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Re: webmin



Re,
>Yeah, right. The only thing you *need* is a telnet with the ability to
>issue 'killall -9 <the_bastards>'. Then you can think about GUIs. I said
>so before. The only trick is, how do you convince click-happy would-be
>Apache users that writing configuration files using vi in a L95 telnet
>window after reading a 30-page manual (yuck) is better than
>click-click-click-<whee-splash> (whee-splash is the sound lemmings make
>when they go over the cliff).
Well, apache rpm comes with default configs, if I recognize
correctly, which need only two modifications to launch simple web server,
IIRC - ServerName and ServerAdmin. Both are not required to have
something operational, though... And if you want to make something
customised, believe me, will it be Apache, IIS, Netscape or anything - you
are doomed to RTFM. GUI won't help you here - to know where to click, you
should read the manual. And since most windoze online helps are in the
style of <<to enable XYZT Superflous Aggregation Module press the button
named "Enable XYZT Superflous Aggregaion">>, without explaining what said
function does or why you may need it, you are doomed to RTFM twice as
much. 
And you haven't to use vi (which I once had to use for a copule of weeks
on a newly installed system  - and guess what? - after installing other
editors I still use it ;) - there are pico, jed, jot, emacs-no-x, etc.,
etc.  ;))
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