Re: [webmin-l] Webmin won't start

[TE D. <td...@pa...>]

[td...@pa...] 

Hi Jamie,

I have no logs anywhere to check. None have been created.  The directory is there but no logs. Best info I have is from systemctl status.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> 
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2021 12:52 PM
To: Webmin users list <web...@li...>
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Webmin won't start

Hi,

Check the log file /var/webmin/miniserv.error to see if anything useful gets logged when you try to start Webmin.

 - Jamie

On 27/Dec/2021 06:57 TE Dukes <td...@pa...> wrote ..
> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded to Centos 8 Stream and cannot get webmin to start. 
> There are no logs in /var/log or /var/webmin. There's nothing in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Here's the output from systemctl status webmin:
> 
> root@ts130 ~]# systemctl status webmin ● webmin.service - LSB: 
> web-based administration interface for Unix systems
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin; generated)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-12-27 09:23:09 
> EST; 6s ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>   Process: 36491 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start (code=exited,
> status=255)
> 
> Dec 27 09:23:07 ts130.palmettodomains.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB:
> web-based administration interface for Unix systems...
> Dec 27 09:23:07 ts130.palmettodomains.com perl[36492]:
> pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 
> tty= ruser= rhost=  u> Dec 27 09:23:09 ts130.palmettodomains.com 
> systemd[1]: webmin.service:
> Control process exited, code=exited status=255 Dec 27 09:23:09 
> ts130.palmettodomains.com systemd[1]: webmin.service: Failed with 
> result 'exit-code'.
> Dec 27 09:23:09 ts130.palmettodomains.com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB:
> web-based administration interface for Unix systems.
> 
> I found a similar issue on sourceforge.net but there was no clear 
> answer how the person fixed the problem.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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