Curiosity about SUSE

[Matthew Carpenter]

The simple one is turning on services.
chkconfig seems to be standard across SuSE and RedHat both, and allows
somewhat granular control over which runlevels a service starts in.

Of course actually STARTING the services is still /etc/init.d/service start
or rcservice start

As for Founts to X and entries in /etc/services, I've never attempted to use
Yast for those things, but prefer to add them manually or with scripts.  The
only things I want Yast2 to do are things which I either don't know well, or
are fast-moving (like the number of places Yast2 changes the name of the
system), or Desktop related.

But yes, Yast2 still remains in need of work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Oberholtzer" <roger at opq.se>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: Curiosity about SUSE


> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:48:12 -0500
> Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
>
> >  And Yast2 has both CLI and X-GUI and is fairly easy to use.
>
> Do you mean the ncurses YaST? That is still a GUI. I would really like a
> YaST that I can give options to on the command line from my software
> installation scripts. No interactive menu at all. Do you mean there is
> something like that?
>
> Currently we change the files and then call the suseconfig script to have
> the change take effect. But this is a less than obvious approach and one
> that will surely change from release to release.
>
> I am talking about things like turning on a network service like dhcp and
> adding entries to dhcp's config. Or adding entries to /etc/services. Or
> adding fonts to X. It remains a moving target. We sort it out for each
> release, but then it changes. It is also the part that makes installation
> across distros very difficult. Same old story...
>
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