[opensuse-factory] Command disclosure
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. 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? Yast normally works well and is a very powerful value added package. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb@hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# : 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: lslezak@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-05-29 at 12:38 +0200, Ladislav Slezak wrote:
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).
Only for "SUSE installation media", AFAIK. Neither tagmedia nor checkmedia have man or info pages. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGXLR+tTMYHG2NR9URArprAJ9zDQufukyeTNPyjY2Ms7njQZgb+gCfUmLq nhgziNH58DKkjX8dItZKjGI= =upBk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
would someone help me figure out why yast2 add-on cd:/// does not work? the command returns "there is no interface for that module available" man yast2 says that yast2 add-on longhelp should give me more info, but it starts the gui "add-on" module looking for /longhelp media -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Novell CNE 3\4\5 CLE \ NCE in training. http://en.opensuse.org/education --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 02:01, James Tremblay wrote:
would someone help me figure out why yast2 add-on cd:/// does not work? the command returns "there is no interface for that module available"
man yast2 says that yast2 add-on longhelp should give me more info, but it starts the gui "add-on" module looking for /longhelp media
It looks like this module doesn't have command line interface - you may enter a bug into bugzilla.novell.com to ask for one... Jiri -- Jiri Suchomel SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsuchome@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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