Re: [cobalt-users] OT_webmin use to administer

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/21/02 12:55 PM, Ursula stated:

> --- Zinneken <zinneken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just
> learned about an application called webmin
>> and would like to
>> know:
>> if anyone out there is using it on their raq
>> if it is stable and secure
>> if it is useful/handy, or if the standard control
>> panel does just the
>> same.

We use it on all our machines. We let the Raq GUI do the work it should, we
use Webmin for minor housekeeping or to be lazy to look at sendmail
accounts.
We don't use it for admining as much as we would with SSH. On our white
boxes we use it more. For DNS on a white box it is the bomb:)
> 
> 
> I've put webmin on many raqs 3s and 4s. It's simple to
> install from the rpm. I wouldn't like to go without
> it.

The source install is just as easy.
Only gotcha is if you have chroot'd some system files. We have FreeBSD
chrooted on DNS, when we upgraded the Webmin, it locked us out of the dns
files.
> 
> Still use the GUI for adding sites and users, DNS,
> etc, but it's extremely useful for all the stuff
> that's NOT included in the GUI. It's particularly
> handy for things such as admin for mysql, checking
> things related to sendmail, peeking at logs,
> installing extra perl modules, etc.
> 
> Some modules will get you in trouble and clash with
> the GUI, such as users, DNS, quotas, postgres. The
> basic idea is if the GUI does it, don't fiddle with it
> using webmin. Stick to that rule and you should be
> safe.
> 

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