From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 2 5:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 209BC37B4E5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 05:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26482 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2000 13:16:45 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 26472 invoked by uid 0); 2 Nov 2000 13:16:44 -0000 Received: from badialup197.slkc.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (63.225.236.197) by slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 13:16:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3A016836.F4B0BE79@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:12:22 -0700 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd newbies Subject: WEBMIN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everybody, While I was at work yesterday and after reading Dru Lavigne's introduction to the Webmin utility, 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: 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