Re: system-config-dns?

[Craig White <craigwhite azapple com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 18:48 -0700, Shane Stixrud wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
> > Shane Stixrud wrote:
> >
> > Explain yourself.
> >
> > I can make wild, unsupported assertions too: Some might agree if I said 
> > unkind things about certain world leaders, but those assertions don't deserve 
> > serious consideration if I don't support them with facts and arguments.
> 
> Uhhh if I said Martin Luther King had a dream it would hardly 
> be considered an unsupported assertion as it is documented.  The same is 
> true for RedHat's refusing to include and support webmin as a management 
> interface, it is documented at least once in RedHat Listserv archives.
> 
> If I recall correctly (*DISCLAIMER* THIS WAS AWHILE AGO) the arguments 
> against webmin centered around:
> 
> 1) Supportability (code wise)
> 2) Web centric
> 3) It had a tendency to do un-nice things to formating/pre-existing 
> configurations.
> 
> Again this was awhile ago, but at the very least RedHat said no to 
> backing webmin as the solution for system configuration/replacement for 
> linuxconf.
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and to a large extent, those issues are still true today...it still
takes a web browser, it is complicated perl code (supportability) and it
does take a nice formatted smb.conf file and twist it.

probably the real reason is that it does nothing to distinguish the
redhat brand at all. 

It is an awesome tool (webmin) for LDAP Users & Groups, DHCP and DNS
configuration.

Craig