[NTLUG:Discuss] Admin tools

[MadHat]

At 10:42 AM 11/9/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Richard Geoffrion wrote:
>
>>Wow!  I've never had two boxes that needed to be setup the same.  You are
>>ONE LUCKY GUY, Ken.
>>Michael, can one use Linuxconf on a slackware box?  It doesn't come with my
>>distribution by default.
>
>
>Dunno.  I never install it.  I learn from others and "others" all tell me 
>not to trust the gui tools.  I tried linuxconf once and it broke 
>things.  Used webmin after a presentation at the lug.  It broke stuff too.  8-)

Linuxconf is bad, in most cases.  even when I got my RHCE, RedHat said only 
use it for certain things, like configuring network devices, but don't use 
it for Samba, sendmail, blah, blah...

Webmin is better, but still has some issues.  The problem with GUIs isn't 
that they don't work, because they do work, but only within the bounds that 
they were designed and most people have a different config than what the 
developer of the GUI had, so problems often arise.

I personally like Webmin when I need to give access to admin a feature of a 
Unix box to someone who is not that familiar with Unix boxes.  I think it 
works well for what it does.


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