Re: [gentoo-dev] adapting webmin and usermin

[Chris Davies <c.davies@cdavies.org>]

Thanks for all the advice :)

I will look into packaging usermin when I have done webmin but my main
motivation is that at really want to write a portage front end for
webmin, so I don't have to bother running sshd on a fair few of my
machines. I dare say some other people may even find it useful...

Cheers,
C.Davies

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:02, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote:
> On 05 Jun 2002 04:38:14 +0100
> Chris Davies <c.davies@cdavies.org> wrote:
> 
>   |Hi,
>   |
>   |I've actually been doing just this for a couple of days now.. I'm not
>   |really ready to go public with the resulting patch and ebuild but I
>   |suppose this might be a good time to ask a few questions that come into
>   |my head.
>   |
>   |1) I am currently using the directory /opt/webmin as an installation
>   |dir. I appreciate that Gentoo wants to keep /opt for binaries only, and
>   |that webmin does not technically qualify as a binary distribution, but
> I
>   |think it comes damn close. Does anyone agree/disagree with this view,
>   |and if you disagree, where should webmin go?
>   
> /opt is a good choice, but i think that it can be best /var
> 
> 
>   |2) SSL. Perl doesn't pay any attention to the ssl use flag as far as I
>   |am aware, so my strategy has been to have Perl grab the SSL module from
>   |CPAN if the use var is set, and then configure webmin with support for
>   |same. Again, comments? Suggestions?
> 
> well if you can use the USE variable cool :)
> 
>   |3) What distribution should be chosen as a close approximation of
>   |Gentoo. I choose Redhat 7.2 as my first guess, and then later upgraded
>   |to .3 and I haven't noticed anything obviously broken, but extensive
>   |testing would be required before I'd let this anywhere near portage.
>   |Suggestions? Volunteers for testing? :)
> 
> i thinks that debian, slackware, o inclusive freebsd are more exact that
> redhat
> 
>   |4) I presumed that Webmin should not automatically be started on boot,
>   |that stuff should be handled by the user and whatever their preference
>   |of inetd or xinetd is, is this the correct approach?
> 
> you can do a simple script to do it
> 
>   |5) License. Webmin uses a strange one, but not one that is restrictive.
>   |I presume it is OK just to add an entry in Gentoo's Lisencing dir
>   |specifically for Webmin and its kin.
> 
> yes, it can be usefull for others webmin products, like usermin.
> 
> when you finish with webmin, can be interesting adapt too usermin :)
> 
> contact with Maciek <maciek@borowka.net>, he wants to help :)
> 
> 
> José Alberto Suárez López
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