Hi All.....

Is anybody there to help me regarding webmin...

My OS : redhat enterprise linux advance server 3.0
kernel: 2.4.21-15.EL

My Obligation : maintain user's accounts & their email
accounts

I would like to do this through Webmin...

so what are the basic steps to be needed for me...?
any help would be appreciated..

thnx in advance,
zameer ahmed syed.

just install webmin and start clicking -- its that easy

Webmin installed was OK.... even i am able to create user account...
My next step is i want to maintain an email account for this user...
How?
for this me thinking in my own way... i think we need own virutal server with own domain...is am Correct? i am not sure...
to do so...I create one virtual server succesfully... after creating virtual server when i click on apply changes option..then i got the following error message like...

Failed to apply changes :
[Thu Jan 13 12:50:41 2005] [warn] child process 3850 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Jan 13 12:50:42 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Jan 13 12:50:43 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Jan 13 12:50:45 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu Jan 13 12:50:45 2005] [notice] Digest: done


what to do?....any help would be appreciated...

thnx in advance...

zameer ahmed syed

And this error happened where?

This is no error, it went well instead.

The warning is that one child was unable to stop, so it was forcefully killed (better than a pop-up telling 'this program is not responding [wait] [terminate]', right?).
After that they are notice messages, telling that apache restarted fine..

You want to create accounts for more domains on the same machine? only then you will need virtual hosting (so john@foo.com is different than john@bar.com), but apache has nothing to do with e-mail...

If you are using postfix for e-mailing you can set it up to do virtual domains.. you'd have to dig into documentation for that.
disclaimer: not only postfix can do this, probably all MTAs can do this! just that I work with postfix, I can tell it is possible . . . Have done it before.

Good luck.

Actually there is a webmin module that can setup virtual domains for email, dns, apache and ftp. email server can be qmail, sendmail or postfix.

Its called virtualmin and it can be downloaded from the webmin site.

I use it myself and its real nice.

Cool,

good to know, thanks!

hi rhoekstra....

U gave me a gr8 and descriptive reply.. but i am not having too much knowledge in this topic...simply tell me... what are the basic steps need to maintain users account.

this is my companies scenario...
our company wants to maintain three types of user accounts... namely

students
teachers
parents

we are having linux Advance server 3.0 (server)
I installed everything in this server.....
I installed webmin and able to create users ..next thing i want is .... how to maintain these user accounts as their email accounts....
tell me the basic steps to create and maintain these accounts successfully...
any kind of help will be appreciate...

thnx in advance..
zameer ahmed syed

Virtualmin is one of the best modules for webmin. It can do almost anything you need it to do. Even aliases for each domain.

I suggest you read the docs for it. Many power settings are available with it.

zameer_india if your going to be a network admin I suggest that you start using google and take some classes.

No need to pretend your admin and get paid for it when we are doing your work and not getting a dime a from it.

Fair is fair now.

The question your asking is about the most simplest admin function there is. If you can't do email accounts your in a whole lot of trouble.

what sgrayban says may sound a bit harsh, but he has a point.

you know, there is an AWFUL lot of basic documentation available on the internet, the only problem is that you want to know where to start and where to go... (That was mainly my problem when I started to figure this out..)..

A good habit is to seek the internet using a good search engine indeed, and read a lot (and: a lot).
Try to get a good view on what you really want and see if the tools you have can provide you the solution you want..

Until now, for instance, I can't see your problem / wish. you have studens, teachers and parents.. what to do with them ? what is the problem with creating just accounts for them?....
Before answering (which is fine !!!) try to get a good hold of what you really want, try to figure out if documentation for mail servers / clients / web servers can help you out, and if you still can't manage, you can start a question being descriptive in what you have achieved and what you want to achieve...

Be eager to read a lot... that is the key...

Sorry if it sounds unfriendly, but it is meant in the best way thinkable.!!

good luck.

Mine was also meant to be constructive and not harsh. But in reality my response was correct seeing that his question/problem really isn't all that hard.

My only question is why would parents need email accounts?

the main objective of our company is to provide online coaching in mathematical applications...
to do so.. we need three types of email accounts...

----student---- for students// to check mail that what his teacher send like home
-work, worksheets,etc...
----teachers---for teachers// to send the worksheets,etc.. to the students and to
send progress reports ...etc details of students to
parents
----paernts----for parents// to check the progress of their students..

for this purpose..
my obligation ws : what ever the user i create from my LAS 3.0 OS ..those will be used as their email accounts
for Eg.... if i create a user through webmin like john
then this user email account will be john@mycompany.com....

this is my obligation....any help would be appreciated...

thnx in advance....
-zameer--------

for this can i use send mail option from webmin-->servers optiion---> if so...HOW TO do? .......


thnx

zameer

WOW!!!! Now if I understand (maybe) what your saying is if you make an email account how can they access it? Or how can you make the account use johndoe@daomin.com ?

Sorry but your english is so bad I can't follow your problem at all.

When you make a new account it can already recieve and send email.

Regardless of how you want 3 group's doesn't matter except on sending the right email to the right account.