I stand corrected. DebAdmin looks dead before it gained life. A note to whoever is now maintaining the WNPP list: You probably want to remove the mention from section 7 about the need for an admin tool.
Brian On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brian Bassett wrote: > > > I recently switched to Debian from RedHat 4.2 and the one thing that I > > think that Debian could really use is an administration tool. > > I suggested something similar a couple weeks ago and was informed that > this discussion had taken place already. I guess the general consensus was > that we (the Debian folks) should wait for the COAS project > (http://www.caldera.com/coas/) to come to fruition. > > COAS looks to be promising. Caldera's outlines for it call for it to have > curses (text), X, and web interfaces. Supposely, the front-ends will > interact with "configurators" for the various installed packages. The > configurators would, ostensibly, be provided with their respective > packages. Caldera even went so far as to stipulate that configurators have > to display some sort of intelligence (for example, not letting people > enter octets higher than 255 in IP addresses). > > Caldera says that it's all going to e GPL'd. The only question now is, how > long it is going to take. > > - Joe > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
