While I was working on Debian support I added a few new features to the virtualmin-base postinstall script that I thought would be useful for the other platforms, so I've begun rolling out new versions for those platforms, as well (SUSE and Mandrake will follow in a day or so).

While this won't do any good for systems that are already installed, for those of you planning future installs, or new customers, you'll be happy to know that several common tasks have been automated and several common default configuration complaints have been corrected.

The biggest new change is automatic firewall configuration. We now insert rules to open all of the common virtual hosting ports. We even use the system standard firewal save file format in all cases (OK, everybody except SUSE uses the standard iptables save file format...but we've gone the extra mile and wrote support for SUSE's firewall script, too). If you haven't figured out how to configure your firewall, or you just want to make sure you've got all the right ports open, you can grab a standalone version of the script here: http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/iptables-setup.pl

Other changes include better options for Usermin mail (I'll document those changes in the FAQ shortly), which makes Usermin behave more like your used to from local desktop IMAP clients (i.e. subscriptions work, stuff saved to folders is accessible to other mail clients, etc.), removed dependency on FastCGI and replaced it with mod_fcgid (a superior module that is now available in all of the Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL repos...automatic configuration support in Virtualmin will come later this week), and some bugfixes.

As mentioned, new versions for SUSE and Mandrake will be available later this week.

Oh, and I should re-iterate: This package will be available via yum, but it won't actually do any of the cool stuff listed above on your system when you update to it. This all takes place in the postinstall script which only runs on the first installation (you wouldn't want it to run every time, because it would change your settings back to defaults every time we rolled out an update!). Documentation for all of these changes, should you want to switch to them, will come to the FAQ soon.