Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[John Dangler]

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 17:32 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:58:38 -0500
> "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> My understanding is that the Debian and Ubuntu Webmin packages are no
> longer maintained. I seem to recall there was a collective sigh of relief
> on the developers' mailing list at the time ;-)
> 
> I don't think there's a licensing issue - but there was, umm, some
> criticism of Webmin IIRC... </understatement>
If you're setting up a server to learn about the services and how they
work and also how to set up and configure them, I recommend doing it at
command line.  Yes, it takes time, but you'll learn more, and you'll
probably also find that once you set most of these services up you don't
really do much of anything to them.I do admit that something like webmin
would be convenient to maintain changes once initial setup is done, but
I would want something like that to be able to apply SSL certificates
(at root and domain levels), add specific types of records to DNS (PTR,
etc), write mail filter rules, etc... and I haven't seen a package that
would handle those types of tasks.