webadmin-devel

creating a new module

[Jannetta S L. <jan...@he...>]

Could someone perhaps assist a dumb newbie. I am working my way through
the documentation on creating a new module for webmin. I created the
directory, the images dir, the index.html and the modules.info file.
However, despite the fact that I have a desc=description line in
modules.info, the name of the module does not appear under the icon. What
is wrong?

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Re: creating a new module

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

Jannetta S Lewis wrote:

> Could someone perhaps assist a dumb newbie. I am working my way through
> the documentation on creating a new module for webmin. I created the
> directory, the images dir, the index.html and the modules.info file.
> However, despite the fact that I have a desc=description line in
> modules.info, the name of the module does not appear under the icon. What
> is wrong?


The file should be called module.info, not modules.info . Also, because webmin
caches this file you need to delete /etc/webmin/module.infos.cache every time
you modify it, so that the cache is re-loaded.

  - Jamie

Re: creating a new module

[Wil C. <wc...@na...>]

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:37, Jamie Cameron wrote:
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> The file should be called module.info, not modules.info . Also, because w=
ebmin
> caches this file you need to delete /etc/webmin/module.infos.cache every =
time
> you modify it, so that the cache is re-loaded.

Is this cache file new in the last few versions?  I don't seem to recall
seeing it before.=20

Wil
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Re: creating a new module

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

Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:37, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
>>The file should be called module.info, not modules.info . Also, because webmin
>>caches this file you need to delete /etc/webmin/module.infos.cache every time
>>you modify it, so that the cache is re-loaded.
>>
> 
> Is this cache file new in the last few versions?  I don't seem to recall
> seeing it before. 


Yes .. it was introduced in version 0.950, to save every page from having to
read all the module.info files to display the category icons at the top.

  - Jamie