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Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two
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Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two

by William von Hagen, Brian K. Jones
December 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Hack #19. Remote Administration with Webmin

Webmin provides secure access to logfiles, system statistics, and many common administration tasks, all from your favorite web browser.

Administering a system can be a tough job. With user accounts to create, services to configure, logs to check, and all the other duties system administrators face, it can become quite a load. Thankfully, there's some software out there that can help make life easier for the weary sysadmin. One of these pieces of software is called Webmin. Webmin allows you to control a large portion of the functionality of your server from an easy-to-use web interface. Most major services are covered, including Apache, BIND, SSH, LDAP, Samba, WU-FTP, Sendmail, MySQL, and many others.

A Windows Terminal server connection in nxclient

Figure 2-23. A Windows Terminal server connection in nxclient

Installation

Installation of Webmin couldn't be easier. If you're running an RPM-based distribution such as SUSE or Fedora Core, simply grab the latest version from the Webmin home page at http://www.webmin.com. Install Webmin with the following command, where version-number is the version that you downloaded:

	# rpm –install Webmin-version-number.rpm

If you're using a non-RPM-based distribution such as Debian or Slackware, you can install from source. Simply download the latest tarball from http://www.webmin.com and unpack it to your system as usual. Navigate into the newly created Webmin ...

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