Re: [webmin-l] Copying custom/cloned modules between servers

[Freddie C. <fca...@sd...>]

On Fri, March 31, 2006 11:29 am, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 31/Mar/2006 14:10 Freddie Cash wrote ..
>> What is the simplest / most convenient method for copying modules
>> from server to server?  Specifically custom modules or cloned
>> modules?
>>
>> Last time I tried this (around the time of Webmin 1.000), I had to
>> manually zip the module directory under /etc/webmin and under
>> /path/to/webmin/install, transfer it over to the other system,
>> clone a module, then extract the archive into the two module
>> directories.
>>
>> Is there a way in newer webmin versions to create a .wbz or a .tar
>> of a cloned module that can easily be installed on another server?
>>
>> (Note: I have not looked at any of the new modules available in the
>> latest release, so if this is now available, a "look at the
>> modules on your system" is good enough.)

> Copying custom modules is pretty easy in the latest release of Webmin
> - in the Webmin Configuration module on the Modules page is a form for
> exporting a module to a .wbm file, which you can then install on the
> destination server. There is no way to copy cloned moduled - however,
> since these are just symlinks, they can be easily re-created on the
> target server on that same Webmin Modules page.

Ah, nice.  I'll give that a shot.  Thanks.

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