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Thanks for all the advice :) |
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I will look into packaging usermin when I have done webmin but my main |
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motivation is that at really want to write a portage front end for |
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webmin, so I don't have to bother running sshd on a fair few of my |
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machines. I dare say some other people may even find it useful... |
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Cheers, |
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C.Davies |
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On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:02, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote: |
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> On 05 Jun 2002 04:38:14 +0100 |
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> Chris Davies <c.davies@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> |Hi, |
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> |I've actually been doing just this for a couple of days now.. I'm not |
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> |really ready to go public with the resulting patch and ebuild but I |
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> |suppose this might be a good time to ask a few questions that come into |
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> |my head. |
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> |1) I am currently using the directory /opt/webmin as an installation |
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> |dir. I appreciate that Gentoo wants to keep /opt for binaries only, and |
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> |that webmin does not technically qualify as a binary distribution, but |
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> I |
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> |think it comes damn close. Does anyone agree/disagree with this view, |
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> |and if you disagree, where should webmin go? |
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> /opt is a good choice, but i think that it can be best /var |
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> |2) SSL. Perl doesn't pay any attention to the ssl use flag as far as I |
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> |am aware, so my strategy has been to have Perl grab the SSL module from |
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> |CPAN if the use var is set, and then configure webmin with support for |
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> |same. Again, comments? Suggestions? |
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> well if you can use the USE variable cool :) |
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> |3) What distribution should be chosen as a close approximation of |
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> |Gentoo. I choose Redhat 7.2 as my first guess, and then later upgraded |
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> |to .3 and I haven't noticed anything obviously broken, but extensive |
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> |testing would be required before I'd let this anywhere near portage. |
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> |Suggestions? Volunteers for testing? :) |
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> i thinks that debian, slackware, o inclusive freebsd are more exact that |
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> redhat |
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> |4) I presumed that Webmin should not automatically be started on boot, |
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> |that stuff should be handled by the user and whatever their preference |
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> |of inetd or xinetd is, is this the correct approach? |
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> you can do a simple script to do it |
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> |5) License. Webmin uses a strange one, but not one that is restrictive. |
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> |I presume it is OK just to add an entry in Gentoo's Lisencing dir |
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> |specifically for Webmin and its kin. |
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> yes, it can be usefull for others webmin products, like usermin. |
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> when you finish with webmin, can be interesting adapt too usermin :) |
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> contact with Maciek <maciek@×××××××.net>, he wants to help :) |
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> José Alberto Suárez López |
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> <bass@g.o> |
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> <bass@×××××.org> |
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> <josealberto.suarez@××××××××××.es> |
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> http://www.gentoo.org |
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> http://www.adala.org |
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> http://bass.dnsalias.com |
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> http://gimp.es.gnome.org |
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Chris Davies <c.davies@×××××××.org> |
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CS Student, Swansea, UK. |
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http://www.cdavies.org/ |
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