Well, it's a choice... YaST offers the possibility to configure most of the system through one single file (/etc/rc.config), which you can edit manually or through YaST itself... It's more complicated for YaST to deal with manual customizations, because: how should it react ? Should YaST consider it like a manual customization or like an error, like a misconfiguration ? And the day you want YaST to correct something you changed yourself but didn't work out ? Yes, maybe with parameters to the SuSEconfig script (that's the script that "applies" all the settings you make in /etc/rc.config in the effective configuration files: /etc/resolv.conf, ... and it is automatically launched by YaST after you change some parameters)... might be a clue for the S.u.S.E. developpers... Anyway, in some cases, SuSEconfig doesn't apply the changes if it sees that you changed the file "by hand", but saves the file it should have written as ... e.g.: /etc/resolv.conf.SuSEconfig P.S.: why you people always reboot your machines ?? The only case in which you have to reboot is when you wan't to change the kernel you're using... Use "init" !! e.g.: shutdown all network daemons and all network interfaces, and them fire'm up again (for example, if you changed your IP address) : root# init 1; init 2 (do not enter "root#" ;-) it's a prompt) This takes about 5-10 seconds... Pascal < yep, I'm the beer guy ;-) > -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Harris To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: jeudi 26 mars 1998 17:16 Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] YaST is being very annoying!

Dear SuSE'ers, This is more of a gripe that needs a solution, When configuring my modem settings for a ppp connection rather than having to boot up YaST to set the com port for my modem I decided to change the symbolic link that goes between /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS? ...When I then re-booted my machine I found that the config files had changed it back again! ;-( I then had to go into YaST and change it in there to keep this setting permanent. Why has the SuSE distribution been developed this way...Why don't they let the system boot up without these horrible way of changing bits and pieces?

Please could someone give me some enlightenment on this subject...And if there is a way to fix this annoying problem could someone give me some advise on rectifiing this...

Dan. Java Applets UK <A HREF="http://java.applets.co.uk"><A HREF="http://java.applets.co.uk</A">http://java.applets.co.uk

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