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Found a cool program called Webmin

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duby229

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http://www.webmin.com/

Check this out....

It is pretty easy to add or remove modules. And the firewall, router, network config, raid, smart, and net monitoring modules pretty much do exactly what I need. All in a reasonable interface.
 
Webmin is a very popular program. Many big dedicated server hosts use it.
 
Yeah webmin is pretty awesome. I haven't used it in a while, but I used to use it a lot a few years ago.
 
It makes server configuration convienient. But, it's still a good idea to know how to configure things the manual way.
 
another great thing about webmin is all the 3rd party add-ons you can find for it.
 
Had a really bad experience with webmin in the late '90s and haven't touched it since. Just make sure you back up the configs it touches...Which is good practice any time a tool touches a config file, but becomes obvious when Webmin eats just about every config it touched.
 
[H]EMI_426 said:
Had a really bad experience with webmin in the late '90s and haven't touched it since. Just make sure you back up the configs it touches...Which is good practice any time a tool touches a config file, but becomes obvious when Webmin eats just about every config it touched.
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I figured that one out the hard way. I use Gentoo on my desktop, and etc-update decided to eat my config one day. It was prolly my fault.... I prolly hit one instead of two, or something....

But yeah I have a script that I wrote to backup all of the really important config files.
 
I use Webmin a bit also, though it's not the main way I deal with config files. It's really nice to set up a quick NFS or Samba share though. Definitely worth having installed, IMO.

Duby229: I had etc-update eat some config files once too. Granted, I was new to Gentoo at the time and didn't pay enough attention to it, so it was likely my fault. I haven't used etc-update for a long time though. cfg-update (which is in portage) is much, much better. It keeps an index of which files have been manually modified, and uses a graphical diff tool so you can update those without breaking things.
 
being a noob , I use webmin alot for initial setup , but I still find I have to get my hands dirty , so to speak, to get everything up and running like I want

darn those linux permissions! :p


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I use webmin to setup Samba, because for some reason editing the config file by hand or using SWAT never works for me :mad:
 
duby229 said:
I figured that one out the hard way. I use Gentoo on my desktop, and etc-update decided to eat my config one day. It was prolly my fault.... I prolly hit one instead of two, or something....

But yeah I have a script that I wrote to backup all of the really important config files.
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etc-config can be really nasty if users blindly hit "update all without stopping" cos each baselayout brings a fresh start to most of /etc. That's why CONFIG_PROTECT is so important.


Re: Webmin - I must agree with Hemi. It completely ate my Postfix config! :eek: Luckily I do nightly backups and it was a simple case of issuing a restore command. After that I don't trust it. Although I'll admit that its crontab interface is handy.
 
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