Ortwin Ebhardt wrote:
Well, as for YaST I think there are some reasons why someone wants to avoid it; if I want to change something quick, I usually don't start YaST as I am to impatient to wait for it to complete. (insserv mostly does the job and is much quicker.) Another reason could be another Distro - this stuff isn't exactly SuSE-specific. The last possibility comming to my mind would be acces from a text-terminal with extremly spartanic encoding, so YaST would simply be unusable. (As strange as this might sound, we have a customer with such a terminal to access his servers. Most of his boxes are AIX, but some are SuSE Linux, and if we don't want to run several corridors to the server-room we simply use this terminal.) So, I think the possibility of a SuSE-Box with seldom used YaST is not as far-fetched as it seems to be.
Good point - I hadn't thought about the poor blokes who don't have the comfort of a linux desktop from which to perform their system administration tasks. Personally, I most often use the chkconfig command for enabling services, but I do occasionally like to fire up the full yast GUI for hosts on the local lan, and I do use the terminal based yast for remote servers. All 3 approaches have their place. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org