From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 03:53:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23251065693; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dteske@vicor.com) Received: from postoffice.vicor.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80858FC18; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.82.228.105] (port=59572) by postoffice.vicor.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pnk4l-0005Sa-Nq; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:45 -0800 From: Devin Teske To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-+A3QXkrxgonKAGyxTIQq" Organization: VICOR, Inc. Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:53 -0800 Message-ID: <1297396433.7232.9.camel@dt.vicor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 X-Scan-Signature: 4266861497c25e0c814ad9f3c38b9441 X-Scan-Host: postoffice.vicor.com X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:53:45 -0000 --=-+A3QXkrxgonKAGyxTIQq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest of the world. http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt host-setup(1) is a dialog(1)-based utility (written in sh(1)) designed to make configuring FreeBSD more efficient. We have this script configured to be run as root's initial login immediately after "first-boot". The field engineer uses our custom installer to install RELENG_8, and after the machine presents a login prompt, they login with the pre-configured root password. After which they are presented with this dialog (image attached: host-setup.pub.png). The dialogs should all be intuitive, and I hope that you like my work. I've worked very hard to make this utility smooth, robust, fault-tolerant and even enjoyable to use. Not only that, but it helps prevents mistakes that could arise in doing these steps by-hand (like forgetting to unmount active NFS-mounts before executing "route flush"). Please give it a try and let me know what you think. -- Devin P.S. This is not a trivial script. ``More nuclear reactor than bike shed'' ^_^ P.P.S. Should be backward compatible to RELENG_4. P.P.S. I know the screenshot says "host-setup.pub" -- that's only because our in-house-only version has more functionality than the one I'm releasing to the general public today (no functionality that anyone in the public audience would ever care about though). --=-+A3QXkrxgonKAGyxTIQq--