On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:29, Todd Cary wrote:
What is needed IMHO is a *task* oriented book for beginning system administration - not the normal structure of most Linux books.
If you can describe it in a task oriented step-by-step approach you could just as easily script it so that no one would ever have to do those steps again. If you have a situation that fits the appliance-oriented approach (an office or home with one server and one internet connection) you might like the SME server from http://www.contribs.org. Administration is all through web forms and is task oriented. The next version will have Centos inside. I'd just rather see something with similar concepts that could be added on to a stock distribution like webmin instead of making something completely different. Unlike webmin, it maintains its own database to rebuild config files and in many cases it combines concepts for simplicity. For example, if you create a 'group' you automatically get an email distribution group and a unix permission group at the same time. Likewise, you add an 'information bay' or ibay and get a samba share, an ftp directory, and a web site all at the same time.