Comments on: The future of iPhone management? :)

By: Luke Kanies

Luke Kanies — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:33 +0000

Just for the record, I’d totally accept that patch to Facter. :)

By: nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:08:40 +0000

yep, that’s jail-broken, which is such an incredibly easy process now with apps like Pwnage to do it all for you.

No official terminal/ruby/puppet installations on the iPhone yet. :)

By: Jesse Reynolds

Jesse Reynolds — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:14:34 +0000

That is fantastic. What a wonderful world.

Question, how does one get a shell in ones iphone like that? Have you hacked it? Or is it something that comes with the iphone SDK? Or am I just dumb?

Thanks

By: nigel kersten

nigel kersten — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:07:33 +0000

There’s very little to release at the moment. It generally just works out of the box once you have all the Ruby runtime/OpenSSL etc installed.

The main problem is facter assumes that all versions of OS X have ‘system_profiler’ available, which the phone doesn’t. I’m trying a few options here, but I’m not sure it’s worth patching facter upstream just to account for crazy hacks on the iPhone :)

By: Chris Adams

Chris Adams — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:53:29 +0000

You realize I’m going to cite you in defense the next time someone accuses me of a crazy hack?

So, uh, are you planning to actually release this?

By: Clay

Clay — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:11:07 +0000

This way lies madness.