[linuxconf] re: RedHat's recent notification

[Jason Corekin]

Oh I don't know.  I had the last version ( yeah it's not dead, it's even
still being updated regularly) up and running on Redhat 9 and it was
pretty helpful.  At least it tends to let me have access to a lot more
(if not all) of the options for the various different services it can
help you setup.  Particularly when you don't know all of the details
needed to setup the services that you are trying to use, some hand
holding from a gui is nice, as long as it can get out of the way when
you need it to.  This is something that Linuxconf has been as good if
not better at then any other gui (short of SWAT) I have come across,
particularly for one that can be access via TUI, GUI, or Web.  Besides
you always have the option of not using/ disabling certain modules if
you don't want them.

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 19:43, Chris Kloiber wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 04:35, Jason Corekin wrote:
> > Great I look forward to getting linuxconf up and running on Fedora?  By the
> > way does anyone know if there are any configuration changes that linuxconf
> > needs to take into account to work properly on Fedora and if so has this
> > already been done?
> 
> Linuxconf? 
> 
> </me shudders>
> 
> That died a slow, horrible death back in the 7.x days because it was
> unmaintainable, IIRC. I know it had a *nasty* habit of messing with
> config files that you hand edited, and rewrote some config files when
> you weren't expecting it to (IE: Try to edit a user and linuxconf hosed
> both sendmail and apache as an added "bonus").
> 
> You really want that particular monster to rise from the grave? I will
> give linuxconf some credit, without it I never would have learned how to
> hand edit config files.
> 
> To be fair, I continue to shun the current crop of gui-tools as much as
> possible to this day. Many of the current gui tools keep their real
> configuration files in *other* locations, often as (compressed) .xml
> files, and overwrite any hand-edited-in options they don't understand,
> even perfectly valid ones.
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