Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

[Seth Cohn <scohn@clipper.net>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:

> Linuxconf is very broken (and it's documented in the Readme's provided
> with the .deb) on Debian, and it mangles perfectly good config files
> into nasty-looking ones that sysadmins who prefer vi usually dislike
> reading. 

Another point in webmin's favor.  I was pleasantly surprised when I
discovered that editing mail aliases in webmin _didn't_ blow up my heavily
commented /etc/aliases file.  In fact, it respected the # signs,
understood that they were disabled entries, and left everything intact.  
I personally use an line editor on it, but this way, someone can, if need
be, add an alias and NOT screw my systems up.

Another thing in webmin's favor: it currently supports BSD and Solaris
and more:

  Operating system          Supported versions
	
  Sun Solaris               2.5 , 2.5.1 , 2.6 , 7 , 8
  Caldera OpenLinux eServer 2.3
  Caldera OpenLinux         2.3 , 2.4
  Redhat Linux              4.0 , 4.1 , 4.2 , 5.0 , 5.1 , 5.2 , 6.0 , 6.1 , 6.2
  Slackware Linux           3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.6 , 4.0 , 7.0
  Debian Linux              1.3 , 2.0 , 2.1 , 2.2
  SuSE Linux                5.1 , 5.2 , 5.3 , 6.0 , 6.1 , 6.2 , 6.3 , 6.4
  Corel Linux               1.0 , 1.1
  TurboLinux                4.0 , 6.0
  Cobalt Linux              2.2 , 5.0
  Mandrake Linux            5.3 , 6.0 , 6.1 , 7.0 , 7.1
  Delix DLD Linux           5.2 , 5.3 , 6.0
  MkLinux                   DR2.1 , DR3
  XLinux                    1.0
  LinuxPL                   1.0
  Linux From Scratch        2.2
  FreeBSD                   2.1 , 2.2 , 3.0 , 3.1 , 3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 4.0 , 5.0
  OpenBSD                   2.5 , 2.6 , 2.7
  BSDI                      3.0 , 3.1 , 4.0
  HP/UX                     10.01 , 10.10 , 10.20 , 10.30 , 11
  SGI Irix                  6.0 , 6.1 , 6.2
  DEC/Compaq OSF/1          4.0
  IBM AIX                   4.3
  SCO UnixWare              7 , 2
  SCO OpenServer            5
  MacOS Server X            1.0 , 1.2
   
This is good for Debian, since we want something cross-platform, and
possibly even cross-kernel (Hurd, anyone?).  Adding a network config for
Debian, a dpkg/apt module, and a debconf module, I think we'd be all
set...

Jaldhar, can you pry yourself away from imap for a few minutes and get the
webmin stuff uploaded to incoming? :)  I'd like to see what's you've
changed...


















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