On December 21, 2009 03:08:56 pm James D. Parra wrote:
In the present case, the suggestion to use YAST was spot on and the exact advice needed.
The OP (You) was wandering around in text mode peeking and poking at scripts and not making any progress.
No, I wasn't wandering around in text mode - I was looking at advice that told me about doing things in text mode and I wanted a more opensuse way.
This indicated that the OP TOTALLY missed the fact that this functionality is bundled up into Yast in a very workable way.
Exactly correct. John pointed this out, gave two urls of useful information that was just what I needed and I responded and thanked him for it.
That the OP (you) knew enough about Linux to poke around in scripts suggests that if merely pointed in the right direction (yast) there would be every likelihood that the problem would be easily handled by Yast, and the OP had simply missed this option.
If all I had to go on was the second poster's reply, it would have been pretty unclear to a newbie what the heck he meant.
Further questions could certainly be asked if Yast was unclear, but to avoid insulting the intelligence of the OP, its pretty common and decent thing to do to just give the name of the tool, and assume if more help is needed a more focused question could be asked after looking down the path suggested.
That's why I suggested that more than one word answers would be more useful. I wasn't intending to provoke criticism, just that it would be more helpful if our answers weren't so cryptic - not to us, but to others. I've been around suse since 9.1 but never had any idea I could share printers through yast, and the several hours I spent googling earlier gave me only reams on ways to configure non-existent (on my system) files. Bob -- bob@rsmits.ca 8) Use common sense in routing cable. Avoid wrapping coax around sources of strong electric or magnetic fields. Do not wrap the cable around flourescent light ballasts or cyclotrons, for example. -- Ethernet Headstart Product, Information and Installation Guide, Bell Technologies, pg. 11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org