Hello,
I'm using Webmin 1.941 in small home server. For any newest version I don't have required space in SSD.
OS is Centos 6.10. SSD replacement is complicated because server run without kbd, display and mouse too.
All is fully functional excepting few small dearts in File Manager (old version, no HTML, no Java):
1) I cannot create, show or edit symlinks. It's no important, solution is to use command line instruction.
2) If I want to edit some text or html file, so if I save edited file, it has other code page, then original. Solution is download file to PC, edit in Notepad++ and upload to server. It is very complicated if I for example need to change only one word in webpage. Using Vi (Vim) editor in Webmin window is condemnation.
All introduced things were fully functional in Java File Manager, however Java is nevermore supported in any web browser.
Do You have, please, someone any idea?
Jan
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All those issues you mentioned were fixed in the latest Webmin versions .. in particular when used with Authentic Theme.
How much free space do you have available on your system, and how large your current installation of Webmin? Is this .rpm installation or you installed it from source using setup.sh script?
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Hi Ilja,
thank You for fast reply.
My SSD is 60GB size, free space is about 350MB. And time after time I have to manually erase some files (logs, meteodata) in order to prevent fill a whole disk. More free space doesn't go to obtain, long time ago I deleted all unused packages in Centos. Server is very busy, four webcams, two weather stations, my simple webpage (apache), ftp server, samba for home network, firewall and fail2ban for internet connection and mail, sendmail, dovecot, many tasks in cron. Webmin 1.941 was the last version, which I can install. Whatever next attempt to install new version ended with no space message. I install from rpm package. I don't know, how large is my Webmn installation, Webmin is in many folders, for example it has many (all?) languages on disk. I know, that in future I have to upgrade SSD, but it is not simple problem for me.
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Alright, Jan. I have worked today to create a new Essential Nightly builds of Webmin.
The main difference between normal package and essential is that it won't include any transaltions, i.e. only English will be supported, and will also remove some old and rarely used modules, i.e.
I have given it a try on my devel version of CentOS 6 and it worked flawlessly. The installed package size dropped to 62 MiB, compared to 1.941 167 Mib and normal 2.021 which is 189 MiB
I believe either way, you have to upgrade, as Webmin 1.941 has a few reported and later fixed security issues!
If you try Essential Nightly build of Webmin, I'd recommend you to try it with Authentic Theme as File Manager particularly powerful with Authentic. Also, you will get a new Terminal module, which also works just fine in CentOS 6.
Let me know if that works for you .. ?
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May be later, now I returned to 1.941, it was very good excersize for work with linux command line.
When I installed a new Nightly Webmin version from Webmin Software packages module, so any command in Webmin was no more functional. So I have to work with kbd and display for any editing command include You advised, it is very complicted for me, because in normal state run server standalone, controlled by Webmin over ethernet.
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Hello,
I'm using Webmin 1.941 in small home server. For any newest version I don't have required space in SSD.
OS is Centos 6.10. SSD replacement is complicated because server run without kbd, display and mouse too.
All is fully functional excepting few small dearts in File Manager (old version, no HTML, no Java):
1) I cannot create, show or edit symlinks. It's no important, solution is to use command line instruction.
2) If I want to edit some text or html file, so if I save edited file, it has other code page, then original. Solution is download file to PC, edit in Notepad++ and upload to server. It is very complicated if I for example need to change only one word in webpage. Using Vi (Vim) editor in Webmin window is condemnation.
All introduced things were fully functional in Java File Manager, however Java is nevermore supported in any web browser.
Do You have, please, someone any idea?
Jan
Hello, Jan.
All those issues you mentioned were fixed in the latest Webmin versions .. in particular when used with Authentic Theme.
How much free space do you have available on your system, and how large your current installation of Webmin? Is this
.rpminstallation or you installed it from source usingsetup.shscript?Hi Ilja,
thank You for fast reply.
My SSD is 60GB size, free space is about 350MB. And time after time I have to manually erase some files (logs, meteodata) in order to prevent fill a whole disk. More free space doesn't go to obtain, long time ago I deleted all unused packages in Centos. Server is very busy, four webcams, two weather stations, my simple webpage (apache), ftp server, samba for home network, firewall and fail2ban for internet connection and mail, sendmail, dovecot, many tasks in cron. Webmin 1.941 was the last version, which I can install. Whatever next attempt to install new version ended with no space message. I install from rpm package. I don't know, how large is my Webmn installation, Webmin is in many folders, for example it has many (all?) languages on disk. I know, that in future I have to upgrade SSD, but it is not simple problem for me.
Alright, Jan. I have worked today to create a new Essential Nightly builds of Webmin.
The main difference between normal package and essential is that it won't include any transaltions, i.e. only English will be supported, and will also remove some old and rarely used modules, i.e.
I have given it a try on my devel version of CentOS 6 and it worked flawlessly. The installed package size dropped to 62 MiB, compared to 1.941 167 Mib and normal 2.021 which is 189 MiB
https://builds.webmin.dev/webmin-essential-latest.rpm
I believe either way, you have to upgrade, as Webmin 1.941 has a few reported and later fixed security issues!
If you try Essential Nightly build of Webmin, I'd recommend you to try it with Authentic Theme as File Manager particularly powerful with Authentic. Also, you will get a new Terminal module, which also works just fine in CentOS 6.
Let me know if that works for you .. ?
HI Ilja,
I tried to install Your Nightly package, but without success.
Package installed successfully, but many errors if I try to run Webmin:
HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/2.021 Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 14:16:38 GMT Content-type: text/html; Charset=iso-8859-1 Connection: close
Error - Perl execution failed
Undefined subroutine &WebminCore::get_webprefix called at /usr/libexec/webmin/gray-theme/theme.pl line 266.
So I have to connect kbd, mouse and display to server and try to return last functional Webnin 1.941 from rpm package.
You just needed to run
/etc/webmin/restart-by-force-killcommand to force reload a new version of Webmin.May be later, now I returned to 1.941, it was very good excersize for work with linux command line.
When I installed a new Nightly Webmin version from Webmin Software packages module, so any command in Webmin was no more functional. So I have to work with kbd and display for any editing command include You advised, it is very complicted for me, because in normal state run server standalone, controlled by Webmin over ethernet.
Don't use Webmin UI for such upgrades. Use
yum update ./webmin-essential-latest.rpmcommand instead.