webmin

[Michael George]

I had the same problem.  Here's the solution I got from YDL and it 
worked great:

1. What method are you using to install Webmin? Are you using its shell 
script
or the RPM that came with YDL? I used YDL's rpm and received a similar 
error.
The gist was:

Unabled to identify operating system

So, I downloaded the source and tar script (it's a newer version 
anyway). And
I found the problem. WebMin was only updated to YDL version 2.2 and we 
have
2.3. So I had to add a line.

Download this file:

http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-0.990.tar.gz

Then untar it:

tar xzvf webmin-0.990.tar.gz

cd into the webmin-0.990 directory.

Edit the following file:

os_list.txt

Go to about line 115 and add the following line:

Yellow Dog Linux		2.3	redhat-linux	7.3	$etc_issue =~
/Yellow\s+Dog\s+Linux\s+release\s+2\.3\s+/i || `cat 
/etc/yellowdog-release
2>&1` =~ /Yellow\s+Dog\s+Linux\s+release\s+2\.3\s+/i

Then exit, then run:

setup.sh

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 06:29  PM, Jonathan Smith wrote:

> Has anybody had any luck install webmin on Yellowdog 2.3?  When I try 
> to install from apt-get I get the following error message:
>
> Unabled to identify operating system
> error: execution of %pre scriptlet from webmin-0.970-1 failed, exit 
> status 2
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping webmin-0.970-1
> E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (1)
>
> When I install from the tar.gz I get an error message in the File 
> Manager applet "wrong magic number".  Has anybody had any luck install 
> webmin on Yellowdog 2.3?
>
>
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-Michael George
  Senior Engineer, Software Development
  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.