System-config Reworking Proposal

[Harald Hoyer]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 7:07 AM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 01:18 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> I have expressed my ideas[1] to add and rework some of the
>>> functionality of the system-config tools with the hope of making them
>>> a bit more innovative and useful.
>>>
>>> Please comment on the idea.
>>> Rework (not a total rewrite) system-config tools use a common virtual console which abstracts away local and remote console usage. Anticipated benefits:
>>>
>>>     * transparently handle local or remote console (via ssh)
>>>           o allow configuration of remote services
>> this is possible now:
>> ssh -X my.server system-config-httpd
> 
> One question: I know about this method, but have never tried it myself
> - doesn't it require an xserver on the host?
> 
> One comment: The crowd that really love the system-config tools would
> like prefer not to be doing x forwarding via SSH
> 
> 
>>>           o possible allow for OS independent usage (example: system-config-httpd could be used from Windows XP)
>> You can do the very same thing from Windows XP.
> 
> I was thinking more in terms of the user just running system-config-*
> on Fedora|Windows|* and just enter in a host and passkey|user+pass and
> make changes to the target system
> 
>>>           o allow for those who prefer not to run server tools with a X server installed to make use of the system-config tools
>> None of the system-config-* tools depends on X server except for
>> system-config-display.
> 
> True, but you do generally need a GUI to make use of the GUI system-config tools

not true.. GUI, TUI, CMD

/usr/sbin/system-config-network
/usr/sbin/system-config-network-cmd
/usr/sbin/system-config-network-tui