> One very important aspect is that it allows the ability to abort any > change at any time (except after it's already been applied, of course) > and not cause any changes to be made irrespective of the will of the > user. My understanding about later versions of linuxconf, this was added > as an overall "quit without saving" option. That was an afterthought > there.but it's always been inherent with webmin.
Linuxconf does not have a quit-without-saving feature. When you accept a change, it is commited to disk, after performing an archiving with RCS. When using the GUI, you have a tab at the bottom showing all modified files as they happen and you can consult the revision history of the files and extract prior version from the archive, or even edit the file directly (text editing). Also a .OLD file is produces whenever a config file is updated. There is also the update monitor allowing you to intercept, view, edit and commit any changes done as they happen. You see exactly what is modified (using diff) and can reject the change. It is a nice way to learn what is going on. This module is not shipped by RedHat though (like everything we added since rh6). What you are refering is not quit-without-saving. It is quit without activating changes. When you quit from linuxconf, it performs some audit of the system. It checks every running services against their configuration files and can tell you if something is not up to date (is running an older configuration). Sometime, you do not want to enable new configuration immediatly because you have other duties to do (potentially on other servers). Thus the quit without activating the changes. Far too many people modify things here and there and forget which services has to be restarted. They generally end up rebooting and truely believe this is needed. Probably got the habit from another well known OS... --------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Gelinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vserver: run general purpose virtual servers on one box, full speed! http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
