I thought you guy's banter was rather amusing. You need a good sense of humor in this business!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Talkington Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linuxconf Substitute? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ABrady wrote: >> Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf? >> This isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system. > >Commandline. Linuxconf is available in 7.1. But, it's still dangerous to >some config files and permissions get changed sometimes. I thought it >was over that in 7.1 and after. Then someone else stated problems they >were having, and later it happened to me again. Indeed. The point we, the smartasses, were making is that Linuxconf is a good idea that just happens to be a bad idea. With all due respect to its author, who undertook an incredibly ambitious task, it's just too flaky in practice. Further -- and though I freely admit that this is a philosophical matter and not a technical one, I know that many here share the sentiment -- tools like Linuxconf teach you little or nothing about the system, and that's not helpful to you in the long run. I hasten to add that one genuinely good use for front ends like that is to watch what they do to the actual configuration files, and learn from it. (Learning to configure fetchmail is a whole lot easier when you see how fetchmailconf builds a .fetchmailrc, for instance.) I just don't think Linuxconf is the best tool for that. So may we counter your question with one of our own: with what configuration, specifically, would you like assistance? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPEYv1b9BpdPKTBGtEQLTBQCgtHkJNha1oOMLD9ikfSYNmLUCimoAoJYH O8khWbPmnykG7UVOErLIsjvj =f9ZL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
