Topic: Webmin

[Loren]

I have tried to install webmin a couple of times both from RPM and  .gtz  and I get error messages. Is there a componet missing from SME that is in Redhat that I need to add?

[Dan Brown]

Well, it'd be really helpful if you'd post what the error messages were.  Before you do that, though, try searching here for "webmin"--you'll get lots of messages explaining why using webmin on an SME box is a bad idea.

[Loren]

Dan,
 Thanks for you reply,
 I did a search and didn't come up with but 4 posts and only your's andmine were actually about webmin. Now the erro message where as follows

 error: execution of %pre scriptlet for webmin-1.070-1 failed exit statis 2
 error: install : %pre scriplet failed (2), skipping webmin-1.0701

[Scott Smith]

You need to change the number of days to search in the options. The default is 30 days. I changed it to search all dates and came up with 179 hits for webmin.

[guestHH]

Try a search without limited timeframe (all dates)

[eric]

What version of e-smith are you using?  I've installed webmin on 5.5 and 5.6 with no problems.  The only thing is a lot of features don't work.

[peter]

to install webmin you need to make a redhat-release file, as webmin doesn't recognise e-smith. By the way, anyone had trouble installing 5.6? My install keeps crashing.

[Jared Knight]

You need to add a file called redhat-release into the /etc directory.
Inside that folder you will need to add the following;

Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Vallhalla)


Then try to install webmin again. It will say that the operating system is redhat 7.3, which is basically what e-smith is built on.
Anyway try that, hope it helps