On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 02:39 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
Then the linux developers, terrified that someone might have learned how to administer a system decide they need to rip everything apart and utterly change it - changes which are never reflected in the easy admin interface (things like network -> NetworkManager, xorg.conf -> weird /etc/fdi files for hal, etc).
We've seen this with Webmin and Linuxconf. After a while, the things it controls change, yet it doesn't keep step. It could only control things if you didn't hand modify files, as it required the config files to be formatted in a very specific way (e.g. with indented spaces, and special comments, and command options in specific orders). That also precluded letting any other application modify configuration files, for the same reason.
---- Yes obviously on linuxconf...probably way before 70% of the list users experience.
Webmin, true to some extent but I use it anyway and I love it.
Yes, Webmin will rearrange my highly organized smb.conf if I were to use it to make changes to smb.conf but I don't. For other things, such as maintaining named.conf, dhcpd.conf, I wouldn't want to live without it though I could. But I've never seen Webmin render 'conf' files unusable - just that it has its own method of rearranging and in my case, where I pretty much have a determined setup that doesn't much vary from network to network, it's just easier to maintain using a normal text editor and keep it in the organization that makes sense to me.
Craig