Re: Debian Administration tool
I stand corrected. DebAdmin looks dead before it gained life.
A note to whoever is now maintaining the WNPP list: You probably want to
remove the mention from section 7 about the need for an admin tool.
Brian
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brian Bassett wrote:
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> > I recently switched to Debian from RedHat 4.2 and the one thing that I
> > think that Debian could really use is an administration tool.
>
> I suggested something similar a couple weeks ago and was informed that
> this discussion had taken place already. I guess the general consensus was
> that we (the Debian folks) should wait for the COAS project
> (http://www.caldera.com/coas/) to come to fruition.
>
> COAS looks to be promising. Caldera's outlines for it call for it to have
> curses (text), X, and web interfaces. Supposely, the front-ends will
> interact with "configurators" for the various installed packages. The
> configurators would, ostensibly, be provided with their respective
> packages. Caldera even went so far as to stipulate that configurators have
> to display some sort of intelligence (for example, not letting people
> enter octets higher than 255 in IP addresses).
>
> Caldera says that it's all going to e GPL'd. The only question now is, how
> long it is going to take.
>
> - Joe
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