Warning - Your system is actually running CentOS Linux version 6.7.

Every time OS is upgraded Virtualmin keep showing:

Warning - Your system is actually running CentOS Linux version 6.7.

until the "Update Detected Operating System" is pressed. The problem is that very often inexperienced users are reluctant to click that button and they bother their hosting vendors to get this trivial task cared of. I see no reason why Virtualmin couldn't update detected operating system by itself. It is a matter of just updating the respective record in config file.

Let's make it easier to end users and get this resolved without making them to do anything.

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Closed (fixed)

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I suppose this change could be automatically applied for small version updates. I'll add this in the next Webmin release.

Thanks Jamie at least for that. However I do believe this could also be applied for any kind of version updates, including major ones. If that kind of updates/upgrades were performed (through CLI, manually, automatically - it really doesn't matter how) then the decision was taken (again it doesn't matter by administrators or whoever have an access to the server), so there is really no need to confuse the end-user, who are usually not technically savvy people and always are afraid to see any notices.

The only people to see those notices are the Master Admins of the server though (ie, the root user)... in general, those master admins would be the ones performing any such update.

If a major version changed occurred -- meaning the distribution were upgraded from something like Debian 7 to 8, or CentOS 6 to 7, that's a pretty big deal and likely involved a good bit of downtime and large maintenance window.

If for some reason it occurred without their knowledge, it would be good for those Master Admins to be aware of that. But usually a Master Admin would be involved in that.

For major version updates I think the user does need to be notified, as changing Virtualmin/Webmin's idea of which OS version you are running can effect it's behavior.

The only people to see those notices are the Master Admins of the server though (ie, the root user)... in general, those master admins would be the ones performing any such update.

Eric,

"Master Admins" in case of hosting companies are not individual users, but the same staff-members of the same company. And as noted in https://www.virtualmin.com/node/38489

And it is extremely inconvenient to go through each Virtualmin server to physically press those buttons, especially when you administer lot's of servers.

Common, guys, your products are not only for individual users, but also for hosting companies. Imagine how hosting companies should go through hundreds of servers one by one to click on that button. I lastly find *min team's stance on lot's of useful suggestions non-productive. This way you could be pushing some hosting companies to move to alternatives. Please always consider making it easier for hosting companies.

And then there is very simple solution: make an option in Virtualmin configurations to auto-update this feature or not so per users preference. For hosting companies administering hundreds of Virtualmin servers this will be a great time-saving feature. And it will be their risk if they want to configure to "Yes". And if you think some people really love your really useless warnings then let them choose "No". Why to impose some notifications by force?!

Sorry I guess I'm not sure I understand... we're not talking about anything that could occur with a yum update.

Jamie is changing this so that going from, say, CentOS 6.6 to 6.7 will no longer generate that notice.

This notice will only occur if a distribution is changed from something like Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04.

Another example is going from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7, though that's not even something CentOS technically supports.

That isn't something that would need to be mass handled by hosting companies, because it's not possible to mass upgrade distributions.

Performing a distribution upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 is a huge undertaking, and there won't be many of these at once to update.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.