From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:53:35 -0500 From: "Joseph Olson" Subject: Re: AW: [linux-lvm] GUI-Frontend (Gnome) availiable/planed? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com Another suggestion for GUI-Frontend for linux-lvm. Instead of a GUI how about using OpenLDAP for control/configuration(LVM<---= >LDAP). This would be part of kernel. Then have a another standalone = program talk to the LDAP(LDAP<--->GUI). Security issues handled by the = security features already part of LDAP. And if you are really ambituous = modify LinuxConfig, AutoConfig(configuration tool from Red Hat), Coda,Cola(= configuration tool from Caldera) for LDAP. >>> "Daniel Whicker" 09/07/99 01:06PM >>> There may be some issues with using a web interface like SWAT for LVM. = First, you'd need to ensure that the security is rock solid. Unlike SWAT, = an LVM web server would actually have the ability to be quite destructive,= as oposed to a denial of service. Also, if you were to create a web = based LVM GUI, you'd want to take advantage of graphics to represent your = PVs, VGs, LVs, which might preclude using Lynx. While the LVM commands = might be a bit obscure to the average user, would a forms menu be much = less obsure without some graphical representation of what you're really = doing? This isn't to say a forms based menu wouldn't be useful, but = rather that it may not be what's needed to introduce people to the concept = of an LVM. --Daniel At Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:16:46 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: > >M.Ritzert@CENIT.DE writes: > >> > i wonder if someone is working on an GUI-Interface for the LVM? =20 >> > Maybe for Gnome? If not, i like to do the work..=20 >> Good idea, but please keep it as GUI-Framework independent as >> possible ---- some LVM users might prefer KDE or WindowMaker/GNUStep >> .. > >> > I have some ideas how such a tool could look like. >> Why not a web based tool in analogy to swat? If done right, this >> could be used even on the system console (under lynx). >This is a very good idea! It should be much easier to make too. And >i like the idea to use it on a system console (so you can use it on a >telnet-session). > >carsten > >--=20 >Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net=20 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Access your e-mail anywhere, at any time. Get your FREE BellSouth Web Mail account today! http://webmail.bellsouth.net=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= -