RE: [cobalt-users] Control Panel

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Probably been asked a thousand times already, but I'll try my luck.
I don't know if we've passed the 999th time or not <laugh> but what the
heck!!

> Does anyone have any recommendations for an alternative
> control panel for a RaQ4r?
Pardon me for seeming to be dense, but are you referring to a GUI??? If
so then webmin comes to mind. http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ has **TONS**
of info on it.
There was a thread about a week ago which regrettably died, concerning
GUI's and alternative options available for the Cobalt installed GUI.

I've used webmin on plain vanilla redhat boxen and it's quite a neat
package all things considered. Since the OS on a Cobalt machine is a
redhat derivative, it **should** work nicely. On a regular RH box webmin
installs almost effortlessly, and I can't see any reason why things
should be any different on a Cobalt box...however...<sigh>...you never
really know for sure in the Cobalt world. There might well be surprises
in store.

I've rumbled and grumbled publicly about the Webmin GUI changes being
overwritten by the Cobalt GUI at reboot, but if you are *replacing* one
with the other then any issue about overwriting config files becomes
moot.

If you elect to install this as an **alternative** to the Cobalt GUI,
feedback on what you did to rid yourself of one, and subsequent
"gotchas" you might encounter when installing and configuring the other,
sent to the list, would be a service to all. (I think that's the mother
of all run-on sentences, but I'm in a hurry and cannot take time to
craft a better alternative...sorree!)
Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven