Server administration web console design thoughts

[Brett Alton]

But where's ebox-mail? ebox is usless for me without that feature.

Luckily there is a PPA for eBox that gives me all the features:
https://launchpad.net/~juruen/+archive

Support all the modules of eBox and I'll gladly pick it up for my
day-to-day uses.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Nicolas Valcarcel
<nvalcarcel at ubuntu-pe.org> wrote:
> And why should we drop eBox for your new web administration console?
> Wouldn't it be better to contribute to eBox instead of writing a new one
> (Ruby is not SO different from perl*). I don't think a duplication of
> efforts won't be productive unless you have a really different idea, and
> it couldn't be integrated on it. Even for UCSA which will be a CLI tool
> (ncurses based) i have been talking to eBox to try to unify efforts and
> try to reuse code and/or work, not just doing it again. It's just a
> suggestions, don't take it personal or feel offended with this, that's
> not why i tried to express, just making suggestions for making things
> better.
>
> * SO is the key here
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 20:49 -0500, James Dinkel wrote:
>> So I've been thinking about trying my hand at my own web management
>> thingy and maybe some of this could apply to UCSA, also.  To start
>> with, I only know how to program in Ruby, so anything I write will be
>> in Ruby (and probably utilizing Rails).  Now, having an embedded
>> webserver is a must, and COULD be a piece of cake with Ruby by just
>> using WEBrick, Mongrel, or Thin with a Rails application.  However,
>> I'm thinking it would be a great idea to have the web server run from
>> xinetd.  That way it's only running when you need it.  I go for months
>> without logging in via ssh or webmin once my servers are put into
>> production, so this could free up some memory when it's not in use
>> (and every bit helps when you run 10+ virtual machines per server, all
>> hungry for more RAM).
>>
>> So anyway, I have no idea where to even start writing a web service to
>> run from xinetd.  Is it enough to just have a script that outputs html
>> text to stdout?  I'm guessing it's more complicated then that though.
>> Also, what do people think about running a web management console from
>> xinetd in the first place?
>>
>> James Dinkel
>>
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