Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Wednesday, 18 January 2006 at  6:51:17 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> 
> >Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> >>Michael Bellears wrote:
> >>
> >>>>I have a few installs that are using webmin.  What packages in 
> >>>>debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface?  I 
> >>>>looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide 
> >>>>the general purpose web config interface that webmin does.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>No reason why I can't.  It's just that one of the reasons why I like 
> >>Debian is that most of what I need is already packaged, and another 
> >>thing I don't have to worry about from the perspective of security 
> >>updates.
> >>
> >>
> >but webmin is packaged for debian (package webmin)
> >
> >http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin
> >
> >--at least for stable that I am using.
> 
> Yes, but it was just removed from unstable, so it won't be in the next 
> stable.

FWIW:
I just installed webmin in sid, and was disappointed to find it
apparently cannot cope with postgresql-8.1 -- some problem with oids (or
perhaps that was the lack of oids).

-- 
richard