From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) Subject: Re: CFC/CFI: XSysadmin Date: 8 Oct 1993 01:48:59 -0500
will@oliver (Michael Will) writes:
>CFC / CFI Call for Code / Call for Ideas :-)
>Xsysadmin - this is what I want to write, only I think there already is
>a lot of code outside?
I have been thinking about this for a while too. I think it's a very
good idea. In fact, when I learn a little more about C and X11
programming and when I have some free time I even plan to take it up
myself. However, the scope of my program idea is a lot more narrower:
it only deals with user maintainance (adding/deleting). Right now I use
the add_user/delete_user program with their long and hard-to-remember
command lines. A X11 interface based on either OI/OB or Tcl/Tk would be
much more intuitive. It doesn't even have to be too complicated, just
gather up the parameters and pass them to add_user/delete_user... Like
another poster said, a curses/ncurses based interface should also be
available for those not running X.
>Please contact me if you are working on something similar, have done something
>alike or have something stuffed away which did not work to well...
>I would like to make a LinuxConfigurationtool for
> - usermaintainement (incl. shadow-support)
> - uucp
> - smail
> - cnews / tin
> - internet
> - cron
> - printers
>I do not know whether it is a good idea to put this all into one program,
>especially since many people should contribute to this program - I cannot
>do it all alone.
I think it's quite ambitious for you to tackle all aspects of
system configuration. Perhaps you should coordinate your efforts with
the maintainers of these packages?
-- Nan