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Re: [webmin-l] virtualmin and Pro FTP

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

Hi,
That message is just a suggestion that you add the line /bin/false to
the /etc/shells file. It may not be necessary depending on how your FTP
server is configured, but is generally a good idea ..

 - Jamie

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:12, da...@so... wrote:
> Hi,
> Great work Jamie. Question I have is getting ftp (specifically ProFTP)
> to work with an account created with virtualmin. I keep getting the
> prompt on creation :
> 
> 
> Shell /bin/false for FTP users is not included in /etc/shells, which
> may prevent FTP access.
> 
> 
> 
> Not sure what this means.
> 
> I'm running Slackware 10.0, ProFTP is installed and Virtualmin
> recognises this.
> 

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Re: [webmin-l] Ubuntu Howto Webmin --- My Path

[Daniel P. <da...@ri...>]

Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> writes:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:21, Bob wrote:
>> I had almost torn out all my hair trying to get webmin running on Ubuntu 
>> 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog".

[...]

>> OK, the Authen:PAM would not install for me.

That is quite strange: Ubuntu (and Debian, which it is extremely close
to) both supply the package 'libauthen-pam-perl', which provides this
Perl module.

If you couldn't get that package to install, I would strongly suggest
that there is something rather wrong with your system at the moment.

[...]

> So does Ubuntu use /etc/passwd instead of /etc/shadow for storing actual
> user passwords? That is quite surprising, 

It may be that Ubuntu still offers an option somewhere to turn off
shadow passwords;  Debian does in the current release versions.  You
have to /work/ to make it happen, and it sure isn't recommended.

> as all other Linux distros have been using /etc/shadow for some time
> now, so Webmin just assumes that that is the correct file..

As far as I know, Ubuntu does use shadow by default.  In any case, from
the next release on they *will* be using shadow, since Debian/unstable
just turned off any support for non-shadow systems.


Personally, I suspect the original poster has a very oddly configured
box, as the inability to install an OS supplied package indicates.

My Ubuntu test machine tells me that shadow is the right answer, by the
way.  It is the preview of the next release, but there hasn't been
/that/ much change from 5.04, which also used shadow by default.

Regards,
        Daniel

Re: [webmin-l] Feature request/neat idea

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

Hi Adam,
That sounds like a pretty cool idea...

I'm thinking that it may make more sense as part of the existing System
and Server Status module, which currently just displays if various
services are up or down. However, it could be enhanced to display
additional information as you suggested, such as the system load,
connected users, etc..

What do you think?

 - Jamie

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 02:06, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> So I had this idea today. I know it would make my life easier.
> 
> A new webmin module named "Summary" or "Server Summary".
> 
> This module would display a simple status from all modules in webmin. It
> could call a function from each webmin module, much like the function
> when adding a system user. That function would return some status info
> for that modules block. It would be up to each module's configuration
> page as to what would be displayed in this "summary module".
> 
>
> For example.
> 
> The module would start out with a section (each section is either in a
> table cell which would be made pretty, or seperated by an <hr>) that
> listed the status of webmin (perhaps how many users are logged in, port
> it's using, ssl enabled, etc.). Then let's say the next section would be
> from a module, say samba for example, and could list samba's daemon
> statuses, then the next could be DansGuardian and list it's status,
> filter levels etc, then Apache could list up/down and performance stuff.
> 
> I think it would be an awesome thing to use with the "go directly to
> this module upon login" feature. A person could login to webmin and see
> a quick status of the server, then optionally click on the section's
> title to go directly to that module to change something.
> 
> 
> Ideas? Thoughts? This would obviously require an API change for the new
> function, but I think it would be an awesome thing to have.

Re: [webmin-l] Ubuntu Howto Webmin --- My Path

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

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:21, Bob wrote:
> I had almost torn out all my hair trying to get webmin running on Ubuntu 
> 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog".
> 
> I found that none of the instructions on the web worked, nor any of the 
> email archives.
> 
> I installed Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog" as a server only with 
> minimal system.
> 
> It is a real trip to work with an OS that does not allow login by root 
> and you must do everything by sudo.
> 
> Fixed that real quick:  sudo passwd root
> Set the password and now you can login as root
> logged in as root
> 
> mkdir /usr/local/src/webmin
> cd /usr/local/src/webmin
> wget 
> http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.230.tar.gz
> gunzip webmin-1.230.tar.gz
> tar xf webmin-1.230.tar
> cd webmin-1.230
> ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin
> accepted all defaults
> 
> BUT webmin would not run
> 
> cd /var/webmin
> nano miniserv.error
> 
> [21/Sep/2005:16:17:25 -0700] miniserv.pl started
> [21/Sep/2005:16:17:25 -0700] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is 
> not inst$
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 2) line 1.
> 
> OK, the Authen:PAM would not install for me.
> 
> So, I edited /etc/miniserv.conf with nano (an editor that comes with ubuntu)
> changed the
> passwd_file=/etc/shadow
> to
> passwd_file=/etc/passwd
> 
> wrote the file and exited nano
> 
> then performed /etc/webmin/start
> 
> and VOILE --- it works
> 
> I hope this helps someone.
> 
> I love Webmin and I get very frustrated when an Operating System does 
> not like it to install and run properly.
> 
> Jaime --- Thanks for a great program!

Hi Bob,

So does Ubuntu use /etc/passwd instead of /etc/shadow for storing actual
user passwords? That is quite surprising, as all other Linux distros
have been using /etc/shadow for some time now, so Webmin just assumes
that that is the correct file..

 - Jamie

[webmin-l] Ubuntu Howto Webmin --- My Path

[Bob <Bo...@de...>]

I had almost torn out all my hair trying to get webmin running on Ubuntu 
5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog".

I found that none of the instructions on the web worked, nor any of the 
email archives.

I installed Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog" as a server only with 
minimal system.

It is a real trip to work with an OS that does not allow login by root 
and you must do everything by sudo.

