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fdisk links to mount...

[<jam...@te...>]

Hi All,

My general philosophy on security is that unless a user has access to
something, they should not even
be given a direct opportunity by which they may be tempted to break a
security policy.  For instance if
a user is not allowed within a certain module of a program then no where
should that user be given a
link to that module.  In the fdisk module this is not the case as whether
or not the user has access to the
mount there are links over the mount points in the fdisk module pointing to
the mount command.  If they
clikc there it will stop them and say access denied, but really I don't
think they should be given the opportunity
to click.

Anyway I have attached a patch wich I think achieves this (if they don't
have access they do not get
a link).  I tried to figure out what was the right way to figure out if a
user was able to access a foreign module,
but maybe I overlooked something.   Anyway here its:
*** index.cgi.orig  Fri Jun 21 17:22:23 2002
--- index.cgi  Mon Jun 24 17:24:31 2002
***************
*** 10,15 ****
--- 10,27 ----
  print "<hr>\n";
  $extwidth = 250;

+ #
+ # Figure out if the user should be able to edit filesystems
+ # or not.  That is can they access the mount module...
+ local $can_mount = 0;
+ for my $test_mod (@{$main::acl_array_cache{$base_remote_user}})
+ {
+     if($test_mod eq 'mount') {
+    $can_mount = 1;
+    last;
+     }
+ }
+
  print "<table border width=100%>\n";
  print "<tr $tb> <td><b>$text{'index_disk'}</b></td> ",
        "<td><b>$text{'index_parts'}</b></td> </tr>\n";
***************
*** 104,111 ****
                    print "<tt><a href=/mount/edit_mount.cgi?index=$stat[4]&temp=1&return=/$module_name/>$stat[0]</a></tt>\n";
                    }
               elsif ($stat[0]) {
                    print "<tt><a href=/mount/edit_mount.cgi?index=$stat[3]&return=/$module_name/>$stat[0]</a></tt>\n";
!                   }
               print "</td> <td>\n";
               if (!$p->{'extended'} && $stat[2] &&
                   &indexof($p->{'type'}, @space_type) >= 0 &&
--- 116,127 ----
                    print "<tt><a href=/mount/edit_mount.cgi?index=$stat[4]&temp=1&return=/$module_name/>$stat[0]</a></tt>\n";
                    }
               elsif ($stat[0]) {
+                   if($can_mount) {
                    print "<tt><a href=/mount/edit_mount.cgi?index=$stat[3]&return=/$module_name/>$stat[0]</a></tt>\n";
!                                 } else {
!                   print "<tt>$stat[0]</tt>\n";
!                      }
!                   }
               print "</td> <td>\n";
               if (!$p->{'extended'} && $stat[2] &&
                   &indexof($p->{'type'}, @space_type) >= 0 &&

Cheers...james

(no subject)

[<ra...@si...>]

  Has there ever been a consideration of releasing Webmin updates as a
patch for sites where Webmin was installed a a package?  Using the
"Update" selection effectivly installs a new tarball, and then transfers
the older configuration to the new, leaving around the old installation
(unless, of course, they choose to remove the old version, but that could
make havoc of the installed package).


rf

Module removed from user acl hangs around...

[<jam...@te...>]

Hi All,

I noticed a behaviour of webmin that at first look seems most troubling.
Here is the
scenario:

     1) Add a user.
     2) Add a module to the user.
     3) Configure the module for the user.
     4) At some later point remove the module from the user list of
modules.

After step 3 is completed an acl in file called:

     /etc/webmin/mod_name/user.acl

will be created.  When you do step 4, remove the module, the acl hangs
around (i.e. it does
not get deleted).   I am not sure if this could be exploited or even lends
itself to a
writer of a module shooting themselves in the foot and allowing what was
not intended
to be allowed.  Even still I don't think its the right thing to do.  Is
this seen as a
problem by any others?

Cheers...james

Password Module and PAM bug?

[<ra...@si...>]

  First, I would like to mention that the Password Module for Usermin can
include Solaris as a supported OS, I don't know if this was an oversight.
On the otherhand, if there is a bug that I am unaware of which affects
Solaris users, it would be nice to know.


