You should check out Augeas ( http://augeas.net/index.html ). It is exactly what you all are talking about: a management framework, and not a gui in itself but provides a framework that gui (web, ncurses, etc) frontends could be built upon.
This is part of the RedHat Emerging Technologies Project, which just looks brlliant to me. They are coming up with some real professional looking projects, and doing them right. Ubuntu (and the whole linux server community) would benefit greatly from collaborating on this. James -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
