On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 08:56, Ian Bruseker wrote:> > 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.
Some of the redhat-config-* tools will run in the console like the printer-tui app. I think most of them do require X, but for most tasks there should be console commands that have similar functionality. I have X installed on my server, bu I still boot into runlevel 3. There are a couple reasons for this. First of all I can use it as a backup for my workstation. If someone is using my workstation then I can fire up X and surf the web, or log into my workstation over ssh and launch my e-mail app. I also like it for administration. Sure I can do most tasks from the console, but if I can do it in half the time from the gui, then why not? Most of the time I log into the server over ssh, and most of the time I don't use X apps. But with the X libraries installed I don't need to run X to run an X application, I often use up2date or edit users via the gui tools. All we're really talking about here is disk space, and that's pretty cheap these days. Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT
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