Re: SSH Upgrade via Webmin

Unfortunately, Red Hat and SuSe have some major filesystem differences
that will lead you into quite ugly troubles rather quickly, if you try
to install an RPM designed for Red Hat (even from SRPM, though you can't
be faulted for thinking that would solve the compatibility problems--in
a reasonable world, a rebuild of an SRPM on your own machine would make
it work, but it isn't a reasonable world, and even systems with the same
ancestry, like Red Hat and Mandrake cannot usually easily share SRPMs).

You may be safest to install from tarball into /usr/local/openssh until
your vendor rolls out a package for you, unless you're willing to invest
some serious time (like several days, or even weeks) to make the RPM
suitable for SuSe.  I'd go for a tarball install myself.  ;-)

Webmin just gets the configuration details from the actual configuration
files.  If you copy your old configs over to the new install (or you
install from RPM and it keeps the old configs) then Webmin will display
the same configuration you see now.  Webmin does not store anything
except for Webmin stuff in its configuration files--everything else goes
into the configuration file for the relevant service.  Webmin can be
thought of as stateless, with regard to the services that it configures
(but, of course, Webmin has a state of its own, wrt ACLs and locations
of config files, etc.).

joachim wichelhaus wrote:
> I am rather new to Webmin and Linux administration but I hope you'll
> help me nevertheless. I want to upgrade the openssh software via
> Webmin. I've already downloaded openssh-3.4p1-1.src.rpm, because I
> haven't RedHat but SuSe Linux installed and I'll need the source
> then, right? Will Webmin keep all my settings when I install the
> updated package? How should I proceed?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joachim Wichelhaus

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Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Web caching appliances and support.
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