[ale] easy first distro for a non-linux person?

[Ray Knight]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 08:07, Geoffrey wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > Not an "either / or" but a Both. 
> > 
> > 
> > Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any 
> > browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager 
> > module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.
> > 
> > Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which 
> > directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web 
> > server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no 
> > non-standard Perl modules. 
> > 
> > Install Webmin on . . . .
> > 
> > . . . Suse?
> 
> Build from source.  It doesn't come with 8.1 or 8.2 just checked both. :(
> 

Just go to www.webmin.com and grab the rpm file.  The rpm requires only
the following:

/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl

I hope your SuSE installation has those. ;-)



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