From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 10:01:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15901 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:01:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15895 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:01:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29017; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:11:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980302131116.16465@vmunix.com> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:11:16 -0500 From: Mark Mayo To: Amancio Hasty , Alex Belits Cc: Niall Smart , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. References: <199803021307.FAA10631@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803021307.FAA10631@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 05:07:31AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 05:07:31AM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Well, all this is academic for "we ain't got no" application developers > in this group . :-) As it turns out, myself and 3 others will be attempting a FreeBSD GUI admin system (client/server) over the summer for a course credit. Right now, the initial design is leaning towards using a C++ server and a Java client talking to it over an established protocol. Likely going to be using LDAP for distribution, etc, as Terry suggested in a much earlier post. So, wait til summer and then we'll see what happens. :-) With my project, and the 2 others that are going on right now (HTTP based, and the Tcl/Tk one) by fall I suspect there will be some rather neat administration tools for FreeBSD. Yeah! -Mark > > > Cheers, > Amancio > > > > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > > > > > > > I never said that anything that configures system remotely should be > > > > > written in shell. Perl is adequate, but I rather prefer C++, which is > > > > > still more flexible and efficient than java. > > > > > > > > Yeap, I have to agree that C++ is significantly faster than Java for system > > > > configuration 8) > > > > > > I disagree, C++ may be faster than Java, but that difference is not > > > significant when doing GUI-type system administration. > > > > On the client side -- maybe, but when I am remotely changing something on > > a system that already is in some kind of trouble (and possibly has a lot > > of resources used up), I will rather depend on something small, fast, > > and preferrably kept running, and sleeping most of time. > > > > -- > > Alex > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message