 | | | Linuxconf 's replacement in RH 7.3? | Linuxconf 's replacement in RH 7.3? 2002-05-06 - By Shane R. Stixrud
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> DrakConf is very viable from CLI.
When I said network accessible I was ignoring telnet/ssh, on purpose as I
would not call it "user friendly " in the common sense of the term :)
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> > (cisco mostly) almost all of the Jr to Mid level administration tasks are
> > handled via web adminsitrative utiltiies. In my opinion the only GUI
> > utilties that RedHat needs to include are whats needed to manage the base
> > OS. I.E network setup, disk format/partitioning, rpm manager ect.. All
> > service level adminsitration (i.e. functionality) should be managed either
> > by a client/server type management utility or better yet a web based
> > management application like webmin (ideally written in php4, postgresql,
> > C) which manages things like logging, E-mail, samba, DNS, DHCP, xinetd,
> > ftp ect..
> >
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> There would be considerable amount of overhead requiring the use of
> Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL for remote administration...
Over head? Even on a low end Pentium server the over head would be
minimal, 7MB? of ram on servers that would not otherwise have postgresql
installed and 3MB? on servers that would of had it any-ways. CPU/IO usage
would only be effect when a administrator was actively managing the
server. If the RAM requirements are too high we could always use db3 :).
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> Also there would be security issues. PHP can only run as the
> apache.apache user (configured in Apache httpd.conf). Doing any
> configuration would require some sort of root access, and I 'd worry
> about any hoops that one would have to jump through to make that possible.
Why use apache? webmin does not? The mini html server could easily be
written to use the jail function no? Anyways it would be no less secure
then SSH :)
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> >
> > I wholey agree that RedHat needs to make everything consistant, even to
> > the degree that RedHat picks either KDE or GNOME as its prefered GUI
> > enviroment. I am not saying that RedHat should remove applications from
> > its CDS, rather that they should make it clear to its users which software
> > is part of the BASE OS (One app per function) and put the rest into a
> > "optional " catagory so that users know such applications are not required
> > but availible if desired.
> >
>
> Another beauty of DrakConf is that it is the same whether you are in
> Gnome or KDE.
>
It is written to use both gtk and qt?
Shane
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