[Klug-general] Slax and webmin

[Athon Solo]

My general view of webmin is that it's a tool for people who can't be 
bothered to learn how to admin their servers properly. I can see  the 
point of 'web control panels' for hosting setups where the administrator 
wants to give users some access to information on their setups, but 
Webmin, IMHO has turned into a 'god tool' (something that does 
everything, breaking the general *nix practice of small tools for 
specific jobs), and encourages people to play with things they probably 
shouldn't be playing with (in its default setup).

As Karl said, if you know how to install AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) then 
it shouldn't be hard to create a static install. For config files you 
should be able to mostly leave it on the defaults.

Full installation instructions for all of these products is available in 
their respective manuals in a 'strp-by-step' way that (I find) easy to 
follow.

If you have any specific problems, post them with any errors you're 
getting, any relevent configuration information and a description of 
what is happening and what you were expecting to happen, and we'll have 
a go at solving your problem.

Allen

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> The only experience I've had with webmin is that it breaks all of my
> configuration files. Messing with my ethernet,named,dhcpd etc...
> configuration in a way which breaks the files or prevents proper
> functionality, before anyone jumps down my throat I would also like to
> point out that the last time i tried webmin was only four or five months
> ago.
> 
> I'd suggest using something other than webmin.
> 
> As for your phpBB etc, if its just a demo why do you need to have
> webmin, just simply build the configuration statically so it doesn't
> need to change in any environment.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Karl
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:41 +0000, Frank Attwood wrote:
> 
>>Hi all
>>
>>Does anyone have any experience of getting webmin to work on Slax.
>>I'm trying get Apache, php, Mysql and phpBB to run from a usb key so that I
>>can demonstrate phpBB to some people. Webmin would make this job vastly
>>easier.  
>>
>>
>>Yours
>>Dan Attwood
>>
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