Re: [webmin-l] accessing webmin midules from command line and uploading/downloading quickly {Scanned}

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

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 12:56, Matt Lowe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a couple of questions this time :)
> 
> Is there any documentation anyware that gives a list of the command line 
> versions of the webmin modules? i see plenty of referances to being able 
> to run certain command lines to do the equiv. of the webmin modules, but 
> cant find any referances to them in the books :(   (sorry folks if there 
> in there and ive not seen them, normally its not a complaint from me, 
> but theres a heck of a lot of pages in those books :)  )

Unfortunately Webmin doesn't have a general command-line interface. It
would be possible to write programs to perform some Webmin actions from
a shell prompt, but very few modules actually have any. Virtualmin is
probably the only exception ..

You would be better off using command-line programs and editors to do
the same things that Webmin does automatically when you use the web
interface.

> Another question, is there a module to allow downloading files from a 
> webmin server to a local machine? without using the java filemanager? I 
> know u can upload files using one of the modules, but i cant see any way 
> to do this without going into the file manager, which takes AGES to load 
> in comparison to all the other webmin modules :(

In the latest release, the Upload and Download module can do this.

> Also is there a way to increase the speed of the filemanager module in 
> any way? the basic startup after clicking on the link can be very 
> frustrating when u have a customer on the end of the phone, complaining 
> that they MUST have this or that file available :(

Not really .. it is a Java application which takes time to download, and
also there is the Java startup time on the client side to consider.

 - Jamie