Repost: Webmin question

[Net Llama!]

On 05/09/04 09:02, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> 
> [I posted this on 5/6 but got no responses - anyone have any opinions 
> to offer?]
> 
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> A product we want to run at one of the sites I support requires both 
> RedHat linux and sendmail.
> 
> Since I'm no fan of having to manually configure and maintain 
> sendmail using sendmail.cf or sendmail.m4 files, and for some other 
> reasons, I'd like to explore the possibility of using webmin for 
> managing various things including sendmail.  We're running Redhat ES 
> 3.0.

RHES-3.0 also comes with Postfix, which is a lot easier to configure & 
manage if you're not quite comfortable with sendmail's cryptic requirements.

> 
> Once upon a time, webmin was reputed to have a habit of messing up 
> configuration files, but given a few years and the fact that they 
> claim to support Redhat better than any other distro, do people think 
> these days it's safe to install and use this?

Can't say.  Personally, i think webmin is a bad idea unless you already 
understand how to manage the server from the command line.

> 
> If so (and since I'm lazy :-) , does Redhat offer an RPM of this or 
> would it be reasonable to pick up one from RPMFIND? (hmm, looks like 
> RPMFIND isn't quite what it used to be -- where is the usual source 
> these days?)

They appear to provide RPMs on their site:
http://www.webmin.com/download.html

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