Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3221 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Thursday 29 November 2007 14:39:51 Pete Connolly ste napísal:
> On Thursday 29 November 2007 12:56:34 jdd wrote:
> > Thomas Goettlicher wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I have read all your emails now.
> > > Many thanks for the valuable discussion and the huge amount of good
> > > ideas. I have added them to the wikipage:
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center
> > >
> > > Please feel free to add ideas, rearrange the sections or to draw
> > > mockups.
> >
> > really good work, thanks.
> >
> > I want to insist on one aspect : openSUSE (as probably any large scope
> > Linux distribution) needs to be educational (help making people wiser).
>
> <snip>
>
> A customer asked me previously if it was possible to see the actual
> commands that the control center was doing, e.g. when modifying volumes or
> creating a new VM setup for Xen, log the commands that are being performed
> in the background (when relevant) and optionally display these to the use
> if requested.  It wouldn't be a huge change, I think, and would improve the
> user's knowledge of system administration.

It is a huge change, as there is quite a number of commands and you are 
interested in only some of them. Plus other challenges, like change of the 
configuration files should be logged too.

All the information is available in y2log, but it's almost impossible to 
figure out the details from there.

Stano
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