Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Gabriel Dragffy]

John Dangler wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 06:10 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 19:47 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>> What surprises me is that WebMin is not in the official repositories
>>> -- it's such a useful program. 
>> "I didn't say that tools didn't exist; I said they utterly sucked. And I
>> was really hoping no one would bring up webmin. It's a piece of software
>> so horrifyingly vile that we want absolutely _nothing_ to do with it,
>> not even carry it in the Ubuntu archive. The entirety of the
>> ubuntu-server team had a small celebration the day that package was killed."
>>
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-September/020471.html
>>
>>
> So, since webmin is obviously _not_ the developers/maintainers choice,
> what is/are the alternative(s) ?
> One alternative that I tried was ISPConfig (under Breezxy).  ISPConfig
> is a nightmare with Ubuntu, and is as difficult to remove as Norton on
> Doze (and doesn't handle qmail/vpopmail, among other things).
> 
> So, what do the developers/maintainers suggest?
> 
> 

ssh, bit of savvy, and copious usage of man,  I guess.