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Can I use stdout in the script called form system()?

[NONAKA A. <an...@mi...>]

Hi,

I am trying to write my webmin module and have a question about perl
programming.

I have a test.cgi like below.

$ cat test.cgi

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html; Charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";

$| = 1;
print "foo<br>";
system("echo bar");
print "baz<br>";

If I run this script from shell, I works fine. But if run this script from
my web browser through Webmin, perl system() function will fail with
errno=13 and "bar" is not echoed.

If I change this test.cgi script like

system("echo bar > /dev/null");

system() will return 0.

I seems to me that I cannot use stdout in the script called from system()
under miniserv.pl.

Q1. Is this a bug?

Q2. Are there any work around? I want to write something to stdout  in the
script called from system(). Unfortunately , the script is not written in
perl.

Thanks in advance,
--
Akira NONAKA
Miraclelinux,
Tokyo Japan

Re: environment var for group on useradmin

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

Terry Davis <td...@bi...> wrote ..
> Hello!
> 
> When I create a new user, there is a new group field that I want an 
> environment variable for.  I know there are these:
> $ENV{ 'USERADMIN_GROUP' }
> $ENV{ 'USERADMIN_SECONDARY' }
> $ENV{ 'USERADMIN_GID' }
> 
> But none of those seem to contain anything when I create a new user.
> 
> I am using version 0.88 on Redhat 7.1.
> Any ideas?

Assuming you are writing a perl script that is set in the module config to
be run after changes are made, $ENV{'USERADMIN_GID'} should contain the gid
of the new users primary group. Are you seeing anything in any of the environment
variables?

 - Jamie

environment var for group on useradmin

[Terry D. <td...@bi...>]

Hello!

When I create a new user, there is a new group field that I want an 
environment variable for.  I know there are these:
$ENV{ 'USERADMIN_GROUP' }
$ENV{ 'USERADMIN_SECONDARY' }
$ENV{ 'USERADMIN_GID' }

But none of those seem to contain anything when I create a new user.

I am using version 0.88 on Redhat 7.1.
Any ideas?

-- 
Terry Davis
Systems Administrator
BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
(402) 829-6059
www.birddog.com

Re: Error when trying to install a new module

[Justin R. <ju...@ws...>]

Jamie,
         Nothing happened. Eventually the browser timed out. It did get 
installed in /usr/libexec/webmin but nothing was put in in /etc/webmin . 
Can I look at any log files to see where it is hanging? Also, I looked and 
I'm actually running red hat 6.2 if that makes a difference.

Justin

At 02:37 PM 11/10/01 +1100, Jamie Cameron wrote:
>Justin Rains <ju...@ws...> wrote ..
> >       Hi all.. I'm trying to install a module and I'm getting the following
> > output to my console:
> >
> > [root@wsiwww webmin]# tar: ./portalplanet/module.info: Not found in archive
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > Does this have something to do with permissions somewhere? I'm attaching
> > the module to this e-mail.. I'm trying to install the template tarball
> > from
> > 
> http://www.niemueller.de/webmin/writers-help/download/module-template-0.79.1.tar.gz..
> > Trying to install it from a local file doesn't work either. I'm running
> > the
> > RPM version of webmin on Red Hat 6.1.
>
>That message always appears and can actually just be ignored, if the module
>actually got installed properly. What appeared in your browser where you tried
>the install?
>
>  - Jamie


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Re: Error when trying to install a new module

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

Justin Rains <ju...@ws...> wrote ..
> 	Hi all.. I'm trying to install a module and I'm getting the following
> output to my console:
> 
> [root@wsiwww webmin]# tar: ./portalplanet/module.info: Not found in archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Does this have something to do with permissions somewhere? I'm attaching
> the module to this e-mail.. I'm trying to install the template tarball
> from 
> http://www.niemueller.de/webmin/writers-help/download/module-template-0.79.1.tar.gz..
> Trying to install it from a local file doesn't work either. I'm running
> the 
> RPM version of webmin on Red Hat 6.1.

That message always appears and can actually just be ignored, if the module
actually got installed properly. What appeared in your browser where you tried
the install?

