Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin Deinstall/Install losing configuration

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

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 17:23, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> In order to address the fails-to-restart issue, I deinstalled Webmin 
> 1.220 and installed 1.226... which then required that I install 
> Virtualmin... which then lost my 60+ defined virtual servers.
> 
> Any idea what I did wrong so it doesn't happen again?

Unfortunately, you didn't exactly do anything wrong - rather you, ran
into a possible mis-feature of webmin that causes config files to be
removed when un-installing. For most modules this doesn't matter much,
but for virtualmin it is annoying because it has quite a lot of it's own
configuration data.

If you have a backup of the /etc/webmin directory, you could just
restore /etc/webmin/virtual-server to get back all your sites. Ideally
the built-in virtualmin backup feature would be able to restore from
this kind of problem, but it cannot at the moment .. although I will
certainly fix that in future.

The easier solution to the problem of a restart failing is to use the
Bootup and Shutdown module to create a new action called 'webmin' that
runs /etc/webmin/start at boot time.

 - Jamie