Re: [webmin-devel] manual module installation / doxfer.webmin.comregistration failed

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 11/Aug/2010 00:08 Paul Gear <pa...@ge...> wrote ..
> Hi folks,
> 
> Today i went in search of instructions about how to install a Webmin 
> module manually (i.e. without logging into the web interface), and the 
> main hit led me to http://doxfer.webmin.com/Webmin/Modules
> 
> I didn't find my answer there, so if Jamie or someone else would be able 
> to point me in the right direction about this, that would be great.  The 
> goal is to install 3rd-party modules in a fully automatic manner using 
> the puppet configuration management tool.  I'm happy to do any necessary 
> bash or perl scripting to achieve it.

There is actually a command for this already - just run :

/usr/libexec/webmin/install-module.pl /path/to/module.wbm.gz

Replace /usr/libexec/webmin with your appropriate Webmin root directory.

> When i poked around in doxfer.webmin.com, i figured it would be good to 
> add some documentation about the Dan's Guardian module (available from 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dgwebminmodule/), but when i tried to 
> register, it gave me the following error:
> 
> > TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver
> logs for more information.
> >
> > Failed to open file: No such file or directory

We had to disable registration due to people messing with the docs :-(

But if you send me the docs you want to add, I will put them up on the site.

 - Jamie