Can't Configure System Settings Anymore
Amadeus W. M.
amadeus84 at cablespeed.com
Sat Jul 9 23:16:35 UTC 2005
>>>Out of curiosity, why would it allow me to configure anything from the
>>>shell, and the gui tools won't save properly? If I were doing a bad thing,
>>>I'd be doing it either way.
>>>
>>>
> Not necessarily. From the command line, you're talking directly to the
> files in question. From the GUI, you're only talking to the GUI and
> depending on the GUI to pass along your inputs to _all_ of the relevant
> files and then depending on the SAVE button on the GUI to save all of
> those files' changes. GUIs can be simple or complex to write because of
> the need for all those callbacks to work correctly. Almost always, the
> GUIs do a fine job, because the GUI writers work very hard to get the
> GUIs right. However, s*t happens, and sometimes (rarely) a GUI will
> miss something.
For a minute I believed you (actually, of course, you're right), but the
thing is, now after I've disabled selinux, the guis DO seem to work right.
I'm 90% sure (but not 100%) that the gui wasn't trying to do something
funny behind the scenes.
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