Fixed that real quick:  sudo passwd root
Set the password and now you can login as root
logged in as root

mkdir /usr/local/src/webmin
cd /usr/local/src/webmin
wget 
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.230.tar.gz
gunzip webmin-1.230.tar.gz
tar xf webmin-1.230.tar
cd webmin-1.230
./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin
accepted all defaults

BUT webmin would not run

cd /var/webmin
nano miniserv.error

[21/Sep/2005:16:17:25 -0700] miniserv.pl started
[21/Sep/2005:16:17:25 -0700] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is 
not inst$
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 2) line 1.

OK, the Authen:PAM would not install for me.

So, I edited /etc/miniserv.conf with nano (an editor that comes with ubuntu)
changed the
passwd_file=/etc/shadow
to
passwd_file=/etc/passwd

wrote the file and exited nano

then performed /etc/webmin/start

and VOILE --- it works

I hope this helps someone.

I love Webmin and I get very frustrated when an Operating System does 
not like it to install and run properly.

Jaime --- Thanks for a great program!

Why? Ubuntu?? I am following instructions to install XEN and the 
instructions call for Ubuntu.


Bob

RE: [webmin-l] CentOS 2.1 Network Configuration Module disappeared

[Rouke de J. <rou...@gm...>]

Try to install the webmin-core part, that should solve the rest

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Onderwerp: [webmin-l] CentOS 2.1 Network Configuration Module disappeared

Since updating to Webmin-1.220 on CentOS 2.1, I do not have access to the 
Network Configuration module.  When I manually put the URL in 
(https://localhost:10000/net/index.cgi), I get this message: Access denied 
: User admin is not allowed to use the Network Configuration module.
When I try to manually install the net.wbm module, I get this message: 
Failed to install uploaded module : Module net does not support this 
operating system (Redhat Linux 2.1AS).
This also seems to be the case when I do a new install or upgrade to 
Webmin-1.230.  An official RHEL 2.1AS install seems to work fine as does 
CentOS 3.x and 4.x.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to fix this, please?  Or is it a 
bug?  Thank you.


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Re: [webmin-l] Feature request/neat idea

[Paul C. <pcu...@op...>]

Adam Kennedy wrote:

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>So I had this idea today. I know it would make my life easier.
>
>A new webmin module named "Summary" or "Server Summary".
>
>This module would display a simple status from all modules in webmin. It
>could call a function from each webmin module, much like the function
>when adding a system user. That function would return some status info
>for that modules block. It would be up to each module's configuration
>page as to what would be displayed in this "summary module".
>
>
>For example.
>
>The module would start out with a section (each section is either in a
>table cell which would be made pretty, or seperated by an <hr>) that
>listed the status of webmin (perhaps how many users are logged in, port
>it's using, ssl enabled, etc.). Then let's say the next section would be
>from a module, say samba for example, and could list samba's daemon
>statuses, then the next could be DansGuardian and list it's status,
>filter levels etc, then Apache could list up/down and performance stuff.
>
>I think it would be an awesome thing to use with the "go directly to
>this module upon login" feature. A person could login to webmin and see
>a quick status of the server, then optionally click on the section's
>title to go directly to that module to change something.
>
>
>Ideas? Thoughts? This would obviously require an API change for the new
>function, but I think it would be an awesome thing to have.
>  
>
This seems a neat idea to me. 

Does anyone thing that having a Webmin Wiki would be useful and/or 
another neat idea?

I am Paul Cubbage, Evangelist for Open Country (OC), the company 
sponsoring Webmin.  I will be putting up a survey shorty, linkable from 
within Webmin, to get  input on what people want added to/changed in 
Webmin. 

The final decision(s) on mods will be Jamie's but he does implement 
features that the community is willing to fund.  That being said, OC 
will give serious consideration to funding anything with strong support 
from within the Webmin community.

Paul Cubbage

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[webmin-l] Feature request/neat idea

[Adam K. <ake...@ni...>]

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So I had this idea today. I know it would make my life easier.

A new webmin module named "Summary" or "Server Summary".

This module would display a simple status from all modules in webmin. It
could call a function from each webmin module, much like the function
when adding a system user. That function would return some status info
for that modules block. It would be up to each module's configuration
page as to what would be displayed in this "summary module".


For example.

The module would start out with a section (each section is either in a
table cell which would be made pretty, or seperated by an <hr>) that
listed the status of webmin (perhaps how many users are logged in, port
it's using, ssl enabled, etc.). Then let's say the next section would be
from a module, say samba for example, and could list samba's daemon
statuses, then the next could be DansGuardian and list it's status,
filter levels etc, then Apache could list up/down and performance stuff.

I think it would be an awesome thing to use with the "go directly to
this module upon login" feature. A person could login to webmin and see
a quick status of the server, then optionally click on the section's
title to go directly to that module to change something.


Ideas? Thoughts? This would obviously require an API change for the new
function, but I think it would be an awesome thing to have.

- --
Northern Indiana ESC
Adam Kennedy - ake...@ni...
Linux Specialist / Network Administrator
Phone: (574) 254-5210
Toll Free: 866-254-5322
Fax: (574) 254-0148
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[webmin-l] CentOS 2.1 Network Configuration Module disappeared

[<tbu...@vi...>]

Since updating to Webmin-1.220 on CentOS 2.1, I do not have access to the 
Network Configuration module.  When I manually put the URL in 
(https://localhost:10000/net/index.cgi), I get this message: Access denied 
: User admin is not allowed to use the Network Configuration module.
When I try to manually install the net.wbm module, I get this message: 
Failed to install uploaded module : Module net does not support this 
operating system (Redhat Linux 2.1AS).
This also seems to be the case when I do a new install or upgrade to 
Webmin-1.230.  An official RHEL 2.1AS install seems to work fine as does 
CentOS 3.x and 4.x.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to fix this, please?  Or is it a 
bug?  Thank you.

