On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 22:50, Ric Moore wrote: > > > I wouldn't think it would be impossible to build the 'perfect tool' > > > though. The thing that blew that (crud! cannot remember the name of the > > > caldera all-in-one application they had back when) whateverits name out > > > of the water was that it wouldn't check for hand-edits... it would blow > > > them off reading from it's own history file. A really good one would > > > read the conf files each time and go from there. Jeeeezzz. what was the > > > name of that thing? The guy that wrote it really tried hard, and his > > > heart was in the right place... but this is a pretty tough crowd... > > > ornery too! It went down in flames and ashes, tomatoes tossed with > > > great abandon. Someone help me on this... what was the name of that? Ric > > ---- > > linuxconfig > > > Yes! Owww! Now my head hurts from Total Rekall. I'm in the way-back > machine with flashy lights around my head, bound at the feet and wrists, > and thrashing around with eyeballs bulging from the remembrance of it. > Ow! Ow! Head - hurts - bad! Was it Linuxconfig or Linuxconf? Ow! That > hurt too. Ow! I'll just think of 'yum'. Ow! rpm? Ow! > system-network-config? OW OW! I'm gonna turn this thing off and take an > aspirin. It all hurts. Ric Linuxconf - and the thing it really did wrong was that it would rewrite and "fix" _all_ of your config files even if you were just trying to tweak one little thing. So you could expect sendmail to be restored to its broken-as-delivered state every time you added a user or something. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
