Seeking good web sites for Debian tools

[Sami J. Juvonen]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:30:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:18:36AM -0700, C Poda (clp301@poda.net) wrote:

> > Sys admin: Is cfengine worth the effort to learn & use?
> 
> I don't use it, probably should manage /etc somehow.

If you are interested in this sort of thing, infrastructures.org is a
good place to look. I have started to look at cfengine several times but
my round tuits keep falling short. I personally like something more
straightforward like monit.

Tying to the SCM question: ability to save file permissions is a Good
Thing for sysadmins. Maybe other meta-info as well: ACLs, SELinux
attributes and whatnot. 

> > How to handle fax at home w/ Linux?
> 
> My experiences with hylafax were that it's unghodly complex.  I use efax
> currently.  This is an area in which improved user-friendliness would be
> a massive gain.

FWIW, I just noticed that xsane has an interface to sending your scan as
a fax. That's about all I need.


-sami.

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