Posted by Asim Zeeshan | Posted in Linux | Posted on 12-01-2010
Recently, I talked about getting an error in my mailbox instead of the notification email from Webmin 1.5’s Software Package Update module. Today, I found a hint to its solution on the sourceforge.net email archives.
This is a known bug and it will be fixed in next public release, if you don’t wish to wait, you can do a devel-update of your webmin.
Posted by Asim Zeeshan | Posted in Linux | Posted on 11-01-2010
I have wrote yesterday about Webmin 1.5 features. I especially liked the one that will send me a notification when there is any update available to any of the components installed on my Linux box.
To my disappointment, I never got any Software Package Updates module’s email notification, instead I got this in my mailbox
Undefined subroutine &main::list_all_current called at /usr/libexec/webmin/package-updates/update.pl line 12.
I have no clue what this means or how do I fix it. Any one who can help me with this?
Update: A fix is available for this bug
Posted by Asim Zeeshan | Posted in Linux, News, Reviews | Posted on 11-01-2010
Two new features introduced in Webmin 1.5 that really attracts me are
- Software Package Updates module, it notifies about new available updates and optionally can send email and/or install security or all updates
- System Status, collects system information by running a background cron job on your system
The interface has also improved a little, and its slower while loading (figures!), but gives more information in the dashboard.
Earlier, I posted a how-to to Install Webmin on Ubuntu, now im going through the tutorial again but this time for CentOS.
Install dependancies before we proceed to install webmin
yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay
Download the latest version of webmin
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.500/webmin-1.500-1.noarch.rpm?use_mirror=ignum
Once it is downloaded, install the RPM using the following command
rpm -i webmin-1.500-1.noarch.rpm
No more steps required. Its installed 
Go to your browser and access the control panel with valid ssh credentials
From the little help that I can get over the internet, I found out that you need to install the following packages to prepare the system for Webmin installation.
Run the following command over SSH or Ubuntu Desktop’s terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal).
sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
(Learn how to configure SSH on Ubuntu 8.10 if you want to have a remote access to your Ubuntu box).
Download the latest version of Webmin by running the following command (visit webmin download section for newer versions)
wget http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.500/webmin_1.500_all.deb
Downloading Webmin
After the package has been downloaded, run the following command to install it
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb
You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://localhost:10000/ using root or any other user with sudo access.
