[lug] text-based network setup tool - RH 7.3

[Scott A. Herod]

Actually, I would suggest that you write your own.  I'm not sure how
interactive you would like it to be, but you could use perl to ask for
various pieces of information and use netconfig behind the scenes to
actually handle the setup.  Run "netconfig --help".  I would also
suggest querying the appropriate files to present the user with a series
of preset and default values.

Scott

Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 14:28, D. Stimits wrote:
> > "netconfig" comes to mind, but I have never used it (my favorite
> > text-based config tool is called "vi", it works for many things :)
> 
> Yeah yeah yeah... me too.  I knew someone was going to say that.
> 
> The reason we need the tool is that these are super-newbies to linux
> loading linux as part of a bigger project... until they've had a month
> or two to get their feet wet, we try to keep from scaring them off with
> things like vi.  :-)
> 
> (In fact, a number of the volutneers on the project recommend nano, and
> I'm always ranting and raving on the mailing lists about learning "a
> real editor" be it vi or emacs or whatever... well, I always say vi, but
> doesn't matter... nano's crap.  GRIN.)
> 
> Nate