Managing Yast From The Command Line - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

8.13 Managing YaST from the
When a task only needs to be done once, the graphical or ncurses interface is usually
the best solution. If a task needs to be done repeatedly, it might be easier to use the
YaST command line interface. Custom scripts can also use this interface for automating
tasks.
View a list of all module names available on your system with yast -l or yast
--list. To display the available options of a module, enter yast module_name
help. If a module does not have a command line mode, a message informs you of this.
To display help for a module's command options, enter yast module_name
command help. To set the option value, enter yast module_name command
option=value.
Some modules do not support the command line mode because command line tools
with the same functionality already exist. The modules concerned and the command
line tools available are:
sw_single
sw_single provides package management and system update functionality. Use
rug instead of YaST in your scripts. Refer to
Command Line with rug"
online_update_setup
online_update_setup configures automatic updating of your system. This
can be configured with cron.
inst_suse_register
With inst_suse_register, register your SUSE Linux Enterprise. For more
information about the registration, see
Enterprise"
hwinfo
hwinfo provides information about the hardware of your system. The command
hwinfo does the same.
176 Deployment Guide
Command Line
(page 179).
(page 130).
Section 8.14, "Update from the
Section 8.3.4, "Registering SUSE Linux