On Saturday 09 December 2000 06:32, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:55:32PM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> > > I know that this has been mentioned here before, but can I *beg* that
> > > redhat developers seriously and urgently consider either modifying
> > > printtool to allow it to work with a text/curses interface on a
> > > console or within an X term, or include a text-based (curses-based)
> > > printer configuration tool that does the same things.
> > >
> > >
> > > There should be NO pre-requisite that a box have a working X server
> > > just to be able to configure its printers. Or anything else.
> > > Perhaps linuxconf can be given an lpd configuration module that does
> > > the same thing as printtool?
> >
> > Please: NO LINUXCONF. One of the first things after an install
> > is "rpm -e linuxconf" here.
Interesting ... and what you suggest for a company like the one that I work
for that has nearly fifty and soon hundreds of _remote_ linux systems that
are accessed only via modem _and_ maintained by folks that are not veteran
UNIX admins. For us, we HAVE TO have tools like linuxconf and we are
currently having to manually copy and edit the printcap file and
/var/spool/lpd directories to set up HP laserjet printers - having a
curses/text based printtool tool would be a Godsend.
I vote with Tony Nugent (I think Tony was the one who started this thread)
that more curses based tools like linuxconf should exist for linux.
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