On Tuesday 05 February 2002 08:16, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > IMHO, there's nothing inherently wrong with GUI config tools > (properly secured). I would like to see a consistent configuration > system for the next generation LEAF that allows text-based menu > configiguration via scripts on the default system, with the option of > adding a web GUI if desired (sort of a light-weight linuxconf that > actually works). It should also be possible to edit config files by > hand without confusing the config menu front-end.
hehe, Linuxconf .... more like Webmin :) OK, that pretty much eliminates any CGI except shell then. It's likely the best option, being the perl is not possible on a floppy. I imagine licensing would be a issue with vitually any other scripting language anyway. > The ease of use this provides would help widen the user base, and I > think the discipline of maintaining a consistent configuration scheme > will add to both understandability and ease of administration. As > long as the power to manually edit the config-files directly is still > available (w/o completely confusing the GUI tools), I don't see where > this has any big negatives (other than the obvious time/effort > involved in building the configuration framework in the first place). In other words, it will require using "sh", sourcing file(s), mandatory function style, dire commenting, and a good working knowledge of "sed" (that I'll likely become _much_ more familiar with). Can you use "POST" in sh-httpd or is this going to have to move to thttpd? Do you have an existing release config file form you would like to base off of, or do we do one from scatch? Every character in the McDonald's theme has a menu item associated with it except Ronald, what exactly does Ronald represent? hehe -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
