From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 19:20:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCC537B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D63243E42 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:20:21 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 1812EBB34; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:20:06 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Brian McCann , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrators - GUI's or Command lines Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:20:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <000201c23111$d4a6ee30$2e00a8c0@dogbert> In-Reply-To: <000201c23111$d4a6ee30$2e00a8c0@dogbert> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207212220.05852.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:53 pm, Brian McCann wrote: | Both. I use KDE only when I need to download stuff off the web, or look | up something off the web, and I use KDE sometimes for mail. But I will | always do my server "maint" and configs from a CLI using an editor like | vi. None of my servers even have X on them...and the only box that does | is one of the workstations at my desk...I use SSH and/or telnet for | everything. In most cases, if I need to download something from the web | to one of my servers, I will download it to my workstation first (and I | run an FTP server on my workstation) then download it from my | workstation to my server. IMHO...and I know I'll get some $h1t for | it...but....GUI configuration programs are for pansies. :)\ The bigger problem IMHO with GUI configuation programs is that they produce unreproducable results. I want a file that I can edit, and thereforce squirrel off someplace and "diff" later. GUIs make it difficult or impossible to do these things. Information hiding is not *always* a good thing! | | --Brian | | -----Original Message----- | From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG | [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Grant Cooper | Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 7:08 PM | Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG | Subject: Administrators - GUI's or Command lines | | | quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI | such as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)? | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message