[e-smith-devinfo] possible bug in e-smith-loginscript-0.2-1.noarch.rpm

2001-09-27 Thread development


Hi to Daniel and all readers of the list 

First off all, i'm pretty happy with the contrib e-smith-loginscript-0.2-1.noarch.rpm
However, I think i've found what I believe to be some errors in it.

1) location of /etc/e-smith/templates/home/netlogon.bat
this should be 
/etc/e-smith/templates/home/netlogon/netlogon.bat

(according to the standard template-part 
/etc/e-mith/templates/etc/smb.conf/61netlogonshare
 the location of logon-scripts is /home/netlogon/ not /home/)

2) the link to conf-logonscript
/etc/e-smith/events/conf-logondrive/S75conf-loginscript -> ../actions/conf-loginscript
should be
/etc/e-smith/events/conf-logondrive/S75conf-logonscript -> ../actions/conf-logonscript

(guess login vs logon confuses not just me:) )

PS: i do use a (over time) highly customized version of essg 4.1.2
so i might be wrong ...just wanted to let you know my experiences

Regards, Bart.

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Windows 2000 Domain Controller issues

2001-09-27 Thread Greg J. Zartman

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Spencer,

Setting up Samba as a PDC a little tricky the first time, but once you
do it once, tt's a SNAP.  

For the most part, Mitel has done a pretty good job of providing Samba
config. parameters, in built in the built in templates, to get you going
with a Samba PDC. 

First, get in the server-manager and select Workgroup under the
Configuration section.  Make sure you have your workgroup name and
server name input and Domain Master is set to Yes (Note: I'm assuming
your samba PDC is going to function as the WINS server.  If this isn't
the case, then you'll need to setup some custom templates to let samba
know what you are doing.  Let me know and I'll show you how to do this)

Save your changes and reboot your machine.  After your server reboots,
go back to the server manager and view the messages log file.  Scroll
down to log entries to coincide with your boot up time and look for nmbd
deamon entries.  What you want to see is "Samba server {your server
name} is now a master browser for workgroup {your workgroup name} on
subnet."  If you see this, you are nearly there.  

Next, goto your windows box and see if you can browse the server in
Network Neighborhood.  IF you can't see it, the problem is likely with
the windows machine.  Things that will prevent browsing of a Samba
machine include:  
1. Using other network protocols other than TCP/IP:  IF this is the
case, remove them for now.  Once you get Samba working, you can play
around with adding them back in.
2. Another WINS server on your subnet:  If you do have two, you need to
decide on which one to use.  To make your life ALOT easier, I'd try as
hard as possible to use SAMBA as the WINS.
3. The setting "disable Netbios over TCP/IP" being selected under your
WINS settings on the client machine:  You need to have Enable NetBios
over TCP/IP selected.

If none of the above solves the problem, then the problem is a more
basic network issue (i.e., network communications). 

So, now you should see your SME server in network neighborhood.  You are
now ready to add machines to domain.  Before you do this, you'll need to
make a custom template to add the "add user script" parameter to your
smb.conf.  Follow Dan Brown's Howto that details the process for doing
this (make sure that it is the howto that specifies the following add
user script line:  add user script = /usr/bin/adduser -d /dev/null -g
100 -s /bin/false -M %u.  He has two howtos out there.)

If you changed anything in the way of config parameters, reboot for good
measure.

Next, log into a client machine as the administrator.  Once in as the
administrator, right click on my computer, then Network Identification,
then properties. Verify you NetBios mahine name, then in the domain
field input your samba domain name and hit OK.  When asked to input a
username and password to join the domain, you MUST input root as the
username and your SME server root password as the password(using the
username admin and the server pasword won't work).  In a minute or two,
you should recieve a message that says "Welcome to you domain."

I hope the helps.  Let me know how things go.

Regards,
Greg J. Zartman




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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Unknown error in messages log file

2001-09-27 Thread Charlie Brady


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Greg Zartman wrote:

> Does anyone know what the follow error messages, from my messages log file,
> mean?  I am running SME 5.0
>
> *snip*
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x1c) failed
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: 02:00: rw=0, want=14, limit=4
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: dev 02:00 blksize=512 blocknr=28 sector=28
> size=512 count=1

Device 2,0 is the floppy disk drive:

bash-2.04$ ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw1 root floppy 2,   0 Mar 23  2001 /dev/fd0
^^

You were doing something with the floppy disk drive, and some software is
trying to read beyond the end of the device.

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[e-smith-devinfo] Defrag Utilities

2001-09-27 Thread Trevor Ouellette

Are there any defrag utilities for ESSG/RedHat 7?  Does fragmentation even
occur on ext2 systems, or is this unnecessary.

I can put something together, if anyone is interested.  Once every couple
months it automatically does a defragmentation on the drive.

Just an idea.  If anyone else is interested, let me know!

Thanks,

Trev.


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RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Windows 2000 Domain Controller issues

2001-09-27 Thread Scott Duncan


This is an interesting one...

The only time I've ever seen the symptoms you are describing was when a
client had a machine named the same as a user ID on the network (i.e.: SMB
UserID="sara" and a workstation NetBIOS name called "SARA").

