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Clay
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 5:07 pm    Post subject: webmin start problem Reply with quote

well, I emerge'd webmin, and it created a /etc/init.d/webmin, which calls /etc/webmin/start and /etc/webmin/stop, but there's nothing in /etc/webmin!

any ideas oh what's happening there?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you sure everything compiled properly/emerged OK? I just emerged it and /etc/webim has a bunch of stuff in it.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Only weird thing is this, in the beginning:

Code:

>>> Install webmin-0.992 into /var/tmp/portage/webmin-0.992/image/ category app-admin
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: exeino: command not found
strip


and then it just does a bunch of copies

and it sticks uninstall.sh in /

not sure what's happening
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

does emerge -s think it is installed? Is it in /var/cache/edb/world? You might try an unmerge.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:

hailstorm / # emerge -s webmin
Searching...
[ Results for search key : webmin ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  app-admin/webmin
      Latest version Available: 0.992
      Latest version Installed: 0.992
      Homepage: http://www.webmin.com/
      Description: Webmin, a web-based system administration interface


And yeah it's in /var/cache/edb/world

I'm merged and unmerged it half a dozen times....

I'm confuzzled :)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's odd. Should be a ton of dir's and files in /etc/webmin.
Try this.
cd /usr/libexec/webmin
./setup.sh
Go with the default and the script will run.
This should auto start the webmin server and be listening on port 10000.
Launch browser and login.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:56 am    Post subject: empty /etc/webmin directory Reply with quote

I had emerged webmin, even accessed it. Now today I tried but wasn't able to even get the login. I to found the /etc/webmin directory empty, when I ran the setup again it said it found an existing config in the directory. I checked===> it's a permission thing, you have to be root to see the files.

Brian
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, you have to start the installation yourself by starting /usr/libexec/webmin/setup.sh after you have emerged webmin!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how i setup the username and password to start webmin?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you should just log in as root with the system-password of root. After that, you can just change behaviour, add users, change password (system-wide or specific to webmin) and so on
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:44 am    Post subject: Webmin initial login setup Reply with quote

I found the following on webmin's FAQ:
Quote:

How do I change my Webmin password if I can't login?

Included with the Webmin distribution is a program called changepass.pl to solve precisely this problem. Assuming you have installed Webmin in /usr/local/webmin-1.110, you could change the password of the admin user to foo by running

/usr/local/webmin-1.110/changepass.pl /etc/webmin admin foo


I used this script to setup the initial root password for webmin.

Code:

./changepass.pl /etc/webmin root webmin


This sets the root login for webmin to "webmin"

From there it's an exercise to the reader to implement proper security measures.

Cheers,

Chris Moody - Linux Architect
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