Admin tools [was: Don't implement config functionality]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:13 am, Juanjo Alvarez wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:59:25PM +0000, Simon Edwards wrote:
> > I also have a daemon/system service util that works 
> > well on Mandrake and needs to be ported to Debian. (It looks easy enough 
> > judging from Knoppix).
> 
> It's almost the same (SysV init), the only thing that you have to
> consider (from the screenshots in your page) is than in Debian there is
> not "5=graphical boot, 2=non-graphical boot"  and the default runlevel
> (graphical or not) is 2. To see if you are in Debian within your code
> you can check for the file /etc/debian_version.

serviceconfig.py uses 'chkconfig' to turn services on/off. I have a feeling 
that it is part of the Linux Standard Base spec.

> I'll try to help you porting it to Debian as soon as I have a working
> PyKDE installation (for some library problems it doesn't work on Sid
> now).

cool,

> I'll start shortly (read: next week) to write a Python/Qt/KDE network
> device configuration tool using ifupdown (the Debian standart) and

Before you go too far have a good look at http://knetworkconf.sourceforge.net/ 
first. Perhaps it is already good enough. (It already runs on Debian). The 
author has plans to turn it into a kcontrol module, but I don't know what 
kind of timetable we could expect (like always ;-) )

I imagine that you will want kalternatives turned into a KControl module too. 
Right now I'm busy making the changes to get serviceconfig.py and friends 
running happily in kcontrol. Once that is kind of working ok I'll put a 
tarball up on the web.

cheers,

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