linux & webmin tips
Two useful tips I learnt today. One is that not having a loopback address on your linux machine really screws things up. If you are having wierd problems connecting to stuff on your machine and you cannot ping localhost, but there is an entry for localhost in /etc/hosts/, and you do:
ifconfig
and you only get ‘eth0′ or something, but no ‘lo’ then you should probably do something about it.
I did this:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
and that fixed it.
Second tip. If you’ve played around with webmin in the past and discovered that webmin fails to start, with things this in the miniserv.error file:
Cannot assign requested address at miniserv.pl
then you could try checking the miniserv.conf file to see if you’ve managed to put a duff IP address on the bind= line.
Posted by akaDruid on 18 Oct 2005 at 11:10 am
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