Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:31:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru> Cc: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Webadmin Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107050920070.54785-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <010c01c1056f$9a21ce20$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
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On 2001-07-05, Artem Koutchine scribbled: # Um.. of course, your wish is your command, but IHMO # adminning a unix system using web is a perversion and # needs medical attetion. I do most of my administration via SSH and hacking through conf files. There are times where I have no access to SSH (and no Telnet since the first thing I do to a machine is disable the Telnet server) and just need to check up on something (of course, I setup Webmin to do basic SSL encryption...) # Why not just use ssh2 to do the job and besides, # you'll know what you are doing much better and # save a lot of bandwidth. BTW, what is format of some # daemon config file changes? What are you gonna do? # Wait for a new version of that web admin tool? As I just said, I do most of my conf through SSH and the command line. For some people who are just learning or don't want to deal with Sendmail's cryptic conf files, web-based management tools are a nice step to start with. Not every UNIX admin can de-crypt some of the most cryptic conf files out there. Modules are independent from the main Webmin package... so if there is an update to a module, you can update it through it's module configuration tool. The biggest break in conf file format is from BIND 4 to BIND 8... of course that was done before Webmin became 'popular' or noticed. If there is a large (or even small) change to a conf file format, the old commands should be left the same and provide the same effect, but also notify the admin that the command is to be deprecated. It's foolish to make a huge change to the conf file format and leave a lot of people without any options and with broken daemons. # YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! I'll take this as a flame... and no, I am not kidding. -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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