Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:12:22 -0700 From: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> To: freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: WEBMIN Message-ID: <3A016836.F4B0BE79@uswest.net>
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Hi everybody, While I was at work yesterday and after reading Dru Lavigne's introduction to the Webmin utility, <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/25/FreeBSD_Basics.html>; I thought it sounded like a neat utility and decided to install it. The install went fairly easily except that my first attempt from /usr/ports/sysutils/webmin errored out because the Makefile was pointing to the wrong master site: <http://www.webmin.com/webmin/download/>; I'm running FreeBSD 3.4 and needed the 0.75 version of Webmin. I edited the Makefile and changed the master site to ftp://ftp.webmin.com/ and the install went much smoother. After installing it and answering a few basic configuration questions, I was able to open up a IE browser on my NT 4.0 workstation and connect to the new Webmin server running on my FreeBSD system. I played around with it for a short time and was able to perform some basic administration functions like adding a new job to the CRON scheduler. This is a very slick utility that let's you perform virtually every administrative task through a web browser from a remote workstation on a network. Security really isn't an issue since it allows you to specify the port number during the config and also which hosts are allowed to connect. I was really impressed with this utility but one thought came to mind, maybe it's not such a good idea to rely on web/gui utilities like this too heavily, since one might run the risk of falling out of practice in doing things the old fashioned way. I for one am prone to forgetfulness, especially if I haven't used a particular command in a long time. The other day, I was trying to load a package and had completely forgotten the syntax of /stand/sysinstall. I eventually had to look it up in one of my books. Cheers Joe -- FreeBSD = The Power to Serve ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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