A while ago when I stumbled over a announcement of webmin in comp.os.linux.announce. It is a webserver, completely written in perl, with several script modules to view and edit a lot of the configuration files you normally need on your Linux-Box.

From the Webmin-Page:

Webmin Modules

Version 0.51 of Webmin contains modules for:

• Apache
  Configure almost all Apache directives in versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. Note this module is still undergoing testing. 
  
  
• Cron
  Create, edit and delete cron jobs.
  
  
• BIND DNS Server
  Create and edit domains and various types of records.
  
  
• Solaris File Sharing
  Edit file shares as defined in the /etc/dfs/dfstab file.
  
  
• Linux File Sharing
  Edit NFS file shares defined in /etc/exports.
  
  
• Inetd
  Edit services in /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/services and /etc/rpc. 
  
  
• SYSV Init
  Setup scripts to be run at boot time, as defined in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d. 
  
  
• Disk/NFS Mounts
  Mount filesystems and swap files usually configured in /etc/fstab or /etc/vfstab. 
  
  
• Samba
  Create and edit samba file and print shares. 
  
  
• Unix Users
  Create and edit Unix users and groups from the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
  
  
• Disk Partitions
  Create and edit paritions on local SCSI and IDE disks on Linux and Solaris.
  
  
• Processes
  List, kill and renice running processes on your system. 
  
  
• Software Packages
  Manage Solaris and Redhat RPM packages on your system, and install new packages. 
  
  
• Disk Quotas
  Setup and edit user or group disk quotas for local filesystems. 
  
  
• Webmin Configuration
  Change the admin username/password, web server port and list of allowed hosts for the webmin server.

I would be pleased to hear from others that use this tool, the functions they find useful and if there are any additional modules in the process of beeing written or requested for.

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