Repost: Webmin question

James McDonald james
Mon May 17 12:02:11 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist at ekahuna.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:02 AM
Subject: Repost: Webmin question


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> [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.

Does it really require 'sendmail'? Or can you use any of the other mta's?
Most mta's have a binary /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail that
emulates the sendmail functionality so then it's just a matter of using your
favourite mta. Just a thought.

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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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?)
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> TIA,
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> Phil
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> Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist at ekahuna.com
> Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New
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