Consider the following

From: Randy Terbush <randy(at)zyzzyva.com>
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 15:55:29 EDT

I'd like to divert our attention from the actual GUI to _one_ possible manifestation of the interface to the configuration server.

For example:

telnet config.yourserver.org 8080
Password: .....
config>
config> show config

        .... output of config in familiar format ....

config> show config vhost www.someotherserver.org

<VirtualHost>

		ServerName www.someotherserver.org
		DocumentRoot .....
		.....


	

config> edit config vhost www.someotherserver.org password>.....
config-edit> documentroot /some/different/directory config-edit> save exit
config> show stats vhost www.someotherserver.org

        ......

config> save sql sqlhost.server.org
config> save file /usr/local/etc/httpd.conf
config> exit

With this type of interface to the _running_ configuration of the server, everyone here can go out and create whatever GUI they wish. It only needs to speak the language of this interface. It offers other benefits such as realtime syntax checking, access to running configuration info, debugging capability, etc.

Thoughts? Received on Fri Jun 20 12:57:47 1997