From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 12:56:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15625 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 12:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.visigenic.com (odin.visigenic.com [204.179.98.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15620 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 12:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from VSI48 (vsi48.visigenic.com [206.64.15.185]) by odin.visigenic.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA13671 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 12:56:29 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970505125618.0098bd70@visigenic.com> X-Sender: toneil@visigenic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 12:56:18 -0700 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Tim Oneil" Subject: Re: Antispam sendmail.cf modifications.. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason wrote: > > hmmm, someone should develop a tcl/tk interface to sendmail.cf so that it > > is easier to administer. heck, if someone can write a gui for NT to > > sendmail.cf, why can't someone do it for unix ? > >...who needs a GUI when you have m4? :-) > >Dunno...I'm skeptical of GUIs for system configuration. Just seems >that there's no way they could ever be flexible enough to handle everyting. I agree with you, and hp's smit (or whatever the hell its called) is a good example of that. But lets face it, GUI's are not going away, ever. They are going to get even more GUI. Might as well get comforatble with the X toolkit. Which reminds me, I was in the middle of doing some system admin stuff when I thought "Man, it would be nice to have all my users and groups in listed in boxes and stuff." Maybe a character/curses front end to begin with. Would anyone think this was worthwhile? If I wanted a signature, which I don't, I would use this. -Tim