One of the faculty I have to support here is using Caldera's OpenLinux. Although Debian is still my favorite, I am pleased with some of the easy configuration features of OpenLinux.
For those of you who are unaware, OpenLinux has a directory under /etc called, I believe, sysconfig. In there are bunches of scripts that are employed by the rc scripts in rc?.d and init.d. For example, I believe the NFS one is located at /etc/sysconfig/network/nfs and its contents might look something like: run_on_boot=y run_as=root Probably a few others. I forget. The nice thing here is how easy it is to turn something on or off. With Debian, to turn something off I usually go into /etc/init.d and rename netstd_nfs to netstd_nfs.off. Kinda ugly. What I find exciting is the potential to have a dselect-like utility to manage the system configuration. If those little configration files contained some verbage about what the package does, like: descrip=Network File System. Allows you to share directories, etc. then you have the makings of a quick little utility that would let you turn options on and off in a menued utility. Again... has this already been discussed and thrown out? I'd be willing to write the config utility if I could get some sort of buy-in that it would actually be embraced by the package maintainers if the utility didn't suck. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .