On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 at 23:36, Ian C.Sison wrote:
>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.
My sentiments exactly. I've already removed Linuxconf, as it is, and only
use RedHat's control-panel when I really don't know how else to do things
(like, hehehe, setting up my initial ifcfg-ppp0 and chat-ppp0 as it's been
quite some time since I used the ifup script for setting up ppp
connections). And yes, both mangle with a lot of your system settings and
while they may make life easier for people who rely on them for
"configuration knowledge", they make life MUCH MORE DIFFICULT for admins
like me who are somewhat "primitive" and prefer knowing the configuration
text files by heart. They remind me too much of my woes with Windows.
>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!
I thought webmin was "just another one of them" config utilities. I didn't
know it was different in the sense of being non-intrusive. Thanks for that
tip, I'll check it out one of these days.
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