nosh version 1.14

[Lars Engels]

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 10:40:06PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> nosh is now up to version 1.14
> 
> * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html
> 
> The largest part of the recent changes is a list of new service bundles, 
> most of which are cross-platform, but a few of which are BSD-specific.  
> The bundles list now comes to some 230 services, not counting logging 
> services.  The list ranges from vixiecron to OpenStack Swift, passing 
> through such things as RabbitMQ, CUPS, and MongoDB along the way.
> 
> As I said, I have been running FreeBSD with the nosh system and service 
> management for some time.  And the service bundles, that I already have, 
> have for some time been enough to fully bootstrap and run my machine.  
> But I haven't yet finished that list of 157 rc.d scripts that I 
> mentioned back in the announcement of nosh version 1.9.  There are just 
> over 80 left:
> 
> abi, adjkerntz, archdep, atm1, atm2, atm3, bluetooth, bridge, cleanvar, 
> cleartmp, ddb, defaultroute, devfs, dhclient, dumpon, faith, gbde, geli, 
> geli2, gptboot, initrandom, ip6addrctl, ipfilter, ipfs, ipfw, ipmon, 
> ipnat, ipsec, jail, kld, kldxref, local, local_unbound, localpkg, 
> mdconfig, mdconfig2, motd, mountcritlocal, mountcritremote, mountd, 
> natd, netif, netoptions, netwait, nfsclient, nfsd, nsswitch, ntpdate, 
> pflog, pfsync, postrandom, power_profile, ppp, random, rctl, resolv, 
> rfcomm_pppd_server, root, routing, rtadvd, savecore, sendmail, serial, 
> sppp, static_arp, static_ndp, stf, syscons, tmp, ubthidhci, ugidfw, var, 
> virecover, zvol, fusefs, gdm, hald, netatalk, ossec-hids, pcbsdinit, 
> pefs, wardenrc, webcamd
> 
> These fall into seven main categories:
>    * Things which I don't have in use anywhere and so have difficulty in 
> testing: ZFS, pf, faith, ATM, AppleTalk, and GELI.
>    * I haven't encountered a machine with diskless bootstrap since 
> 1990.  So things like root, var, and tmp are fairly tricky to test, too.
>    * Things which have astoundingly complex ways for saying enable="YES" 
> flags="wibble".  These are going to need some heavyweight conversion 
> procedures.
>    * Things which never really belonged in /etc/rc.d as part of a 
> start-stop model at all.  power_profile and serial are prime examples.
>    * Things which probably should be done a different way, such as 
> pcbsdinit, cleartmp, and cleanvar.
>    * Things which definitely should be done a different way under nosh 
> service management, such as mountcritlocal, kld, abi, ibcs2, and syscons.
>    * Things which even the BSD world is saying goodbye to, such as 
> sendmail (now gone entirely from OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD).

It sound very useful. Do you provide virtual machine images or ISOs so
interested people can give it a try easily?
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