-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On August 27, 2003 12:34 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > 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. > Ah, and now we get to my reason for asking the question. I noticed that RedHat now includes quite a number of redhat-config-* tools for admin stuff like configuring Apache, adding users, etc. But when I tried to run one in the terminal, it complained about the lack of an X display. From my limited experience with SuSE, I'm pretty sure YaST works in either X mode or curses mode. Could this be what you mean by a "good distro"? ;-) I was curious what the group thought, since it seems clear that RedHat is steering people towards X. Maybe they're just working on the assumption that those who would use those tools come from a Windows world and are used to the hand-holding.
For the record, vi is my administration tool for everything. :-) One of the things I like about Linux compared to Windows in a server environment is that I have the choice of not wasting resources on a graphical interface I'll rarely if ever see. I ssh around a lot. But I have the potential to be lazy on occasion, so I was wondering about other tools for administration, which is what led me to the redhat-config tools, which in turn led me to ask the question. > fish (file system over ssh) I wondered why "fish" was chosen as a name for that. Now I see it. :-) Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TMaYSiY+RXI7JS4RAi0FAKCHY4HsR83uJ2dVDuHtxoQ90LuwcwCeMOye Jf0h7ey4MHXvQxxiBJGyZ5U= =8UeS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
