On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:22 pm, Brad Alpert wrote: > > Can anyone report their experiences with Webmin for the configuration of > > Linux server services? We're particularly interested in: > > > > 1. Does it break services the way Linuxconf used to?
Webin is absolutely awesome. <RANT> Linuxconf and Yast and tools like it have a huge fatal design flaw: they use a separate database to hold their settings, and update the text configuration files the rest of the world use as a seperate process. That means (1) if you update the text configuration files yourself, the next time you run the fancy-pants GUI config tool, your changes can get overwritten, and (2) when bad things happen to good data, and they can get out of sync even if you don't edit the text files by hand. There is no inspection and/or repair tool for the database, so you're SOL. </RANT> Webmin does not do this. When you tell it you want to configure sendmail, it reads sendmail.cf and parses it. If you change things, then say "make it so", it writes out sendmail.cf again. One file, nothing to get out of sync. Another benefit of webmin is that it's moduler. You add and subtract what you want. It also means if a daemon's config file format changes, you don't wait for a release of Webmin, you just get the updated plugin for that daemon. Yet one more benefit is that you can set up authorizations such that some mere mortal users can configure what you want them to without becoming root, With the other tools, they have to be run as root. > > 2. Does it provide a comprehensive level of functionality to configure > > most services? That's been my experience. Especially the MySQL one and the user admin one. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most DKK D experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; DK KD we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." DDDD -Nathaniel Borenstein -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
