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[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
>> That's interesting.  YAST was the 4th or 5th menu-driven administration system
>> I used in my career, and I liked it *precisely because* it didn't care if you
>> had manually edited the *actual* config files -- it read those, and that's
>> what you got in the menu to edit; every other earlier such system I'd used
>> for that had "shadow" files with it's own data, and built the real ones.
>> 
>> Not YaST.
>> 
>> Back as far as 9.0 that was true.
> 
> My memory of it, somewhere between SLES10 and OpenSuSE 11.4, is that it
> would just refuse to deal with at least -some- files if you'd edited
> them yourself.

Maybe, but I don't remember it ever biting me personally.

In fact, if anything, I remember being pretty impressed what it could deal with.

I *do* remember that there were some things where you had to make a change,
and then save and close Yast and reopen it to make a different change.

Cheers,
-- jra
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