Installing NTP Server on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

gede@Telkom-Time-Server:~$ sudo apt-get install ntp

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ntp-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ntp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 487kB of archives.
After this operation, 1221kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://id.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main ntp 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2 [487kB]
Fetched 487kB in 2s (175kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package ntp.
(Reading database ... 155079 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ntp (from .../ntp_1%3a4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ntp (1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2) ...
* Starting NTP server ntpd

Ubuntu Server:Install GUI and Webmin in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Guide

1) Install desktop Environment

First you nee to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file once you have enable you need to use the following command to install GUI

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

The above command will install GNOME desktop if you want to install KDE desktop use the following command

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

2) Install Webmin

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.Currently There is no Webmin package in the Ubuntu repositories.This tutorial will explain how to Install Webmin in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

You can install webmin for your server web interface to configure apache2,mysql,FTp servers and many more.Now we will see how to install webmin in Ubuntu 8.10

Preparing your system

First you need to install the following packages

sudo aptitude install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Now download the latest webmin using the following command or from here

wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin_1.441_all.deb

Now we have webmin_1.441_all.deb package install this package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.441_all.deb

This will complete the installation.

Ubuntu in particular don’t allow logins by the root user by default. However, the user created at system installation time can use sudo to switch to root. Webmin will allow any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges.

Now you need to open your web browser and enter the following

https://your-server-ip:10000/