From: Heiko Helmle (heiko.helmle_at_head.de)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2006 - 08:41:55 CEST
Message-ID: <4525FAB3.8050808@head.de> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:41:55 +0200 From: Heiko Helmle <heiko.helmle@head.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] if-up and route add -net command
Alexei_Roudnev schrieb:
>
>
> Of course - and it is EXACTLY what YaST2 is doing! Why to use 'vi' when
> system have standard tool for this thing?
> (Except if you use some automation, of course - unfortunately YaST2 have not
> command line interface so we can't use it
> for automation).
a) because YaST kills the comments out of the routes file and depending
on the count of your routes you might want to have some comments in
there (and keep them).
b) the routes file can do some more things than YaST exports to the
user. Try looking at the manpage.
> SuSe is not one of _old dumb linux, with 'vi' as the only administrative
> command_. Doing things manually can break it, exactly as doing things by
> 'regedit' in windows. Use YaST2 when it is possible, and 'vi' only in 'hard
> cases' or if you are doing something very complicated.
Depends on your needs. After configuring your routes with YaST it pulls
all your network interfaces down and up again. There are some particular
cases where you really do not want that only for some new host route.
And if you know where stuff is in /etc, you'll probably find your way
easily in most other linux flavours (be it RHEL or Ubuntu LTS or
whatever) as most files there are quite easy to understand (except
/etc/sudoers i guess).
Kind Regards
Heiko
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