Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 13:57:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Cc: ron@infi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysAdmin Tools - ideas wanted Message-ID: <199607052057.NAA15501@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <17233.836594040@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 5, 96 08:14:00 pm
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> Hrm. I have a bunch of mail sat in my mailbox on this subject. It's a > very interesting subject to deal with properly. I think I can say now > that you're heading down the wrong road. A tcl/tk front end, while > nice, doesn't provide the facilities needed IMHO, unless you TOTALLY > separate the tcl end out so that it can be run standalone from the > command line, and in a batch operation mode (i.e. non-interactive). Yes yes yes. The GUI/text/sysadm/etc. front end should be totally seperate from the database manipulation tools invoked to back-end the administration. I'd like to see one program for a front end, and multiple tools that get invoked as a result of front end manipulation. Tcl/tk are OK for the fornt end tool, but not the backend implementation. > If you want to wait a few days, I can start up an e-mail dialogue with > you on this ... I'm a bit busy working on the release of 2.1.5 at the > minute. Jordan has some stuff to say on this as well (I assume he's busy too). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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