  The other item is in reguards to PAM and authentication of users in
Usermin.  While recently searching a problem to which a user was
connecting via Usermin, but failed an FTP session, I identified that the
FTP session was failing because the password had expired.  There was no
notification in Usermin, however.  I am not certain at this time if this
is a bug/rfe for Usermin, or a bug/rfe in the PAM module, however, I
wanted to make folks on this list aware of this issue.  When I can put in
the cycles to hunt down what is needed, I will pass on the solution
(unless someone else knows the answer already).


rf

Re: Bug in fsdump module...

[<jam...@te...>]

Jamie,

I downloaded your filesystem update module, and it only has your fix in the
first funciton, and not
the second one, execute_dump().  And now completely understanding the
problem I see that it is
also in parse_restore().   Lastly, I really do think some code needs to be
at the bottome of execute_dump()
to check the return code of the dump command and let the user know if there
was an error.

Cheers...james

Re: Maintaining comments and structure....

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

jam...@te... wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I hope this is not off topic, as its not a direct webmin question, but
> certainly is in the
> domain of the sort of problem it would be good if webmin (as a developer
> library
> helped solve).  Anyway, caveat aside here is the question.
> 
> I have written many scripts that in an automated fashion modify config
> files.  I have also
> on occasion had the need to write my little parsers for config files, but
> in general these have
> been used to read the config file and rarely have I made it rewrite out the
> config file.  That being said
> I have had the need to do so many times, but I have avoided because the way
> my parsers had been
> written they did not maintain the white-space structure and comments of the
> orignal config file.
> If I would have written the config files back out after making changes to
> them, I would have totally
> lost all tabbing and comments.
> 
> All that being said I was wondering:
> 
>      a) has anyone solved this probably generally in a perl module?
>      b) better yet has anyone solved the problem as something that can be
> used in webmin?
>      c) what ideas and experience do the webmin developers have with this
> problem?
> 
> In a vague way I had the idea of creating two parse trees.  The first is
> the AST that is used for doing thing, and querying
> information gathered from the parse phase.  The second tree (really not
> sure if it would be called a parse tree) would essentially
> be a chunked up version of the original config which the objects in the AST
> would point to (or would the chunks in the
> this tree point to the objects int he AST or both).  Anyway, that is my
> thus far confused approach I have been considering
> but I would really like to hear what other have done and or think.


Generally, in webmin I haven't bother to preserve white-space structure
and comments within blocks that are being modified, because it is just
too hard :)  However, if you did want to do that then the best solution
would be to parse the file into a structure that contains all the details
necessary to re-construct it exactly, including the exact line and column of
each token and the details of all comments.

  - Jamie

Re: Bug in fsdump module...

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

jam...@te... wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I found a bug in the fsdump module on RH 7.3 (it could have been in other
> places).  If you added
> a new backup or changed an existing one such that instead of using file or
> tape to backup to you instead
> choose to backup to host., as soon as you saved your changes the following
> would appear:
> 
>      HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Fri, 21
> Jun 2002
>           19:04:52 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection: close
>      Error - Perl execution failed
>      Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at
> redhat-linux-lib.pl line 255.
> 
> Note line number is different than the original error as I added some debug
> code to figure out what was
> going on.  The config I created that was causing this problem was as
> follows:


I had a look at this, and the solution was a bit simpler - in line 431, the @

in the string should have been \@ so that perl didn't think it was really an
array. The perl error wasn't very helpful though ..

Anyway, an update has been posted on http://www.webmin.com/updates.html for
anyone else having the problem.

  - Jamie

Re: Bug in fsdump module...

[<jam...@te...>]

OK, replying to myself, but after I fixed the problem with setting the
confiuguration
I had a simular problem in when running it in execute_dump().  I used the
same strategy
to fix it.  As I was fixing it thouugh, I noticed that at the end after
running the dump command
the return code from dump was not checked (I would never do that (-;).
Anyway, this patch contains
the previous change, the new change for the same error in execute_dump, and
it contains a suggested
fix for not checking the return code.  I forgot to mention this is against
the 0.980 source with no updates.

