Re: Webmin on OS X/Darwin

[Michael A. P. <mp...@ma...>]

Update-

My patch that I posted earlier breass the bootup and shutdown module (init)
Now I understand webmin a *tad* bit better-

I'll be submitting a new patch to the init module that will allow editing
of both the rc script (which breaks with my current redefine of the
config-macos file) and editing of the /etc/hostconfig file- as the
/etc/hostconfig file is largely where daemons (such as apache and sendmail
etc.) are configured to start (or not start) at system boot on Darwin/OS
X.

What I would like to do actually with /etc/hostconfig is not display it in
a text edit field (I have that working now) but instead a table displaying
the contents with links for the setting- selecting the link would then
bring up a page that allows one to edit that setting, and edit any
StartupItems script ( in /System/Library/StartupItems or
/Library/StartupItems - I have to check and make sure those are the only
locations where settings in /etc/hostconfig have a bootup effect) that
uses the defined setting in /etc/hostconfig.

So, for example, someone could select the
WEBSERVER=-NO-

and be brought to a page where they could change the -NO- to a -YES-, as
well as edit /System/Library/StartupItems/Apache/Apache to change
apachectl start to apachectl startssl (of course- they would need a ssl
aware apache, but you get the point ;)

Hopefully I'll get that done this week.
Is there a cvs version I should be patching against (since I'll be editing
/init/index.cgi )?
I guess it won't matter too much since all I'll be doing is adding an
elsif () { block } and not modifying anything else.

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Also, when this is done, I'd like to try to write a NetInfo module, one
that clones the functionallity of NetInfo Manager in the OS X gui. Is
anybody already working on that sort of thing?

Perhaps a NetInfo module would make it easier to port the Users and Groups
module to function on Darwin...


On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:00:09 PDT
"Michael A. Peters" <mp...@ma...> wrote:

> I have a few patches I'd like to submit.
> 
> Webmin fails to properly start at system boot on OS X 10.1
> The problem is that apple appends an "exit 0" at the end of the rc
script.
> 
> Thus, along comes webmin, and puts its startup line after the exit 0
> I'm sure you can see the problem...
> 
> Anyway, what I did was patch webmin to instead of using /etc/rc to
launch

*snip*

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