--- Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:28 +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:20 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote: > > > One thing that both helps and hinders is to install webmin. It > helps > > > because it provides a GUI to server configurations, IPTables > and a > > > host of other things. It hinders because you really need to > learn the > > > command line. > > > > Webmin, and things like it, need maintaining as rapidly as > everything > > that it can control. If one of them develops differently, webmin > will > > still be trying to configure it the old way. > > > > That was one of the serious drawbacks with with Linuxconf. After > a > > while, it was configuring things wrong. > ---- > seems to be a rather unfair comparison of both breadth and > frequency of > maintenance. I never saw linuxconf in an unbroken state. We had a helluva time with it about 7-8 years ago... that was when Caldera was just an enhanced version of RedHat. I think one of the main difficulties was, in that era, handedits of /etc files was the norm and if you hand-edited resolv.conf, and later fired up Linuxconf, everything went south in a hurry. Then it had some problems of it's own and, it not only went south, it headed for Pitcairn Island amid a very loud clamor from the Caldera users-list. Usually you could get someone to admit that indeed they did some hand-edit before linuxconf blew up. I did and it did! <g> Linuxconf was a very good effort though, and I appreciate the work put into it by it's coder(s). It beleive that the problem remains the same, it's either/or hand-edit or use the gui... not much middle ground. That's my two-cents, Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