Here is the  new patch:

*** redhat-linux-lib.pl Fri Jun 21 16:13:00 2002
--- redhat-linux-lib.pl.orig    Fri Jun 21 14:54:52 2002
***************
*** 190,239 ****
  # Executes a dump and displays the output
  sub execute_dump
  {
- my    $dump_data = shift;
  local $fh = $_[1];
  local ($cmd, $flag);
!
! #
! # Verify we were passed the correct args
! if (!ref($dump_data)) {
!     print "<B>Error Call to execute_dump() in redhat-linux-lib.pl with invalid arguments!</B>";
!     return 0
! }
!
! if ($dump_data->{'huser'}) {
!       $flag = " -f '" . $dump_data->{'huser'} . '@' . $dump_data->{'host'} .
!           ':' . $dump_data->{'hfile'} . "'";
        }
! elsif ($dump_data->{'host'}) {
!       $flag = " -f '" . $dump_data->{'host'} . ':' . $dump_data->{'hfile'} . "'";
        }
  else {
!       $flag = " -f '" . $dump_data->{'file'} . "'";
        }
! if ($dump_data->{'fs'} eq 'xfs') {
        # xfs backup
        $cmd = "xfsdump -l $_[0]->{'level'}";
        $cmd .= $flag;
!       $cmd .= " -L '" . $dump_data->{'label'} . "'" if ($dump_data->{'label'});
!       $cmd .= " -M '" . $dump_data->{'label'} . "'" if ($dump_data->{'label'});
!       $cmd .= " -z '" . $dump_data->{'max'} . "'"   if ($dump_data->{'max'});
!       $cmd .= " -A" if ($dump_data->{'noattribs'});
!       $cmd .= " -F" if ($dump_data->{'over'});
!       $cmd .= " -J" if ($dump_data->{'noinvent'});
!       $cmd .= " -o" if ($dump_data->{'overwrite'});
!       $cmd .= " -E -F" if ($dump_data->{'erase'});
!       $cmd .= " '" . $dump_data->{'dir'} . "'";
        }
  else {
        # ext2/3 backup
!       $cmd = "dump -" . $dump_data->{'level'};
        $cmd .= $flag;
!       $cmd .= " -u" if ($dump_data->{'update'});
!       $cmd .= " -M" if ($dump_data->{'multi'});
!       $cmd .= " -L '" . $dump_data->{'label'} . "'" if ($dump_data->{'label'});
!       $cmd .= " -B " . $dump_data->{'blocks'} if ($dump_data->{'blocks'});
!       $cmd .= " '" . $dump_data->{'dir'} . "'";
        }

  &system_logged("sync");
--- 190,229 ----
  # Executes a dump and displays the output
  sub execute_dump
  {
  local $fh = $_[1];
  local ($cmd, $flag);
! if ($_[0]->{'huser'}) {
!       $flag = " -f '$_[0]->{'huser'}@$_[0]->{'host'}:$_[0]->{'hfile'}'";
        }
! elsif ($_[0]->{'host'}) {
!       $flag = " -f '$_[0]->{'host'}:$_[0]->{'hfile'}'";
        }
  else {
!       $flag = " -f '$_[0]->{'file'}'";
        }
! if ($_[0]->{'fs'} eq 'xfs') {
        # xfs backup
        $cmd = "xfsdump -l $_[0]->{'level'}";
        $cmd .= $flag;
!       $cmd .= " -L '$_[0]->{'label'}'" if ($_[0]->{'label'});
!       $cmd .= " -M '$_[0]->{'label'}'" if ($_[0]->{'label'});
!       $cmd .= " -z '$_[0]->{'max'}'" if ($_[0]->{'max'});
!       $cmd .= " -A" if ($_[0]->{'noattribs'});
!       $cmd .= " -F" if ($_[0]->{'over'});
!       $cmd .= " -J" if ($_[0]->{'noinvent'});
!       $cmd .= " -o" if ($_[0]->{'overwrite'});
!       $cmd .= " -E -F" if ($_[0]->{'erase'});
!       $cmd .= " '$_[0]->{'dir'}'";
        }
  else {
        # ext2/3 backup
!       $cmd = "dump -$_[0]->{'level'}";
        $cmd .= $flag;
!       $cmd .= " -u" if ($_[0]->{'update'});
!       $cmd .= " -M" if ($_[0]->{'multi'});
!       $cmd .= " -L '$_[0]->{'label'}'" if ($_[0]->{'label'});
!       $cmd .= " -B $_[0]->{'blocks'}" if ($_[0]->{'blocks'});
!       $cmd .= " '$_[0]->{'dir'}'";
        }

