Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:34:21 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Adam McGreggor <adam-fbsd@amyl.org.uk> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OSS Control Panel to manage FreeBSD jails ... ? Message-ID: <C4214917-DE23-4C40-8B06-A1CF949A104D@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20100721212515.GL28385@hendricks.amyl.org.uk> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007211537530.69490@hub.org> <20100721203253.GK28385@hendricks.amyl.org.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007211800050.69490@hub.org> <C842B271-8C7B-45EB-A45A-FC016C67A079@mac.com> <20100721212515.GL28385@hendricks.amyl.org.uk>
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On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:15:43PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Was there something wrong with webmin? > > I'd rephrase that to is there anything *right* about webmin. > > *hate*, *hate*, *hate*. > > no histories/versioning, straight edits, often-run-on-default-port, > lets-one-change-things-without-understanding-why-it's-a-bad-thing, and > so on. While I have some gripes of my own about Webmin, it was also a significant or even the primary factor in my being able to place FreeBSD fileservers running Samba, LDAP, dhcpd, etc as replacement boxes for Windows PDC/ADC boxes at various client sites over the years, since the locals could do web-based administration of a system without needing to be a Unix sysadmin. Regards, -- -Chuck
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