 - Jamie

Error when trying to install a new module

[Justin R. <ju...@ws...>]

	Hi all.. I'm trying to install a module and I'm getting the following 
output to my console:

[root@wsiwww webmin]# tar: ./portalplanet/module.info: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Does this have something to do with permissions somewhere? I'm attaching 
the module to this e-mail.. I'm trying to install the template tarball from 
http://www.niemueller.de/webmin/writers-help/download/module-template-0.79.1.tar.gz.. 
Trying to install it from a local file doesn't work either. I'm running the 
RPM version of webmin on Red Hat 6.1.

Thanks in advance,
Justin

Webmin on OS X specific site

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

I've started a site dedicated to webmin on the OS X/Darwin platform,
hopefully it will be a place where people can get information about webmin
on OS X and maybe even feel inclined to contribute.

My personal goal is to get OS X/Darwin listed among the best supported
platforms with webmin. Got a long ways to go with that- but *maybe* if
some people will contribute some work, it can be achieved faster.

The site is http://www.funkyres.com/webmin/

If this page could be listed somewhere on the webmin main site, that would
be great.
If not, hopefully the people interested in webmin on OS X are on
one of these lists.

People who know some perl and know OSX/Darwin obviously are needed to
help, but people who speak non english languages are also desperately
needed (and probably not just by the OS X effort) so that text string
translations can be done, making this truly an international project.

Thank you!
-- 
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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http://24.5.29.77:10080/

Re: SSHD support in version 0.90

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

It's probably not a good idea to just change index.cgi like that, as all the
different versions and vendors of SSH have slightly different config file
formats :(  I haven't tested commercial SSH 2 or 3 yet, which is why
webmin complains when you try to use the SSH Server module.

 - Jamie

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sebasti=E1n_Salgado?= <seb...@he...> wrote ..
> Hi there:
> 
> I've recently installed new version 0.90 on a Solaris 7, and couldn't
> make webmin to recognize my sshd. I have SSH 3.0.1 installed.
> 
> Looking in index.cgi, I've found the version check and change the line
> 41:
> 
> 	elsif ($out =~ /OpenSSH_([0-9\.]+)/i) 
> 
> 	to
> 
> 	elsif ($out =~ /SSH Secure Shell ([0-9\.]+)/i)
>                                                                       
> because this version of ssh identifies itself with:
> 
> 	sshd2: SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1 (non-commercial version) on
> sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> 
> Does this change could make webmin to think it has the wrong version of
> ssh? Is this a problem? Which is the difference between OpenSSH and SSH
> Secure Shell?
> 
> BTW: I didn't have problems with the configuration files, as other users
> reported.
> 
> But when sshd starts, throws this warnings:
> 
> sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter
> rhostsrsaauthentication
> sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter
> rhostsauthentication
> sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter
> ignoreuserknownhosts
> sshd2: WARNING: PubkeyAuthentication configuration keyword is
> deprecated. Use AllowedAuthentications.
> sshd2: WARNING: PasswordAuthentication configuration keyword is
> deprecated. Use AllowedAuthentications.
> sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter reversemappingcheck
> sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter gatewayports
> sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter protocol
> 
> I think that webmin doesn't support this version of ssh yet. Am I right?

SSHD support in version 0.90

[<seb...@he...>]

Hi there:

I've recently installed new version 0.90 on a Solaris 7, and couldn't
make webmin to recognize my sshd. I have SSH 3.0.1 installed.

Looking in index.cgi, I've found the version check and change the line
41:

	elsif ($out =3D~ /OpenSSH_([0-9\.]+)/i)=20

	to

	elsif ($out =3D~ /SSH Secure Shell ([0-9\.]+)/i)
                                                                     =20
because this version of ssh identifies itself with:

	sshd2: SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1 (non-commercial version) on
sparc-sun-solaris2.7

Does this change could make webmin to think it has the wrong version of
ssh? Is this a problem? Which is the difference between OpenSSH and SSH
Secure Shell?

BTW: I didn't have problems with the configuration files, as other users
reported.

