Re: [webmin-l] Fast RPC Calls through Firewall, Software inventory, and notification messages

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

On 4/Jul/2006 06:59 Joaquim Homrighausen wrote ..
> 
> Using 1.290 (thanks!)
> 
> RPC CALLS
> 
> We have a nearby machine that is physically close, but logically protected
> by its internal firewall. I have opened the TCP port for which I've configured
> Webmin to use. I've also opened the machine's local firewall for UDP calls
> on the same port (do I need this?).
> 
> I cannot seem to get FAST RPC CALLS to work properly. What did I miss?

You need to open up ports 10000-10100 on the slave system for fast RPC to work.

> SOFTWARE INVENTORY
> 
> Would it be possible to get a "master screen" in my "master webmin" that
> would report the version numbers of all installed pieces of software that
> has been configured in the various "slave webmins" that I connect to from
> the master?

Have you checked out the Cluster Software Packages module? It has a 'Compare
Servers' page for displaying the versions of all the RPMs on multiple systems,
with a view to finding mismatches..
 
> NOTIFICATION MESSAGES
> 
> I'm still seeing unencoded messages being sent out by Webmin; they contain
> national characters and are now sent encoded, but because there's no MIME
> HEADER information in the message, my e-mail client don't know what to
> do with those characters. Example:
> 
> L=E4rar (the second character is an 'a' with umlauts) is sent as L=3DE4rar
> which is correct, if there is a mime header in the message :-)

This sounds like a bug - which modules are sending out these emails? I may not
have converted them all to do proper MIME headers..

 - Jamie