Re: [webmin-l] deb experience

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

On 21/Sep/2006 20:28 Mark Pavlichuk wrote ..
>   I know it's not entirely fair, but I tried installing the new webmin
> deb onto a machine already running an earlier version.  The earlier 
> version was not installed by deb.  The installation failed with a "port
> already in use" error.  Probably isn't worth doing anything about, but
> I  thought I'd mention it anyway.  Once I removed the old webmin and 
> reinstalled the deb things seem to work fine.  Thanks for the deb...  I
> first discovered webmin browsing the debs available in Debian (Woody?).

Yeah, that is to be expected unfortunately. The .deb doesn't know that
you are really upgrading, and so will try to check port 10000 to see if 
it is free, and fail..

>   Also, I'm curious as to what cooperation if any happens between the 
> various admin front ends available for OSS (gadmintools, gconf, swat, 
> mysql-admin, destar etc..).  Is there any?  I've always thought OSS 
> would be a more consistently friendly place if there was a library of 
> well debugged config plugins/modules that UI guys could plunder and 
> abuse.  It might even be useful for the config fiddling that some 
> rpm/debs do.  Does this already exist, or are there good technical or 
> political reasons why this doesn't exist?

There is actually a group called the Open Management Consortium that
has recently started to bring together the developers of various open
source admin tools, including Webmin. At the moment though, there is
very little code sharing between things like Webmin, SWAT and the
like ... most likely because they are written in different languages,
and none really provides a library that makes re-use by other tools.

However, Webmin 1.300 includes an XML-RPC API that can be called by
other programs over the network ... so hopefully this will increase
code re-use in future :)

 - Jamie