Re: Newbye question bis

At 4:42 PM -0000 5/3/98, Rich Roth wrote:
>On Sun, 3 May 1998, Dominique Broeglin wrote:

Pretty much the same way you can use perl, or cgi-bin/c, or whatever. I use PHP for a number of server-monitoring tasks, including running top, df, and other server applications. But I think Java on both server & client is best (as long as I can run it on the Mac's perennially-late-jdk). Primary reason is the relative cleanliness and simplicity of socket connections, etc. which make the interface truly wysi, not paged like a web form.

As I recall, Stronghold's web-based configuration tool uses Python, which is also a server-side scripting tool.

All you're doing is manipulating text files (httpd.conf, srm.conf, mime.types, etc. depending on version/preference) and 'HUP'ing the server. The latter is the only ticklish bit. - run a suid script? Guess I'll have to take a closer look at the Stronghold tool.

I could definitely see a dbm-style database of configuration parameters, with the output the appropriate .conf files. To go farther, I'd like to have a config tool that can be itself configured to support other items, like the Dynamo java-based engine. Now, if THAT configuration was doable via itself,... Hochstaeder (sp?) would be proud. (ref. "Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid") Received on Sun May 03 17:10:04 1998