From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 7 05:01:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08400 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 05:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA08374 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 05:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07140; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:58:53 GMT Message-ID: <3489682C.51978766@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 14:58:53 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: veith@bigfoot.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion: X administration frontend ? References: <19971207120629.11593.rocketmail@web4.rocketmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Veith wrote: > Hello, > > I have just seen some snapshots of the new SVR5 by SCO with its new > "SCOadmin" tool. With that it is possible to set up a great deal of > system specific things like printer setup, user and network (ppp, ...) > management, video configuration, sendmail and so on. > We have workin SCO system with this, in really it is not very nice. > I am missing that for FreeBSD. Yes, many of you will say that this is > like WinDOS, but a powerful system like UNIX with its plenty of admin > tools and config files needs too long to set up correctly. I like the > power of FreeBSD very much but I am as well happy that I am using it > only at home and not in a huge network. ;-) > I am really sorry that I can only suggest this and not program it but > my knowledge of C is really too small. :-( > Nevertheless I hope someone will understand the point and think of > implementing it. > It was discussion in some of freebsd lists about http frontend to configuration. I don't know the results. May be anybode can remember ? - > Stefan. > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com