Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:02:32 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User friendly system config program? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420005806.1019A-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <19980420095626.36066@welearn.com.au>
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> > 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
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