Hello, I just downloaded Linuxconf for the first time and installed it. Here are my comments: I downloaded wxxt166d.tgz and linuxconf-1.12r7-1.src.rpm. - I was missing docs on the WWW site. Now I know that there is no need for any, but you should have a current copy of all help pages on your site plus a short step-by-step installation guide. During installation, I had a lot of trouble to guess which files of wxxt must be copied to which place to compile linuxconfig with rpm -ba. - When I rebooted the first time, I noticed that linuxconf erases the whole screen when it starts. I would like it much better if linuxconf would just append to the current contents. - Is there a module to configure xntp/NTP ? - While it is nice when Linuxconf complains about errors/problems during boot, it irritates the normal users. Is there a way that linuxconf just sends a mail to root instead of asking *any* questions ? - It would be better if there was a way to specify a user/password pair for the HTML interface. Or do you encrypt the password before the browser sends it over the network (is that possible at all ?). - I would like to have templates. A template is a config file which contains most (maybe all) settings for linuxconf. I can then edit this template and linuxconf just remembers what I did change. Basically, it's creating a patch for /etc/conf.linuxconf which is applied when linuxconf starts. It would be great if I could keep both (the template and the patch) on a main site and linuxconf would update them when the network is working (plus applying the changes if the patch on the server has been modified). At best, it should be possible to index the patches by a key, eg. the MAC address of the first network card. Then I could install the system from scratch and linuxconf could configure it automatically (eg. I could save an IP address in the template for just this event. linuxconf would have no patch handy, so it would use this address. It could connect to the server, identify the correct patch via the MAC address and download and apply the patch). - There should be a way to produce "views", ie. create a custom dialog which shows specific fields of different modules. This is especially useful when you have a template, then you only need to change a few fields and maybe some of them can be generated from other infos. For example, we create the machine name from the IP address). - linuxconf always reports a problem with DNS despite the fact that our DNS is ok (well, it seems to be). How can I debug this ? First, I thought this was because nslookup wasn't installed. But when I installed it, all that changed was that linuxconf doesn't complain *every time*. Now it just complains less often :-) - You should supply a patch for wxxt which allows to "make install" :-) - I'm missing an RPM module. It should allow me to install and remove packets plus it should allow to specify an update path (eg. on a main server). linuxconf should then check the packets on this main server and update local packets automatically (saving local modified files via rpm -V in /var/adm/backup plus running a local setup script if one is on the server which could configure the package as necessary). - I'm missing a module for the RC5/Bovine client :-) -- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla Assistent im BIKS Labor, FB WI "(to) optimize: Make a program faster by FH Konstanz, Brauneggerstr. 55 improving the algorithms rather than by Tel:+49-7531-206-514 buying a faster machine." EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
