On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:48:32PM +0200, goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote: > From: "Arthur Ramos Jr." <aramos@sunyorange.edu> > > > Everyone: > > > In order to consolidate all the administration functions, has anyone > > considered some type of menuing system? I have recently written a > > script that will generate menus from an input file. Each Main or Sub > > menu item can call a program or a script. If nothing is placed on > > I think pmenu does that and more. > > > the defined menu line, it'll tell the administrator, "this function > > has not been implemented yet". I am an AIX administrator, so I > > wrote the script and created an input menu file to mimic the menus > > in smit, the AIX System Management tool. The script is written in > > perl, some work would have to be done in order to convert it to > > Perl/Tk (to work with Xwindows) and write the scripts for all the > > various functions. If you are interested, I could submit the script > > and data file for your perusal. Thanks. > > There was a thread concerning the menu system and admin jobs and > configuration. The idea was to have the configure scripts like > pppconfig in the windowmanagers menu for root, so he can call it > directly from there, all managed by the menu system we already have. I > don't know what happened to the idea, but hunting for it might be > worth while. yes, we have it. Now is dconfig in potato. write dconfig as root and have a first look. BUT: dconfig is alpha. It can remove all data (it work for me) and I must add same admin-tools to the menu. write bug-reports, If you find bugs. Grisu -- Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --- Prof. Larry Wasserman
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