[nylug-talk] *RESOLVED* Troubleshoot Webmin "Failed to get local socket name"...

[R. Mariotti]

Luggers:
> Fellow Luggers:
> 
> I have a small server running ubuntu 6.06.1 server distro which has no gui.
> Therefor, for sysadmin I normally install and use webmin.  However, on this
> one machine when I try to access webmin from a browser on another machine
> it fails.  The subject server's webmin miniserv.error log show the error:
> "Failed to get local socket name :"
> 
> I can't find any references to this anywhere (usenet, google, forums, etc).
> 
> nmap, lsof and other utils show the only thing using the specified port
> (10000) is miniserv.pl itself.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on how one can go about troubleshooting this
> error?
> 
> I am 

Thank you for the various recommendations to resolve this.  I DID, in 
fact, look into, verify and try all suggestions.  The real issue was 
that the subject server could not be resolved via domain name lookup. 
As I am NOT running a local DNS on this subnet, I added a FQDN to its 
/etc/hosts file and the error went away immediately and webmin started 
functioning.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

bobmct