HI Mats;

Am Dienstag, 14. November 2006 15:54 schrieb Mats Erik Andersson:
>   Dear All,
>
>   attached is a small file to accomplish some minor
>   cosmetic facelifting. 

There was no attachment.
It's possible that the list does not allow attachments and it has been 
stripped.
In that case you may send it off-list to my address, we'll look into it.

>   The patching only concerns 
>   spacing and aligning in the table of logfiles.cgi
>   and some new space below buttons in other webconf
>   pages. Nothing much, but makes reading smoother.

>   When using the webconf page for logfiles I am struck
>   by a wish to have a convenient way of formatted view
>   of more than one file. Could one imagine a construct
>   where each entry line displayed by logfiles.cgi
>   implicitly has a column 'formatted', the option
>   being displayed in case the superuser has installed
>   an appropriate cgi-script? As per standard I expect
>   such script only for the shorewall logfile. I am
>   aiming towards a quick way of accessing my own
>   gawk/sed formating scripts to display a simplified
>   table instead of the raw logfile. At present,
>   the file logfiles.cgi is somewhat convolutely
>   written, with a strong focus on the formatting
>   of shorewall-output. Could it be that every other
>   user is satisfied with the state of affairs,
>   excepting yours truely who happen to be new in
>   deploying Bering?

Well; the reason is based on the history of the project.

It started years ago with no webinterface at all. Even the text-based 
interface was limited to access the configuration files and backup packages.

Later some webpages was added to show some information, but still no 
configuration (weblet).

There has been ongoing discussions about writing a web-interface for 
configuartion, backup and restarting daemons etc, but for years without any 
useful result.
Until Nathan Angelacos joined in and developed a framework (webconf) which can 
be extended to nice GUI for LEAF. He provided the "expert" stuff and a 
few "basic" pages  - mainyl as example. Unfortunately the discussions about a 
GUI stopped almost immediatly... The core crew always concentrated their 
efforts developing the images, additional packages, writing documentation and 
coordinating the work donated by developers here and there, but didn't 
consider a web-based GUI that important. 

So webconf improved the situation but a web-based GUI has been and still is 
the unbeloved stepchild of the project.

If you or anyone wants to jump in and improve or rework it, every help is 
highly appreciated.

kp 

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