In message <[🔎] 19970630140857.22781@lotte.sax.de>, writes:
>If the questions aren't of _vitally_ interest for the install process,
>they could be postponed. As well as all more or less important messages
>during the configuration process. It's often a bit too fast as these
>messages scroll off the screen.
>
>I'd like to have an (almost) ``unattended'' installation process.
>Probably by having an option to d*whatever, saying that I don't like any
>changes on config files and that I'd like to have no further changes
>(a la the various *config scripts) done.
>
>As a result of such (or of every) install/update I'd like to have
>a directory with all the ``unsupressable'' messages in. These
>messages should be there _only_ if _really_ neccessary. And they should
>point to the steps to enable services/configure (like `smailconfig'
>and the like) etc, just like the current
>scrolling ones do.
I should like to see all messages indicating that some action needs to be
taken or that some important thing has happened stored in a log file. Last
time I installed, I started by scripting the entire session. Then I had
to go back and reinstall things, and forgot to script the second run, so
I don't have much idea of what I have missed - there's too much to keep
track of at such a time.
We should keep all such messages indefinitely; the sysadmin should delete
them when they have been dealt with.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver
Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot.
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