[TriLUG] linuxconf replacement in RH 8.0?

[David R. Matusiak]

i'm sure someone with better facts will pipe up, but quickly...

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:41  PM, <gregbrown at mindspring.com> 
wrote:

> Hey all.  I'm wondering if there is a replacement for /sbin/linuxconf,
> formerly of RH 7.x fame which  may be buried somewhere in RH 8.0.  I 
> used to
> rely on linuxconf to configure sendmail to allow for relay to work but 
> I'd
> like to use RH 8.0 in the future, if I can find a program offering 
> similar
> functionality.

IIRC, RH just rolled out their own "Suite" of GUI config tools.  they 
mostly begin with "redhat-config-servicename".  i believe this was done 
b/c linuxconf was considered the devils work and needed to be "retired."

> If anyone knows of a non-graphical admin/configuration utility for 
> sendmail
> that would be even better.  I'd like to get where all I have running 
> on my
> edge device is iptables, sendmail, squid, routing, ip masq, sshd, and 
> whatever
> packages are required to support those three services and that's it, 
> but
> that's a bit of a pipe dream, I suppose.

not necessarily a pipe dream.  maybe you could build the system as a 
"minimum install" and then just upload & configure the pkgs you want?

best of luck!
/drm