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.
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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
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