RE: 2.4: System Tools - Please try them

["Carlos Garnacho Parro" <garnacho tuxerver net>]

> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:55, Mark Finlay wrote:
>> > Of the top of my head my list of tool that i actually would use as a
>> > user are:
>> > - Time tool
>> > - Network tool / internet connection wizard
>> > - Printer tool
>> > - Software managment tool
>> > - Password changing tool
>> >
>> > And as an adminstrator:
>> > - User tool
>> > - Samba tool
>> > - NFS tool
>> > - Authentication tool
>> > - Apache tool
>>
>> Oh and a services tool - but i really think that this should just work
>> too.
>
> Its an admin tool. The question is "do I want to be running an FTP
> server, web server, NFS server, mail server?"

and how could you focus it? I still see necessary the concept of
runlevels, so the only proposal I can make is to have separate lists for
each relevant runlevel, and an option menu to switch between runlevels. of
course the concept should be abstracted as much as we could, for example
(in debian):

runlevel 0 ----> stopping the computer
runlevel 2 ----> graphical mode
runlevel 3 ----> text mode
runlevel 6 ----> rebooting the computer

of course, the service names should be abstracted too (as they are nowadays)

what do you think? this shouldn't suppose any major change to the current
runlevel backend

	Carlos