David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Kelly Clowers grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> Aptitude is nice, but it only does one fraction of what YAST does.
>>
>> I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides
>> installation/removal of software, it does at least account management,
>> service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and firewall
>> configuration. It a bit like Webmin or AIX's SMIT (YAST has a TUI mode
>> and a GUI mode like SMIT/SMITTY; no web interface). I do not know of
>> anything like it in Debian since webmin was removed.
>
> When exactly was webmin removed?
>
>> $ aptitude show webmin
>> Package: webmin
>> New: yes
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 1.610
>> Priority: optional
>> Section: admin
>> Maintainer: Jamie Cameron <jcameron@webmin.com>
>> Uncompressed Size: 133 M
>> Depends: perl, libnet-ssleay-perl, openssl, libauthen-pam-perl, libpam-runtime, libio-pty-perl, apt-show-versions, python
>> PreDepends: perl
>> Replaces: webmin-adsl, webmin-apache, webmin-bandwidth, webmin-bind, webmin-burner, webmin-cfengine, webmin-cluster, webmin-core, webmin-cpan, webmin-dhcpd,
>> webmin-exim, webmin-exports, webmin-fetchmail, webmin-firewall, webmin-freeswan, webmin-frox, webmin-fsdump, webmin-grub, webmin-heartbeat,
>> webmin-htaccess, webmin-inetd, webmin-jabber, webmin-ldap-netgroups, webmin-ldap-user-simple, webmin-ldap-useradmin, webmin-lilo, webmin-logrotate,
>> webmin-lpadmin, webmin-lvm, webmin-mailboxes, webmin-mon, webmin-mysql, webmin-nis, webmin-openslp, webmin-postfix, webmin-postgresql, webmin-ppp,
>> webmin-pptp-client, webmin-pptp-server, webmin-procmail, webmin-proftpd, webmin-pserver, webmin-quota, webmin-samba, webmin-sarg, webmin-sendmail,
>> webmin-shorewall, webmin-slbackup, webmin-smart-status, webmin-snort, webmin-software, webmin-spamassassin, webmin-squid, webmin-sshd, webmin-status,
>> webmin-stunnel, webmin-updown, webmin-usermin, webmin-vgetty, webmin-webalizer, webmin-wuftpd, webmin-wvdial, webmin-xinetd
>> Description: web-based administration interface for Unix systems
>> Using Webmin you can configure DNS, Samba, NFS, local/remote filesystems
>> and more using your web browser. After installation, enter the URL
>> https://localhost:10000/ into your browser and login as root with your root
>> password.
>
> Seems to be there on my system (squeeze 6.0.6).... :-)
Scratch that, I think now that I vaguely remember that webmin *wasn't*
available via the normal Debian repositories. But it was so flipping
simple to just download the .deb package from webmin.com and install
that, that I forgot I had to go there to get it. :-) And, of course,
once it's installed in the system, of *course* aptitude is going to list
it on a "show" command.... <grin>
So it might not be in the Debian repositories (to which I have to find
myself asking the question, "Why on Earth would the maintainers not keep
such a valuable package available?"), but it's dirt easy to grab a .deb
package and install it.
--Dave
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