On 07/16/2009 10:00 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry wrote:
Hello listers,
For a test we have installed a RHEL 5.3. In a SLES we have yast for
several administration tasks. Does a similar application exist on
RedHat?
There are the system-config-* commands for such things, most do require
X11. We've been working on creating TUI interfaces to several of these,
such as system-config-firewall-tui and system-config-network-tui.
Slowly we're making our way through the system-config-* utilities and
creating ncurses front ends, effectively creating a text-based menu for
everything.
We would like to do our administration through SSH and not in a
graphical environment. But so far I couldn't find any reference to tools
that would make administration easier in a text based environment. For
instance, we have rpm on both Suse and RedHat. With yast I get
softwaremanagement in an text based menu. With RedHat I see pirut but
that one requires X.
'yum' is how RPMs are managed in RHEL, i.e 'yum {install|remove} httpd'
All management of RHEL can be done over text mode SSH, I haven't loaded
up a X11 window on a server in years. I do admit if people are new to
Linux getting used to command-line may be difficult, but most
Mainframers don't seem to mind ;)
In terms of getting something YaST-/like/, you may want to check out
'gnome-control-center'. Yes, it does require X11. It pulls in all the
system-config-* commands into a single GUI. We differ from YaST in that
customers can manage configurations directly at the file level, _*or*_
use control-center, without worry of overwriting/overlapping previously
made configuration changes. That is the #1 complaint we hear against YaST.
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