After reading the mails i think i have some things to add to what you said and to clear some things.
First of all i think that Scott has said something really true: most of the sysadmins run more than one server at a time which need to be maintained and almost none of them have a monitor attached, they are just connected to the network and sysadmins use ssh to do their work, that's the first thing we need to keep in mind. So my goal (in the early states at least) is to have a tool that can be used with an ssh connection, that's why i choose ncurses and in the future to manage more than one server at a time in the same tool (more on this later). Also i think a GUI interface will be useful in some use cases, but less than the previous one, so i'm going to develop it in a way that more UIs can be easy developed (gtk, qt, web, etc..) so if you want to add another UI that's ok with me, but the firsts releases won't include it since i will focus my efforts on having the first use case well covered. The case in which i find more useful to have a GUI will be to have a client/server model in which i can have the GUI on my desktop (the client) and manage all my servers (with ucsa-server installed and previously added to the client) from it, then a GUI will be really cool, but as i said before this isn't the goal on the early states of the project. If you want to contribute on the UI side i will be really grateful if you design some forms to be used in the tool (i don't mind if you draw it and scan or use any other way to design it) since i have not much creativity fur such things. On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 00:38 -0500, James Dinkel wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Luke L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've often wondered if IT types wish to keep things complex in order > > to maintain job security, heh. > > > > I must admit, one of my favorite things about my linux servers is the > desktop techs can't figure out how to mess things up like they > eventually do on the Windows servers (yes, techs having admin access > on servers is a whole 'nother problem - a problem brought down from > management). > > James -- aka nxvl Key fingerprint = BCE4 27A0 D03E 55DE DA2D BE06 891D 8DEE 6545 97FE gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 654597FE
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