The GUI tools are not, nor ever have been 100%
replacement for knowing what's going on.
True. Apple, however, markets Server as a GUI to
set up a basic server, without going under the
hood. If one wanted to just use the Terminal,
fine, but then there would be no point in
marketing the GUI. I don't want to do
sophisticated set ups, Just getting three e-mail
accounts to work with virtual domains would be
sufficient. The GUI can't do it.
I should note that the web side of things is much better behaved.
That's part of being a sysadmin/
It's all a question of degree. If you sell a GUI
and market it as what is needed for a simple set
up, the product should work as advertised and
documented. Currently, it does not, even for
three e-mail accounts. I've reïnstalled the OS
oh-so-carefully over 15 times to be sure it's not
me. Just getting those three accounts to work is
beyond it.
The command line is ...an incredibly powerful tool that allows you to do
things you would be hard-put to do as easily with the GUI alone.
Given the advertising, marketing, and
documentation, setting up three e-mail accounts
is not a sophisticated set up and should be
possible using the GUI. I'm not asking much, here.
Of course, you have a support contract with Apple, right?
Right. $5,000 to $50,000 for a bug in a $600
product. If this were about my attempting a
sophisticated set up, I'd agree with you. But my
beef with Apple is about getting the product to
work as advertised. And I'm certainly not the
only one to have run across similar issues with
Apple. I have a friend who for a long time relied
on Tiger Server and is poised to go back to it,
given the problems he has experienced with it.
My very simple expectations are reasonable, given
how the product is sold. I'm not expecting my
server to fly me to the moon. The day I want it
to do that, I'll take a lot of sysadmin courses.
Until then, the GUI, according to the
documentation, is sufficient for my needs. It's
all about reasonableness, and I'm only asking a
very little of the software.
T.
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