Amadeus W. M. wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:34:52 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 1:09 PM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:27:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 12:36 AM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:43:30 -0700, Rashan Jibowu wrote:
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Can someone please help? How can I get the programs
under "System Settings" to work again?
I've had similar problems. After fresh installation I think I was able to
configure everything from the gui config tools, then I noticed
system-config-network won't write out the files properly, nor would
system-config-securitylevel. Probably others too. Luckily I've been using
RedHat since 5.0, and I can do all that at the prompt, but I feel sorry
for the new people.
...<snip>
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.
Eric Hines
--
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man
I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
