Re: [webmin-l] webmin va debian

[DebianTech <deb...@gm...>]

IraqiGeek wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:04 PM GMT,
> nieca-onet <ni...@po...> wrote:
>
>> I'm using Debian Sarge 3.1
>> I have downloaded and installed webmin via
>> aptitude install webmin
>> but now I can't find setup.sh script to make my webmin work...
>
>
> I had two debian sarge boxes (now "etch-ed") on which I'm using 
> webmin. No
> need to run setup.sh after installing webmin. Just make sure you resolve
> dependencies automatically when installing webmin through aptitude, 
> and it
> will take care of resolving all dependencies.
>
> After installation, edit /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf and add in the 
> allow line
> the IP addresses of the clients you want to enable to access webmin.
>
> That is all that I did to get webmin up and running on my debian boxes 
> after
> a fresh minimal installation of debian. Of course, dont forget to upgrade
> webmin after you get it running as debian comes with 1.170 if I remember
> correctly.
>
>
> Regards,
> IraqiGeek
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"That is all that I did to get webmin up and running on my debian boxes 
after
a fresh minimal installation of debian. Of course, dont forget to upgrade
webmin after you get it running as debian comes with 1.170 if I remember
correctly."

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I felt it should be noted when updating Webmin like this there is a few 
things needing to be fixed when using Debian.

First off after you upgrade webmin via the Webmin interface you must 
stop apt from downloading webmin updates from stable and reinstalling 
the old version.

you can run the following command as root:

echo "webmin hold" | dpkg --set-selections

To remove the hold run this:

echo "webmin install" | dpkg --set-selections

Also along with the webmin upgrade you must edit the webmin init file 
/etc/init.d/webmin so that it points to the proper directory the updated 
Webmin resides

##ORIGINAL
DAEMON=/usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl

##CHANGED
DAEMON=/usr/share/webmin-1.2?0/miniserv.pl 

replacing ? with your version should work (ls /usr/share|grep webmin). 
When you use the webmin updater you have to change this along with every 
update as webmin installs a new directory in /usr/share/ with each 
update. Alternately you could probably rename the original webmin 
directory webmin.old and copy the new directory (maintaining 
permissions) as webmin. Either way I think it will get the job done. 
Also there may be other subtle things I don't know about so no guarantees.

Notice that this entire update situation is not how the Debian folks 
would want this done but it is how I do it as well with good results.