-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 11:23, Ian Bruseker wrote: > A random question, just because I'm curious what others think on the > subject: When setting up a Linux server, do you install X? Do you think > it's nice to work in a graphical environment when maintaining the server, > or do you think it's a waste of resources? Just wondering what the group
most distros' system tools work equally well in ncurses/console as they do in X, so assuming you are using a good distro you don't lose access to the nice admin tools just because you don't have a GUI. which leaves things like commands their tools don't cover and doing things like editting files. for editting files, if you prefer a GUI env for that, use fish (file system over ssh). both KDE and MC support this mode of operation. for commands your distro's admin tools don't cover that you wish they did, if you usually install third part X-based apps then you're probably SOL. time to learn the CLI or install X on the server. you don't need to install a full desktop or even any window managers, as you can tunnel individual X apps over SSH. if you want to do GUI monitoring, useful apps like gkrellm and ksysguard support remote monitoring where the box being watched runs a small daemon which delivers data over the network to your local display. hth... - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TFD91rcusafx20MRAvwgAKCRcHsui879T8gKtSK3elj/9bfy7gCZAaha p4fI5TwCygkRrvbvX7AFcoQ= =4J7A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
