Jacques Nilo wrote:
>>A new snapshot of the updated Eigerstein2BETA, together with a number
>>
>of
>
>>new LRP kernels is available here:
>>
>Hi Ewald !
>First of all congratulation for the great work. It looks like you are
>getting close to the new Eigerstein release.
>I installed the 20010527 release on my box. Follow my comments and
>suggestions
>
>1/ dnscache
>There is to my opinion a bug in the dnscache.conf file. $IPSEND should
>be initialized with 0.0.0.0 and not with $EXTERN_IP. Otherwise you need
>to restart dnscache each time your external adress change (and therefore
>you loose your cache) when you have a dynamic IP. With $IPSEND set to
>0.0.0.0 (this is what has to be done according to DJB install
>instructions). As far as I remember K. Haddley (I think) had problems of
>this sort which were solved by this suggestion.
>
If this has no negative side effects I will do so. Hehe, so many
Eigerstein installations are in use, all with a (slightly) wrongly
configured dnscache ;-)
>
>2/ dhclient
>By the same token there is an interraction problem between dnscache &
>dhclient. When dnscache is running you have to make sure, if you are
>using dhclient, that your /etc/resolv.conf file is not periodically
>erased. You have to modify the dhclient script to take care of that.
>This is explained in the FAQ section of my dnscache.lrp user's guide
>(http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache.html)
>
Thank you for the suggestion. I have to go to a party soon, so I won't
look at it before tomorrow evening.
>
>
>3/ dnscache with or without daemontools ?
>I have made available a dnscache package which comes with daemontools
>utilities. The cost is 20K. It allow a very precise debugging & also
>acces to my tinydns package (dns server) and more recently to qmail. It
>is also fully compliant with DJB approach. I think it would be a good
>think if we could have one and only one version of the package. I
>volunteer to be the maintener.
>
Sounds like a good idea to me. You seem to be quite familiar with
djbdns, so why should we reinvent the wheel?
>If you and Charles aggree I could suggest
>two options:
>3.a - You provide my "full" dnscache package in Eigerstein2BETA - I
>would favor this option for the reasons mentionned above
>3.b - I split my dnscache package in two pieces a daemontool.lrp piece
>and a dnscache.lrp piece with a dnscache script which would be able to
>handle both daemontool and non daemontool setup. I could do that if it
>can lead to a unique LRP dnscache package.
>
I would vote for option b. This way people low on disk space can save
some when they have to.Also it just seems sensible to make daemontools
and dnscache seperate packages as these are different programs, and
other programs need daemontools too.
>
>4/ passwd and shadow files
>There are a lot of useless users coming from a standard debian distro.
>We all know it is a pain to add user in LRP... I would get rid of the
>useless ones and would add those you are used in LRP packages: dnscache,
>tinydns etc... -> I can make up a proposal. It will speed up
>considerably the install process of those packages.
>
Please make a proposal. If we can make LRP more user-friendly without
adding too much bloat we should do so I think
Ewald Wasscher
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