It would be a great thing to add webmin support to gentoo LINUX. This admin tool saves a lot of time and many sys admins use this every day!!! Saravak p.s. If I missed the forum please excuse me!
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There are reasons a plenty that webmin will not work on gentoo at the moment. Our init procedure for one. I'm not sure this is something we'd be able to tackle as it would require a pretty large set of patches to webmin. Best people to talk to about this is the webmin maintainers.
I have heard rumours that the author of Webmin is creating an ebuild for Gentoo. Not sure if there's truth to this yet, but I'm on it to find out.
It is true all right I contacted him myself
Confirmed: Jamie Cameron is working on creating an infrastructure in webmin for Gentoo. Watch for an ebuild coming within a week or so, I'd suspect.
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Created attachment 2051 [details] webmin ebuild
lads, please test this ebuild out. create an app-admin/webmin and app-admin/webmin/files download the attachment into app-admin/webmin create a digest (ebuild webmin-0.992.ebuild digest) emerge webmin test away, and see what happens
Testing this now on 3 differently configured (and spec'd) machines. Seems to be pretty good so far, I don't have all the various bits of software installed, but what I have got seems to be modified/configured/viewed/whatever without any problems. The "Package Management" module is well put together too, check it out! -- Troy
Here's another vote of confidence. Every module inside of Webmin works for what I have installed. This includes Apache, Extended Internet Services, mysql, Postfix, ProFTP, sshd, Samba, and Squid. Also working are Grub, the partition manager, printer admin, cd-burning, remote ssh, perl modules, file manager, and the "system" section. And, yes, the package management section is very well done. mkeadle
Eagerly awaiting the merging of this ebuild into the portage tree.
WEBMIN is now in portage, albeit masked for testing. So please test test test and report here.
Webmin works greats as far as my reach goes. Haven't used it hardcore really, just configure some servers such as apache and proftpd from there insted of text editor. No problems yet.
webmin / system / software packages / package tree The tree shows a couple of ebuilds, but many ebuilds are not visible.
usermin config doesn't work: The Usermin config directory /etc/usermin was not found on your system. Maybe Usermin is not installed, or your module configuration is incorrect. usermin is installed and I created /etc/usermin. Maybe it takes more to get this working?
The grub module doesn't mount /boot. Error message when /boot is not mounted: The GRUB menu file /boot/grub/menu.lst was not found on your system. Maybe GRUB is not installed, or the module configuration is incorrect.
In response to the above two comments: Usermin - You may have Usermin installed, and you also may have the /etc/usermin directory, but Webmin may not be finding the needed files in that directory. Go through each selection in the module configuration and verify that every piece is exactly where Usermin expects them to be. That's usually my first slip up when something is borked. GRUB - Maybe this is just me, but I wouldn't want the GRUB module mounting /boot automagicly. One of the smartest fundamental differences between Gentoo and many other distos is that /boot stays unmounted during normal operation. As a responsable admin, you should be able to take the time to mount /boot (which you can also do in Webmin) and _then_ configure GRUB. Otherwise it's my feeling that all the advantages of an unmounted /boot are lost.
Just wanted to say I'm an idiot, as the only option in Usermin's module configuration is the path to the "Usermin configuration directory", which by default is /etc/usermin. blah
The search function on the software page appears to be broken. It seems that this box should execute 'emerge -s [pkgname]'. But it only appears to do a search on the filesystem instead. Anyone else had this issue?
About grub: I wouldn't need webmin to configure my grub, but when the functionality is offered in a package like grub, I strongly feel that it should make clear to the user what it is doing. My system has /dev/hda2=/boot and /dev/hda10=/ and at hda10 I also have a /boot/grub directory as backup. :) Well, testing webmin's grub module resulting in changes in my backup structure. I see ways for improvement, here.
witth the overwhelmingly positive response from all those who betatested, I have unmasked webmin in portage. As for the package search function, Jamie has promised to implement that in the next release.