On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:24:48AM -0400, Gary wrote: > Neal McBurnett wrote: > >As noted before, webmin is a bad idea since it doesn't follow the > >config file policy in Ubuntu and Debian. > > You've asserted this before. Can you document this? I've found nothing > in the archives like this. And Google does not turn up any confirming > results. Webmin has been a good solution for a great many years, though > there have been some security issues in the past that were fixed.
Gary, I'm taking the liberty to post this back to the list. Thanks for inspiring me to further write up some answers I had previously found. I also found it hard to dig out the story there. Below are some links. I'm guessing that Debian policy on config files got tightened, and basic maintenance was already more of a challenge than the original maintainer could find time for, to say nothing of getting the config issues dealt with, so it got dropped. I think it would be very hard but guess that a champion could emerge who was willing to do that work in a way that would meet the Debian Policy Manual requirements on config files: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files I've added some clarifications to the page which I just discovered on Webmin: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebMin Note also: why was webmin dropped? https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2873 The following give the reasons that webmin was removed from Debian. As Ubuntu is a Debian derived package, it's not surprising Ubuntu doesn't have it either. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/01/msg00124.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343897 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271505 I welcome more info on specific config file issues that people have seen. Neal McBurnett http://mcburnett.org/neal/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
