Linuxconf allows you to configure and control
various aspects of your system. Complete documentation of
Linuxconf could be a separate book in its own
right and is certainly more than we can cover in this chapter. Instead,
we'll focus on common tasks such as adding new users and getting connected
to a network.
After configuring your systems settings through
Linuxconf, the changes are not activated
immediately. You must activate the changes by choosing
=> from the
pulldown menu in the GUI version of Linuxconf,
clicking on an Accept button in Web-based
Linuxconf, or selecting the
Accept button in text-mode
Linuxconf.
You'll need to be root to run Linuxconf. If
you are in your user account, type su - at a shell
prompt to become root and then type the command
linuxconf. If the directory
/sbin is not in your path, type the command with
the full path: /sbin/linuxconf. If you want to run
the GUI version of Linuxconf, you need to
have the X Window System installed as well as GNOME.
