Repost: Webmin question

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Sun, 9 May 2004, 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?)

   What is it in sendmail that you feel you must change?  I have been 
running sendmail here with roughly 75 customer accounts and have only ever 
made ONE change to sendmail.cf.

   Sendmail runs right out of the box and only need one edit to
sendmail.cf if you need it to listen to your ethernet interface.  
Otherwise it only listens to the loopback address.

   I also greatly dislike m4 and actually prefer to edit sendmail.cf with
vi.  I don't find sendmail.cf much more cryptic than sendmail.m4.

      --- Jay
             
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