[webmin-l] re: upgrade

[Cory <co...@di...>]

OK I can donwload using wget and i can go to WEBMINS website and =
download the tar form there too.  But i can not do it from with webmin.  =
Hope that helps you to figure out what is wrong.



Cojast





    No...that progress meter is your client-side browser and only shows=20

    what's happening between you and the Webmin server.  You're not=20

    downloading anything more than the progress page from Webmin to your =
own=20

    client machine--you're triggering a download on your Webmin server.=20

    Webmin has its own progress indicator, and if you don't see it begin =


    downloading and reporting the percentages in the browser window the=20

    download is not starting at all and that is the source of your =
trouble.=20

      It is possibly a firewall, as Vernon mentioned, or just as likely =
DNS=20

    trouble--you can find out by trying a download from the command line =


    using wget, just as Vernon and I pointed out in the last couple of=20

    messages...try it, please, and get back to us with the result.  This =
is=20

    not a bug in Webmin that anyone else is seeing, nor is it a problem =
on=20

    the download servers, so repeatedly telling us "it doesn't work" =
isn't=20

    going to do any good.  The problem is on your machine, and we're =
trying=20

    to help you solve it.  Help us help you, or we'll never get =
anywhere.

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    What happens when you run:

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    wget=20

    =
http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.240.tar.=
gz

=20

    (All on one line.)

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    If it works (I'll be surprised) then the problem is somewhere in =
Webmin=20

    and we'll need to look a bit deeper.  But I'm betting you'll either =
get=20

    a host not found error indicating that your DNS is improperly=20

    configured, or it will just hang for a while and eventually time out =


    indicating either a too-strict firewall or routing trouble.  In =
either=20

    case, we'll know where to start working on the problem.