webmin

[Michael George]

No, I have YDL 2.3 and it worked fine.  Maybe you have some other error.

Did you edit the file to put YDL2.3 in there?  It *is* a problem  
specific to 2.3, that's the whole reason you are getting the tarball...

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 03:01  PM, Jonathan Smith wrote:

> 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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-Michael George
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  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.