[webmin-l] Webmin 1.230 released

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

Hi everyone,

Webmin version 1.230 is now available for download from
http://www.webmin.com/ and mirror sites. This release includes
the following changes :

 - Fixed a security hole that allows a remote attack if the
   'Support full PAM conversations?' option is enabled in the
   Webmin Configuration module. Thanks to JPCERT for finding this bug. 
 - Worked around a problem that could cause the loss of the /etc/webmin
   directory when upgrading from a Webmin RPM from another vendor. 
 - Added basic support for installing on Windows systems, using the
   new setup.pl script. This should be considered alpha-quality code
   at the moment. 
 - The Backup Configuration Files module can now backup the Webmin
   config file associated with a module, and a list of other arbitary
   files. 
 - The Cron module allows a start and end date to be specified for jobs. 
 - Added support for SQL queries and updates to the Custom Commands module. 
 - The Protected Web Directories module now support digest format password
   files, which are more secure. 
 - The MySQL and PostgreSQL modules support deleting multiple databases,
   tables, users, groups and permissions at once. They also handle large
   numbers of tables and databases better by displaying a search form
   instead of a huge list or table of icons. 
 - Added cross-monitor dependencies and support for deleting multiple
   monitors at once to the System and Server Status module.

Because of the security hole in older versions of Webmin, I would recommend
upgrading to 1.230. Fortunately the vulnerable option is not enabled by
default and is rarely used, but you can't be too careful ..

Also available is Usermin 1.160, which includes the following changes :

 - Fixed the same security hole as in Webmin. 
 - The Cron module allows a start and end date to be specified for jobs. 
 - Added a simpler interface to the Mail Forwarding and Replies module,
   for setting up one or more of normal delivery, auto-responding and forwarding. 
 - The MySQL and PostgreSQL modules allow multiple tables to be deleted
   at once, and display search forms when a database has too many tables. 
 - The Upload and Download module can now be used to fetch a file from the
   server running Usermin to the PC on which your browser runs.

As always, please send me any bug reports or feature suggestions that
you might have.

 - Jamie

Re: [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates

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

Hi Mark,
To get records like this, you could enter into a template file something
like :

@   IN  NS  ns1.mydomain.com.
@   IN  NS  ns2.mydomain.com.
@   IN  NS  ns3.mydomain.com.
@   IN  MX  30 mail
@   IN  MX  50 mx2.mydomain.com.
@   IN  MX  80 mx3.mydomain.com.
@   IN  A   1.2.3.4
www IN  A   1.2.3.4
mail IN A   1.2.3.5
ftp  IN A   1.2.3.6

The @ means the current domain name ..

 - Jamie

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:31, Obantec Support wrote:
> Hi Jamie
> 
> Bind Module. (never got into Virtualmin as the layout of cgi-bin etc differs
> to my defaults. (guess i like manual config).
> 
> what i have is
> 
> domain.com    IN    NS    ns1.mydomain.com
> domain.com    IN    NS    ns2.mydomain.com
> domain.com    IN    NS    ns2.mydomain.com
> 
> domain.com    IN    MX    30    mail.domain.com
> domain.com    IN    MX    50    mx2.mydomain.com
> domain.com    IN    MX    80    mx3.mydomain.com
> 
> domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.4
> www.domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.4
> mail.domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.5    (note diff IP)
> ftp.domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.6    (as above).
> 
> Does 1.225 (which refers to template file) have a way to do the above?
> 
> my primary nameserver is not on the same server as users & apache so
> vitrualmin seems OTT.
> 
> Mark
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
> To: <web...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates
> 
> 
> > Is this in the BIND module, or on Virtualmin's server templates page?
> Actually, in both cases the format is like:
> >
> > www   IN   A    1.2.3.4
> > @        IN   NS  ns1.foo.com.
> > @        IN   MX  mail.foo.com.
> >
> > For address, name server and mail server records respectively.
> >
> >  - Jamie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From:  "Obantec Support" <su...@ob...>
> > Subj:  [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates
> > Date:  Wed 21 Sep 2005 6:42 pm
> > Size:  763 bytes
> > To:  <web...@li...>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > FC3 & Bind 9.2.5
> >
> > what do the template files look like, i want to set-up a default with 3
> > nameservers 3 mailservers and 4 A records.
> >
> > Mark
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Re: [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates

[Obantec S. <su...@ob...>]

Hi Jamie

Bind Module. (never got into Virtualmin as the layout of cgi-bin etc differs
to my defaults. (guess i like manual config).

what i have is

domain.com    IN    NS    ns1.mydomain.com
domain.com    IN    NS    ns2.mydomain.com
domain.com    IN    NS    ns2.mydomain.com

domain.com    IN    MX    30    mail.domain.com
domain.com    IN    MX    50    mx2.mydomain.com
domain.com    IN    MX    80    mx3.mydomain.com

domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.4
www.domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.4
mail.domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.5    (note diff IP)
ftp.domain.com    IN    A    1.2.3.6    (as above).

Does 1.225 (which refers to template file) have a way to do the above?

my primary nameserver is not on the same server as users & apache so
vitrualmin seems OTT.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates


> Is this in the BIND module, or on Virtualmin's server templates page?
Actually, in both cases the format is like:
>
> www   IN   A    1.2.3.4
> @        IN   NS  ns1.foo.com.
> @        IN   MX  mail.foo.com.
>
> For address, name server and mail server records respectively.
>
>  - Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  "Obantec Support" <su...@ob...>
> Subj:  [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates
> Date:  Wed 21 Sep 2005 6:42 pm
> Size:  763 bytes
> To:  <web...@li...>
>
> Hi
>
> FC3 & Bind 9.2.5
>
> what do the template files look like, i want to set-up a default with 3
> nameservers 3 mailservers and 4 A records.
>
> Mark
> --
> Obantec Support
> www.obantec.net
> 0845 458 3121
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Re: [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates

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

Is this in the BIND module, or on Virtualmin's server templates page? Actually, in both cases the format is like:

www   IN   A    1.2.3.4
@        IN   NS  ns1.foo.com.
@        IN   MX  mail.foo.com.

For address, name server and mail server records respectively.

 - Jamie

-----Original Message-----

From:  "Obantec Support" <su...@ob...>
Subj:  [webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates
Date:  Wed 21 Sep 2005 6:42 pm
Size:  763 bytes
To:  <web...@li...>

Hi

FC3 & Bind 9.2.5

what do the template files look like, i want to set-up a default with 3
nameservers 3 mailservers and 4 A records.

Mark
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[webmin-l] Bind 9.2.5 templates

[Obantec S. <su...@ob...>]

Hi

FC3 & Bind 9.2.5

what do the template files look like, i want to set-up a default with 3
nameservers 3 mailservers and 4 A records.

