On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard <m...@bioxray.au.dk>wrote:
> > On 20/10/2009, at 15.35, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > > >>> I will never understand why a server GUI would improve anything? > > > > I will never understand why elitists hate GUIs. A good UI should > > improve > > things by absolutely preventing misconfiguration. > > That's because the GUI often gets in the way of good sysadm practices > and also automated configuration such as cfengine and the like. > > One example is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which used to be a simple 3 > line file that in karmic has been replaced with a complex and > intransparent resolvconf system, that is part of the network > configuation gui and clobbers /etc/resolv.conf at every boot. > IIRC, resolvconf leaves a big fat #AUTOGENERATED, DO NOT EDIT comment line in the file, so at least any potential conf-file monkeys looking to poke around are clued in, and presumably a short operation can tell resolvconf to go away or at least disable itself. > > There's a huge difference maintaining a single-user system on a laptop > and hundreds of workstations. > > -- Morten > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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