Linux admin tasks

[threaded]

Can anyone who is into Linux stuff please post here which most commonly used tools are the most annoying to configure and could benefit from nice GUI to do the job - it should be simple to implement too, say cron, Apache is certainly common but also complex. Anything as easy (yet used fairly often) as cron? This is for SKA but not mine.

I use VIM, or VI if VIM is not available.

 

[DaveB]

I use subversion repositories to manage distributed configuration. I ssh to target machines to check out configuration changes over the network and restart the services.

No GUI tools are needed. No GUI tools SHOULD be needed.

Bastards to configure:

dhcpd
bind
apache
sendmail
lvm / evms

Sendmail is quite possibly the worst app to configure on any platform. A useable, understandable and manageable GUI for that would be a godsend.

 

[DimPrawn]

I find Windows a good GUI, why don't you use that like normal computer users?

 

[TheMonkey]

Sendmail is quite possibly the worst app to configure on any platform. A useable, understandable and manageable GUI for that would be a godsend.

Yes indeed.

I tend to just replace it with postfix which is far nicer.

I also use vim!

 

[Fleetwood]

Moderator !
Move this thread to "Technical". It's interfering with all the mindless tulipe on here.

 

[cojak]

Wot - like the "how can i hack around my client's network without getting caught 'cos I'm too tight to buy my own computer" type posts?

Hmmm..?

 

[Fleetwood]

Wot - like the "how can i hack around my client's network without getting caught 'cos I'm too tight to buy my own computer" type posts?

Hmmm..?

Touché, Jacko.
But if that post doesn't go down as "mindless tulipe", then what does?