But when sshd starts, throws this warnings:

sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter
rhostsrsaauthentication
sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter
rhostsauthentication
sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter
ignoreuserknownhosts
sshd2: WARNING: PubkeyAuthentication configuration keyword is
deprecated. Use AllowedAuthentications.
sshd2: WARNING: PasswordAuthentication configuration keyword is
deprecated. Use AllowedAuthentications.
sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter reversemappingcheck
sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter gatewayports
sshd2: WARNING: Unrecognized configuration parameter protocol

I think that webmin doesn't support this version of ssh yet. Am I right?

Thanks

Sebastian Salgado (www.hexacta.com)

Renaming of Modules

[Gehrigal - W. <we...@ge...>]

Hi All

Does anybody knows a way to rename webmin modules?

Not cloning!


Thanks!

bye

Alexander


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osx patch

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

The attached fixes one major problem and a petty one.

The major bug is if (on Darwin/OS X) /Library/StartupItems doesn't yet exist, it doesn't properly create it.

The minor bug is I used <tr bgcolor=9999ff> and <tr bgcolor=cccccc> instead of <tr $tb> and <tr $cb>

to apply the patch-
cd init
patch -p1 < init.patch

It probably should get in the next release and maybe noted.
Unfortunately, since the major bug affects setup, installing an updated init.wbm won't do much good- since the Webmin startup stuff won't be there.

an update init.wbm and full webmin are at
http://www.funkyres.com/webmin/init.wbm
and
http://www.funkyres.com/webmin/webmin-0.90a.tar.gz

(attached patch applied to those)

-- 
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http://24.5.29.77:10080/

RE: [PATCH]webmin with camp and cygwin

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

"Ralf Habacker" <Ral...@fr...> wrote ..
> > Hi,
> >
> > for an intranet project in our company I have problems with iis and try
> to
> > migrate to apache. Apache is avaliable for windows or cygwin, but graphical
> > remote configuring apache was left. As I'm using webmin for other linux
> based
> > web server, I tried to use webmin on cygwin for doing this.
> >
> <snip>
> 
> I have created an additional patch for apache module handling
> 
> /usr/local/webmin-0.88/apache/core.pl - patch
> 
> --- core.pl.orig        Sat Oct 27 21:52:19 2001
> +++ core.pl     Sat Oct 27 21:53:32 2001
> @@ -1056,6 +1056,12 @@
>         elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.so/) {
>                 push(@allmods, "mod_$1");
>                 }
> +       elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /(mod_\S+)\.dll/) {
> +               push(@allmods, $1);
> +               }
> +       elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.dll/) {
> +               push(@allmods, "mod_$1");
> +               }
>         }
> 
>  if (@{$_[0]}) {

Cool, I will include this in the next release of webmin.
Is it actually possible to run webmin under windows using Cygwin though?

 - Jamie

Re: [PATCH]webmin with camp and cygwin

[Stipe T. <to...@wa...>]

> I have created an additional patch for apache module handling
> 
> /usr/local/webmin-0.88/apache/core.pl - patch
> 
> --- core.pl.orig        Sat Oct 27 21:52:19 2001
> +++ core.pl     Sat Oct 27 21:53:32 2001
> @@ -1056,6 +1056,12 @@
>         elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.so/) {
>                 push(@allmods, "mod_$1");
>                 }
> +       elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /(mod_\S+)\.dll/) {
> +               push(@allmods, $1);
> +               }
> +       elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.dll/) {
> +               push(@allmods, "mod_$1");
> +               }
>         }
> 
>  if (@{$_[0]}) {

great!

these are needed due that Apache for Cygwin uses mod_foo.dll and
libfoo.dll dynamic libs for DSO/DLL mode.

Could the guys from webmin please include this to current CVS. Thanks!

Stipe

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Re: [PATCH]webmin with camp and cygwin

[Stipe T. <to...@wa...>]

Ralf,

> for an intranet project in our company I have problems with iis and try to
> migrate to apache. Apache is avaliable for windows or cygwin, but graphical
> remote configuring apache was left. As I'm using webmin for other linux based
> web server, I tried to use webmin on cygwin for doing this.
> 
> So I've downloaded camp 0.9 and webmin 0.88 and install it under cygwin 1.3.3.

you should be using the latest CAMP 1.3.20 distribution which includes
current version modules and stuff. The location is
http://apache.dev.wapme.net/packages/.

