Red Hat administration

[gcazian]

Is there a command line administration tool for Red Hat Linux similar to smitty for AIX or sam for HP-UX?

 

[tdb30]

what are you trying to achieve within RH?

have you tried linuxconf

if it isn't installed, install it

it does the admin of user accnts, network setup etc.

 

[Morsing]

Unfortunately there's nothing similar to smitty or sam in Linux.
I don't know if linuxconf needs X but YaST in SuSE sort of works in text mode. Nothing comes close to smitty though.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[venkman]

Also, as I recall Redhat officially stopped using linuxconf in 7.0. I'm not sure the program still works for redhat. They give a whole bunch of other gui tools for you to use instead, and a couple of them have tui versions also. Oh, and as far as I know you do not need x installed to use linuxconf; it's a text based interface.

-Venkman