Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Eric Dunbar]

On 04/02/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > On 03/02/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:58:38 -0500
> >> "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Is there a licencing issues that prevents it from living in the Ubuntu
> >>>> repositories?
> >>> Don't have a clue. :)
> >>>
> >>> Since it's mucking around with a wide variety of software, I suppose
> >>> it's entirely possible one of the modules or whatever is licensed oddly.
> >> My understanding is that the Debian and Ubuntu Webmin packages are no
> >> longer maintained. I seem to recall there was a collective sigh of relief
> >> on the developers' mailing list at the time ;-)
> >
> > So does this mean that the source from Webmin is no longer relevant to Ubuntu?
> >
> >> I don't think there's a licensing issue - but there was, umm, some
> >> criticism of Webmin IIRC... </understatement>
> >
> > Is there an alternative solution for us mere mortals (i.e.
> > non-hardcore computer geeks) to controlling the system/servers from a
> > central user interface (especially, a web-browser accessible one)?
> >
>   but the latest version of webmin is available on their website in a
> .deb package.. what's the big deal? Go and download that and install
> with gdebi, dpkg or whatever.

No problem at all. I've built enough things from scratch but I
honestly don't think I've ever installed from a .deb before... lots of
.rpms into YellowDog but never .debs into Ubuntu (up to this point
I've never tried to do anything "real" with Ubuntu... I've mostly
relied on Synaptic ;-)).

What surprises me is that WebMin is not in the official repositories
-- it's such a useful program.

Anyway, I was merely picking people's brains to see what they thought.
You've made me curious about the FC tools so I'll check those out in
VMware when I get my WIndows-Ubuntu dual boot working and ready to go
for serving.

I haven't decided on my partitioning scheme given that I spent the
whole of 2 seconds deciding upon a partitioning scheme with my current
server that has haunted me for MORE THAN TWO years.

I now figure I should put a little more thought into this one ;-)
(Last time round, 2 GB for my System 9 BootX boot loader ( should've
been 50 MB), 25 GB for OS X 10.2 (for the hell of it), 8 GB for /  and
35 GB for /home... I eventually formatted the OS X partition and
symlinked it to a specific directory in /home because I ran out of
room on /home... probably could've done it more elegantly but it works
;-).