From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 17:01:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A841065670; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:01:57 +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 DDEF58FC0A; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.82.228.105] (port=60679) by postoffice.vicor.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnwNW-00014I-6O; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:01:56 -0800 From: Devin Teske To: Damien Fleuriot In-Reply-To: <5AF1B11E-19FF-4FF5-9058-BE8F0AB85E1B@my.gd> References: <1297396433.7232.9.camel@dt.vicor.com> <5AF1B11E-19FF-4FF5-9058-BE8F0AB85E1B@my.gd> Organization: VICOR, Inc. Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:02:05 -0800 Message-ID: <1297443725.9144.1.camel@dt.vicor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 X-Scan-Signature: b57c4500898f7f78298605e8a43c9cb5 X-Scan-Host: postoffice.vicor.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:01:57 -0000 On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 08:56 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hi Devin, > > > Thanks for sharing your work. > > The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... Thanks Damien. Here's a link to the pic I posted online in-tandem with the post to the list(s). http://www.twitpic.com/3yhye7 -- Devin > > > --- > Fleuriot Damien > > On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:53, Devin Teske wrote: > > > 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). > > _______________________________________________ > > 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"