On Tuesday 03 April 2001 10:01 pm, you wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Tim. Do you know where I might find some documentation on just what Yast2 and suseconfig are doing
It looks like Chris did a good job of describing what it does for you. I like to think of it sortof as what the Windows Registry always wanted to be when it grew up. It centralizes settings like the registry, but avoids the problems in two ways: 1.) It doesn't have software apps settings - only the system stuff. 2.) The data is centralized for SuSEconfig's use, but is distributed out to the normal config files once SuSEconfig is run, thus even if rc.config gets deleted the system would run fine. SuSEconfig would be even more useful if other distros adopted it. For instance, say Mandrake has Foo version 10.0 while SuSE has version 11.0, and Bar wants to update Foo's config on both systems even though Foo 10 & 11 have different config formats. If it updated the rc.config file rather than the file directly, the updated SuSEconfig on SuSE could correctly update the data for Foo 11 rather than 10. Hypothetically speaking of course... Most of all though, it just makes things simple, and allows you to update settings in several ways, including by a front end (such as YaST or YaST2), or manually (by running SuSEconfig) without the need of each method re-inventing the wheel. Best, Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============