will there be a tui user config

Brent Fox bfox at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 20:12:49 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:01, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:30, Vanco, Don wrote:
> >  The issue is that I get used to
> > the GUI stuff (read: crutch - I'll admit it) and, well, forget bits and
> > pieces of the command line stuff at times. 
> 
> This just made me think of something.  I don't know how many of you are
> familiar with AIX, but it has a very nice sysadmin tool called "SMIT"
> which is kinda-sorta like the redhat-config-* applications.  One thing I
> always liked about SMIT was that if you needed it (or were just
> curious), you could ask it to display the equivalent command-line for
> whatever you'd just done through the GUI.  
> 
> If I were to RFE this in Bugzilla, do you think it'd have a chance of
> ever being implemented in redhat-config-* ?  I think it'd be especially
> helpful for budding sysadmins.

Hmm...I don't know.  It's not the sort of thing I'd like to expose
non-sysadmin users to, but I can understand how it would be useful as a
teaching tool.  How did SMIT expose this option in the user interface?


Cheers,
   Brent





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