Announcing bsdconfig(8) preliminary

[Devin Teske]

On Feb 11, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

> 
> On Feb 11, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
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>> 
>> On Feb 10, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Ron McDowell wrote:
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>>> On 2/10/12 8:35 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>>>> On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Ron McDowell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/10/12 7:20 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: owner-freebsd-sysinstall at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>>>>>> sysinstall at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ron McDowell
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:37 AM
>>>>>>> To: freebsd-sysinstall at freebsd.org
>>>>>>> Subject: Announcing bsdconfig(8) preliminary
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://fuzzwad.org/bsdconfig/ is a long way from finished, but there is
>>>>>>> enough of a framework available now, that I'm wanting some feedback on.
>>>>>>> Tarballs are out there and I'll guarantee you'll want to look at the
>>>>>>> latest, and not the earlier examples.  The manpage in the tarball is a
>>>>>>> good place to start.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Feel free to talk about it here and ask any questions you want.  The
>>>>>>> direction I go with it will depend [I hope!] on where everyone wants it
>>>>>>> to go.  Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Ron,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you very much for working on this with everyone.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I notice that you've centralized the use of "notimplemented" to
>>>>>> /usr/libexec/bsdconfig/notimplemented which makes the per-module files
>>>>>> /usr/libexec/bsdconfig/*.*/notimplemented obsolete.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I thinking I should clean things up after installation by executing:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 	cd /usr/libexec/bsdconfig
>>>>>> 	sudo rm -f *.*/notimplemented
>>>>> Absolutely, thanks for pointing that out.  I just cleaned it up on my copy.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Again, thanks for working on this, ... would you mind if I took it and worked on
>>>>>> it this weekend and passed it back to you for review?
>>>>> Go for it!
>>>>> 
>>>> How do you feel about implementing "090.time-zone" with my ports addition, sysutils/tzdialog?
>>> 
>>> tzsetup(8) is already installed in base...I haven't looked at tzdialog, does it do more than tzsetup? If so, then tzdialog needs to be included here like we've done with host-setup in 120.networking.
>>> 
>>>> Aside, I have a question about the INDEX file...
>>>> 
>>>> Does the exit status of the program-to-be-executed matter in any way to bsdconfig?
>>> 
>>> Not yet, but it could and probably should...if nothing else, we should at least pass the exit code back up the line.
>>> 
>>>> Reason I ask is because tzdialog has a "-e" flag which may be useful if-desired, causing the exit status to be success if-and-only-if both a zonefile is selected and it was installed without error.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Ron McDowell
>>> San Antonio TX
>> 
>> I've put a significant amount of work into this over the last 24 hours and would like to share my contributions.
>> 
>> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/bsdconfig/
>> 
>> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/bsdconfig/bsdconfig.120211.txz
>> 
>> Please try:
>> 
>> bsdconfig networking
>> bsdconfig timezone
>> bsdconfig networking -h
>> bsdconfig timezone -h
>> bsdconfig networking -X
>> bsdconfig timezone -X
>> 
> 
> Here's a little trick for testing the X11 interfaces from a Mac or PC (running Windows) using X11 Forwarding over SSH to a FreeBSD 9 box as a non-root user with sudo(8) access.
> 

[snip]

> 
> Step 3: Grant "root" the ability to use your X11 session
> 
> The default settings in FreeBSD 9 don't allow you to do things like:
> 
> 	sudo xdpyinfo
> 
> The failure becomes:
> 
> 	X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> 	xdpyinfo:  unable to open display "localhost:10.0".
>  
> The solution is to execute:
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> 	xauth -f ~/.Xauthority extract - ${HOSTNAME:-localhost}{/unix,}:${DISPLAY#*:} | sudo -u root xauth -ivf ~root/.Xauthority merge -
> 

for csh/tcsh users:

	xauth -f ~/.Xauthority extract - $HOST{/unix,}:`/bin/sh -c 'echo ${DISPLAY#*:}'` | sudo -u root xauth -ivf ~root/.Xauthority merge -


> NOTE: If you want to authorize another user other than root, replace "sudo -u root" with "sudo -u USER" and replace "~root/.Xauthority" with "~USER/.Xauthority".
> 

-- 
Devin

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