Enabling Web-Based Linuxconf Access

For security reasons, Web-based access to Linuxconf is disabled by default. Before attempting to access Linuxconf with a Web browser, you'll need to enable access. Here's how to do it:

Open Config => Networking => Misc => Linuxconf network access.

In the Linuxconf html access control dialog box, enter the hostname of any computers that should be allowed access to Linuxconf. This includes your own system, if you wish to use the Web-based interface locally. Web accesses related to Linuxconf may be logged to your system's htmlaccess.log file by selecting the checkbox.

Select the Accept button.

Also, verify that the disable line in the /etc/xinetd.d/linuxconf-web file reads

disable=no

Then run the command /sbin/service xinetd reload from a shell prompt.

http://<host>:98/

Why doesn't linuxconf-web work? I set it up via xinetd, but I can't connect to port 98 to access the service. There is a bug in the interaction between xinetd and linuxconf-web. The linuxconf-web service is a TCP wait server, and the service launch does not function properly. Our engineers and the respective package maintainers are aware of the problem and have provided a solution. Please see errata advisory (RHBA-2000:090) for xinetd which resolves this problem. Internal services (echo, daytime, time, and chargen) have been added for easier configuration with chkconfig or ntsysv. In addition, an xinetd-specific way of doing access control (only_from) has been fixed. ref http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2000-090.html ref http://www.xc.org/jonathan/linuxconf-faq.html download latest version ftp://ftp.solucorp.qc.ca/pub/linuxconf/   and 3 other downloads from same directry Install rpm as follows rpm -Uvh myrpm.rpm ftp://ftp.solucorp.qc.ca/pub/linuxconf/modules/redhat-7.0/     Q5.10 Linuxconf does not display correctly in Hyperterminal, what can I do? Some terminal emulators are buggy. Alain-Pierre CHERTIER <act at sogetek.fr> reports: I reconfigured my Windows HyperTerminal profile to "Auto" emulation mode and forcing "export TERM=pcansi" once at the shell after linux login. Then, linuxconf is displayed ok on the HyperTerminal console and all linuxconf stuff are accessible and can be modified with backward or forward scrolling ok... Very great! Other possible things to try include using a monospaced font which has the appropriate character set, and in the worst case, using a different terminal emulation program, such as TeraTerm