[olug] System management tools

[Sean Kelly]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:17:12AM +0000, Cale Lewis wrote:
> I was going to say that although It may sound lame to those with more 
> experience, I use Webmin occasionally. Not having a lot of experience under 
> my belt, it often eases the pain of differing config file organization 
> between OSes, and works on almost everything I've got running. The one 
> weakspot for me has been IRIX, which isn't quite 'there yet' in Webmin.

It is defantly a good tool, but it is noo substitute for getting your hands
dirty and learning by Just Doing It. I can't recommend this approach
enough. Webmin is great, but you really should know how the stuff works
under the hood and be fairly familiar with it if you want to do more than
basic desktop work. And for basic desktop work, I'd suggest stucking to
your distribution's tools.

Sometimes the best way to go is to just get a cheap toy machine and play
with it, break it, fix it, break it again, and fix it again. It can be fun,
frustrating, educational and dangerous to your sanity all at the same time.

> Since Webmin is Python-based IIRC, I wonder if much of it (ie: the modules) 
> couldn't be used to fill gaps in something else that comes close to doing the 
> job via a script.

It is actually Perl.

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