[plug] Web based administration tools

[Steve Grasso]

Paul,

Mitel SME/e-smith is probably what you want - web-based admin, easy to set 
up, variety of services out-of-the-box -- http://www.e-smith.org/

Smoothwall is great as an easy, out-of-the-box firewall/gateway but probably 
isn't what you want. -- http://www.smoothwall.org/gpl/home/

For general web-based admin have a look at Webmin -- 
http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

Regards,
Steve

On Thursday 22 November 2001 09:57, Arkem wrote:
> I'm setting up a server for a friend of mine and since they aren't
> very linux literate I need a way to make administration tasks as
> simple as possible. This will be a webserver predominantly running
> apache, can anyone recommend some tools that may help? I've heard of
> packages that come with web based control interfaces, these would be
> good and also are the firewall/server distributions (Smoothwall or
> E-smith or whatever) any good for this kind of thing? I was thinking
> of perhaps running Debian on it but if I can't find much in the way
> to make the day to day administration and monitoring easier I'll have
> to consider alternatives.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul