Rocky Linux support

[hbjydev]

Hi all!

Now that Rocky Linux is released, I'd love to work with you on getting this project functional on Rocky Linux 8.3! Let me know what needs to be done and I'll do what I can! :)

[jcameron]

Is Rocky Linux based on some other more common distro, like RHEL?

[hbjydev]

Yep! It's built from the same sources as RHEL is, and it's aiming to be bug-for-bug compatible. Think of it as CentOS, but not being replaced by Stream.

[jcameron]

Do the versions line up? Like is Rocky 8.3 the same as RHEL 8.3 ?

[hbjydev]

Yep.

[jcameron]

Thanks - the next Webmin release will better support Rocky Linux. Work still needs to be done on the Virtualmin installer though.

[hbjydev]

What work needs doing on the Virtualmin installer?

[hbjydev]

I've started working on a fork that installs properly, and it does, until you go to configure it in the browser.

I assume this is because Virtualmin itself doesn't know how to work with Rocky?

[swelljoe]

No. That is Webmin treating the OS as a generic OS.

[hbjydev]

Right. Is there somewhere I would need to go in Webmin to patch that? Code-wise, I mean

[iliajie]

Jamie, I have installed Rocky Linux and Virtualmin on it using patched install.sh script and things seem to work pretty smooth.

This is what Webmin thinks of it:

However, MariaDB Server is not detected correctly by default.

Here is the example of working config (manually adjusted):

mysql=/usr/bin/mysql
nodbi=0
my_cnf=/etc/my.cnf.d/mariadb-server.cnf
date_subs=0
passwd_mode=0
mysqladmin=/usr/bin/mysqladmin
mysqlimport=/usr/bin/mysqlimport
stop_cmd=systemctl stop mariadb
max_text=1000
webmin_subs=0
mysql_libs=
nopwd=0
access=*: *
mysqldump=/usr/bin/mysqldump
max_dbs=50
style=1
blob_mode=0
mysql_data=/var/lib/mysql
perpage=25
start_cmd=systemctl start mariadb
mysqlshow=/usr/bin/mysqlshow
add_mode=1
port=
host=
sock=
mysqld=

It was set initially to /etc/my.cnf and start and stop commands were set to use /etc/rc.d.

[iliajie]

Right. Is there somewhere I would need to go in Webmin to patch that? Code-wise, I mean

You can use config above by placing it to /etc/webmin/mysql/config file.