Am 27.08.2011 00:43, schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Am 26.08.2011 19:56, schrieb Reindl Harald: >>> >>> Am 26.08.2011 19:28, schrieb John: >>>> I do not want to start a flam war, but what are the thoughts on using >>>> webmin >>>> as a tool to administer postfix (+dovecot, but that is outside this group) >>> missing knowledges, inwilling to learn and the naive hope a GUI >>> which is hiding complex things behind some beautiful windows >>> will be an anlterantive to learn how things are working >>> >> i use it on relay setups , for editing >> i.e relay users,domains tables for windows guys >> who dont know ssh etc >> i wouldnt recommend it as general tool, but in parts it can be very >> helpfull, you may use a seperate webmin user and restrict/hide editing >> parameter settings etc > > I use it for managing bind files - it's simply easier and less prone to > errors > than navigating through text files full of DNS records
on the other hand it took my one night to get a own named-backend for mysql generating the "bind-files" in a text-field and the servers are checking via cron if there are changes, two years later it took 2 hours to get this thing optimized for generate a translation LAN/WAN in a second text-field to provide public dns and LAN-DNS for some hundret domains via a unique backend additionally a-records in the backend undrstand servernames without domain and while writing the "zone-file" it will be replaced with the ip, nice for manage MX/A-Record while never have a IP more than once this are the differences between any generic gui crap where you never know what happens if you start needing extended options nor is your config readable most of the times or unneeded complex well, the mailserver backend took much longer but here you have also options for "company-hacks" in the webinterface and you can add tables/translations and automatisms exactly how you need them generic webuis always support only a subset of options and if your needs are changing you get a hughe problem eating all the time you thought saved
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