Ubuntu Domain Server

[Shentino]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.au.dk>wrote:

>
> On 20/10/2009, at 15.35, Derek Broughton wrote:
>
> >
> >>> I will never understand why a server GUI would improve anything?
> >
> > I will never understand why elitists hate GUIs.  A good UI should
> > improve
> > things by absolutely preventing misconfiguration.
>
> That's because the GUI often gets in the way of good sysadm practices
> and also automated configuration such as cfengine and the like.
>
> One example is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which used to be a simple 3
> line file that in karmic has been replaced with a complex and
> intransparent resolvconf system, that is part of the network
> configuation gui and clobbers /etc/resolv.conf at every boot.
>

IIRC, resolvconf leaves a big fat #AUTOGENERATED, DO NOT EDIT comment line
in the file, so at least any potential conf-file monkeys looking to poke
around are clued in, and presumably a short operation can tell resolvconf to
go away or at least disable itself.

>
> There's a huge difference maintaining a single-user system on a laptop
> and hundreds of workstations.
>
> -- Morten
>
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