The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 312 pages
• Published by: No Starch Press
• Edition: 1st Edition June 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1886411921
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1886411920
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Description
How to use Webmin's unique features, including integrating the most popular services (Apache, BIND, Sendmail, and more) as well as the standard system features (network configuration, disk configuration, users and groups, etc.). Tutorials show how to accomplish common tasks with each service.

About The Author
JOE COOPER is co-founder and CTO of Swell Technology. He has contributed code to Webmin, written several Webmin modules, and has created a custom Webmin theme.

Reader Reviews
As the various unixes developed in the 1990s, vendors tried to make administration easier by writing proprietary UIs to simplify tasks. For example, IBM came up with SMIT. Of course, each UI was only for that vendor's unix. A developer, Cameron, set out to simplify this across vendors, by writing Webmin. As the book explains, it has now been ported to most unixes and linux. The book shows that Webmin is ideal for a new sysadmin. Reduces the intimidation factor of unix. It may be increasingly relevant if linux keeps growing on servers and even on desktops. On the latter, a sysadmin (you!) may well be a former Microsoft OS user who decided to take the plunge into a free operating system, but is worried about the necessary level of expertise. All the important admin tasks, like making new user accounts, setting up a mailer, and networking, are possible via Webmin. So if you are still trepid, this book might assuage your concerns. Cooper writes clearly and at a level accessible to many. No prerequisite knowledge of unix is assumed. Plus, he gives only the core functionality of Webmin, to avoid information overload. The book deliberately eshews explaining every module.