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[webmin-l] Tutorials and Supports

[Vernon J. S. <ve...@ve...>]

Dear Community,

Hey how is it going? I am currently working on my site and placing in =
some
tutorials on Webmin, Usermin, Virtualmin, Virtualmin Pro and 3rd Party
modules. As one of the 3rd party module developers that offers' some =
nice
plug-ins for Virtualmin I thought it would be nice to offer a spot on my
site that has an accumulated spot for everyone's tutorials. If you wish =
to
be part of this please feel free to email me everything you want posted
about your product and its information. Also I have a section for anyone
that is not a developer that supports me (aka giving me thanks, pat on =
the
back or uses my modules).

Supporters Link:
http://www.vernonspangler.org/modules.php?name=3DSupporters

Tutorials
http://www.vernonspangler.org/modules.php?name=3DTutoriaux


I will be working on this and my hopes is to offer a second location for
people to have there information located.

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Re: [webmin-l] Need advice

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

Hi Enrique,
If you are finding it slow to fetch the status from a large number of servers for display on a web page, one alternative would be to set up a Cron job to do this on a regular schedule (like every 5 minutes), and store the results in a file for a CGI to read.

At the moment, the time a monitor went down is not recorded .. however, since that is useful information I may capture it in future..

 - Jamie

-----Original Message-----

From:  Enrique Toledano <enr...@gm...>
Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] Need advice
Date:  Tue 20 Sep 2005 9:40 pm
Size:  3K
To:  web...@li...

Yes, I've done that before, but with less hosts; with a lot of hosts
the load of the webpage would be slower (with my very bad servers).
What I'm doing now is, using the onup and ondown commands and a script
that runs ssh, write the remote master host file on every up and down
of the monitors of every host. I was only wondering if there could be
a better way to do it .
Thanks for your help.
With this I'm trying to resolve, besides the concentration of many
hosts, something I miss in the status module: in the webpage we know
that a monitor is down, but no how much time it has been down, the
only way to know the time the monitors went down is reading the
emails.

Enrique

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:06:00 1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> Hi Enrique,
> Perhaps one solution would be to have a master system periodically fetch the oldstatus file and monitor files from each of the other servers, and then analyse those files? You could fetch the files with SSH, or using Webmin's built-in RPC capability for calling functions on other servers.
>
>  - Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  Enrique Toledano <enr...@gm...>
> Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] Need advice
> Date:  Tue 20 Sep 2005 5:50 pm
> Size:  3K
> To:  web...@li...
>
> Hi
> Thanks for your response.
> Yes, I know the oldstatus and the services files. I'm not using the
> cluster feature, all the hosts have their own configuration. What I
> want is that when a monitor come down, it changes the file on the
> remote webmin server. I was thinking in changing something in the
> status module of all the hosts to make that, on a going down and a
> going up it change the local oldstatus and the remote file (not using
> the onup and ondown commands).
>
> By the way, could it be possible to have the date internazionalizated
> in the status module (in the emails and in the last scheduled status)?
>
> Thanks
>
> 20 Sep 2005 10:26:13 +1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:48, Enrique Toledano wrote:
> > > Hi Jamie and the rest of the list:
> > >
> > > I need some advice in a module I'm developing, so I think you'll be so
> > > kind to help me.
> > > I have many hosts (more than 200) monitorized with the status module
> > > of webmin. Now, I want to show the status of all the computers in one
> > > master host, showing them in a map, and giving them a color in
> > > function of his actual status, with a new module.
> > > I think this can be done with the module reading a local file than
> > > contents the status of all the hosts that have alarms.
> > > But, what do you think it's the best way to put the status of all the
> > > hosts in one file of the master host?
> > > I'm using the onup and ondown commands, but I think it's not the best way.
> >
> > Hi Enrique,
> > If you are using the cluster feature of the status module to monitor all
> > the systems from a single webmin server, then the information about
> > which monitors are up and down is already available on that master
> > server. It can be found in the file /etc/webmin/status/oldstatus , which
> > is a text file in which each line is in the format :
> >
> > id=status
> >
> > The 'id' is the ID of a monitor, and status is the result from the last
> > check. 0 = down, 1 = up, other numbers indicate other types of failures.
> > You can read that file easily in a webmin module with the read_file
> > funcion, which converts it into a hash.
> >
> > The actual details of each monitored services are in files in the
> > /etc/webmin/status/services directory. You can either read those
> > directory, or make foreign calls from your module to the status module
> > to read them, with code like :
> >
> > &foreign_require("status", "status-lib.pl");
> > $serv = &status::get_service($id):
> >
> >  - Jamie
> >
> >

--- message truncated ---

[webmin-l] [FAQ] Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin - On the fly updates

[Martin M. <mm...@me...>]

######################################################################

History:
--------

20.09.2005
Webmin-Version 1.230 released as stable
Usermin-Version 1.160 released as stable

16.09.2005
Webmin-Development-Version 1.226 released
Usermin-Development-Version 1.155 released

16.07.2005
Virtualmin-Development-Version 2.601 released

03.05.2005
Virtualmin-Version 2.60 released as stable

######################################################################

Current Stable Release for Webmin is 1.230
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.230.tar.gz
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.230-1.noarch.rpm
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.230-minimal.tar.gz

Current Development Release for Webmin is 1.226
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.226.tar.gz

Current Stable Release for Usermin is 1.160
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/usermin-1.160.tar.gz
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/usermin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm

Current Development Release for Usermin is 1.155
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/usermin-1.155.tar.gz

Current Stable Release for VirtualMin is 2.60
http://webmin.mamemu.de/download/virtualmin/virtual-server-2.60.wbm.gz

Current Development Release for VirtualMin is 2.601
http://webmin.mamemu.de/download/virtualmin/virtual-server-2.601.wbm.gz
	
######################################################################

Important notice:
There are three announcments for stable versions.

a) Maybe the first one comes with a "on the fly"-update.
b) Paying sourceforge-members who are subscribed to notifications
about webmin/usermin-file uploads.
c) The one and only official one comes from Jamie Cameron directly.

