On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 02:39 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 08:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Then the linux developers, terrified that someone might have learned > > how to administer a system decide they need to rip everything apart > > and utterly change it - changes which are never reflected in the > > easy admin interface (things like network -> NetworkManager, > > xorg.conf -> weird /etc/fdi files for hal, etc). > > We've seen this with Webmin and Linuxconf. After a while, the things it > controls change, yet it doesn't keep step. It could only control things > if you didn't hand modify files, as it required the config files to be > formatted in a very specific way (e.g. with indented spaces, and special > comments, and command options in specific orders). That also precluded > letting any other application modify configuration files, for the same > reason. ---- Yes obviously on linuxconf...probably way before 70% of the list users experience. Webmin, true to some extent but I use it anyway and I love it. Yes, Webmin will rearrange my highly organized smb.conf if I were to use it to make changes to smb.conf but I don't. For other things, such as maintaining named.conf, dhcpd.conf, I wouldn't want to live without it though I could. But I've never seen Webmin render 'conf' files unusable - just that it has its own method of rearranging and in my case, where I pretty much have a determined setup that doesn't much vary from network to network, it's just easier to maintain using a normal text editor and keep it in the organization that makes sense to me. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
