GUI server tools?

[John]

volvoguy wrote:
> For the record Dave, I absolutely agree with your last two emails -
> despite the fact that that may sound contrary to what I said
> originally.
> 
> I think an Ubuntu equivalent of the "server" tools (more like
> filesharing tools) that OS X provides would be a welcome and wonderful
> addition. If you notice though in OS X, the GUI pretty much just lets
> you turn these services on and off. If you need to configure things,
> you still have to edit config files (unless I'm missing something). I


I'm sure you are. There are menus & forms to configure wirelkess and 
other network kit on my laptop. There are forms to create and alter user 
accounts.

I do think if I want to configure Apache I have to resort to vim or 
similar (yes, Apache is standard issue on the modern Mac Laptop).

Most of the user stuff is covered by forms, not so server stuff. Except 
I've not seen the server version except briefly and I do recall a 
colleague fiddling round in a GUI there.



I've bee surveying the opposition: RHEL 4 is in beta, and there is a 
configuration tool for Apache there.

Looks like a checkbox option: doesn't allow one to specify much, writes 
lots and lots of blank lines to the config file. Id did pevent me from 
configuring two name-based virtualhosts: I'd need to read lots to find 
that's a nono.

I think though I'd be better-off with a template and a script that tells 
  me what its commandline should be.