Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Matthew Flaschen]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 
>> On 02/02/07, Jeffrey F. Bloss <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>>> Hi all, what are people's favourite interfaces for controlling
>>>> servers (apache, smb, etc.)? Remotely? Locally?
>>>>
>>>> Specifically, I'm thinking of apache (httpd), samba and apple file
>>>> sharing. I'm used to webmin but it doesn't seem to be in the
>>>> repository so I'm wondering if there are alternatives (I'll build
>>>> it from source tonight but I figured I'd ask about alternatives).
>>> Webmin is available as a .deb right off the front page. Top right,
>>> third line... "Download:   tar.gz | RPM | DEB"
>>>
>>> http://www.webmin.com/
>> Is there a licencing issues that prevents it from living in the Ubuntu
>> repositories?
> 
> Don't have a clue. :)
> 
> Since it's mucking around with a wide variety of software, I suppose
> it's entirely possible one of the modules or whatever is licensed oddly.

That's certainly possible; the program is available on sourceforge, and
claims to be BSD, but sourceforge doesn't seem to give a damn about
vetting their code.

Matthew Flaschen

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