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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote:
>Let's be serious, what is wrong with a tool that does everything? We were
>all brought up on .conf files, we learn them, know them, etc. But
>really.why the necessity? Why try to remember the syntax of
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On 16 Jan 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 18:40, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
>> That's for old timers. These days, people want more than an old text
>> editor like vi. That's why I switched to vim ;-)
>
>I gave up on the old text based s
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz posted the following:
RJP>At 1/17/2002 09:02 AM -0500, you wrote:
RJP>>My question is to all, what can webmin do that LC can't? I've found it can
RJP>>only do fewer things.
RJP>
RJP>I use Webmin extensively to ru
At 1/17/2002 09:02 AM -0500, you wrote:
>My question is to all, what can webmin do that LC can't? I've found it can
>only do fewer things.
I use Webmin extensively to run about five servers in three countries. It
has *never* (repeat, *never*) broken anything. It runs in my browser, with
SSL en
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On 17 Jan 2002, Bret Hughes posted the following:
BH>Speaking of the shell-scripting list I guess chuck locked down hie mail
BH>server REALLY tight. I can not longer post to it or sen him a mail to
BH>complain about it. I think it is because I use
What's kills me is that RH "deprecates" Linuxconf in there docs and has no
substitute - what a testimony! In fact, RH always ships a outdated version
of LC, with most of the modules disabled. RH never has considered pulling
the latest LC down from Jacques' site which he made compatible with the
Does
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:34:40PM -0600, JW wrote:
> Hey, no need to change, you were right the first time. emacs has an X
> Window mode too :-)
Tsk, tsk, tsk - if you want to use emacs under X, use XEmacs... :-)
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On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 23:06, David Talkington wrote:
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> Bret Hughes wrote:
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> >> >vi.
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> >> That's for old timers. These days, people want more than an old text
> >> editor like vi. That's why I switched to vim ;-)
> >
> >I gave up o
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:06 am, David Talkington wrote:
> Bret Hughes wrote:
> >> >vi.
> >>
> >> That's for old timers. These days, people want more than an old text
> >> editor like vi. That's why I switched to vim ;-)
> >
> >I gave up on the
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Bret Hughes wrote:
>> >vi.
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>> That's for old timers. These days, people want more than an old text
>> editor like vi. That's why I switched to vim ;-)
>
>I gave up on the old text based stuff now that I user real machines. I
>use gvim --reverse
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 18:40, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> >Chris Montgomery wrote:
> >
> >>Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf? This
> >>isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system.
> >
> >vi.
>
> That's for old time
> I hasten to add that one genuinely good use for front ends like that
> is to watch what they do to the actual configuration files, and learn
> from it. (Learning to configure fetchmail is a whole lot easier when
> you see how fetchmailconf builds a .fetchmailrc, for instance.) I just
> don't thi
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Edward Dekkers posted the following:
ED>Sorry for this bit of ramble, but my opinion is that just because it's not
ED>hard core or 'the way it was done' doesn't mean it shouldn't be done like
ED>that. I really do think it IS all
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Edward Dekkers wrote:
>Imagine all the newbie questions dissappearing off this list for starters
>about where things are.
And imagine all the other newbie questions appearing from guys who
have no idea
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Edward Dekkers wrote:
>Imagine all the newbie questions dissappearing off this list for starters
>about where things are.
And imagine all the other newbie questions appearing from guys who
have no idea how to fix things when the GUI falls down or i
> Indeed. The point we, the smartasses, were making is that Linuxconf
> is a good idea that just happens to be a bad idea. With all due
> respect to its author, who undertook an incredibly ambitious task,
> it's just too flaky in practice. Further -- and though I freely admit
> that this is a p
I thought you guy's banter was rather amusing. You need a good sense of
humor in this business!
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Chris Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess I should have asked if there is another option that runs under x
> windows. Remember, newbie here. :)
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Webmin seems to be a popular choice. Runs its own little webserver, has
the potential for using secur
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>> Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf?
>> This isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system.
>
>Commandline. Linuxconf is available in 7.1. But, it's still dangerous to
>some config files and permissi
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:10:08 -0600
Chris Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf?
> This isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system.
Commandline. Linuxconf is available in 7.1. But, it's still dangerous to
some config fil
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, David Talkington wrote:
>Chris Montgomery wrote:
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>>Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf? This
>>isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system.
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>vi.
That's for old timers. These days, people want more than an old text
editor like vi. That's
Webmin. You can get it at http://www.webmin.com
mw
Chris Montgomery wrote:
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> Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf? This
> isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system.
>
> TIA,
>
> Chris
>
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At 03:18 PM 1/16/2002 -0800, you wrote:
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>Chris Montgomery wrote:
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>>I guess I should have asked if there is another option that runs under x
>>windows. Remember, newbie here. :)
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>gvim.
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>- -d
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>[waits for the other shoe to drop]
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>
Hey, no n
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Chris Montgomery wrote:
>I guess I should have asked if there is another option that runs under x
>windows. Remember, newbie here. :)
gvim.
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I guess I should have asked if there is another option that runs under x
windows. Remember, newbie here. :)
Chris
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DT>>Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf? This
DT>>isn't installed, by def
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Chris Montgomery wrote:
>Dumb newbie question, but what do people use in place of linuxconf? This
>isn't installed, by default, for my RH7.1 system.
vi.
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