sysinstall as a post-install tool

[Ron McDowell]

Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Ron McDowell <rcm at fuzzwad.org> wrote:
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>> I [Ron] just added myself to the sysinstall list.
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> Good
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>> What I envision is a text based system administration suite that will
>> [hopefully] do everything that the "Configure" option on the top level of
>> the sysinstall menu does.  I see it as being part of the base OS, such that
>> once one has rebooted from HD after the install and logged in as root [or
>> user+su], a menu can be brought up by entering "sysadmin" or such.  Does
>> "sysadmin" work for a name?  I kinda like it.
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> Do you plan on this tool being run "late in the game" after the system
> has been used for a while or this is a "welcome new user" only tool?
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I want it to be both.  Similar in concept to scoadmin on SCO, sysadm on 
SVR4, smit on AIX if you're familiar with any of them.

>> I plan on basically going through the sysinstall post-configuration menu:
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> [snip configure menu]
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[apologies for the way that menu came out..."worked fine on my email!" :) ]

> Do you plan on making this a C based program or a shell script?
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/bin/sh and hopefully use the dialog library like sysinstall, if it can 
be made to do what needs doing.

>> and as close as reasonable, stick to the same task flow.  I plan on writing
>> it against 10-current and look at back-porting to 9 after it's somewhat
>> stable.
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> I'd like to work with you on this, especially w.r.t to ensuring that
> it meets the requirements for entering the base system.
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Great!  Give me a few days to get the box up and poke around with the 
dialog stuff, and I'll ping you then.

>> One new, important, and not-so-difficult task will be: on exiting, check the
>> sanity of /etc/rc.conf and complain if needed, but allow the user to
>> override the safety-switch if foot-shooting is really requested.  :)  I'm a
>> firm believer of not disallowing anything.
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> Good on both counts.
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Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX