Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD Message-ID: <5AF1B11E-19FF-4FF5-9058-BE8F0AB85E1B@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <1297396433.7232.9.camel@dt.vicor.com> References: <1297396433.7232.9.camel@dt.vicor.com>
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Hi Devin, Thanks for sharing your work. The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the momen= t though... --- Fleuriot Damien On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:53, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> wrote: > Hi All, >=20 > 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. >=20 > http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt >=20 > host-setup(1) is a dialog(1)-based utility (written in sh(1)) designed > to make configuring FreeBSD more efficient. >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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"). >=20 > Please give it a try and let me know what you think. > -- > Devin >=20 > P.S. This is not a trivial script. ``More nuclear reactor than bike > shed'' ^_^ >=20 > P.P.S. Should be backward compatible to RELENG_4. >=20 > 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). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=
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