Hi. I wonder people in business world will use Webmin or similar tools to manage the (web/ mail/ ftp/ MySQL...etc) servers? Or people will only use vim to edit the configuration files?

Thanks.

personally i do it all by hand but a lot of people use things like cpanel as most 'customers' want it as they know how to use it and only that

If you are going to use webmin it's more than likely you have reasonable knowledge of how to operate the server in the first place so it would be the better option just not to use it but obviously it makes things slightly easier.

I personally would just avoid the control panel all together, it's much less bother without them.

IMO Running Webmin is risky and if its not configured correctly, your server might get hacked...

I rather do everything by hand.

I run a "siseable" business network alongside customers and apart from writing custom scripts to "get the job done" so you could say that most of the administrational work is done by in-house tools although I've taken the liberty to borrow some tools from Novell.

However I do most of the uncommon work by hand.

I use webmin

I love webmin. My company installs a linux based phone system and I have to use webmin on a regular basis. I love it.

I use webmin, but only on a LAN without the ports being available to the outside world. Granted it is only on my home-server but it helps me get the jobs done when I can't be bothered to do it through shell etc.

Ditto.

I use Webmin from my LAN, without outside users being able to access the server on the webmin port (10 000).

I don't use webmin, because sometimes it will mangle your config files if you try to do anything to them without going through webmin. Not to mentions the possible security implications it has.

smitty - game over

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I've been looking at ISPConfig. But I dont know what people think about it. & if there's something better in the market...


Thats free ofcourse.

Smitty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_SMIT

Better than sliced bread unfortunately only found on AIX

I use Webmin on my home Ubuntu server. It does the job, but I like hopping in config files when I need something done fast. Nevertheless, it's useful.

I am a sys admin for a national telecom company. I install and manage Linux, HP-Unix and Solaris servers running in multiple locations accross the country with a variety of different services running on them. None of which I have any extra "tools" or webmin running. After all, you have a development environment to mess around with, but when it comes to production servers you want to keep it as clean as possible.

vi and knowledge of the servers/daemons etc is the best means of administration imo. If that means installing webmin on a dev box to get that knowledge, then so be it

i have it installed, helps as ive never had a linux server before.


ste

I do everything by hand. I can't be bothered to install a CP, and there's security issues around it that I can't be bothered to read up on.

By hand on my Debian FTP/HTTPd/DNSd/DHCPd/Router/Fileserver.

Though I did contemplate it...

I use webmin

I was always doing it by hand. Somewhere down the road I got tired of the ssh term. Wanted Lazyness I guess. I'll putty in when I need things done beyond webmins capabilities.

But it's locked down to restricted ip/user/personal generated ssl cert and off port 10000.

Same here

I had been doing it by hand all along and only today installed webmin for the first time on my ubuntu home server. I like it so far.

Same... Why go through the extra hassle when you can do it easier?