> Then after installing webmin I run into problems, because the main page could
> be loaded, but if entering other pages in the server area ,for example apache,
> fails with a "500 bad header" error.

500 means usual something went wrong while the CGI process has been
running or the output towards apache's mod_cgi module didn't work as
expected.

There have been several reports from people, that the CGI module is
harmed when php is compiled or linked in.

I suggest -- as you may not need php4 here for webmin -- to take the
latest Apache for Cygwin binary at
http://apache.dev.wapme.net/binaries/latest/ or use the latest CAMP
distribution but exclude then the dynamic loading of the php4 modules
at apache's httpd.conf.

> Because my perl knowledge isn't good enough to understand and analyse
> this problem with webmin's miniserv (with perl 5.6.1), I tried to configure
> the camp distribution to enable apache configuring with webmin.
> 
> Now it's working, except authentification. Currently it uses a default
> user 'admin' which is set in the apache VirtualHost configuration.
> 
> To enable webmin with the apache server, add/patch the below mentioned files.
> Currently I have tested not very deeply, so there might be some more
> places to patch, but for me it works.
> 
> Limitations:
> 1. restarting/stopping/starting apache does not work, because the webmin
>    frontend depends on the apache server and doing this actions causes
>    lost connections. So you have to restart apache remote over telnet or
>    something else.

you may use a seperate "extra" httpd running on a port (i.e. 13000)
which does have priviledges to restart the "usual" httpd.

> Installation
> ============
> 1. Install camp                                                                         http://apache.dev.wapme.net/packages/

ups, so you used the latest CAMP package, ok.

> 2. Install webmin                                                               http://www.webmin.com
>          use the "Linux from scratch" operations system
> 
> 3. patch the below mentioned files.
> 
> 4. restart apache
> 
> 5. Start a browser and enter    http://webmin/
>          (if you have used the below mentioned servername and HOSTS entry)
> 
> Note: Because my apache and webmin configuration knowledge is only
>       very basic, please don't ask me for relating configuration hints.
>       If you have questions, please look in the faq or mailing list on
>       the relates web sites.
> 
> Have fun
> 
> 2001/10/27
> Ralf Habacker
> IT-Manager
> Germany
> 
> /usr/local/apache/conf/http.conf - add text
> #------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # This must be first for providing working localhost
> <VirtualHost *>
>     DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs/
>     ServerName <your workstation name>
>     ErrorLog logs/error_log
>     CustomLog logs/access_log common
>         DirectoryIndex index.html
>                 <Directory />
>                     Options FollowSymLinks
>                     AllowOverride Options
>                 </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> <VirtualHost *>
>     ServerAdmin webmin@localhost
>     DocumentRoot /usr/local/webmin-0.88/
>     ServerName webmin   # or something else you want
>     ErrorLog logs/webmin-error_log
>     CustomLog logs/webmin-access_log common
>                 SetEnv WEBMIN_CONFIG /etc/webmin
>                 SetEnv WEBMIN_VAR        /var/webmin
>                 SetEnv REMOTE_USER       admin

yep, these have to be passed to webmin CGIs.

>         DirectoryIndex index.cgi
>           AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
>                 <Directory />
>                     Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
>                     AllowOverride Options
>                 </Directory>
> 
> NameVirtualHost *
> #------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /c/winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts - add text
> #------------------------------------------------------------
> webmin 127.0.0.1 or other ip adress your pc support
> #------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /usr/local/webmin-0.88/apache/reconfig_form.cgi - patch
> #------------------------------------------------------------
> $ diff reconfig_form.cgi.orig  reconfig_form.cgi -ubB
> --- reconfig_form.cgi.orig      Sat Oct 27 20:52:34 2001
> +++ reconfig_form.cgi   Sat Oct 27 20:52:56 2001
> @@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
>         elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.so/ && -r "mod_$1.pl") {
>                 $inst{"mod_$1"}++;
>                 }
> +       elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /(mod_\S+)\.dll/ && -r "$1.pl") {
> +               $inst{$1}++;
> +               }
> +       elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.dll/ && -r "mod_$1.pl") {
> +               $inst{"mod_$1"}++;
> +               }
>         }
> 
>  # build list of supported modules
> 
> #------------------------------------------------------------

thanks a lot for the patch and the HOWTO. If you don't mind, I would
be pleased to make a HOWTO out of it and put it on the Apache for
Cygwin site.

