Linuxconf?

[Mike Rambo]

I'd probably second the motion for webmin that some else suggested. As
was mentioned, it works with ssl. But to answer your question, Linuxconf
does have a CLI you could use in a telnet (or similar) session (does
everything the GUI does). Linuxconf was the standard config tool for
RedHat though at least 6.2 - not sure about the newer verisons.

I'll also mention that webmin has the added advantage (over linuxconf
anyway AFAIK) of being able to use third party plugin modules. There are
a number of third party modules already available and you being a guy
with the programming skills you possess I'm sure you could roll your own
anyway.

Hope this helps.


-- 
Mike Rambo
mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us



Edward Glowacki wrote:
> 
> Yesterday on my way home from work I thought, "Wouldn't it be great
> to have a nice console tool for managing my Linux box?"  Today I
> was searching and came across Linuxconf.  I played around with the
> web demo, but that's *definately* not what I want, especially the
> part about opening a socket to the world... Bad Things(tm).  Has
> anyone used the console interface to Linuxconf, and if so, is it
> any good?  If not, are there any console interfaces to something
> similar that could manage network, services, firewall, filesystem
> mounting, etc.?  (This would be primarily for my laptop, but
> it might be nice to have at home too in case I wanted to test
> some stuff without having the boot-time delay starting it every time.)
> 
> I'm hoping to keep most things on one screen, though maybe have
> some sub-screens for big categories like network services if they
> grow out of hand.  The key here is to keep it fairly simple, so
> theoretically I could show up at a LUG meeting (heheh, nice thought,
> isn't it? ;) ), plug in, start DHCP, then start Zope so that someone
> else in the room can play around with it for a bit.
> 
> Here's what I see in my mind's eye:
> 
> =======================
> 10:58AM  up 48 days, 18:07, 10 users, load averages: 1.39, 1.34, 1.39
> The network is DOWN.  IP address = 0.0.0.0
>     Load configuration      [work] [home] [dialup]
>     Start network using     [eth0/DHCP] [eth0/static] [ppp0]
>     Firewall is INACTIVE.   [activate firewall]
>     SSHD is running.        [stop SSHD] [restart SSHD]
>     Apache is NOT running.  [start Apache]
>     Zope is NOT running.    [start Zope]
>     FTP is NOT running.     [start FTP]
>     NFS is NOT running.     [start NFS]
>     AFS is NOT mounted.     [mount AFS]
> lpd is RUNNING.             [stop lpd]
> APM is ENABLED.             [disable APM]
> Packages updated 2001/03/07             [update packages now]
> Data directory last synced 2001/03/07   [sync data directory now]
> ========================
> 
> The interface would be built maybe with "dialog", or if that won't
> give me the control I need, then curses or s-lang.  Everything in
> [] are buttons: [button] [another button]. Buttons that start services
> could possibly also poke appropriate holes in the firewall, or
> maybe a second button would do that, who knows.
> 
> --
> Edward Glowacki                 glowack2@msu.edu
> Michigan State University
> "...a partial solution to the right problem is better than a complete
> solution to the wrong one." (http://uiweb.com/issues/issue14.htm)
> 
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