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message