From: Bob <Bo...@de...> - 2005-09-22 00:22:00
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I had almost torn out all my hair trying to get webmin running on Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog". I found that none of the instructions on the web worked, nor any of the email archives. I installed Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog" as a server only with minimal system. It is a real trip to work with an OS that does not allow login by root and you must do everything by sudo. Fixed that real quick: sudo passwd root Set the password and now you can login as root logged in as root mkdir /usr/local/src/webmin cd /usr/local/src/webmin wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.230.tar.gz gunzip webmin-1.230.tar.gz tar xf webmin-1.230.tar cd webmin-1.230 ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin accepted all defaults BUT webmin would not run cd /var/webmin nano miniserv.error [21/Sep/2005:16:17:25 -0700] miniserv.pl started [21/Sep/2005:16:17:25 -0700] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not inst$ BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 2) line 1. OK, the Authen:PAM would not install for me. So, I edited /etc/miniserv.conf with nano (an editor that comes with ubuntu) changed the passwd_file=/etc/shadow to passwd_file=/etc/passwd wrote the file and exited nano then performed /etc/webmin/start and VOILE --- it works I hope this helps someone. I love Webmin and I get very frustrated when an Operating System does not like it to install and run properly. Jaime --- Thanks for a great program! Why? Ubuntu?? I am following instructions to install XEN and the instructions call for Ubuntu. Bob |