When I asked, my rimuhosting hosting provider (in New Zealand)
offered to update my debian-based virtual server and websites
hosted there for a few $K.  Excellent; in Portland a good
sysadmin costs $K per day.

Then they started talking about the "virtualmin" GUI interface
to control those apps (apache, moinmoin, sendmail, openvpn,
etc.), as opposed to commented /etc/ config files updated with
vi (and old versions of files saved with rev numbers), which
I've used since SVR4 roamed the Earth.

How many here control their servers with "invisible" config
files generated by GUI interfaces?  Without commented text
files, how do you *verify* WYSIWYG?

How many prefer editing configuration files (mostly in /etc),
paying attention to file permissions, adding explanatory
comments, and backing up their prior config files since
forever, as I've done for decades? 

Keith L.

PS:  I have been a sloppy touch typist for more than 60
years, when an insolvent client of my father taught me
typewriter typing in her classes to pay down part of her
debt.  Weak small kid, mechanical typewriters, the phrase 
"touch typing" wasn't accurate.  These days, I'm OK with
a mouse, but not a touch screen.  My most frequently used
key is backspace, used about 60 times while writing this
paragraph.   GUIs are difficult, screen phones impossible.  

Are text-heads like me doomed?

-- 
Keith Lofstrom          [email protected]

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