Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:21:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Do you have some neat configuration files? Message-ID: <19970910092111.09646@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19970909223400.JE31478@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:34:00PM %2B0200 References: <19970908153822.27586@lemis.com> <23971.873704247@time.cdrom.com> <19970909223400.JE31478@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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
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