Linuxconf has four user interfaces:
Text-based — Using the same user interface style as the Red Hat Linux
text-mode installation program, the text-based interface makes it
easy to navigate your way through
Linuxconf if you aren't running X. If you
are running X, you can switch to a virtual console, log in as root,
and type linuxconf to bring up text-mode
Linuxconf.
Use the [Tab] and [arrow] keys to
navigate the text-mode screens. A down arrow
on a line indicates that a pulldown menu exists on that line. The
[Ctrl]-[X] key
combination will make pulldown menus appear.
Graphical user interface (GUI) —
Linuxconf can take advantage of the X
Window System. Red Hat Linux includes a GUI interface for
Linuxconf called gnome-linuxconf.
This document will display Linuxconf
screens using the gnome-linuxconf interface, but you shouldn't have
any trouble using the other interfaces with the instructions
provided here.
Web-based — A Web-based interface makes remote system
administration easy; it can also be displayed with the
Lynx text-mode browser.
To use the Linuxconf Web interface, use
your browser to connect to port 98 on the machine running
Linuxconf (i.e., http://your_machine:98).
Before you use the Web-based interface, you'll need to configure
Linuxconf to allow connections from the
machine running the browser. See the section called Enabling Web-Based Linuxconf Access for instructions on enabling Web
access to Linuxconf.
Command line — Linuxconf's
command-line mode is handy for manipulating your system's
configuration in scripts.
Linuxconf will start in either character-cell
or X mode, depending on your DISPLAY environment
variable. The first time you run Linuxconf,
an introductory message will be shown; although it is only displayed
once, accessing help from the main screen will give you the same basic
information.
Linuxconf includes some context-specific
help. For information on any specific aspect of
Linuxconf, select
from the screen you'd like help with. Note that not all help screens
are complete at this time; as help screens are updated, they will be
included in subsequent versions of Linuxconf.
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