Repost: Webmin question

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 9 May 2004 at 9:36, Net Llama! boldly uttered: 

> On 05/09/04 09:02, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > 
> > -------------------- Begin original message -----------------------
> > 
> > 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.


Yep but unfortunately I think I need to stick with Sendmail for 
various reasons. (see the followup I wrote to someone else a few 
minutes ago)


> > 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.


Well I can configure sendmail from the command-line, but I find it 
time-consuming and error-prone.  I have to go find a reference for 
all the command strings, plod through it when I want to implement 
some feature change, separately manage the alias file, the 
mailertable file, the relay-domains file, the access file, "compile" 
many of them any time I make a change, bla bla bla, and I'd just 
prefer to have it all in one interface.  Plus I'd like to have webmin 
on there for managing a few other thingies.



> > 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


Thanks for all the info.



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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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