Virtualmin has gone Virtualmin Pro:
Jamie Cameron and Joe Cooper founded Virtualmin Inc.
Please visit http://www.virtualmin.com/ for details

If you are anoyed by these post you can filter this with procmail
scanning for

X-Webmin: update

in the header.


bis dahin - kind regards

Martin Mewes

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RE: [webmin-l] Configure Webmin with PAM Authentication

[<Dir...@fu...>]

Hi,

i use a SuSE SLES 9 and they offer a pam_unix2.conf, which itself
uses ldap as you can see here. Moreover we also tried pam_ldap.so=20
directly and logging on via shell or samba /w ldap works fine.

hgest3201:~ # cat /etc/security/pam_unix2.conf
# pam_unix2 config file
#
# This file contains options for the pam_unix2.so module.
# It contains a list of options for every type of management group,
# which will be used for authentication, account management and
# password management. Not all options will be used from all types of
# management groups.
#
# At first, pam_unix2 will read this file and then uses the local
# options. Not all options can be set her global.
#
# Allowed options are:
#
# debug                 (account, auth, password, session)
# nullok                (auth)
# md5                   (password)
# bigcrypt              (password)
# blowfish              (password)
# crypt_rounds=3DXX
# none                  (session)
# trace                 (session)
# call_modules=3Dx,y,z    (account, auth, password)
#
#  Example:
#  auth:        nullok
#  account:
#  password:    nullok blowfish crypt_rounds=3D8
#  session:     none
#
auth:           use_ldap
account:        use_ldap
password:       md5
session:        none use_ldap



Mit freundlichem Gru=DF,



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Systems Engineer=09

Fujitsu Siemens Computers
S CE DE SE PS N/O
Sales Central Europe Deutschland=20
Professional Service Nord / Ost

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Germany

Telephone:	+49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08
Telefax:	+49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08
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-|  -----Original Message-----
-|  From: web...@li...=20
-|  [mailto:web...@li...] On=20
-|  Behalf Of Jamie Cameron
-|  Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:34 PM
-|  To: web...@li...
-|  Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Configure Webmin with PAM Authentication
-| =20
-|  Hi Dirk,
-|  One thing you will definately need is to setup=20
-|  /etc/pam.d/webmin to use pam_ldap.so . Typically this also=20
-|  requires that a file like /etc/pam.d/pam_ldap.conf be set=20
-|  up to talk to your LDAP server.. although that file may be=20
-|  in a different location depending on your Linux distribution.
-| =20
-|   - Jamie
-| =20
-|  -----Original Message-----
-| =20
-|  From:  <Dir...@fu...>
-|  Subj:  [webmin-l] Configure Webmin with PAM Authentication
-|  Date:  Tue 20 Sep 2005 6:32 pm
-|  Size:  1K
-|  To:  <web...@li...>
-| =20
-|  Hello list,
-| =20
-|  i want to configure webmin to authenticate users against an=20
-|  ldap server.
-|  Users in a certain (ldap) group should be able  to=20
-|  administer the server.
-|  I don't want to a have a second source of authentication.=20
-|  I got so far, that webmin uses the ldap accounts in that=20
-|  way, that if the
-|  user exists he will be authenticated, but it doesn't matter which=20
-|  password you type in as long as it is not zero length. What=20
-|  i want to have,
-|  that webmin authenticates against the ldap server and has=20
-|  no vitual users.
-|  (like in MS AD, oder sudo where an account as additional privileges)
-| =20
-|  Here's my setup:
-|  hgest3201:/etc/webmin # cat miniserv.conf
-|  port=3D20000
-|  addtype_cgi=3Dinternal/cgi
-|  realm=3DWebmin Server
-|  logfile=3D/var/webmin/miniserv.log
-|  errorlog=3D/var/webmin/miniserv.error
-|  pidfile=3D/var/webmin/miniserv.pid
-|  logtime=3D168
-|  ppath=3D
-|  ssl=3D1
-|  env_WEBMIN_CONFIG=3D/etc/webmin
-|  env_WEBMIN_VAR=3D/var/webmin
-|  atboot=3D1
-|  logout=3D/etc/webmin/logout-flag
-|  listen=3D20000
-|  denyfile=3D\.pl$
-|  log=3D1
-|  blockhost_failures=3D3
-|  blockhost_time=3D300
-|  syslog=3D1
-|  session=3D1
-|  userfile=3D/etc/webmin/miniserv.users
-|  keyfile=3D/etc/webmin/miniserv.pem
-|  passwd_file=3D/etc/shadow
-|  passwd_uindex=3D0
-|  passwd_pindex=3D1
-|  passwd_cindex=3D2
-|  passwd_mindex=3D4
-|  passwd_mode=3D0
-|  preroot=3Dmscstyle3
-|  passdelay=3D1
-|  logouttime=3D
-|  root=3D/usr/libexec/webmin
-|  mimetypes=3D/usr/libexec/webmin/mime.types
-|  bind=3D192.168.53.44
-|  sockets=3D
-|  pam_conv=3D1
-|  no_pam=3D0
-|  unixauth=3Dpam
-| =20
-|  hgest3201:/etc/webmin # cat /etc/pam.d/webmin
-|  #%PAM-1.0
-| =20
-| =20
-|  auth    required        pam_unix2.so
-|  account required        pam_unix2.so
-|  session required        pam_unix2.so
-|  password        required        pam_unix2.so
-| =20
-| =20
-|  =20
-| =20
-|  Mit freundlichem Gru=DF,
-| =20
-| =20
-| =20
-|  Dirk Laurenz
-|  Systems Engineer=09
-| =20
-|  Fujitsu Siemens Computers
-|  S CE DE SE PS N/O
-|  Sales Central Europe Deutschland=20
-|  Professional Service Nord / Ost
-| =20
-|  Hildesheimer Strasse 25
-|  30880 Laatzen
-|  Germany
-| =20
-|  Telephone:	+49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08
-|  Telefax:	+49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08
-|  Mobile:	+49 (170) 22 10 781
-|  Email:	mailto:dir...@fu...
-|  Internet:	http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com
-| =20
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-| =20
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Re: [webmin-l] Need advice

[Enrique T. <enr...@gm...>]

Yes, I've done that before, but with less hosts; with a lot of hosts
the load of the webpage would be slower (with my very bad servers).
What I'm doing now is, using the onup and ondown commands and a script
that runs ssh, write the remote master host file on every up and down
of the monitors of every host. I was only wondering if there could be
a better way to do it .
Thanks for your help.
With this I'm trying to resolve, besides the concentration of many
hosts, something I miss in the status module: in the webpage we know
that a monitor is down, but no how much time it has been down, the
only way to know the time the monitors went down is reading the
emails.

