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

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:20:08PM +0000, Simon Edwards wrote:
> > 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.

Mmm, I have bad news, I don't have that command on my system and it
doesn't seem to even be in Debian:

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl

> > 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). 

Not in mine. Trying to run it shows a dialog with the text:

"Unsupported Linux distribution. Please contact the author for more info
on how to help to get your distro supported."

But looking at the source it seems to be in the way to fully supporting
Debian (maybe the next version, as the README says). This program is
(or promise to be shortly) really nice, sad that the backend seems to be
written in Perl :).


> I imagine that you will want kalternatives turned into a KControl module too.

Yes.

> 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.
 
Send also some screenshots for those poor souls that can't run PyKDE yet.

Cheers,
        Juanjo