Regards,
Stipe

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RE: [PATCH]webmin with camp and cygwin

[Ralf H. <Ral...@fr...>]

> Hi,
>
> for an intranet project in our company I have problems with iis and try to
> migrate to apache. Apache is avaliable for windows or cygwin, but graphical
> remote configuring apache was left. As I'm using webmin for other linux based
> web server, I tried to use webmin on cygwin for doing this.
>
<snip>

I have created an additional patch for apache module handling

/usr/local/webmin-0.88/apache/core.pl - patch

--- core.pl.orig        Sat Oct 27 21:52:19 2001
+++ core.pl     Sat Oct 27 21:53:32 2001
@@ -1056,6 +1056,12 @@
        elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.so/) {
                push(@allmods, "mod_$1");
                }
+       elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /(mod_\S+)\.dll/) {
+               push(@allmods, $1);
+               }
+       elsif ($d->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.dll/) {
+               push(@allmods, "mod_$1");
+               }
        }

 if (@{$_[0]}) {


Ralf

[PATCH]webmin with camp and cygwin

[Ralf H. <Ral...@fr...>]

Hi,

for an intranet project in our company I have problems with iis and try to
migrate to apache. Apache is avaliable for windows or cygwin, but graphical
remote configuring apache was left. As I'm using webmin for other linux based
web server, I tried to use webmin on cygwin for doing this.

So I've downloaded camp 0.9 and webmin 0.88 and install it under cygwin 1.3.3.

Then after installing webmin I run into problems, because the main page could
be loaded, but if entering other pages in the server area ,for example apache,
fails with a "500 bad header" error.

Because my perl knowledge isn't good enough to understand and analyse
this problem with webmin's miniserv (with perl 5.6.1), I tried to configure
the camp distribution to enable apache configuring with webmin.

Now it's working, except authentification. Currently it uses a default
user 'admin' which is set in the apache VirtualHost configuration.

To enable webmin with the apache server, add/patch the below mentioned files.
Currently I have tested not very deeply, so there might be some more
places to patch, but for me it works.

Limitations:
1. restarting/stopping/starting apache does not work, because the webmin
   frontend depends on the apache server and doing this actions causes
   lost connections. So you have to restart apache remote over telnet or
   something else.

Installation
============
1. Install camp										http://apache.dev.wapme.net/packages/

2. Install webmin 								http://www.webmin.com
 	 use the "Linux from scratch" operations system

3. patch the below mentioned files.

4. restart apache

5. Start a browser and enter 	http://webmin/
	 (if you have used the below mentioned servername and HOSTS entry)

Note: Because my apache and webmin configuration knowledge is only
      very basic, please don't ask me for relating configuration hints.
      If you have questions, please look in the faq or mailing list on
      the relates web sites.

Have fun

2001/10/27
Ralf Habacker
IT-Manager
Germany

/usr/local/apache/conf/http.conf - add text
#------------------------------------------------------------

# This must be first for providing working localhost
<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs/
    ServerName <your workstation name>
    ErrorLog logs/error_log
    CustomLog logs/access_log common
  	DirectoryIndex index.html
		<Directory />
		    Options FollowSymLinks
		    AllowOverride Options
		</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin webmin@localhost
    DocumentRoot /usr/local/webmin-0.88/
    ServerName webmin 	# or something else you want
    ErrorLog logs/webmin-error_log
    CustomLog logs/webmin-access_log common
		SetEnv WEBMIN_CONFIG /etc/webmin
		SetEnv WEBMIN_VAR 	 /var/webmin
		SetEnv REMOTE_USER	 admin
  	DirectoryIndex index.cgi
	  AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
		<Directory />
		    Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
		    AllowOverride Options
		</Directory>