  &system_logged("sync");
***************
*** 249,285 ****
                }
        }
  close(CMD);
- my $rc = $? >> 8;
- if($rc != 0) {
-     print <<EOF;
- <B>
- <P>ERROR Running dump!</P>
-
- COMMAND:  ${cmd}
-      RC:  ${rc}
- EOF
-     }
-
  }

  # dump_dest(&dump)
  sub dump_dest
  {
! my $dump_data = shift;
!
! if(!ref($dump_data)) {
!     return "<B>Error Call to dump_dest() in redhat-linux-lib.pl with invalid arguments!</B>";
! }
! if ($dump_data->{'file'}) {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape($dump_data->{'file'})."</tt>";
        }
  elsif ($_[0]->{'huser'}) {
!       return "<tt>" . &html_escape($dump_data->{'huser'} . '@' .
!               $dumpdata->{'host'} . ':' . $dump_data->{'hfile'}) . "</tt>";
        }
  else {
!       return "<tt>" . &html_escape($dump_data->{'host'} . ':' .
!           $dump_data->{'hfile'}) . "</tt>";
        }
  }

--- 239,257 ----
                }
        }
  close(CMD);
  }

  # dump_dest(&dump)
  sub dump_dest
  {
! if ($_[0]->{'file'}) {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape($_[0]->{'file'})."</tt>";
        }
  elsif ($_[0]->{'huser'}) {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape("$_[0]->{'huser'}@$_[0]->{'host'}:$_[0]->{'hfile'}")."</tt>";
        }
  else {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape("$_[0]->{'host'}:$_[0]->{'hfile'}")."</tt>";
        }
  }

Cheers...james

Bug in fsdump module...

[<jam...@te...>]

Hi All,

I found a bug in the fsdump module on RH 7.3 (it could have been in other
places).  If you added
a new backup or changed an existing one such that instead of using file or
tape to backup to you instead
choose to backup to host., as soon as you saved your changes the following
would appear:

     HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Fri, 21
Jun 2002
          19:04:52 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection: close
     Error - Perl execution failed
     Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at
redhat-linux-lib.pl line 255.

Note line number is different than the original error as I added some debug
code to figure out what was
going on.  The config I created that was causing this problem was as
follows:

     weekdays=*
     update=0
     huser=joden3
     months=*
     host=nsdlinux07
     days=*
     fs=ext3
     level=2
     hfile=t.tgz
     dir=/root/tmp
     hours=0
     mins=0
     multi=0
     id=110131024684666
     enabled=0
     label=
     email=

Anyway, I fixed and have placed the patch at the end of my email.  It was
appearantly dying on the following
lines in dump_dest() in redhat-linux-lib.pl:

     if ($_[0]->{'file'}) {

Now if you look at the function and look at the error message you might
think that some how a
reference to a has was not passed into the function.  That was not the
case.  The hash simply
did not have the element 'file'.  Perl is normally supposed to return undef
in this case, but for some
reason it was puking and dying.   My solution was to explicitly set $_[0]
to a lexically scoped variable and
use that variable instead.

Here is the patch:

*** redhat-linux-lib.pl Fri Jun 21 15:13:59 2002
--- redhat-linux-lib.pl.orig    Fri Jun 21 14:54:52 2002
***************
*** 244,264 ****
  # dump_dest(&dump)
  sub dump_dest
  {
! my $dump_data = shift;
!
! if(!ref($dump_data)) {
!     return "<B>Error Call to dump_dest() in redhat-linux-lib.pl with invalid arguments!</B>";
! }
! if ($dump_data->{'file'}) {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape($dump_data->{'file'})."</tt>";
        }
  elsif ($_[0]->{'huser'}) {
!       return "<tt>" . &html_escape($dump_data->{'huser'} . '@' .
!               $dumpdata->{'host'} . ':' . $dump_data->{'hfile'}) . "</tt>";
        }
  else {
!       return "<tt>" . &html_escape($dump_data->{'host'} . ':' .
!           $dump_data->{'hfile'}) . "</tt>";
        }
  }

--- 244,257 ----
  # dump_dest(&dump)
  sub dump_dest
  {
! if ($_[0]->{'file'}) {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape($_[0]->{'file'})."</tt>";
        }
  elsif ($_[0]->{'huser'}) {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape("$_[0]->{'huser'}@$_[0]->{'host'}:$_[0]->{'hfile'}")."</tt>";
        }
  else {
!       return "<tt>".&html_escape("$_[0]->{'host'}:$_[0]->{'hfile'}")."</tt>";
        }
  }

Cheers...james

Maintaining comments and structure....

