Web-Based config

[Dan Rich]

Mike McClure said:

> I'd really like to see a Webmin module for this.  Tim Neimueller made a module
> for Netsaint a long time ago, but it doesn't work with the template configs.

I really like the sound of this.

> I started to modify Tim's code to work w/ the templates, but lost interest.
> If someone wants to help me finish it, I would be willing to pick it back up.
> It's in Perl, of course.

Since one of my biggest user complaints is the lack of an administrative
interface, I may be willing to give you a hand with this.  I've already
written some code to parse the config files, as I needed to be able to report
on them (i.e. someone asked me "What services will I get paged for" and there
is no way to generate that with the existing tools).

> The main reason I lost interest is because I couldn't figure out an elegant
> way to deal with objects in different files.  For instance, how do you deal
> with a template in one file, and it getting used with an object in a different
> file?  I'd hate to force a 'single file' configuration on users.

When I was thinking of building my own configuration tool, I was going to
collapse my multiple configuration files into a single file.  The thing is, if
you are only administering it via. a web interface, you shouldn't care what
the back-end looks like.  At least, that was my initial thinking....

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