| SUSE Linux Documentation Part I. Deployment / Chapter 8. System Configuration with YaST | ||||
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 | 7.2. Soft RAID Configuration | 8.2. The YaST Control Center |  | |
| SUSE Linux Documentation Part I. Deployment / Chapter 8. System Configuration with YaST | ||||
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| 7.2. Soft RAID Configuration | 8.2. The YaST Control Center | | |
Contents
Abstract
In SUSE Linux Enterprise, YaST handles both the installation and configuration of your system. This chapter describes the configuration of system components (hardware), network access, and security settings, and administration of users. Find a short introduction to the text-based YaST interface in Section 8.12, “YaST in Text Mode”. For a description of manual system configuration, see Section 20.3, “System Configuration via /etc/sysconfig”.
Configure the system with YaST using various YaST modules. Depending on the hardware platform and the installed software, there are different ways to access YaST in the installed system.
In KDE or GNOME, start the YaST Control Center from the main menu.
Before YaST starts, you are
prompted to enter the root password, because YaST needs system
administrator permissions to change the system files.
To start YaST from the command line, enter the commands
su (for changing to the user
root) and
yast2. To start the text version, enter
yast instead of yast2. Also use the
command yast to start the program from one of the
virtual consoles.
For hardware platforms that do not support a display device of their own
and for remote administration on other hosts, run YaST remotely.
First, open a console on the host on which to display YaST and enter
the command ssh -X root@<system-to-configure> to
log in to the system to configure as
root and redirect the X server
output to your terminal. Following the successful
SSH login, enter yast2 to
start YaST in graphical mode.
To start YaST in text mode on another system, use ssh root@<system-to-configure> to open the connection. Then start YaST with yast.
To save time, the individual YaST modules can be started
directly. To start
a module, enter yast2
module_name.
View a list of all module names available on your system with
yast2 -l or yast2 --list.
Start the network module, for example, with yast2 lan.
To change the language of YaST, select + in the YaST Control Center. Choose a language, exit the YaST Control Center, log out of the system, then log in again. The next time you start YaST, the new language setting is used. This also changes the language for the entire system.
If you need work in a different language but do not want to change the
system language setting,
run the YaST with the LANG variable set to your
preferred language. Use a long language code in the format
langcode_statecode.
For example, for American English, enter LANG="en_US"
yast2.
This command starts YaST using the specified language. The language is only valid for this YaST session. The language settings of the terminal, other users, and your other sessions remain unchanged.
If you run YaST remotely over SSH, YaST uses the language settings of your local system.
