GUI for /etc directory?
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From: Mark Hobley on 8 Feb 2010 13:08 Manuel Rodriguez <aa5(a)gmx.net> wrote: > Oh, little misunderstanding. I also can edit the /etc files with nano > or vi. But i think it would be easier to have a graphical frontend. > Like the ubuntu "networkmanager" for /etc/network/interfaces. Or the > ubuntu grub editor, which edits grub.conf. There is a tool called linuxconf, which provides a graphical configuration control panel. It is extensible via modules, so you should be able to extend this to cover additional settings as you require by writing additional modules. Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 8 Feb 2010 17:46
On Feb 8, 1:08 pm, markhob...(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark Hobley) wrote: > Manuel Rodriguez <a...(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > Oh, little misunderstanding. I also can edit the /etc files with nano > > or vi. But i think it would be easier to have a graphical frontend. > > Like the ubuntu "networkmanager" for /etc/network/interfaces. Or the > > ubuntu grub editor, which edits grub.conf. > > There is a tool called linuxconf, which provides a graphical configuration > control panel. It is extensible via modules, so you should be able to extend > this to cover additional settings as you require by writing additional modules. > > Mark. Linuxconf hasn't had an update in 5 years. The tools available for particular Linux distributions vary widely, and are often specific to specific features: "yumex" for yum software updates on RHEL, "system- config-network" for network setups on RHEL, "YaST" for all sorts of configurations on SuSE, "lilac" on various Fedora and Debian based platforms for Nagios, etc. Frankly, I prefer Webmin wherever feasible: it's a better interface and more robust, by far, than many of the other GUI's. But its completeness relies on people writing good components to manage parts of /etc/, and creating *those* is often not part of the author's plans. CUPS, for example, is just nasty to configure graphically due to missing access to core components, such as the text->Postscript page size settings. |