I agree with you. Sudhir, from the Delhi list, had proposed cutting a CD of all the mail archives. I suggested a few things in addition to including mail archives from all the Linux India chapters. I am sure other will be able to add to this.
1. Additional mailing archives from other sources, besides ilugd. 2. Latest updates, security patches 3. General useful software/utilities. 4. A categorized list of software for various purposes, with links of where to get them. 5. Experiences with Linux in general of other members of the group. Things like a peculiar situation a person might have faced and how it was solved. These could be small HOWTO's with step by step instructions to do things. Rashik -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of USM Bish Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIH] Linuxconf substitute [was [LIH]: dns problem] There is still a major issue here which remains unresolved. All newbies need to be given a jumpstart ... unlike Win from where most people migrate from, Linux definitely has a fair amount of "sysadmining" effort, even for a single user box. To suggest to people the "proper" way of doing such things the need for requisite info in a consise form needs to be available in some form somewhere ... for newcomers to be pointed to. Many of us on the list have been doing things manually. Some a bit better off because they have also tasted Linuxconf ( surely having learnt from that experience). I have just about "seen" linuxconf. I had RH-5.2 installed for a short while in 1999, and went back to Slack and deb. What put me off with Linuxconf was the amount of things it meddled with, which Slack guys would hate. I promptly did a rpm -e (IIRC) on it ... and went on with my Slack admin habits in RH !! However, what I forget were the things it dealt with in a chro- nological order. Surely, as a group we can chip in our bits and have the info at one place provided, the full Linuxconf menus are known. There has never been Linuxconf on Slack, and I just cant recollect the whole list which I probably saw a few times only two years ago. If there is sufficient response, why don't we put our own bits together and make a viable substitute ? We need: a) List of all things done by Linuxconf b) For most things short docs. A few, like the one below can be covered in LOST snippets itself. c) Few things like sendmail, ppp or wvdial may need scripts ... which may be available with many of us, or we can write such things de novo ... d) A page to put them all up (least of the bothers) Though I don't know Linuxconf itself, but surely can contribute in several areas ... Are there more voices for the cause ... as an LIH venture ? Bish On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:33:11PM +0530, Rashik Kathuria wrote: > Here I agree with you. But like I wrote earlier, lexicon has > evolved and is better now. BUT as I said earlier the BEST is > change things by hand or scripts you have written yourself > and can trust. > > +++ Rashik Kathuria [linux-india] <18/10/01 18:15 +0530>: > > Out of interest I would like to know as to what security > > hazards can linuxconf cause. > > Open relay in sendmail, for starters > Then again it is noted for screwing up any modifications you > make by hand to any config file ... > > I've had enough bad experiences with linuxconf - configured > sendmail boxes being broken into to spam my users that I'm a > bit allergic to it :) > -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Sysadmin utils (hostname) LOST #106 To change the host name of your machine, as root edit the file /etc/hostname. Alternatively, use the 'hostname' program. "man hostname" for details ... ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
