On 14 Sep 2004, at 17:43, Kevin Philp wrote:
> I think people get tied up with their own distro's glossy config tool,
> be it
> Drakconf, Yast or whatever else. Webmin seems to do more than all of
> these
> and has a vast array of extra modules to plugin for that extra tool you
> always wanted. All that and you can configure a machine with a webmin
> server
> from anywhere on the network even if its a different distro or another
> form
> of Unix......However it looses out because it hasn't got nice pretty
> icons!!
From where I sit webmin loses out because it has a history of security
holes and (for me) of just plain NOT working. Now in fairness, I didn't
try very hard to make it work. My most recent attempt was on a RHES box
where I wanted to see if I could use webmin to replace a proprietary
(and quite good) DNS management tool called Quick DNS. I fired up
webmin, clicked on the DNS icon, and I don't recall what happened
exactly, but none of it was good. TBH if a pointy clicky tool doesn't
just work when I point and click, I'll go back to the other pointy
clicky tool and/or ed on the config files.
Niall
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