Re: Life after LinuxConf

> On Thu Mar 13 2003 at 15:49, "Keith Mastin" wrote:
>
>> >> Hi Alex,
>
> ohmy, more top-posting <sigh>.  So the logical flow of my reply is
> broken.

Yep... will you ever recover from it?

>> >> > Thanks Keith ... So all has to be made manualy :) No replacement
>> for LinuxConf ???
>
> For the record:  yes, there are replacements for linuxconf, all the
> redhat-* configuration tools (as from at least rh7.2 onwards).
>
> (Go to a bash shell, type "redhat-" and then press tab once or
> twice).

...mmmm... I suppose one has to be running X to get anything out of this?
All I get is -well, I don't get anything. You are *_not_* gonna make me
configure X just to see what neat little thingy redhat has come with now,
are ya?

<snip>
> I honestly don't know why he is wasting his time - it is too much to
> cope with keeping up with the constant changes with each distro
> release, not to mention any changes that may happen with ongoing
> updates.

... apparently he's been getting paid to keep on it... $$ generally is
good grease for these things.

<snip>
> But the general advice was solid:  learn to use the command line
> tools, learn to know your way around the system configuration files, and
> learn how to work with the vendor-supplied configuration tools.
>
> For redhat, /etc/sysconfig/ is a very magical place, and there is a lot
> of useful information to be found in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/*

...sage advice, as always Tony. :)

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