Can't Configure System Settings Anymore

[Eric Hines]

Amadeus W. M. wrote:

>On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:34:52 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
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>>At 1:09 PM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:27:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
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>>>>At 12:36 AM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
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>>>>>On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:43:30 -0700, Rashan Jibowu wrote:
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>>>>>>Can someone please help? How can I get the programs
>>>>>>under "System Settings" to work again?
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>>>>>I've had similar problems. After fresh installation I think I was able to
>>>>>configure everything from the gui config tools, then I noticed
>>>>>system-config-network won't write out the files properly, nor would
>>>>>system-config-securitylevel. Probably others too. Luckily I've been using
>>>>>RedHat since 5.0, and I can do all that at the prompt, but I feel sorry
>>>>>for the new people.
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>>Out of curiosity, why would it allow me to configure anything from the
>>shell, and the gui tools won't save properly? If I were doing a bad thing,
>>I'd be doing it either way. 
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Not necessarily. From the command line, you're talking directly to the 
files in question.  From the GUI, you're only talking to the GUI and 
depending on the GUI to pass along your inputs to _all_ of the relevant 
files and then depending on the SAVE button on the GUI to save all of 
those files' changes.  GUIs can be simple or complex to write because of 
the need for all those callbacks to work correctly.  Almost always, the 
GUIs do a fine job, because the GUI writers work very hard to get the 
GUIs right.  However, s*t happens, and sometimes (rarely) a GUI will 
miss something.

Eric Hines

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