Hello and welcome to the home of the "pLASTer" project. (Recently re-named from "last".)

What is pLASTer?

pLASTer is a new paradigm for the management of configuration data in UNIX or UNIX-like operating systems. The idea is to create a tool/program that will allow Management Applications to be created without writing any code (or without writing MUCH code). The same tool should allow for the centralization of a variety of configuration tasks as well as the localization of such tasks on a heterogeneous network.

HUH? What is it really?

It's a "malleable" program from which you can configure things like Apache, Samba, Bind (DNS), Qmail, Users and Groups, etc. All from one application that is easy to use, expand and learn.

Note that pLASTer is currently in the early alpha stage, but can already perform many functions very well. I am currently attemping to complete the definition of the meta-language that will allow the definition of a Configurable Application. For this we need to define the following:

• The sources of configuration data for the application.
• The type of source.
• The syntax for the source.
• Keywords in the source.
• Actions which we may want to perform.
• An action on the configuration data.
• An action with the application itself.