Enrique

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:06:00 1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> Hi Enrique,
> Perhaps one solution would be to have a master system periodically fetch =
the oldstatus file and monitor files from each of the other servers, and th=
en analyse those files? You could fetch the files with SSH, or using Webmin=
's built-in RPC capability for calling functions on other servers.
>
>  - Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  Enrique Toledano <enr...@gm...>
> Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] Need advice
> Date:  Tue 20 Sep 2005 5:50 pm
> Size:  3K
> To:  web...@li...
>
> Hi
> Thanks for your response.
> Yes, I know the oldstatus and the services files. I'm not using the
> cluster feature, all the hosts have their own configuration. What I
> want is that when a monitor come down, it changes the file on the
> remote webmin server. I was thinking in changing something in the
> status module of all the hosts to make that, on a going down and a
> going up it change the local oldstatus and the remote file (not using
> the onup and ondown commands).
>
> By the way, could it be possible to have the date internazionalizated
> in the status module (in the emails and in the last scheduled status)?
>
> Thanks
>
> 20 Sep 2005 10:26:13 +1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:48, Enrique Toledano wrote:
> > > Hi Jamie and the rest of the list:
> > >
> > > I need some advice in a module I'm developing, so I think you'll be s=
o
> > > kind to help me.
> > > I have many hosts (more than 200) monitorized with the status module
> > > of webmin. Now, I want to show the status of all the computers in one
> > > master host, showing them in a map, and giving them a color in
> > > function of his actual status, with a new module.
> > > I think this can be done with the module reading a local file than
> > > contents the status of all the hosts that have alarms.
> > > But, what do you think it's the best way to put the status of all the
> > > hosts in one file of the master host?
> > > I'm using the onup and ondown commands, but I think it's not the best=
 way.
> >
> > Hi Enrique,
> > If you are using the cluster feature of the status module to monitor al=
l
> > the systems from a single webmin server, then the information about
> > which monitors are up and down is already available on that master
> > server. It can be found in the file /etc/webmin/status/oldstatus , whic=
h
> > is a text file in which each line is in the format :
> >
> > id=3Dstatus
> >
> > The 'id' is the ID of a monitor, and status is the result from the last
> > check. 0 =3D down, 1 =3D up, other numbers indicate other types of fail=
ures.
> > You can read that file easily in a webmin module with the read_file
> > funcion, which converts it into a hash.
> >
> > The actual details of each monitored services are in files in the
> > /etc/webmin/status/services directory. You can either read those
> > directory, or make foreign calls from your module to the status module
> > to read them, with code like :
> >
> > &foreign_require("status", "status-lib.pl");
> > $serv =3D &status::get_service($id):
> >
> >  - Jamie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [webmin-l] Configure Webmin with PAM Authentication

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

Hi Dirk,
One thing you will definately need is to setup /etc/pam.d/webmin to use pam_ldap.so . Typically this also requires that a file like /etc/pam.d/pam_ldap.conf be set up to talk to your LDAP server.. although that file may be in a different location depending on your Linux distribution.

 - Jamie

-----Original Message-----

From:  <Dir...@fu...>
Subj:  [webmin-l] Configure Webmin with PAM Authentication
Date:  Tue 20 Sep 2005 6:32 pm
Size:  1K
To:  <web...@li...>

Hello list,

i want to configure webmin to authenticate users against an ldap server.
Users in a certain (ldap) group should be able  to administer the server.
I don't want to a have a second source of authentication. 
I got so far, that webmin uses the ldap accounts in that way, that if the
user exists he will be authenticated, but it doesn't matter which 
password you type in as long as it is not zero length. What i want to have,
that webmin authenticates against the ldap server and has no vitual users.
(like in MS AD, oder sudo where an account as additional privileges)

Here's my setup:
hgest3201:/etc/webmin # cat miniserv.conf
port=20000
addtype_cgi=internal/cgi
realm=Webmin Server
logfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.log
errorlog=/var/webmin/miniserv.error
pidfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.pid
logtime=168
ppath=
ssl=1
env_WEBMIN_CONFIG=/etc/webmin
env_WEBMIN_VAR=/var/webmin
atboot=1
logout=/etc/webmin/logout-flag
listen=20000
denyfile=\.pl$
log=1
blockhost_failures=3
blockhost_time=300
syslog=1
session=1
userfile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.users
keyfile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.pem
passwd_file=/etc/shadow
passwd_uindex=0
passwd_pindex=1
passwd_cindex=2
passwd_mindex=4
passwd_mode=0
preroot=mscstyle3
passdelay=1
logouttime=
root=/usr/libexec/webmin
mimetypes=/usr/libexec/webmin/mime.types
bind=192.168.53.44
sockets=
pam_conv=1
no_pam=0
unixauth=pam

hgest3201:/etc/webmin # cat /etc/pam.d/webmin
#%PAM-1.0


auth    required        pam_unix2.so
account required        pam_unix2.so
session required        pam_unix2.so
password        required        pam_unix2.so


 

Mit freundlichem Gruß,



Dirk Laurenz
Systems Engineer	

Fujitsu Siemens Computers
S CE DE SE PS N/O
Sales Central Europe Deutschland 
Professional Service Nord / Ost

Hildesheimer Strasse 25
30880 Laatzen
Germany

Telephone:	+49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08
Telefax:	+49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08
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Re: [webmin-l] Need advice

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

Hi Enrique,
Perhaps one solution would be to have a master system periodically fetch the oldstatus file and monitor files from each of the other servers, and then analyse those files? You could fetch the files with SSH, or using Webmin's built-in RPC capability for calling functions on other servers.

 - Jamie

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From:  Enrique Toledano <enr...@gm...>
Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] Need advice
Date:  Tue 20 Sep 2005 5:50 pm
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To:  web...@li...

