Installing Webmin on Dapper Server

[jimdhall2]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! Nice job, your instructions worked like a charm!!!

[xchrisday]

error message:

E: Couldn't find package libauthen-pam-perl

Any ideas, have checked over repos, will check again.

Edit: working, my bad, such a newbie I couldnt follow a guide on enabling repos

Fantastic guide, thanks for your help

[h3mlock]

Is webmin in the repositories now? I can't seem to find it there.

[blkc4us]

I did install it, accessed it but it seems that everything is not linked properly. It can only access the system. Everything else is broken link. Do you have any idea what went wrong.

I installed Apache2, mysql, php, perl, samba, smbfs and then webmin

[jimp180]

Hi all I just installed webmin from the tarball (webmin-1.290.tar.gz) and like others I'm reading about, after rebooting webmin wont start. Has anyone figured this out yet?

Does the file: /etc/init.d/webmin
get created during the installation?

Yes

If yes then maybe it is not executable. To test this type

Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/webmin start

No errors doing this just returns to prompt as if it has started but the it isn't. if I do

sudo /etc/init.d/webmin restart

I get

Stopping Webmin server in /tmp/webmin-1.290
/etc/webmin/stop: line 4: kill: (4941) - No such process

Any Ideas?

[jimp180]

ok I was just looking over what I posted and I see the problem,

Stopping Webmin server in /tmp/webmin-1.290

of course it can't start or stop anything in tmp since its been wiped on boot
NOW what do I do?

[jimp180]

Ok this is fixed
here is the solution for anyone that went the same path as I did.
If you downloaded the tarball to your /tmp directory and Unpacked it then entered the /tmp/webmin-1.290 and ran

./setup.sh

follow those steps again except this time when you enter the webmin-1.290 directory run this instead

./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin

this will install it in /usr/local/webmin instead of /tmp/webmin-1.290 (which gets wiped when you reboot) since you allready had it installed it will find the config file and update with new directory info.
Hope this helps someone

[SlowYaRoll]

During my usual dedicated Linux surfing time, I went to webmin's homepage. Guess what. THEY HAVE A DEB PACKAGE FOR WEBMIN!!!

http://www.webmin.com/download.html

I believe this is something fairly new for them, as such there are no instructions on how to install the deb package. . .but who really needs those.

[jimp180]

During my usual dedicated Linux surfing time, I went to webmin's homepage. Guess what. THEY HAVE A DEB PACKAGE FOR WEBMIN!!!

http://www.webmin.com/download.html

I believe this is something fairly new for them, as such there are no instructions on how to install the deb package. . .but who really needs those.

If you install with the package:
Don't forget to change your root password to something useful before you install the package because if my memory serves me right the packages setup webmin using the current root user pass combination and Ubuntu 6.06 dosent set a root password on install or sets one nobody knows so you will either not be able to login to your webmin or anybody will be able to login to your webmin.

[blkc4us]

Thanks for the tutorial. You're great!