ISP Webfrontends for Management

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Hi Michael,


Michael Schuh wrote:
> Hi @list,
> 
> (i would answer to the list, not to the persons only)
> 
> First thanks for the suggestions.
> 
> Now my personal opinions:
> I like solutions that ar small, smart and easy to administrate/update.
> Such as syscp. But syscp doesn't have all the functionality that i like.
> dtc looks very good, but have tons of dependencies that are not really
> needed.
> raqdevil shold be a good solution if it get installed right, but it doesn't
> in a jail.
> 
> webin is overloaded, while the customer from me doesn't like a fully system
> management, and in the last twelve years of my experiences with
> linux/freebsd
> i have many many boxes seen that have been cracked and misused as
> mailgateways/streamingservers
> or public ftpservers from crackers. because the updates from webin are not
> all times
> maked fast enough.
> 
> qmail is good but for me it is a little bit to complex to handle,
> i prefer combinations such as
> named(bind9)/postfix/sa/dspam/cyrus-imap(also with murder-config) or courier
> or dovecot for small
> enviroments. for Databases i like to prefer postgresql before mysql and
> apache or lightttpd.
> 
> And that are the components that i have to manage over a single webfrontend.
> So that at this moment syscp is the only one that can handle this and only
> this,
> not more and not less, but it lacks of support for sa/dspam.
> ok dspam brings his own webfrontend but sa not and sa is very complex
> to configure while it has tons of features......so i think about it to leave
> it out from
> the box and use only dspam.....
> 
> the webfrontends for cyrus are not really good IMHO
> 
> thanks for your suggestions

It's been almost 70 days since you first posted question regarding "the 
ISP Webfrontends for Management".

I am quite curious as to what solution you may have implemented?

Among syscp/dtc/raqdevil, which one have you deployed or did you find a 
better solution?

Thanking you...




> 
> regards
> 
> michael
> 
> Michael Schuh wrote:
>>> Hi @list,
>>>
>>> i search a good/reliable/stable possibility to manage
>>> Domains/users/mailaccounts/webspace/servers etc.
>>> per Http...
>>>
>>> I have searched throug google and the ports-tree and the only
>>> two frontends that i have found are sysutils/syscp and www/raqdevil.
>>>
>>> syscp shows me very clear and a little bit poor but stable and mature
>> enough
>>> to use it.
>>>
>>> raqdevil is horridble to install clean and runnable in a jail,
>>> and it uses originally code from SUN Microsystems Cobalt-Raq's,
>>> so that it seems to me a little bit difficult to use it.....
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to other frontends ( preferred supported through the
>>> ports-tree),
>>> and/or to an frontend to cfengine ( if it gave one)?
>>>
>>> Thanks for all
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> michael
>>


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With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

System Administrator

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np

http://teklimbu.wordpress.com