On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:12, Brent Fox wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:01, Ben Steeves wrote:
you could ask it to display the equivalent command-line for whatever you'd just done through the GUI.
Hmm...I don't know. It's not the sort of thing I'd like to expose non-sysadmin users to, but I can understand how it would be useful as a teaching tool. How did SMIT expose this option in the user interface?
I normally used smitty (the TTY version of SMIT), in which it was mapped to a function key. In the graphical version, it was a button labelled "Command". The nearest equivalent keeping in-line with the UI of the redhat-config-* tools would probably be a window tab. Perhaps one that's only visible when running with root privileges, and/or toggled by a setting somewhere.
Mind you, SMIT's implementation wasn't perfect. Since the commands were built programmatically (SMIT is essentially a front end that runs the appropriate commands (or scripts)), they were sometimes less than optimal or needlessly pedantic (putting in parameters for flags that would be assumed as defaults, that sort of thing). Still, it was very reassuring (for a seasoned sysadmin because you knew exactly what was going on, and for a newbie because you could learn).