has anyone managed to install webmin on openwrt?
will an official port be release?
If it has a reasonable Perl, it should be able to work, at least to some degree. After all, there’s still (probably) support for some quite old, and thus quite small, systems. I say “probably” because I don’t know of anyone running Webmin on an old Solaris system, but no one has done anything to intentionally break that support.
But, since no one has ever contributed config files for OpenWRT, that I’m aware of, you’d need to do that yourself.
“official” from whom? Certainly not us (without significant economic incentive). That’s a job for folks who want it.
As an aside, we do know Webmin is running on a bunch of very small systems and has run on very small systems for many years. When I did some work for HP many years ago, they had some embedded devices running a custom branded version of Webmin.
I don’t think there’s anything making the problem hard to solve. You just need to spend the time to make the config files for the services you want to manage with Webmin. And, of course, a package. But, getting the config files right is the first step, I think. A tarball installation doesn’t need a package.
cheers joe
perl isn’t installed but version 5.40.0-r2 is available
at this stage i only want it for postfix and logs, would it hurt to do a regular install then remove modules or is there a way to install with only needed modules?
You could install the minimal package which has only the core modules. And then install postfix and syslog modules. Again, you’ll need to modify their configs to suit OpenWRT, as it is a very unusual Linux that looks mostly unlike anything else (for no good reason in some cases).
Note that minimal is really minimal. You have to install just about anything you want.
cool thank you i will try it
sorry, where is the minimal pkg located?
found it on github, was looking on sourceforge 
Openwrt is designed for consumer routers so putting webmin on it pointless. If you run openwrt in a VM then just spin up a new VM for openwrt.
I don’t see how that follows. OpenWRT is a small Linux system, Webmin runs on a lot of small Linux/UNIX systems. If you want a web-based UI on your small Linux system, Webmin is a reasonable choice.
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- minimum spec might not be met with a consumer router.
- don’t put appliances on your edge router.
- not all Linux packages will be available as it uses custom repo.
- I think openwrt roll their own os rather than based of unbuntu or RHEL
None of those things would preclude one from using or wanting Webmin.
And, I think they’re wrong.
Every OpenWRT device I’ve worked on has been plenty large enough for Webmin. Webmin runs in about 11-15MB of RAM in a minimal form.
I don’t know what “appliances” means here, but you can run all sorts of things on OpenWRT, it’s literally just a small Linux system with some weird quirks, and Linux is the best way to run all sorts of software because most server software is developed on Linux these days. (I’m not really a fan of OpenWRT, as Linux goes, I think it’s got some big trade offs that aren’t worth it, but it is Linux, and you can run just about anything that runs on Linux on it. Most server software is quite lightweight, relatively speaking.)
Not all Linux packages are available on any Linux distro. But, there are a bunch of packages available for OpenWRT.
And, you’re correct that OpenWRT is not based on Ubuntu or RHEL. That’s irrelevant. There are dozens of operating systems that Webmin supports that are not based on Ubuntu or RHEL, many not even based on Linux.
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