* Steven T. Hatton (hattons@bellatlantic.net) [020216 01:17]: ->To give just one example of how YaST(2) facilitates management, our office ->sysadmin told me she uses a tool called Nmap. I had been looking at ->NetSaint, Saint, Ksnuffle, and the rather neglected KNetDump. I reasoned ->that if Nmap is worth anything, it is on the SuSE distribution CDs. All I ->had to do was click on the YaST2 software installation icon, browse to the ->nmap (or was it XNmap?) and install it by giving the root password. You can get nmap for SuSE simply by getting it from fresh meat. It has a GTK front end simply named nmapfe...or your sys. admin can do what we other sys. admins do and use the commandline version :) It's free and open source. The Windows version has premade packages or so I'm told..but it requires libs that are not found under Windows and those libs cost money. She maybe quite happy that she can get the whole shibang for nothing..nada..the price of a download :) I use nmap and scanssh on a daily basis because we have over 1500 servers and 3500 Unix workstation across 6 networks and we have to keep on these people to update..update..update. If you could imagine this could be one hell of a DoS cluster *grin*. Go check out freshmeat.net and get the src. If she wanted she could even use a PC X server and display it on her desktop..but since it does everything she would need straight from the commandline..she should be able to just use an SSH client. :) -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC