On Nov 19, 2007 7:07 AM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 01:18 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have expressed my ideas[1] to add and rework some of the
> functionality of the system-config tools with the hope of making them
> a bit more innovative and useful.
>
> Please comment on the idea.
> Rework (not a total rewrite) system-config tools use a common virtual console which
abstracts away local and remote console usage. Anticipated benefits:
>
> * transparently handle local or remote console (via ssh)
> o allow configuration of remote services
this is possible now:
ssh -X my.server system-config-httpd
One question: I know about this method, but have never tried it myself
- doesn't it require an xserver on the host?
One comment: The crowd that really love the system-config tools would
like prefer not to be doing x forwarding via SSH
> o possible allow for OS independent usage (example:
system-config-httpd could be used from Windows XP)
You can do the very same thing from Windows XP.
I was thinking more in terms of the user just running system-config-*
on Fedora|Windows|* and just enter in a host and passkey|user+pass and
make changes to the target system
> o allow for those who prefer not to run server tools
with a X server installed to make use of the system-config tools
None of the system-config-* tools depends on X server except for
system-config-display.
True, but you do generally need a GUI to make use of the GUI system-config tools
> * allows for centrally logging system-config actions (audit
trail)
> * standardize routines/functionality commonly used by system-config tools
These seem to be a good ideas to me.
Regards,
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