System-config Reworking Proposal

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 10:33 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 7:49 AM, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
> > For my tools (-date, -nfs, -samba, -services, -users), just being able
> > to edit files is also not sufficient. Often these tools don't edit files
> > themselves but use e.g. chkconfig or libuser, partly it isn't even known
> > whether local files are changed or some objects in an LDAP directory.
> 
> Well I was considering that the doCommand, doCommandWait to take care
> of that. Am I underestimating that need?

That would work for chkconfig, but not libuser. I won't resort to
calling luser{add,mod,del} ;-).

Nils
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