HowTo Webmin

Make life a little bit easier with Webmin

Install Webmin for management and admin work, Amahi is without these.

Connect to your box by Putty root@hda then start installation by:

Create fila webmin.repo with

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

edit the file to:

[Webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum enabled=1

You should also fetch and install GPG key with which the packages are signed:

rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

You can now install with:

yum install webmin

All dependencies should be resolved automatically.

Now you have the industry standard Admin interface on your Amahi.

Use USB Disks or sticks

I have several USB disck and eSATA disk I need on my machine. I also need to bring files and take files from the machine by USB stick. I use Putty and Webmin for these things

1. Install autofs

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​yum install autofs​

Need VFAT for the big USB Disk or the large files on it:

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​​yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g​

- Setup the autofs by edit master settings Change 2 lines to (if not needed) Add one (or more) line for the USB disk /var/hda/vol /etc/auto.vol --timeout=3

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​nano /etc/auto.master # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). # /var/hda/vol /etc/auto.vol --timeout=3 # #/misc /etc/auto.misc # # NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the # "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev" # options are explicitly given. # #/net -hosts # # Include central master map if it can be found using # nsswitch sources. # # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as # above) in the included master map any keys that are the # same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes # precedence. # +auto.master​

Add the directory by

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​​mkdir /var/hda/vol ; chmod 775 /var/hd​

1. Then add the auto.vol file

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​​nano /etc/auto.vol# # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # mountpoint_key options location_device # man 5 autofs # cdrom -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom #floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/fd0 K -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdk1 K.2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sdk2 #2nd partition K.3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :dev/sdk3 #3d partition L -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdl1 M -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdm1 N -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdn1 O -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdo1 G -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdg H -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdh I -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdi J -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdj​

1. Now restart autofs and then all is GO

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​​service autofs restart​

1. Create the symlinks

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​​ln -s /var/hda/vol /var/hda/files/Disks​

1. Make browse active by edit the file autofs

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​​nano /etc/sysconfig/autofs Change line BROWSE_MODE="no" to BROWSE_MODE="yes"​

That is all, but for more see: http://www.autofs.org/autofs-man.html