Re: Strange problem

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

Greg Thompson wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to the list and really just have one question:
> 
> I'm running Corel Linux 1.2 and recently upgraded from an older version of
> webmin to the current version on the website. I've done this with 2
> different computers, and on both of them, after my first reboot, the
> keyboard stops functioning upon arrival of the login screen for the OS.
> Mouse and everything works fine...just no keyboard (keyboard worked fine
> immediately after the install, just not after the first system reboot). I've
> concluded that it absolutely has to have something to do with the new webmin
> installation since that is the only thing that has changed on the two
> computers. So I guess what I'd like to do is either fix the problem or make
> webmin not start up at boot time, or just remove webmin completely. (Telnet
> is disabled on both machines, btw). Any ideas?


The best solution would be to edit the webmin startup script
/etc/init.d/webmin and change the /etc/webmin/start line to
/etc/webmin/start >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null . That should fix the
problem.

Thanks to the suggestion on the list from Brandon Ramirez, this problem
should be totally avoided in future versions by having webmin close all
it's file descriptors on startup.

  - Jamie