Re: [webmin-devel] Webmin feature enhancement idea to recover from mistakes

[Hugo C. <hug...@ya...>]

You can implement such a feature with a version
control tool.  Since webmin is mainly dealing with
single configuration files having a linear version
history, CVS is appropriate (although I like PRCS much
more).  An undo or redo simply means checking out a
particular version from the repository, something 
that could easily be done by a stand-alone
application, without user-intervention, e.g. to
automate recovery from a misconfigured system after a
time-out.

Due to the added complexity for the user, perhaps such
a feature should be a webmin option.


Hugo


--- Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> This sounds quite similar to another feature that
> people have 
> suggested - the ability to 'undo' changes made using
> webmin. However, 
> that one is currently way down my TODO list, due to
> the complexity of 
> tracking changes made to each config file so that
> they can be reversed 
> properly. And in some cases (like deleting a user's
> home directory), 
> undoing such a change would be impossible.
> 
> So unfortunately, a confirmation or undo feature
> like this is probably 
> not going to appear for a while..


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