webadmin-devel

[webmin-devel] problem with extraroot

[Jaldhar H. V. <ja...@de...>]

[Jamie, I sent you this a couple of weeks ago and got no response.  Now 
your ja...@we... address seems to be bouncing altogether.]

Dear Jamie,

Thanks for adding the extraroot functionality to recent versions of webmin. 
There is one problem:  many third party modules have code which looks like

do "../web-lib,pl";

Which obviously won't work if web-lib.pl is in /usr/share/webmin and the module 
was installed into /usr/local/share/webmin.

One workaround is to symlink all the important libraries into the extraroot but 
is there a better way?

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <ja...@de...>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

Re: [webmin-devel] problem with extraroot

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

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:12, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> [Jamie, I sent you this a couple of weeks ago and got no response.  Now 
> your ja...@we... address seems to be bouncing altogether.]

That's because it is actually jca...@we... :-)

> Dear Jamie,
> 
> Thanks for adding the extraroot functionality to recent versions of webmin. 
> There is one problem:  many third party modules have code which looks like
> 
> do "../web-lib,pl";
> 
> Which obviously won't work if web-lib.pl is in /usr/share/webmin and the module 
> was installed into /usr/local/share/webmin.
> 
> One workaround is to symlink all the important libraries into the extraroot but 
> is there a better way?

No, symlinking is the proper and only way to do it .. it's a bit of a
hack, but I couldn't think of any other way that would remain compatible
with existing modules.

 - Jamie

Re: [webmin-devel] problem with extraroot

[Jaldhar H. V. <ja...@de...>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2005, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:12, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>> [Jamie, I sent you this a couple of weeks ago and got no response.  Now
>> your ja...@we... address seems to be bouncing altogether.]
>
> That's because it is actually jca...@we... :-)
>

Sorry I meant jca...@we.... For some reason postfix keeps giving me 
"host webmin.com not found"  But anyway...

>> One workaround is to symlink all the important libraries into the
extraroot but
>> is there a better way?
>
> No, symlinking is the proper and only way to do it .. it's a bit of a 
> hack, but I couldn't think of any other way that would remain compatible 
> with existing modules.
>

ok.  I'll do that for

web-lib.pl
config-lib.pl
javascript-lib.pl
ui-lib.pl

Have I missed any other files?


-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <ja...@de...>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

Re: [webmin-devel] problem with extraroot

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

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:58, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2005, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:12, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> >> [Jamie, I sent you this a couple of weeks ago and got no response.  Now
> >> your ja...@we... address seems to be bouncing altogether.]
> >
> > That's because it is actually jca...@we... :-)
> >
> 
> Sorry I meant jca...@we.... For some reason postfix keeps giving me 
> "host webmin.com not found"  But anyway...

Odd .. I get these emails from the mailing list to that same address
though.

> >> One workaround is to symlink all the important libraries into the
> extraroot but
> >> is there a better way?
> >
> > No, symlinking is the proper and only way to do it .. it's a bit of a 
> > hack, but I couldn't think of any other way that would remain compatible 
> > with existing modules.
> >
> 
> ok.  I'll do that for
> 
> web-lib.pl
> config-lib.pl
> javascript-lib.pl
> ui-lib.pl
> 
> Have I missed any other files?

No, that's all that are needed ..

 - Jamie