webmin

[Jonathan Smith]

I tried that but for some reason File Manager won't work (it gives me a 
"bad magic number" error).  It works on our other servers so it seems 
to be something specific to YDL 2.3 since our other servers are running 
previous versions of YDL.

Thanks for the help though.

js

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 06:44  AM, Michael George wrote:

> 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.
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