Re: [webmin-l] Webmin on Windows XP Pro == NOT!

[Galen J. <gjo...@tr...>]

Bob Madore wrote:

>HELP!!!!!
>
>I followed all the instructions on the webmin site, but for some reason, 
>V1.290 will not install
>
>### from the webmin site
>Install winzip or pkunzip so that you can extract the .zip file linked 
>to above.
>Install the latest versions of ActiveState Perl for Windows.
>Install the process.exe program, a command-line tool for listing and 
>killing Windows processes.
>Verify that sc.exe is installed. This is part of Windows XP, and may be 
>found in the Windows Resource Kit on other versions of the OS.
>Install the Win32::Daemon Perl module.
>Create the c:\temp directory if it doesn't already exist.
>After extracting the Webmin ZIP file to c:\webmin , open a command shell 
>window, cd to that directory and run perl setup.pl.
>Answer all the questions as you would for a tar.gz install of Webmin, as 
>documented above.
>### from the webmin site
>
>I run the c:\webmin\perl setup.pl and get the following output with no 
>real clue as to what is wrong.
>
>I ran it from the c:\webmin driectory and from outside with the same 
>results and no logs anywhere that I can find that show anything wrong.
>
>NOTHING in the c:\etc\webmin directory
>NOTHING in the C:\var\webmin directory
>C:|temp EXISTS
>
>#### Output from my cmd line.
>
>C:\webmin>perl setup.pl
>***********************************************************************
>*            Welcome to the Webmin setup script, version 1.290        *
>***********************************************************************
>Webmin is a web-based interface that allows Unix-like operating
>systems and common Unix services to be easily administered.
>
>Installing Webmin in C:/webmin ...
>
>***********************************************************************
>Webmin uses separate directories for configuration files and log files.
>Unless you want to run multiple versions of Webmin at the same time
>you can just accept the defaults.
>
>Config file directory [/etc/webmin]:
>Log file directory [/var/webmin]:
>
>Perl seems to be installed ok
>
>***********************************************************************
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>The system cannot find the path specified.
>
>-----
>Failed to create temp directory c:\temp
>-----
>
>C:\webmin>
>
>  
>
If you actually only hit enter then you accepted the unix paths...try yo 
explicitly set c:\etc\webmin, etc when prompted.

=G=