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Re: [opensuse-factory] Command disclosure
- From: Ladislav Slezak <lslezak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:38:12 +0200
- Message-id: <465C0294.1000401@xxxxxxx>
Hello,
Donn Washburn wrote:
> Hey Group;
>
> As a person that like to know what the system program is doing to carry out a
> command in the back ground. I suggest, if Yast/Yast2 could have a field on
> the face of Yast/Yast2 (a blank charcacter line) that is filled with the
> under lying command and arguments that it is executing. That would be very
> informative to Linux GUI operators/end users.
In some situations it might be good to know the current command, but I think
that it would be very strange for beginner users to see some strange commands...
And sometimes it's not possible to show performed actions - for example library
calls...
If you want to know what yast is doing look at the log (/var/log/YaST2/y2log).
> This came to me today thinking about how yast checks the integrity of a CD
> for pass/fail. I guess it read the checksum and does something with it. The
> "something" is the question. Is it a "mount", "cdrecord", "wodim" or other
> process?
In this case the yast module is just a GUI for "checkmedia" binary. You can
check a physical medium or an ISO image - e.g. "checkmedia /dev/sdb" or
"checkmedia img.iso"
Each medium contains checksum in the ISO9660 application area. The checksum is
added by "tagmedia" (see checkmedia package).
> Yast normally works well and is a very powerful value added package.
That's nice to hear...
--
Best Regards
Ladislav Slezák
Yast Developer
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Donn Washburn wrote:
> Hey Group;
>
> As a person that like to know what the system program is doing to carry out a
> command in the back ground. I suggest, if Yast/Yast2 could have a field on
> the face of Yast/Yast2 (a blank charcacter line) that is filled with the
> under lying command and arguments that it is executing. That would be very
> informative to Linux GUI operators/end users.
In some situations it might be good to know the current command, but I think
that it would be very strange for beginner users to see some strange commands...
And sometimes it's not possible to show performed actions - for example library
calls...
If you want to know what yast is doing look at the log (/var/log/YaST2/y2log).
> This came to me today thinking about how yast checks the integrity of a CD
> for pass/fail. I guess it read the checksum and does something with it. The
> "something" is the question. Is it a "mount", "cdrecord", "wodim" or other
> process?
In this case the yast module is just a GUI for "checkmedia" binary. You can
check a physical medium or an ISO image - e.g. "checkmedia /dev/sdb" or
"checkmedia img.iso"
Each medium contains checksum in the ISO9660 application area. The checksum is
added by "tagmedia" (see checkmedia package).
> Yast normally works well and is a very powerful value added package.
That's nice to hear...
--
Best Regards
Ladislav Slezák
Yast Developer
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SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: lslezak@xxxxxxx
Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960
190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951
Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/
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