Make the log of "Setting Up Virtual Server" window autoscroll up

Submitted by yngens on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 23:32

When creating a virtual server we see progress log on the screen, for example:

Setting Up Virtual Server
In domain test.com
Creating administration group test ..
.. done
Creating administration user test ..
.. done

Creating aliases for administration user ..
.. done

Adding administration user to groups ..
.. done

Creating home directory ..
.. done

Creating mailbox for administration user ..
.. done

Adding new DNS zone ..
.. done

Adding to email domains list ..
.. done

Adding default mail aliases ..
.. done

Adding new virtual website ..
.. done

Adding webserver user apache to server's group ..
.. done

Performing other Apache configuration ..
.. done

Setting up log file rotation ..
.. done

Creating MySQL login ..
.. done

Creating MySQL database dbtest ..
.. done

Setting up spam filtering ..
.. done

Setting up virus filtering ..
.. done

Re-starting DNS server ..
.. done

Applying web server configuration ..
.. done

Saving server details ..
.. done

Sending email notification to domain owner ..
.. email sent to test@test.com

It is quite long and when fills up the screen it continues to output below the display out of view. I haven't tested on other browsers, but unfortunately Google Chrome on MacBook Pro (Software OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) doesn't even show scroll bar to indicate there is something more below the viewable area. One really has to guess and try to scroll down to see the rest of setting up progress. This is not convenient especially when you set a template to automatically install additional scripts like phpMyAdmin.

So maybe most users are just fine with this and it is not that much important to me too, however I do believe in Webmin/Virtualmin and all other -min software family and wish it only to prosper and develop further including with regard aesthetics of its UI. I believe the progress bar should go either horizontally to show the setup log completely to user or to autoscroll up in some kind of framed or embedded window like in, for example graphical SSH.

Thanks for consideration!

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 15:41

That's an excellent suggestion - this will be done in the next Virtualmin release.

Submitted by Issues on Wed, 11/27/2013 - 15:51

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