Kelly Clowers grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Aptitude is nice, but it only does one fraction of what YAST does. > > I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides > installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, > service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and firewall > configuration. It a bit like Webmin or AIX's SMIT (YAST has a TUI mode > and a GUI mode like SMIT/SMITTY; no web interface). I do not know of > anything like it in Debian since webmin was removed.
When exactly was webmin removed? > $ aptitude show webmin > Package: webmin > New: yes > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 1.610 > Priority: optional > Section: admin > Maintainer: Jamie Cameron <jcame...@webmin.com> > Uncompressed Size: 133 M > Depends: perl, libnet-ssleay-perl, openssl, libauthen-pam-perl, > libpam-runtime, libio-pty-perl, apt-show-versions, python > PreDepends: perl > Replaces: webmin-adsl, webmin-apache, webmin-bandwidth, webmin-bind, > webmin-burner, webmin-cfengine, webmin-cluster, webmin-core, webmin-cpan, > webmin-dhcpd, > webmin-exim, webmin-exports, webmin-fetchmail, webmin-firewall, > webmin-freeswan, webmin-frox, webmin-fsdump, webmin-grub, webmin-heartbeat, > webmin-htaccess, webmin-inetd, webmin-jabber, > webmin-ldap-netgroups, webmin-ldap-user-simple, webmin-ldap-useradmin, > webmin-lilo, webmin-logrotate, > webmin-lpadmin, webmin-lvm, webmin-mailboxes, webmin-mon, > webmin-mysql, webmin-nis, webmin-openslp, webmin-postfix, webmin-postgresql, > webmin-ppp, > webmin-pptp-client, webmin-pptp-server, webmin-procmail, > webmin-proftpd, webmin-pserver, webmin-quota, webmin-samba, webmin-sarg, > webmin-sendmail, > webmin-shorewall, webmin-slbackup, webmin-smart-status, > webmin-snort, webmin-software, webmin-spamassassin, webmin-squid, > webmin-sshd, webmin-status, > webmin-stunnel, webmin-updown, webmin-usermin, webmin-vgetty, > webmin-webalizer, webmin-wuftpd, webmin-wvdial, webmin-xinetd > Description: web-based administration interface for Unix systems > Using Webmin you can configure DNS, Samba, NFS, local/remote filesystems > and more using your web browser. After installation, enter the URL > https://localhost:10000/ into your browser and login as root with your root > password. Seems to be there on my system (squeeze 6.0.6).... :-) --Dave
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