Re: KDE

houghi wrote:
Vahis wrote:
That's exactly what you need to do. It's either or.
But Yast can edit fstab quite nicely. So I'm sure that it could be made to edit also iptables, smbaconf and crontab. If fstab, why not the rest of the daily editing stuff?

Firewalling is a bit more demanding then fstab?

Yes, knowing firewalling is more demanding, but editing any of the editable conf files eats equal number cycles in the processor. One table is not heavier than the other :)

I enable fully automatic daily update in Yast.

I use YOU for that. 

Sorry. YOU does the updating. But I start Yast to get to YOU.


Then I go to Webmin and edit the cron job Yast justa made. I tell it to skip all the updates that reguire user interference and then to send me a mail. Here's an example from last week: 

Well, I get a mail (if I want) as well from the things I want.
Generaly I don't want it.

Then you need to check for youself. Email tells me if an update needs me. Otherwise fully automatic security patching. I have no need to keep watch. But Yast can't send me that mail. 



The standard firewall is OK in YaST. If you want more specific things,
as you want, then you better use other tools. This goes for all that
YaST does. Crontab is not needed to get YOU running. You can do that in,
well, YOU.

YOU will run, yes. But it doen nor update kernel by itself. And I don't want to go to my server to check if the updates were done. Like last week's kernel. I got to know there's a kernel update available via email. So installed it after 4 days. I was watching these groups to see if there's any trouble in it.

Every night I got a new mail so I could not forget.

I saw no trouble, I installed. Email stopped. Convenient.

If he or she wants to have a multimedia box, they also need a way to do the timing for their TV recordings.

Like the time-thingy in YaST?

I don't know that one but I mean like a VCR: Starts and stops things you want. Cronjob made easy. Webmin does that. Edits crontabs in human language. There are days, hours and minutes. Like humans know time. I'm sure your watch is in hours, not in increments :)

They never get rid of this dual booting crap if they don't have the tools. 

They do have the tools: YaST.

OK. So you are saying that Yast does all it does and if you need more go elsewhere. I'm not going but I'm using many tools. I could be using one.

Anyway, I'm not requesting these things from you, I'm just exposing my wishes in general :)

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