The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX [Paperback]

Joe Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003

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.

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About the Author

Cooper is co-founder and CEO of Swell Technology, developers of a successful line of web caching server appliances.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886411921
• ISBN-13: 978-1886411920
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the new sysadmin, March 3, 2004

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This review is from: The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX (Paperback)

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.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Great Open Source Software, July 21, 2003

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"bubbagates123" (Hershey Pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX (Paperback)

This is a great book that describes one of the best pieces of software for a *NIX enviroment I have ever seen. It is easy to read and understand

Webmin is a great web based interface that can handle clustering, updates across all servers handles by Webmin and many many other things

Joe does a great job getting into the details of Webmin and the basics of everyday system administration as is relates to the use of Webmin

As a experinced Linux System Admin I found many tips for the use of Webmin that have made my life as an Admin much easier

My hats off to Joe for such a great book and Jamie for a fantastic piece of Open Source Software

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but dated, July 2, 2009

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Greg Raven (Apple Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Book of Webmin: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX (Paperback)

I have real mixed feelings about this book.

I did not check the pub date on this book before purchasing it. If I had, I probably wouldn't have bought it, because it is now several years old -- as in, out of date. For example, there is no mention of VirtualMin.

Still, there is a lot of good basic information here, so I will get some good use out of it.

When you spend this much for a technical book of this nature, you expect that you are paying for up-to-date information, rather than a "collectable" on the way things used to be.