Re: [webmin-l] webmin on Windows

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

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 02:18, and...@fr... wrote:
>  I am trying to install webmin on a Windows box.
> 
>  I installed
> 
> ActivePerl-5.8.7.815-MSWin32-x86-211909.msi
> nmake15 for Windows
> Process.exe
> sc.exe
> 
> Then, via MCPAN:
> 
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Win32::Daemon::Simple"
> 
> Which requires other two modules (automatically downloaded and nmake
> processed.)
> 
> Now if I run again
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Win32::Daemon::Simple"
> the answer is
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read \.cpan\Metadata
>   Database was generated on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:08:29 GMT
> Win32::Daemon::Simple is up to date.
> 
> 
> If I run perl setup.pl, then choose d:\etc\webmin and d:\var\webmin, I see
> a lot of error (i think about 75, the number of OS available....)

You can safely ignore those errors..

> then in C:\temp I find the file  973876_1_  , containing
> 
> C:\temp>type  973876_1_
> os_type='windows'
> os_version='xp'
> real_os_type='Windows'
> real_os_version='XP'
> 
> Everything is ok till now.
> 
> and I see (very last lines of setup.pl output:)
> 
> ...(omissis)
> Operating system name:    Windows
> Operating system version: XP
> 
> ERROR: The Perl module Win32::Daemon::Simple must be installed to run
> Webmin on
> Windows
> 
> What can I try to do ????

You need to install that missing module from
http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/

The error message from Webmin is misleading .. it should really say
Win32::Daemom instead of Win32::Daemon::Simple

 - Jamie