Hi
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I know the oldstatus and the services files. I'm not using the
cluster feature, all the hosts have their own configuration. What I
want is that when a monitor come down, it changes the file on the
remote webmin server. I was thinking in changing something in the
status module of all the hosts to make that, on a going down and a
going up it change the local oldstatus and the remote file (not using
the onup and ondown commands).

By the way, could it be possible to have the date internazionalizated
in the status module (in the emails and in the last scheduled status)?

Thanks

20 Sep 2005 10:26:13 +1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:48, Enrique Toledano wrote:
> > Hi Jamie and the rest of the list:
> >
> > I need some advice in a module I'm developing, so I think you'll be so
> > kind to help me.
> > I have many hosts (more than 200) monitorized with the status module
> > of webmin. Now, I want to show the status of all the computers in one
> > master host, showing them in a map, and giving them a color in
> > function of his actual status, with a new module.
> > I think this can be done with the module reading a local file than
> > contents the status of all the hosts that have alarms.
> > But, what do you think it's the best way to put the status of all the
> > hosts in one file of the master host?
> > I'm using the onup and ondown commands, but I think it's not the best way.
>
> Hi Enrique,
> If you are using the cluster feature of the status module to monitor all
> the systems from a single webmin server, then the information about
> which monitors are up and down is already available on that master
> server. It can be found in the file /etc/webmin/status/oldstatus , which
> is a text file in which each line is in the format :
>
> id=status
>
> The 'id' is the ID of a monitor, and status is the result from the last
> check. 0 = down, 1 = up, other numbers indicate other types of failures.
> You can read that file easily in a webmin module with the read_file
> funcion, which converts it into a hash.
>
> The actual details of each monitored services are in files in the
> /etc/webmin/status/services directory. You can either read those
> directory, or make foreign calls from your module to the status module
> to read them, with code like :
>
> &foreign_require("status", "status-lib.pl");
> $serv = &status::get_service($id):
>
>  - Jamie
>
>
>
>
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[webmin-l] Configure Webmin with PAM Authentication

[<Dir...@fu...>]

Hello list,

i want to configure webmin to authenticate users against an ldap server.
Users in a certain (ldap) group should be able  to administer the =
server.
I don't want to a have a second source of authentication.=20
I got so far, that webmin uses the ldap accounts in that way, that if =
the
user exists he will be authenticated, but it doesn't matter which=20
password you type in as long as it is not zero length. What i want to =
have,
that webmin authenticates against the ldap server and has no vitual =
users.
(like in MS AD, oder sudo where an account as additional privileges)

Here's my setup:
hgest3201:/etc/webmin # cat miniserv.conf
port=3D20000
addtype_cgi=3Dinternal/cgi
realm=3DWebmin Server
logfile=3D/var/webmin/miniserv.log
errorlog=3D/var/webmin/miniserv.error
pidfile=3D/var/webmin/miniserv.pid
logtime=3D168
ppath=3D
ssl=3D1
env_WEBMIN_CONFIG=3D/etc/webmin
env_WEBMIN_VAR=3D/var/webmin
atboot=3D1
logout=3D/etc/webmin/logout-flag
listen=3D20000
denyfile=3D\.pl$
log=3D1
blockhost_failures=3D3
blockhost_time=3D300
syslog=3D1
session=3D1
userfile=3D/etc/webmin/miniserv.users
keyfile=3D/etc/webmin/miniserv.pem
passwd_file=3D/etc/shadow
passwd_uindex=3D0
passwd_pindex=3D1
passwd_cindex=3D2
passwd_mindex=3D4
passwd_mode=3D0
preroot=3Dmscstyle3
passdelay=3D1
logouttime=3D
root=3D/usr/libexec/webmin
mimetypes=3D/usr/libexec/webmin/mime.types
bind=3D192.168.53.44
sockets=3D
pam_conv=3D1
no_pam=3D0
unixauth=3Dpam

hgest3201:/etc/webmin # cat /etc/pam.d/webmin
#%PAM-1.0


auth    required        pam_unix2.so
account required        pam_unix2.so
session required        pam_unix2.so
password        required        pam_unix2.so


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Re: [webmin-l] Need advice

[Enrique T. <enr...@gm...>]

Hi
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I know the oldstatus and the services files. I'm not using the
cluster feature, all the hosts have their own configuration. What I
want is that when a monitor come down, it changes the file on the
remote webmin server. I was thinking in changing something in the
status module of all the hosts to make that, on a going down and a
going up it change the local oldstatus and the remote file (not using
the onup and ondown commands).

By the way, could it be possible to have the date internazionalizated
in the status module (in the emails and in the last scheduled status)?

Thanks

20 Sep 2005 10:26:13 +1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:48, Enrique Toledano wrote:
> > Hi Jamie and the rest of the list:
> >
> > I need some advice in a module I'm developing, so I think you'll be so
> > kind to help me.
> > I have many hosts (more than 200) monitorized with the status module
> > of webmin. Now, I want to show the status of all the computers in one
> > master host, showing them in a map, and giving them a color in
> > function of his actual status, with a new module.
> > I think this can be done with the module reading a local file than
> > contents the status of all the hosts that have alarms.
> > But, what do you think it's the best way to put the status of all the
> > hosts in one file of the master host?
> > I'm using the onup and ondown commands, but I think it's not the best w=
ay.
>
> Hi Enrique,
> If you are using the cluster feature of the status module to monitor all
> the systems from a single webmin server, then the information about
> which monitors are up and down is already available on that master
> server. It can be found in the file /etc/webmin/status/oldstatus , which
> is a text file in which each line is in the format :
>
> id=3Dstatus
>
> The 'id' is the ID of a monitor, and status is the result from the last
> check. 0 =3D down, 1 =3D up, other numbers indicate other types of failur=
es.
> You can read that file easily in a webmin module with the read_file
> funcion, which converts it into a hash.
>
> The actual details of each monitored services are in files in the
> /etc/webmin/status/services directory. You can either read those
> directory, or make foreign calls from your module to the status module
> to read them, with code like :
>
> &foreign_require("status", "status-lib.pl");
> $serv =3D &status::get_service($id):
>
>  - Jamie
>
>
>
>
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Re: [webmin-l] while we're at it (cyrus imapd)

