On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 23:12 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. God, yes Les! It was sendmail that I finally had working, after a week or so banging on it. For some damn reason I cranked up Linuxconf and 2 minutes later I was bellowing like a male calf turned into a steer. All hell broke out on the Caldera List I recall. Ow! Now I'm really going to bed! Ow! I pray I don't dream about it! Ric
