Re: More exciting OS X Server crapness...
- From: Bonge Boo! <bingbong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:29:15 +0000
On 22/1/06 13:49, in article Vby*Gno9q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tim
Cutts" <timc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> At random the Mail admin module stops being able to write changes to the
>> etc/postfix/main.cf.
>>
>> So you end up editing it by hand. Which negates the point of paying for the
>> GUI in the first place.
>
> GUIs and human-editable config files rarely mix. The GUIs never allow
> you to do anything but the simplest configs, and if you dare do
> something more complex to the config by hand, you must never touch the
> GUI again. Such is the way of things, grasshopper. Especially with
> software like postfix which was never designed to be configured by GUI.
Well normally I'd defer to your better wisdon, my experience is limited. But
the really annoying thing is its random. I'd only made some minor changes to
Postfix by hand, purely because the GUI had stopped working. After doing
that GUI sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. I've seen the same thing with
editing zone files and OS X Server.
Added to the fact that the Serve Admin tools often fail to update when you
are working remotely, management is a bit crap. For the life of me I can't
understand how it can be faster and more accurate controlling the Xserve via
VNC/RD running Admin tools locally, rather than using Server Admin Tools as
they are intended. They are dog slow when they aren't controlling a "local"
machine.
OS X Server is a strange strange beast.
.
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