Re: [cobalt-developers] Preserving the Cobalt Web Interface

[Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan,

I agree, I used webmin on my RH9 box and was not happy with it mangling
my config files.

Herb


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:52, Ryan Verner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Jabbour, Danny          NYC wrote:
> > Check out webmin.  This project allows simple GUI, webbased management of
> > any box, including the Cobalt hardware.  It also seems to be a lot less
> > messed up internally than Sun's gui solution.
> 
> Webmin is hardly comparable to the Cobalt GUI, IMO - they work
> in completely different ways.  Webmin's for configuring
> particular network services, whereas the Cobalt GUI aims to be
> more of an "appliance" where everything tends to be more
> centralised/organised, and one GUI operation may do 10 or 15
> things to the system. 
> 
> Webmin also seems to make a huge mess of config files, too, even
> if you don't touch them manually :-(  I've seen some changes
> that have really scared the crap out of me.
> 
> R
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