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1. Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2016 08:54:06 EST Blaise Alleyne
   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?
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2016 15:58:41 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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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
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2016 16:45:06 EST Blaise Alleyne

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     • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
     @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...
   • tuttle (tuttle)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2016 17:05:58 EST tuttle

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     • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
     @bobjonkman @balleyne@status.blaise.ca What do you use #webmin for?
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2016 17:10:20 EST Blaise Alleyne

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     @tuttle setting up virtual servers for hosting websites, databases, email services, DNS, and related
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2017 17:05:07 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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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.
   • tuttle (tuttle)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2017 18:25:01 EST tuttle

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     • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
     Sounds like a bad experience!
   • Blaise Alleyne (balleyne)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2017 03:02:49 EST Blaise Alleyne

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     • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
     @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 =\
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2017 03:06:40 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

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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.
   • tuttle (tuttle)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2017 03:34:36 EST tuttle

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     • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
     @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.