Gundamdriver Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Hi. I wonder people in business world will use Webmin or similar tools to manage the (web/ mail/ ftp/ MySQL...etc) servers? Or people will only use vim to edit the configuration files? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 personally i do it all by hand but a lot of people use things like cpanel as most 'customers' want it as they know how to use it and only that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott.Mc Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 If you are going to use webmin it's more than likely you have reasonable knowledge of how to operate the server in the first place so it would be the better option just not to use it but obviously it makes things slightly easier. I personally would just avoid the control panel all together, it's much less bother without them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nish Vamadevan Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 IMO Running Webmin is risky and if its not configured correctly, your server might get hacked... I rather do everything by hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miuku. Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I run a "siseable" business network alongside customers and apart from writing custom scripts to "get the job done" so you could say that most of the administrational work is done by in-house tools although I've taken the liberty to borrow some tools from Novell. However I do most of the uncommon work by hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted January 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 1, 2008 I use webmin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuffgong4 Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 I love webmin. My company installs a linux based phone system and I have to use webmin on a regular basis. I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4v1d05 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I use webmin, but only on a LAN without the ports being available to the outside world. Granted it is only on my home-server but it helps me get the jobs done when I can't be bothered to do it through shell etc. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameso Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I use webmin, but only on a LAN without the ports being available to the outside world. Granted it is only on my home-server but it helps me get the jobs done when I can't be bothered to do it through shell etc. :) Ditto. I use Webmin from my LAN, without outside users being able to access the server on the webmin port (10 000). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdog Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I don't use webmin, because sometimes it will mangle your config files if you try to do anything to them without going through webmin. Not to mentions the possible security implications it has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sengork Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 smitty - game over ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiftie Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 smitty - game over ;) :huh: Whhhaaatt? I've been looking at ISPConfig. But I dont know what people think about it. & if there's something better in the market... Thats free ofcourse. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sengork Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Smitty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_SMIT Better than sliced bread ;) unfortunately only found on AIX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonRedMk Member Posted May 21, 2008 Member Share Posted May 21, 2008 I use Webmin on my home Ubuntu server. It does the job, but I like hopping in config files when I need something done fast. Nevertheless, it's useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwntwn Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 I am a sys admin for a national telecom company. I install and manage Linux, HP-Unix and Solaris servers running in multiple locations accross the country with a variety of different services running on them. None of which I have any extra "tools" or webmin running. After all, you have a development environment to mess around with, but when it comes to production servers you want to keep it as clean as possible. vi and knowledge of the servers/daemons etc is the best means of administration imo. If that means installing webmin on a dev box to get that knowledge, then so be it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Veteran Posted June 2, 2008 Veteran Share Posted June 2, 2008 i have it installed, helps as ive never had a linux server before. ste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroday Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I do everything by hand. I can't be bothered to install a CP, and there's security issues around it that I can't be bothered to read up on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelington Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 By hand on my Debian FTP/HTTPd/DNSd/DHCPd/Router/Fileserver. Though I did contemplate it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDevil Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I use webmin :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malbojia Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I was always doing it by hand. Somewhere down the road I got tired of the ssh term. Wanted Lazyness I guess. I'll putty in when I need things done beyond webmins capabilities. But it's locked down to restricted ip/user/personal generated ssl cert and off port 10000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted July 14, 2008 Administrators Share Posted July 14, 2008 I was always doing it by hand. Somewhere down the road I got tired of the ssh term. Wanted Lazyness I guess. I'll putty in when I need things done beyond webmins capabilities.But it's locked down to restricted ip/user/personal generated ssl cert and off port 10000. Same here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kartel Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 I had been doing it by hand all along and only today installed webmin for the first time on my ubuntu home server. I like it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 I was always doing it by hand. Somewhere down the road I got tired of the ssh term. Wanted Lazyness I guess. I'll putty in when I need things done beyond webmins capabilities.But it's locked down to restricted ip/user/personal generated ssl cert and off port 10000. Same... Why go through the extra hassle when you can do it easier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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