Help with Cyrus

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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

Wow, I stand corrected, but they're the ones who are wrong.  The packaging was 
so horribly screwed up, but the software was and is great.
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