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 18:58 -0500, Joe Cooper wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:14 -0500, Joe Cooper wrote:
> > 
> >>Yes.  Dovecot is not a "drink the Kool-aid" kind of server, the way 
> >>Cyrus is.
> > 
> > ----
> > that's a rather extreme metaphor Mr. Jones ;-)
> 
> I'm pretty sure I got the metaphor from you, Craig.  Really, I think 
> read it in one of your posts a few days ago and immediately thought, 
> "Perfect metaphor!"  ;-)
----
I don't think I would use such an extreme metaphor - it's rather a black
one at that
----
> 
> > the fact is that mailboxes, seen messages, duplicate message supression
> > etc. are indeed indexed using db's which make it so darn fast. I have no
> > test data comparing dovecot performance to cyrus so I let your 5%
> > performance claim go since I have no way of proving or disproving and I
> > suspect that your 5% claim was just simply a uswag.
> 
> Hold up...I said the performance difference for the whole system, 
> including SpamAssassin and ClamAV, would only be about 5% faster with 
> Cyrus, if any.  I didn't say that Cyrus by itself was only 5% faster 
> than Dovecot by itself for any particular task (though it might not even 
> be as fast...I don't know...I've never seen benchmarks of Dovecot vs. 
> Cyrus, though I've seen both compared to all of the "slow" POP and IMAP 
> servers).  What I said was that Cyrus can't make SpamAssassin or ClamAV 
> take less resources, and in any mail server running those services, they 
> are where almost /all/ resources go.  I'm sure that Cyrus is extremely 
> fast and wonderful in every possible way and I have no inclination to 
> criticize it (though I do readily admit why I wouldn't choose it).  I'm 
> just saying that no amount of microtuning of the delivery agent or the 
> retrieval server is going to make the real resource hogs disappear. 
> Dovecot is blazing fast, and I'm sure Cyrus is too (possibly more 
> blazing fast even), but on my mail servers, when I look at CPU/memory 
> usage Dovecot isn't even a blip on the radar, while anti-spam and AV are 
> at the top of the list.
----
I heavily use greylisting which lightens the load on spamassassin and
clamav since a lot of the spam junk never gets through. You might want
to check it out but of course, it relies upon one of those db's that you
don't want to rely upon.

If you can keep 80+ % of spam from ever having to be checked by
spamassassin & clamav, I think you would find the numbers radically
changed as listed above.
----
> 
> Nobody is criticizing your religious beliefs, Craig.  Certainly not me. 
>   I respect all faiths, from Emacs to Vim and everything in between.  ;-)
> 
> > Likewise using cyrus-imapd, sieve scripts are all previously bytecoded
> > (compiled) for faster performance rather than shell execution of
> > procmail. Perhaps Joe wants to toss another 5% figure at that too.
> 
> Nope.  I just want to toss in another reminder that it just doesn't 
> matter.  Procmail is 1% of my CPU usage on my most heavily loaded mail 
> server and Dovecot is about the same.  SpamAssassin is 30% and ClamAV is 
> probably 10%.  When I look at those numbers I couldn't care less whether 
> Procmail is being inefficient because a shell is spawned for every 
> message.  Even if Cyrus and Sieve are 5 times faster, I'll still only 
> save .8% CPU time over Procmail.  I'm just not gonna sweat over some 
> pocket change.  ;-)
----
again, the above cpu load can be adjusted by giving spamassassin and
clamav less to chew on. It's not a religious belief by the way. I
probably would use dovecot on light duty systems.
----
> 
> But it is.  I mentioned that when this came up a few days ago.  Usermin 
> supports the following folder types:
> 
> - System folders like Inbox, Drafts and Sent Mail that always exist.
> - Folders in in the mail directory that can be created or deleted by 
> Usermin.
> - Other files or directories that can be managed as folders by Usermin.
> - POP3 accounts on other servers that can be treated as folders.
> - IMAP accounts on other servers.
> - Composite folders, which combine two or more other folders into a 
> single list.
> - Virtual folders, which contain a selection of mail from others.
----
if usermin supports IMAP logins, it should support IMAP subscriptions,
seen state, etc. and remote or local would be immaterial since you could
simply define the server to be localhost which means that cyrus-imapd is
supported
----
> 
> Note that one of those is IMAP, and thought it doesn't state it 
> explicitly, local Maildir folders are also supported.  It doesn't handle 
> the .subscriptions file yet, as far as I know, but there's no reason why 
> it couldn't.  Seems like it would actually be pretty easy to implement...
> 
> I'm sure Cyrus is a very fine package.  I'm not just going to be using 
> it, unless I find that Dovecot is inadequate (and I also find that Cyrus 
> is adequate for the situation that proved Dovecots downfall).  ;-)
----
I'm sorry that I have taken you down this path since it is not really
material to me anyway since I am not a candidate for virtualmin anyway.
I have noted that within Webmin, read user mail is not an option as
there is no way within Webmin (as Jamie has confirmed) to get an IMAP
login and directly accessing the mail store on cyrus-imapd would seem to
everyone to be one of those Really Bad Ideas. I can live with that too
since I have found a good deal of interest in other 'robust' web mail
setups anyway.

I don't even mean to extoll the virtues of cyrus-imapd or decry some
missing features in dovecot as I have endured the mbox setup of uw-imap
with some of my clients and I now know nothing is worse than that.

My thinking has been all along - and I've said this before so I don't
wish to belabor the point - but cyrus-imapd has a rather robust perl
interface - none of which is used by Webmin. Webmin uses a rather
antiquated perl module Net::LDAP (NetxAP) which evidently is supported
only by SuSE. It's certainly possible to get the important part of
cyrus-imapd by ignoring the cyrus-imapd stuff within LDAP Users and
Groups, installing the autocreate patches in cyrus-imapd and some shell
scripting using the hooks in LDAP Users and Groups 'scripts to run when
modifying/creating' and the very usable 3rd party module Christian
Schneider and Johannes Walch called IMAP Admin (I just noticed a new
one)

Thus I can get what I need - it's just not pretty.

Craig


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