NameVirtualHost *
#------------------------------------------------------------


/c/winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts - add text
#------------------------------------------------------------
webmin 127.0.0.1 or other ip adress your pc support
#------------------------------------------------------------


/usr/local/webmin-0.88/apache/reconfig_form.cgi - patch
#------------------------------------------------------------
$ diff reconfig_form.cgi.orig  reconfig_form.cgi -ubB
--- reconfig_form.cgi.orig      Sat Oct 27 20:52:34 2001
+++ reconfig_form.cgi   Sat Oct 27 20:52:56 2001
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
        elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.so/ && -r "mod_$1.pl") {
                $inst{"mod_$1"}++;
                }
+       elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /(mod_\S+)\.dll/ && -r "$1.pl") {
+               $inst{$1}++;
+               }
+       elsif ($l->{'words'}->[1] =~ /lib([^\/\s]+)\.dll/ && -r "mod_$1.pl") {
+               $inst{"mod_$1"}++;
+               }
        }

 # build list of supported modules

#------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Webmin 0.89 pre-release

[Kenneth P. <sh...@we...>]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:37:48 +1000, Jamie Cameron wrote:

>Webmin version 0.89 will be released in a few days, but anyone
>who wants to have a look at it before then for translation or
>testing purposes can get the webmin-0.885 pre-release from

Just checked it out, and it looks like it doesn't include my spec file
patch. Musta got lost in the noise. I'm attaching an updated patch.

The patch:

1) Eliminates superfluous RPM variables that duplicate the builtin ones
and differ only in case. (RPM variable names are case-sensitive.) For
instance, "%{version}" is implicitly defined by the "Version:"
directive.
2) Fixes case on references to builtin RPM variables. (eg. "%{Version}"
becomes "%{version}".)
3) Declares package to be noarch, instead of default i386. (It's all
Perl.)
4) un-tar's quietly, since there's so many files in webmin.

Ken
mailto:sh...@we...
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
[If answering a mailing list posting, please don't cc me your reply. I'll take my answer on the list.]

Webmin 0.89 pre-release

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

Hi,

Webmin version 0.89 will be released in a few days, but anyone
who wants to have a look at it before then for translation or
testing purposes can get the webmin-0.885 pre-release from

http://fudu.webmin.com/webmin/rpm/

New in 0.89 will be Redhat 7.2 and SuSE 7.3 support, and SSHD
module, faster RPC support, BIND 9 view support and lots of
other little bugfixes and features.

 - Jamie

Using Webmin to administer distributed servers...

[Chip K. <Chi...@op...>]

Hello,

I am looking at framework solutions for administering servers
distributed across multiple host machines.  From a quick reading of the
Webmin docs it looks to be very flexible in terms of developing modules
for administration of servers running on the local Webmin host, but I'm
not seeing support for administration of processes running on remote
hosts.  One scenario for supporting this requirement would involve
something like 1 master and multiple slave instances of Webmin, where
one would install Webmin on each remote host and implement some sort of
RPC interface between the "master" Webmin instance and the distributed
"slave" Webmin instances.  Any thoughts on making external calls into
the Webmin daemon, circumventing the GUI?  Or does anybody have 
experience with other Webadmin-based solutions to the remote-host 
administration problem?

thx,

==================================
Chip Kaye
Principal Software Engineer
Sync Products Group
Openwave Systems, Inc.
==================================

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.

-=-
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*

-- 
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Michael A. Peters
http://24.5.29.77:10080/

Webmin on OS X/Darwin

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

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
itself, it now created the necessary stuff in /Library/StartupItems and adds
an entry into /etc/hostconfig.

This is actually the "kosher" way to do it on Darwin based systems anyway,
so rather than try and hack the atboot.pl to insert the startup request before
the exit 0, I hacked it do things the Apple way.

I also patched the delboot.pl to clean up after itself.

