Show YaST2 Command As Aix Smitty In Suse

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I am resurrecting this archived thread: Show Command As Aix Smitty In Suse

Still looking for a way to see what the actual command(s) YaST2 (GUI or CLI) is running before and/or after execution.

Thanks!

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On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:16:02 +0000, knh wrote:

> I am resurrecting this archived thread: ‘Show Command As Aix Smitty In
> Suse’ (http://tinyurl.com/bgcpv3p)
>
> Still looking for a way to see what the actual command(s) YaST2 (GUI or
> CLI) is running before and/or after execution.

The easiest way would be to view the source, since it’s dependent on the
module - and often it’s going to be things like modifying things in /etc/
sysconfig and then/or applying those changes to the config files for a
specific setup (which wouldn’t be “a command” but “code that runs in
YaST”.)

Jim

Jim Henderson
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:16:02 +0000, knh wrote:
>
>> I am resurrecting this archived thread: ‘Show Command As Aix Smitty In
>> Suse’ (http://tinyurl.com/bgcpv3p)

Ah, the wonderful smit! “Let’s simplify things and use small scripts
instead of big programs”. They just forgot that there would be thousands
of small scripts, changing the problem from understanding how one
program worked into how to find the one file in a twisty maze of files.

>> Still looking for a way to see what the actual command(s) YaST2 (GUI or
>> CLI) is running before and/or after execution.
>
> The easiest way would be to view the source, since it’s dependent on the
> module - and often it’s going to be things like modifying things in /etc/
> sysconfig and then/or applying those changes to the config files for a
> specific setup (which wouldn’t be “a command” but “code that runs in
> YaST”.)

There’s also /var/log/YaST2/ and especially y2log and y2changes.

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:09:56 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:

> There’s also /var/log/YaST2/ and especially y2log and y2changes.

That’s cool, I didn’t know about the latter, good info. :slight_smile:

Jim

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Wow. I new /var/log/Yast2 was there, but actually never took a good look at it. This is great.