[<jam...@te...>]

Hi All,

I hope this is not off topic, as its not a direct webmin question, but
certainly is in the
domain of the sort of problem it would be good if webmin (as a developer
library
helped solve).  Anyway, caveat aside here is the question.

I have written many scripts that in an automated fashion modify config
files.  I have also
on occasion had the need to write my little parsers for config files, but
in general these have
been used to read the config file and rarely have I made it rewrite out the
config file.  That being said
I have had the need to do so many times, but I have avoided because the way
my parsers had been
written they did not maintain the white-space structure and comments of the
orignal config file.
If I would have written the config files back out after making changes to
them, I would have totally
lost all tabbing and comments.

All that being said I was wondering:

     a) has anyone solved this probably generally in a perl module?
     b) better yet has anyone solved the problem as something that can be
used in webmin?
     c) what ideas and experience do the webmin developers have with this
problem?

In a vague way I had the idea of creating two parse trees.  The first is
the AST that is used for doing thing, and querying
information gathered from the parse phase.  The second tree (really not
sure if it would be called a parse tree) would essentially
be a chunked up version of the original config which the objects in the AST
would point to (or would the chunks in the
this tree point to the objects int he AST or both).  Anyway, that is my
thus far confused approach I have been considering
but I would really like to hear what other have done and or think.

Cheers...james

Re: Revision to zh_TW.Big5 translations (for Webmin 0.980)

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

Anthony Fok wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Attached is a patch to revise the zh_TW.Big5 to fix some translation
> errors and typographical errors.  It may be applied to the Webmin 0.980
> source.


Thanks for that .. I have included it into the main webmin source tree
for the next release.


> BTW, could we change the name "zh_TW.Big5" to simply "zh_TW",
> just like "zh_CN" (and not zh_CN.GB2312)?  :-)


Not easily, because everyone who is currently using Traditional Chinese
will have zh_TW.Big5 in their config files, and making the change will
break their settings.

  - Jamie

Revision to zh_TW.Big5 translations (for Webmin 0.980)

[Anthony F. <an...@th...>]

Hello,

Attached is a patch to revise the zh_TW.Big5 to fix some translation
errors and typographical errors.  It may be applied to the Webmin 0.980
source.

BTW, could we change the name "zh_TW.Big5" to simply "zh_TW",
just like "zh_CN" (and not zh_CN.GB2312)?  :-)

Cheers,

Anthony

-- 
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ThizLinux Laboratory   <an...@th...> http://www.thizlinux.com/
Debian Chinese Project <fo...@de...>       http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/
Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp!           http://www.olvc.ab.ca/

Re: Is it possible to be anonymous ?

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

Jean-Charles Passard wrote:

> 	Hello,
> 
> For my first post to this list, I will congratulate you all and especially
> Jaimie Cameron for this really good product.
> 
> We've make some new modules for Webmin that we will post soon (when i will
> have to read the Howto ;-).
> We're working on a standalone server (like the Cobalt's Cube) with webmin as
> interface.
> 
> In a that way, I've several questions :
> 
> 	- I would like to start a project to simplify the creation an management of
> samba shares ( without go througt filesystem right or directory creation)
> and may be add support for acl like Windows do. If anybody find some
> interests ?
> The purpose is to use webmin on station as SAN systems. I think that a
> simplification of the user modules shoud be done too.


Sounds like a good idea ..


> 	- We've corrected some bugs on the squidguard module and we will send soon
> this one too. But we've encounter a little difficulty on webmin for a
> perfect integration of it :
> 	Squidguard use to redirect to a web server in case of deny access but we
> haven't no http server apart wabmin on our servers. The trouble is that
> webmin  ask for a login. We've then patch miniserv.pl to avoid it. That is
> not really clean.
> I would like, for future version such a functionality : a module that can
> activate anonymous access and restrict it on network, host or regexp
> criteria.
> I don't think it's possible without modifying server ? I am wrong ?


