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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Installing WebMin to manage Linux in Ubuntu 7.10

Steps Needed:

1) Install these packages

sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

2) Download the latest webmin using the following command

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.370_all.deb

Please notice that if you are behind a proxy you must first set an environment variable to contain the proxy address for wget to use it. Do:
If you are using Bourne-style shell (sh, bash, ksh) type the following command: http_proxy=http://bcproxy.ac.il:8080/ ; export http_proxy. For C-shell (csh, tcsh) type setenv http_proxy=http://bcproxy.ac.il:8080/. You may wish to add apropriate command into your .profile (Bourne-style shell users) or .login (C-shell users) files.

3) Install the package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.370_all.deb

4) WebMin is now available at:

https://your-server-ip:10000/

5) To enable SMART hdd monitoring in WebMin you must install smartmon tools:

sudo apt-get install smartmontools

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