From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 24 14:39:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from megamail.megared.net.mx (unknown [207.249.163.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0876E14EAD for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:39:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from [207.249.163.251] by megamail.megared.net.mx (NTMail 3.03.0017/4c.ab3r) with ESMTP id sa332142 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:36:40 -0500 Message-ID: <013701bebe89$bcfac2a0$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramírez" To: "Francisco Reyes" , "FreebSD ISP list" References: <199906240447.AAA21437@arutam.inch.com> Subject: RE: Need suggestions. What features needed for admin tool? Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:37:19 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Have you tried "webmin" http://www.webmin.com , its free and its very good very customizable. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Francisco Reyes To: FreebSD ISP list Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 11:48 PM Subject: Need suggestions. What features needed for admin tool? > About a month ago I bought a web based admin tool for FreeBSD called > Netmax. > It basically presents an HTML front end to DNS, Mail, Samba, backup, > IFPW and other services. > > In talks with the vendor and from comments (or lack thereof) in > lists/newsgroups I have not seen anyone else using Netmax. > > A few ISPs I mentioned it said they had too many custom setups to have > a tool like this be helpfull. > > The question I have is what features would such and admin tool need to > have to be attractive to a FreeBSD ISP or a site admin. > > The makers of this product seem to be very receptive and have talked to > them voice a few times. > > My interest lies in finding how this product can best serve the FreeBSD > community. They are coming out with a Linux port and I would hate to > see them dropping FreeBSD in the future because it didn't sale enough > (i.e. FreeBSD users did not think it was worth buying). > > The only thing I didn't like was the price. :-( > It cost about $500, but at leat in my case it was woth it because the > amount of time it would have taken me more than $500 worth my time. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message