You're right, that isn't possible at the moment, and would require modification
of the webmin miniserv.pl webserver. I've been thinking of adding an option somewhere
at allows certain modules to be accessed without needing to login, but that has all
sorts of potential security implications, and wouldn't work for people running webmin
under other webservers like apache.

It is on my TODO list though ..

  - Jamie

Is it possible to be anonymous ?

[Jean-Charles P. <jch...@ab...>]

	Hello,

For my first post to this list, I will congratulate you all and especially
Jaimie Cameron for this really good product.

We've make some new modules for Webmin that we will post soon (when i will
have to read the Howto ;-).
We're working on a standalone server (like the Cobalt's Cube) with webmin as
interface.

In a that way, I've several questions :

	- I would like to start a project to simplify the creation an management of
samba shares ( without go througt filesystem right or directory creation)
and may be add support for acl like Windows do. If anybody find some
interests ?
The purpose is to use webmin on station as SAN systems. I think that a
simplification of the user modules shoud be done too.

	- We've corrected some bugs on the squidguard module and we will send soon
this one too. But we've encounter a little difficulty on webmin for a
perfect integration of it :
	Squidguard use to redirect to a web server in case of deny access but we
haven't no http server apart wabmin on our servers. The trouble is that
webmin  ask for a login. We've then patch miniserv.pl to avoid it. That is
not really clean.
I would like, for future version such a functionality : a module that can
activate anonymous access and restrict it on network, host or regexp
criteria.
I don't think it's possible without modifying server ? I am wrong ?

JC Passard

Re: Changing Module Configuration won't work! What's wrong?

[<dpl...@gm...>]

Hi Jamie!


Thanks for that. It worked.


Bye,
Dennis

-- 
GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
http://www.gmx.net

Re: Cannot Start Apache Through Webmin

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

Jeremy Reed wrote:

>>When you start it in webmin, does it actually get started despite the error message? If so,
>>you could just click on Module Config and change the 'Command to start apache' and 'Command to
>>stop apache' options to Automatic. Currently it is trying to use the startup scripts for the redhat
>>apache package, which won't work with your recompiled installation.
>>
> 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't start. I tried changing the command to start apache to automatic and it came up with:
> 
> Failed to start apache : 
> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -d /etc/httpd :
> Syntax error on line 206 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> Invalid command 'LoadModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration


It looks like you are still using the old apache config file with your new compiled version
of apache, which does not support (or need) the LoadModule directive. Unless you have already
made a lot of changes to your original apache configuration, it may be better to use the new
config files from the new installation.

  - Jamie

Re: Cannot Start Apache Through Webmin

[Jeremy R. <jer...@te...>]

> When you start it in webmin, does it actually get started despite the error message? If so,
> you could just click on Module Config and change the 'Command to start apache' and 'Command to
> stop apache' options to Automatic. Currently it is trying to use the startup scripts for the redhat
> apache package, which won't work with your recompiled installation.

Unfortunately, it doesn't start. I tried changing the command to start apache to automatic and it came up with:

Failed to start apache : 
/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -d /etc/httpd :
Syntax error on line 206 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'LoadModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration


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Re: Cannot Start Apache Through Webmin

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

Jeremy Reed wrote:

> I got tired of trying to fix the error of the Apache version not updating so I uninstalled Webmin, 
> recompiled Apache (with default settings) and reinstalled Webmin. I can start Apache through the
> command line without any problems but when I try to start it in Webmin it comes up with an error that says:
> 
> Failed to start apache : 
> Starting httpd: [  OK  ]
> 
> I ran the command httpd -t in SSH and it came up with this:
> 
> [root@domain root]# httpd -t
> Syntax OK
> [Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_headers.c: not found in module list
> [Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_expires.c: not found in module list
> [Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_auth_db.c: not found in module list
> [Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_auth_anon.c: not found in module list
> [Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_rewrite.c: not found in module list
> 
> Can somebody tell me why it is coming up with this? I tried unchecking these modules in the Apache 
> Module page and I'm still getting the error when trying to start through Webmin.



When you start it in webmin, does it actually get started despite the error message? If so,
you could just click on Module Config and change the 'Command to start apache' and 'Command to
stop apache' options to Automatic. Currently it is trying to use the startup scripts for the redhat
apache package, which won't work with your recompiled installation.

