On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 at 16:56, Mae Echavez wrote:
> >He has mentioned tweaking of the /etc/fstab file that is why i gave that
> >kind of solution..:-)
>
> I mean no offense, but I honestly wouldn't considering using Linuxconf as
> "tweaking". It's an attempt at making configuration life easier, but if
> configuring means true tweaking, then read the manpages, documentation,
> and edit the config file yourself. Right? :-)
and... i personally don't like the way linuxconf (and samba's SWAT) works.
Linuxconf is too intrusive in that it adds a whole lot of extra stuff in the
config files, stuff that you don't need. You will know that linuxconf modified
your server's ifcfg-eth0 when there are so many "quoted" options that don't
really mean a thing, and were not there by default. My beef with swat is that
it's too destructive - destructive in the sense that the original config file
gets hosed by swat, and leaves only the options you put in.
A good admin utility should leave the original config file in place, and just
modify (or add) the ones the users actually added or tweaked.
So if you're looking for a nice a pretty program, look up webmin. It's cool,
non intrusive, has lots of 'contrib'ed' modules. Now packaged by default by
your favorite mandrake distributors!
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