Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-03 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:44, J. Craig Woods wrote: BTW, I wouldn't use either one of them. They both have a history of screwing up config files. hey, i dont use either of them too . one time i tried linuxconf and boy, it did ruin the config files and that time it even used or moved the

[expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread Joe Sotham
David Relson writes: Greetings, I've looked at linuxconf and webmin and they both seem to be graphical system administration tools. It seems that either one could be used for the job and having both installed seems like a duplication of tools and a waste of disk space. Do people of

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread J. Craig Woods
Joe Sotham wrote: David Relson writes: Greetings, I've looked at linuxconf and webmin and they both seem to be graphical system administration tools. It seems that either one could be used for the job and having both installed seems like a duplication of tools and a waste of

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:44, J. Craig Woods wrote: BTW, I wouldn't use either one of them. They both have a history of screwing up config files. As long as you have CLI, and editors, such as vi or pico, learn to do do admin the way it is meant to be done. One very late night, when the server

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: There are always exceptions to the rule. Mandrake Control Center has been singulary impressive. Kudos Mandrakebut the GUI incurs an additional penalty that no one seems to realize except the ignorant-user-savvy MicroSoft Corporation. And that

RE: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread Doug Gough
Subject: Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin? On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:44, J. Craig Woods wrote: BTW, I wouldn't use either one of them. They both have a history of screwing up config files. As long as you have CLI, and editors, such as vi or pico, learn to do do admin the way it is meant

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread J. Craig Woods
David Guntner wrote: I like using the Mandrake Control Center because it's convenient. But yea, this results in my sometimes scratching my head when I'm trying to figure out how to do it from the shell. And when I'm remote and using a ssh session to access my machine, this can be really

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread Femme
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: That sounds great, but I don't have 500 hours a day to learn this stuff in. I guess I've been holding out until someone publishes a book something like How to do every single thing possible that you will ever need to know from the Linux command

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread Lee Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 April 2002 01:30 pm, David Guntner wrote: I like using the Mandrake Control Center because it's convenient. But yea, this results in my sometimes scratching my head when I'm trying to figure out how to do it from the shell. And

Re: [expert] Re: linuxconf or webmin?

2002-04-02 Thread David Guntner
J. Craig Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote: And a very good thought it is. Would be nice to see such a utility made for Linux (maybe there already is). Sun does this somewhat for Solaris but IBM takes the prize with a very useful utility called SMIT for AIX. With SMIT or its CLI