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Fixing Webmin 1.5’s Software Package Update emails

Asim Zeeshan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:31 +0000

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.

Webmin’s Software Package Update emails are not working

Asim Zeeshan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:00:47 +0000

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

Webmin 1.5 features

Asim Zeeshan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:53:50 +0000

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.

How to Install Webmin in CentOS

Asim Zeeshan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:20:03 +0000

Update: A newer version of this article is available at http://www.centosblog.com/2012/01/16/how-to-install-webmin-on-centos/

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

How to Install Webmin in Ubuntu

Asim Zeeshan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:35:57 +0000

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.