Getting webmin working

NNP · 05-15-2005, 11:33 AM

HI, i just installed webmin onto mandriva but when i try to connect to it on http://localhost:10000 i get a connection refused error. This is becuase the daemon isnt running despite the fact that its in init.d and its also in the list of of startup services in mcc. For some reason though its status is "stopped" and clicking start has no effect.

When i do though a line comes up saying /etc/init.d/webmin:line 57: /etc/webmin/stop:no such file or directory and something similar when i click stop.

Can anyone help?

homey · 05-15-2005, 12:31 PM

As root user, use the chkconfig to see if it is started...
# chkconfig --list webmin
webmin 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

Now I use chkconfig to have it run at levels 2,3,4 and 5
# chkconfig --level 2345 webmin on

Now I use chkconfig to verify that webmin will start in those run levels
# chkconfig --list webmin
webmin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

Now I run this command to actually start webmin without having to reboot
# service webmin restart
Stopping Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin
Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin

purelithium · 11-01-2005, 01:59 PM

Excellent thread, thank you!