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I've been using Virtualmin for years, but tempted to move away from the monolithic control panel model. What do you use? How about for email or DNS servers?
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I have #Webmin installed on all the servers (and most of the desktops and laptops), but mostly I do all the !Sysadmin work with CLI through #SSH
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@bobjonkman me too! I love that part. What tempts me to leave is that I don't feel comfortable giving Virtualmin access to users to manage email for their own domains, or sometimes I'd like to run a website on a different stack but still need say DNS...
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@bobjonkman @balleyne@status.blaise.ca What do you use #webmin for?
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@tuttle setting up virtual servers for hosting websites, databases, email services, DNS, and related
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Thought I'd install #VirtualMin, but it ate my #MariaDB setup, tried to replace it with #MySQL, botched the installation, and I had to recover it all manually. Killed my !StatusNet daemons, had to #KickTheDaemons. Sorry for the interrupted service. !SysAdmin #Fail.
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Sounds like a bad experience!
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@bobjonkman that's rough! I find #Virtualmin is very trustworthy on a brand new server when it's the first thing installed, even when later making manual changes outside #Virtualmin, but I've read the install doesn't go well on a server that's already in use =\
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Seems the failed #Virtualmin install messed up some #Postfix settings too. Or it identified settings that were previously bad. Either way, there's more stuff to clean up.
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@bobjonkman That's the sort of thing that steers me away from programmes like webmin. I get upset when I find myself fixing configs by hand that have been botched by some software that I installed because it was supposed to help me manage configs.