starting webmin

Clint Gilders techservices at onlinehobbyist.com
Wed Mar 2 06:02:09 PST 2005


albi at scii.nl wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:24:37 -0500
> Clint Gilders <techservices at onlinehobbyist.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Webmin won't start.
>>
>>king10:/usr/local/etc/rc.d# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/webmin.sh rcvar
>># webmin
>>$webmin_enable=YES
>>
>>Even if I hardcode webmin_enable="YES" in the webmin.sh script webmin 
>>doesn't start.   I don't get an error message I am just dropped back
>>at  my prompt.
> 
> 
> did you compile or used pkg_add -r ?
> in both cases you need to run the webmin-setup script before it will
> start properly

You're right.   I'ts been years since I've done a fresh install of 
webmin. I didn't recall having to run the setup script after previous 
port installs of webmin.

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.

-- 
Clint Gilders <techservices at onlinehobbyist.com>
Director of Technology Services
OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc.


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