Re: [aclug-L] Linux Configurator

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linuxconf is indeed quite something.  I had the pleasure of meeting
Mr. Gelinas at Linux Expo this spring.  The system looks very nice.  I 
believe that RedHat has adopted a modified version for usage in 5.1,
although one will want to make sure all patches are applied, because
5.1 as distributed has some bugs.

The theory of the program is that it should be able to parse and
understand all your existing config files and let you manage them from 
a convenient interface.  This is accomplishes well, but there is one
thing that keeps me from using it: linuxconf takes control over the
system bootup (the /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d scripts, depending on the
distro) from the normal scripts and does things itself.  Fine (and
perhaps even idel) for most people, but not me.

This compares very favorably to previous solutions still.  AIX has a
nasty config database.  RedHat pre-5.1 had tools that "sorta" parsed
the existing files, sometimes.  My advice: give it a try, but back up
your /etc directory first in case something goes awry.

John

Nate Bargmann <ka0rny@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi All.
> 
> Looking at Freshmeat http://www.freshmeat.net/ I found an entry for the
> Linux Configurator.  Folks this is quite a project!  Some of you are
> probably well aware of its availability, but for those of us just
> starting out or at an intermediate level this suite should be just
> dandy.  It is touted as being able to configure DNS and Sendmail, among
> a number of other configuration files.  It even runs in the background
> (having been started from /etc/rc.d/rc.S at boot time) and will restart
> deamons after changes have been made.  It features four interfaces,
> commandline, Ncurses, HTML, and an X GUI.
> 
> I'm sure there are still some rough spots, but it's at 1.10r34 right
> now, so it should be somewhat useful.  You can find it at:
> 
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
> 
> I'm going to download it and check it out.
> 
> - Nate >>
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