On 8/29/2014 1:35 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On a server that does not have a gui, only command line. > > In the past I have used webmin, and was happy with it, but it is more > than I really need. > > I COULD rsync the files to my notebook and maintain them there. Probably > should just for backup! > > But is there anything else that is 'safe' to use. vi gets tiring after > a while. when I first started doing DNS, I used this perl script that read a hosts-like file and generated the zone files automatically. this worked great as long as my requirements were fairly simple, but once they exceeded a certain complexity level I've been using VI ever since. never liked those webmin style 'consoles', as they've always seemed like HUGE security risks. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast