Re: REAL NEW newbie......................

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

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You need a couple of good Unix and Linux books, before you beging 
fiddling with Webmin.  Webmin is wonderful, and it does make things more 
apparent to newbies (the options are /right there/, instead of tucked 
away inside a bunch of config files spread all over the place).  But, it 
does not make system administration /easier/.  You still need to 
understand the system.
</mode>

Now, to answer the question, and encourage you to charge in with both 
guns blazing (because clearly this isn't a production system--so break 
it as fast as you can, you'll learn a lot in the fixing):

As root, type:

./setup.sh

However, since you're on Red Hat, go the newbie (and oldie route as 
well) and install from the RPM:

rpm -Uvh webmin-whatever-version.rpm

This works nicely and keeps the packages under the maintenence of RPM. 
This is a /good/ thing.  Don't let self-proclaimed hacker types tell you 
any different.  Package managers are the friend of people who don't have 
a bunch of time to waste on keeping up with where everything is 
installed and why it is there.  (I make packages, when installing them, 
if Red Hat doesn't provide them.  Tarballs are a last resort when the 
install is too complex for me to easily figure out how to make it into 
an RPM.)

Enjoy.

George Bogart wrote:

> As you can tell by the subject line I am real new at Linux.
> I found Webmin and it looked good.
> Have installed it and am trying to "run" setup.sh.
> Now for the dumb question..............
> Just how do you run setup.sh.
> I am using Redhat 7.0.
> 
> George
> (sitting in corner,with pointedd hat on.)
> 
> <:-o

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