some remarks on webmin

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Webmin is a pretty neat program to do system management and cd burning. 
However as you ask for webmin at freshmeat.net you initially don't get 
it. Go to their homepage (in India) and download it from there.

Under 1.91 one cannot use the rpm package, it reconiges Fedora 1 and 
Fedora 2 only, so download the tarball and make the following change:

[gertjan at gershwin webmin-1.140]$ diff -C 1 os_list.txt*
*** os_list.txt 2004-04-14 00:04:52.092762450 +0200
--- os_list.txt.orig    2004-04-06 01:24:06.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 27,30 ****
  Redhat Linux                  Fedora 1        redhat-linux    10.0 
$etc_issue =~ /red\s*hat.*\s10(\.0)?\s/i || `cat /etc/redhat-release 
/etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /red\s*hat.*\s10(\.0)?\s/i || `cat 
/etc/redhat-release /etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /Fedora.*\s1\s/i
! Redhat Linux                  Fedora 1.91     redhat-linux    11.0 
$etc_issue =~ /red\s*hat.*\s10(\.0)?\s/i || `cat /etc/redhat-release 
/etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /red\s*hat.*\s10(\.0)?\s/i || `cat 
/etc/redhat-release /etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /Fedora.*\s1\s/i
! Redhat Linux                  Fedora 2        redhat-linux    12.0 
`cat /etc/redhat-release /etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ 
/Fedora.*\s2\s/i
  Redhat Linux                  2.1AS   redhat-linux    7.3     `cat 
/etc/redhat-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /(Advanced\s+Server.*2\.1)|(AS.*2\.1)/i
--- 27,29 ----
  Redhat Linux                  Fedora 1        redhat-linux    10.0 
$etc_issue =~ /red\s*hat.*\s10(\.0)?\s/i || `cat /etc/redhat-release 
/etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /red\s*hat.*\s10(\.0)?\s/i || `cat 
/etc/redhat-release /etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ /Fedora.*\s1\s/i
! Redhat Linux                  Fedora 2        redhat-linux    11.0 
`cat /etc/redhat-release /etc/fedora-release 2>/dev/null` =~ 
/Fedora.*\s2\s/i
  Redhat Linux
 
Then there is the issue that they use /tmp/.webmin directory to store 
the complete iso first, so that is asking for trouble, do the following:

*** web-lib.pl  2004-04-14 00:09:13.410948315 +0200
--- web-lib.pl.orig     2004-04-14 00:09:02.758693571 +0200
***************
*** 132,134 ****
  {
! local $tmp_base = $gconfig{'tempdir'} || "/sda1/tmp/.webmin";
  local $tmp_dir = -d $remote_user_info[7] && !$gconfig{'nohometemp'} ?
--- 132,134 ----
  {
! local $tmp_base = $gconfig{'tempdir'} || "/tmp/.webmin";
  local $tmp_dir = -d $remote_user_info[7] && !$gconfig{'nohometemp'} ?

I did choose /sda1/tmp but you can put anything there of course.

Before you run ./setup.sh as being su-user check if Net::SSLeay is in 
your Perl distribution, not standard in Fedora 1.91. Thus (there are 
easier methods to do this)

# perl -MCPAN -eshell
 > install Bundle::CPAN
// this will ineractively init /root/.cpan
 > install Net::SSLeay
// this will test at the end some banks and such, and will not succeed
// no sweat, go to /root/.cpan/build/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25
# make install

// goto your webmin-1.40 directory and type
# ./setup.sh


-- 
Vink