I have to put my vote behind Webmin as well. Very easy, very clear. It is my day to day as well. I think that the installations for Spam Assassin, as seen by webmin, and the OpenProtect install are not the same but I could be wrong.
Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Scott Heisler > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 1:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Opencomputing-openprotect] Problems with Mailwatch & > Mailscannermrtg > > > I found that the mailscanner-mrtg was very easy to install and I was > incorrect. It is showing stats now and does appear to be working > fine. It > was well documented and pre-configured for RH Linux so I had to change > almost nothing. From a stats point of view, the mailscanner-mrtg > does seem > to provide most of what I need to know. I just liked the graphs in > mailwatch better. > > Since I use Webmin for 95% of the day-to-day admin of my Linux servers, I > think that Webmin is the way to go for configuration. I'm never afraid to > work from the command line (and often DO). However, Webmin is a > consistent > administration interface with support for hundreds of > applications on Linux. > Having a Webmin module will also put you on their (webmin's) > website, which > will further promote the use of Openprotect. > > Which brings me to another issue. Since OpenProtect uses spamassassin for > ratings, is it ok to make changes to SpamAssassin using the > Webmin interface > for SpamAssassin? > > Anyway, just my thoughts. > > Thanks. > > C. Scott Heisler > > > -----Original Message----- > From: KM Ganesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:11 PM > To: Scott Heisler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Opencomputing-openprotect] Problems with Mailwatch & > Mailscannermrtg > > > Dear All, > > > I tried both of these packages to monitor and view statistics of my > > OpenProtect server. However, the Mailscannermrtg doesn't seem > to show any > > statistics. I see all empty graphs. I've double-checked the > config files > > and still it shows only empty graphs. The Mailwatch program is > much more > of > > the statistics I'm looking for. However, the documentation is lacking > some > > As Scott Heisler says, we the developers of openprotect are also > impressed with the features of MailWatch, but the problem is it is a > little bit resource hungry (mysql, jpgraph and proper support is not > there for all MTAs), so can you people give your opinion about the web > frontend of openprotect - whether it should be for tweaking config only > (webmin), stats only(mrtg) or both (mailwatch) or maybe provide all and > ask your choice at install time ? > > > On another note, the RPM version of mailscanner-mrtg does not work with > > OpenProtect because it doesn't see mailscanner 4.0, so the > install fails. > I > > had to DL the TAR version and attempt to setup from scratch. > > The trouble with platform independent packaging :(. > > cheers, > Ganesh, KM. > -- > K.M.Ganesh | Mobile: +91 (0) 9444080290 > Opencomputing Technologies | http://opencompt.com > Server Side E-Mail Protection. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Opencomputing-openprotect mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opencomputing-openprotect >
