Installing Webmin on Dapper Server

[Thiesen]

Very nice howto... but just one thing... that install script wants to install Webmin in my "/home/my_account_here/webmin-1.280"... shouldn't it be installed somewhere else??

Weeeee... it worked... nice stuff...

[DirtDart]

Your guide worked like a charm! Thanks for the info.


Anyone know why there isn't a package for webmin for ubuntu ?

[blkish]

Your guide worked like a charm! Thanks for the info.


Anyone know why there isn't a package for webmin for ubuntu ?

The maintainer of the Debian package orphaned it (stopped maintaining) some time ago, and it's since been removed from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories.

Hopefully someone willstep up to maintain the package again, but it won't be in the repos again until that happens.

blkish

[nameiwantistaken]

Anyone else having problems with this running again when you boot. I have to reinstall it every time.

[knowmad]

It appears to me that webmin has made it back into the repository...
Any one know the story behind this?

nameiwantistaken,
Try uninstalling it completely and installing the one from synaptic, it should have all the plugins too!

Let us know your results!

[nameiwantistaken]

Done and done before I made the post. I downloaded it directly from their site to start with. Same result.

[lonetree]

Done and done before I made the post. I downloaded it directly from their site to start with. Same result.

When was it make available in the repositories? I tried last week and I wasn't there still, or have I not added the correct repositories entry? Please help

regards,

[crmanski]

Anyone else having problems with this running again when you boot. I have to reinstall it every time.

Does the file: /etc/init.d/webmin
get created during the installation?

If yes then maybe it is not executable. To test this type

sudo /etc/init.d/webmin start

in a terminal. If it says something like "permission denied" then make the file executable...

sudo chmod 740 /etc/init.d/webmin

[crmanski]

Very nice howto... but just one thing... that install script wants to install Webmin in my "/home/my_account_here/webmin-1.280"... shouldn't it be installed somewhere else??

Weeeee... it worked... nice stuff...

I suppose it would be a good idea. If you cd as root to /root or /opt before running wget then you could have it out of the way. Mine has been running in ~/webmin for a couple years now with no problem. It is my personal machine though.

[crmanski]

Just a heads-up. There is a new release of webmin that

Fixed a security hole that would allow a remote attacker to view any file on the system

If you are running version 1.280 or less you should update. The easiest way I find is to login to webmin, click on "Webmin Configuration", then "Upgrade Webmin". I usually check off "Delete old version's directory after upgrade?" since I do not like the have multiple webmin directories hanging around.