On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:56, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > I use chkconfig for this myself, but note that it is possible to > > use the GUI tools from a remote X connection even if the machine > > itself is not running X locally (it must have the libs installed). > You are right, but it implies that you have a fair part of X / GUI > installed on the remote system. This is not always the case and wanted. > I have systems with not any X library on it. I install X, but not the desktop packages on servers just for this purpose. Chkconfig does everything you will need for services, but if you make a network change remotely you really want to learn what all the stuff under /etc/sysconfig/networking means as well as the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/* files. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx