Re: Intent to package: webmin (or another Web-based admin tool?)
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> The problem is see with LinuxConf, for my project, is that it
> attempts to solve everything, and is quite intrusive (every
Linuxconf consists of many modules so if you don't want to manage
a specific service like apache or bind simply disable the module.
> configuration goes through it, so you need linuconf, even if
> the configuration is done).
Linuxconf does not use a database to store the configuration
(unlike e.g. AIX's smit) so you can always use vi to make some
changes. Linuxconf even tries very hard to preserve the structure
of configuration files (e.g. manually added comments). This
is not working 100% but that's Linuxconf's goal.
The problem I'm having right now is that I might have to switch
some servers from Debian to Redhat because of the not fully
working Linuxconf. Many NT admins who have to maintain some
Unix mail/web/proxy servers have no Unix knowledge but are able
to do most of the maintainance when there's smit or Linuxconf.
Another feature of Linuxconf is the cluster administraton, i.e.
you can make the same changes to a defined set of machines using
a single command, e.g. when the IP address of a name server
changes.
I don't know why many Debian developers don't like Linuxconf
when is has many of the features that the yet-to-write-one-and-only-Debian-admintool proposed in
Debian-Admintool should have.
--
Stefan Gybas
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