Re[2]: [cobalt-users] Speaking of a new Raq3 GUI being finished?!?

[Brian Curtis <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kevin,

Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 1:29:41 PM, you wrote:

>> Webmin provides it's own mini httpd server
>> (miniserv.pl), and runs on a user specified port.

KD> If that's the case, you could probably run it on a cobalt without trashing
KD> the original GUI, right?

You can run both simultaneously, you just have to be careful
what you edit with Webmin.

>> I can't really see
>> what you can do with Webmin that you couldn't do with the Cobalt GUI that
>> would make it worth your time to completely trash the Cobalt GUI and make
>> the conversion to Webmin.

KD> I'm not interested in trashing the cobalt GUI, but I wouldn't mind having an
KD> additional one that does NFS, cron jobs, samba, postgreSQL and mySQL admin,
KD> etc.. Also, I assume that webmin looks at config files directly - thus if I
KD> add a user via telnet, it will show up in webmin? This is a drawback to the
KD> cobalt GUI.

As long as you know what the Cobalt GUI can and cannot do, then you
should be all set.  That means use the Cobalt GUI for everything
possible, and Webmin for the rest.

BTW, there's plenty of utilities that will do some of the tasks you
mention above.  Most notably, phpMyAdmin and pgsqMyAdmin (sp?).
phpMyAdmin is far superior than Webmin's MySQL module.


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Best regards,
 Brian Curtis