Help with Cyrus

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:22:13 -0400
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Jan Sneep wrote:
> > > Thanks for your suggestions ...
> > >
> > > Someone on the Postfix list suggested, as well as someone on this list in
> > > another thread suggested ... Webmin ... I was able to download AND
> > > install webmin AND use it in under 10 minutes .... YEAH ! The DEB package
> > > is not the most current version, but I'll tackle that another day.
> > >
> > > What a veritable cornucopia of information and access to the servers ...
> > > and YES it's a GUI !!!
> >
> > Good for you.  I don't begin to understand the attitude that has kept
> > webmin out of ubuntu.
> 
> It's not an attitude.  The upstream debian packagers retired and it just died.  
> Word is that there is another group who is picking it up.  Whether that's 
> true or not, Jamie Cameron (Webmin's primary author) has packages up each 
> version as a deb and it all works quite nicely :)  I've been using it for 
> probably more than a year now.  http://www.webmin.com/

Well , as was pointed out on this list a while back, there *does* seem to
be some "attitude" involved :-)

From
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-September/020471.html

"Hervé Fache wrote:
> What about webmin?

I didn't say that tools didn't exist; I said they utterly sucked. And I
was really hoping no one would bring up webmin. It's a piece of software
so horrifyingly vile that we want absolutely _nothing_ to do with it,
not even carry it in the Ubuntu archive. The entirety of the
ubuntu-server team had a small celebration the day that package was killed.

-- 
Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D "


I don't know in what way the server team thinks Webmin "sucks" . I
appended the quote above  merely for your information :-)

Peter