These two patches (to webmin-0.88) can be viewed here:

http://24.5.29.77:10080/WEBMIN_MAC/atboot.patch
http://24.5.29.77:10080/WEBMIN_MAC/delboot.patch

In order for the patches to work, the /init/config-macos file needs to be modified.
This is what mine looks like:

reboot_command=reboot
shutdown_command=halt
darwin_setup=/Library/StartupItems
hostconfig=/private/etc/hostconfig
status_check=0

-=-
OK- with just those changes, webmin will install on OS X and start
at boot. Those two patches and the change to the config file are
the things I'm most interested in seeing work their way into the
webmin standard source.

However, I also made another rather radical change, but I think its
one that is for the better, one I would like to suggest.

I changed every filename that contains macos to instead contain darwin.
Thus, config-macos becomes config-darwin.

And, of course, a sed script changed all the references from macos to darwin
within the files themselves :)

I also modified the os_list.txt file to better add support for the various
flavors of Darwin out there.

The new os_list.txt file can be viewed at
http://24.5.29.77:10080/WEBMIN_MAC/os_list.txt

Darwin is the unix core of OS X, and Darwin is available for free for both
the PowerPC and the x86 platform.

Both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server are based upon, but different than Darwin.
They both are Darwin underneath, but are different OS's sold for different purposes.

That is why I personally thought it better for the config files to be called config-darwin
opposed to config-macos.

Webmin is about unix, and Darwin in the unix part of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.

If that change seems to major, I understand- but the updated os_lists.txt should be
considered even if the changes from config-macos to config-darwin seem too major.

I have a webmin-0.88 tarball that contains my patches already applied.
I have tested it on several OS X/Darwin installs, and tested it on a Linux install
to make sure I didn't break anything there.

I did not have an opportunity to test it on a system where an rc script is the proper place.

The updated tarball (and everything, in fact) is at
http://24.5.29.77:10080/WEBMIN_MAC/

directory listing is turned on.

Any comments or suggestions?
http://24.5.29.77:10080/OSX-Darwin/

Re: RPC login failure (webmin 0.88)

[Clemens O. <oe...@un...>]

Dear Jamie & all the other readers,

On Sep 27 17:05, web...@li... (JC) wrote:

|JC>Does this happen consistently, or only some of the time?

All of time.

|JC>Also, does it happen when you actually use the status module, or when the
|JC>status monitoring is done on schedule?

Both. The problem occurs on every RPC call. As far as I can recall, the only
major event lately has been a reboot and some switching on and off of the ca
module. This might sound really stupdid, but could it be some ssl certificate
issue?

regards
clemens

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  Clemens Oertel             Bioinformatik             Universitaet Tuebingen

                                                    <oe...@un...>

Re: RPC login failure (webmin 0.88)

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

Clemens Oertel <oe...@un...> wrote ..
> hi together,
> 
> i'm having some problems with webmin's rpc features. it used to work just
> fine, but all of a sudden (so it seems to me), i keep getting
> 
> Invalid RPC login to outlaw at ../web-lib.pl line 2002.
> 
> now the login works just fine when used from the webmin servers index.
> the
> error occurs with any module i try to access via rpc (including the status
> module).
> 
> so i'm wondering what might invalidate the rpc login? any hints are greatly
> appreciated.

Does this happen consistently, or only some of the time?
Also, does it happen when you actually use the status module, or when the
status monitoring is done on schedule?

 - Jamie

RPC login failure (webmin 0.88)

[Clemens O. <oe...@un...>]

hi together,

i'm having some problems with webmin's rpc features. it used to work just
fine, but all of a sudden (so it seems to me), i keep getting

Invalid RPC login to outlaw at ../web-lib.pl line 2002.

now the login works just fine when used from the webmin servers index. the
error occurs with any module i try to access via rpc (including the status
module).

so i'm wondering what might invalidate the rpc login? any hints are greatly
appreciated.

regards
clemens

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Clemens Oertel             Bioinformatik             Universitaet Tuebingen

                                                    <oe...@un...>

Re: useradmin password on modify

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

Terry Davis <td...@bi...> wrote ..
> Hello,
> When you go in and modify a user the crypt passwd is shown in the "Pre-encrypted
> password" field.  Is the password env variable assigned to this value on
> a modify?

No .. $USERADMIN_PASS only gets set to the plain-text password if the user
enters a new one.

 - Jamie