  - Jamie

Re: Changing Module Configuration won't work! What's wrong?

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

dpl...@gm... wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> 
> I just released the beta of my very first Webmin-Module called "Samba
> Machines Maintainer". It can be downloaded from the third-modules page.
> 
> Now, as this is a beta, I now found some sort of bug that I want to
> eliminate. After installing the module (tested under SuSE 7.3), root cannot change
> the Module configuration although he has the ability looking on the acls.
> 
> What have I done wrong. I tried to be very near to the
> module-writers-documentation, but I think I failed somewhere.


I see the problem - your module's config.info.en file should be named
config.info instead.

  - Jamie

Cannot Start Apache Through Webmin

[Jeremy R. <jer...@te...>]

I got tired of trying to fix the error of the Apache version not updating so I uninstalled Webmin, recompiled Apache (with default settings) and reinstalled Webmin. I can start Apache through the command line without any problems but when I try to start it in Webmin it comes up with an error that says:

Failed to start apache : 
Starting httpd: [  OK  ]

I ran the command httpd -t in SSH and it came up with this:

[root@domain root]# httpd -t
Syntax OK
[Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_headers.c: not found in module list
[Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_expires.c: not found in module list
[Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_auth_db.c: not found in module list
[Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_auth_anon.c: not found in module list
[Mon Jun 10 19:18:50 2002] [error] Cannot remove module mod_rewrite.c: not found in module list

Can somebody tell me why it is coming up with this? I tried unchecking these modules in the Apache Module page and I'm still getting the error when trying to start through Webmin.


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Re: Version of Apache is not Updating

[Jeppe U. J. <ar...@nx...>]

> Any ideas why the startup script won't work when I have
/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd? This seems to be what I need to have in there
in order for the correct version # to show up.

Maybe the new version want's to be started from apachectl ???

/Jeppe Uhd Jepsen - NX

Re: Version of Apache is not Updating

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

Jeremy Reed wrote:
>>In redhat: some file with apache in its name under /etc/init.d (redhat
>>gurus: correct me if i'm wrong...)
> 
> 
> You were close....Jeppe, in Red Hat it is located in /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd. 

/etc/rc.d/init.d has a link from /etc/init.d, so you can refer to either 
on a default Red Hat 7.x system.  Old habits, though...I still always 
type /etc/rc.d/init.d just because I've been doing it for so long.
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Re: Version of Apache is not Updating

[Jeremy R. <jer...@te...>]

> In redhat: some file with apache in its name under /etc/init.d (redhat
> gurus: correct me if i'm wrong...)

You were close....Jeppe, in Red Hat it is located in /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd. 

I tried replacing /usr/sbin/httpd with /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd in the file above and when I went to restart Apache in Webmin it said:

Failed to start apache : 
Starting httpd: [ OK ]

When I changed it back to /usr/sbin/httpd, it started.

I have /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd listed in the Apache Module Config page next to Path to httpd executable and it doesn't cause any problems there. I tried changing it to /usr/sbin/httpd and it started showing 1.320 at the top of the Apache Webserver page instead of 1.3.24 like it did when I had /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd.

Any ideas why the startup script won't work when I have /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd? This seems to be what I need to have in there in order for the correct version # to show up.


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Changing Module Configuration won't work! What's wrong?

[<dpl...@gm...>]

Hi everybody!

I just released the beta of my very first Webmin-Module called "Samba
Machines Maintainer". It can be downloaded from the third-modules page.

Now, as this is a beta, I now found some sort of bug that I want to
eliminate. After installing the module (tested under SuSE 7.3), root cannot change
the Module configuration although he has the ability looking on the acls.

What have I done wrong. I tried to be very near to the
module-writers-documentation, but I think I failed somewhere.

Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Bye,
Dennis

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Re: Version of Apache is not Updating

[Jeppe U. J. <ar...@nx...>]

> >> The starting script you use is pointing to the old version. So edit the
starting script to run the new version.
>
> Which file do I need to modify to make this change?
>

In slackware: /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd

In redhat: some file with apache in its name under /etc/init.d (redhat
gurus: correct me if i'm wrong...)

/Jeppe Uhd Jepsen - NX