Re: Webmin dies on startup
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> Since upgrading my system on 10th July, webmin hasn't worked.
>
> When I try running "/etc/init.d/webmin start", it says "Starting webmin:
> webmin" and returns control to the command line - but no processes persist
> and no ports stay open. What's more, I don't even get any log output
> in /var/log/webmin/webmin.log or /var/log/messages.
>
> I usually run the stable version, but I have also tried installing the testing
> version, to no avail. I have tried removing and re-installing both versions.
>
> Has anybody got any ideas?
>
Don't run the version from stable for a start.
I suspect that webmin can't bind to port 10000 because something is
already on there. Do a netstat -lpt as root and see if anything turns up.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
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