[ILUG] Webmin, NIS and Gentoo

[Kevin Philp]

I think people get tied up with their own distro's glossy config tool, be it 
Drakconf, Yast or whatever else. Webmin seems to do more than all of these 
and has a vast array of extra modules to plugin for that extra tool you 
always wanted. All that and you can configure a machine with a webmin server 
from anywhere on the network even if its a different distro or another form 
of Unix......However it looses out because it hasn't got nice pretty icons!!

Kevin.


On Tuesday 14 September 2004 17:18, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
Kevin Philp wrote:
> I will try that tonight, but the machine is just a NIS client and I have
> already emerged yptools and ypbind. I have not had a problem using webmin
> to set up NIS clients on Mandrake.

I emerged webmin and then tried to have the webmin featurette go and get
.. err DBM::NIS I believe. It didn't build, but, I think thats's a perl
thing.

You can probably find a portage entry for whatever DMB::NIS would come
under and emerge it, else use that perl -CPAN -e shell thing.

I hadn't used Webmin bye-the-bye... why does nobody shout about these
highly useful tools from the rooftops?

Maybe I've just been sleeping under a rock on the darks side of the moon !