While you can actually DO this with a true NT domain, SAMBA domains have a
bit of trouble with it.

This MAY also be a Service Pack 2 issue. One of SP2's PRIMARY purposes
appears to be making SAMBA dysfunctional. :)

You can "cheat" with your LMHOSTS file on your workstation. Under Win2000
it's in "c:\winnt\drivers\etc\" as LMHOSTS.SAM. Simply read the DOMAIN notes
in the file and edit accordingly.

and don't forget to RENAME/COPY-TO LMHOSTS with no "SAM" extension.

If this does not allow a domain connection then I would suggest that your
Samba 2.2x upgrade didn't go as well as you hoped! :)
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Hey,
I'm new to e-smith and I just installed SME5 up with hopes of setting it up
as the domain controller for my network.  The other machines are windows
2000 machines.  I followed the upgrade of samba Dan Brown wrote up.

Here is the problem...the systems clearly are reaching the server as their
ip address, etc are being determined by it.  I tried setting them as members
of the domain but got the error: "the specified domain domain either does
not exist or could not be contacted".  Then I tried and setup the windows
systems to be part of the same workgroup as my sme server.  For a while this
worked and I could even reach it via network neighborhood but now that
functionality stopped.  I can still access the server manager via internet
explorer and still am having my ip determined, etc.  I'm just curious if
anyone has any idea about how to fix this and get them setup as members of
the domain or any idea what might be causing this.  Thanks.


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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Defrag Utilities

2001-09-27 Thread Charlie Brady


On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Trevor Ouellette wrote:

> Are there any defrag utilities for ESSG/RedHat 7?  Does fragmentation even
> occur on ext2 systems, or is this unnecessary.

It's not necessary. IIRC, this Q&A is in the linux FAQ (if that still
exists - it was pretty long in the tooth the last time I looked at it).

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Defrag Utilities

2001-09-27 Thread Charlie Brady


On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Charlie Brady wrote:

>
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Trevor Ouellette wrote:
>
> > Are there any defrag utilities for ESSG/RedHat 7?  Does fragmentation even
> > occur on ext2 systems, or is this unnecessary.
>
> It's not necessary. IIRC, this Q&A is in the linux FAQ (if that still
> exists - it was pretty long in the tooth the last time I looked at it).

http://www.google.com/search?q=defrag+ext2+linux+FAQ

and specifically:

http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/faqs/section4.html#q_4_3

Question 4.3. Is there a defragmenter for ext2fs etc. ?

Yes. There is a Linux filesystem defragmenter for ext2, minix and
old-style ext filesystems available on sunsite.unc.edu in
system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz.

Users of the ext2 filesystem can probably do without defrag since ext2
contains extra code to keep fragmentation reduced even in very full
filesystems.

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[e-smith-devinfo] Add user script for Samba 2.2.1a

2001-09-27 Thread David Brown

Just to visit this subject again, I think I've worked out the add user
script line that Dan Brown and Charlie Brady were working out on Dan's Samba
Upgrade How-To 2
(http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/samba-upgrade-howto-2.html).

Based on information from Dan and (I think) in Darrell May's original samba
ad a PDC How-To, the add user script line in smb.conf should read:

add user script = /sbin/e-smith/db accounts set %u machine ; \
  /etc/e-smith/events/actions/machine-account-create machine-create %u

This sets the computer name as a machine account and runs the script to
update the appropriate files, i.e. smbpasswd, etc.  The problem is that the
%u value gets passed to samba as machine$, and the machine-account-create
script adds $ to the end (line 60) -> machine$$, which is what is added to
smbpasswd.

When I change line 60 from "$machineName\$" to "$machineName", everything
works fine, and I can add Win2000 clients to the domain.

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[e-smith-devinfo] XFS under e-smith

2001-09-27 Thread Matt Avila

Has anyone tried running e-smith on top of XFS filesystem? Im new to e-smith 
but have been working with XFS for some time now. My specific interest is the 
scalability of a journaled filesystem and the ability to do things outside e-
smith.

more information on XFS is available at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs

Thanks in advence,

Matt Avila
Sr Systems Engineer
EMC Corporation
Philadelphia, PA

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] XFS under e-smith

2001-09-27 Thread Charlie Brady


On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Matt Avila wrote:

> Has anyone tried running e-smith on top of XFS filesystem? Im new to
> e-smith but have been working with XFS for some time now. My specific
> interest is the scalability of a journaled filesystem and the ability
> to do things outside e- smith.

Yes they have. A group called aXonlinux (http://www.aXonlinux.org/) have
made a project fork and have put out their first preview which includes
XFS support.  Their version should be considered experimental - from what
I've seen it's incomplete and still buggy.

Unlike most other modifications, the use of an XFS file can't be added
after install time - it needs to be done at install time, and that means
having support in the bootstrap kernel, and support code in the installer.
It takes a lot of skills and development and testing time to get those
things all working flawlessly.

RedHat will be including ext3 file system support in RedHat 7.2, and that
will include support for transparently converting ext2 file systems into
ext3 file systems. We will make use of their developments in a future
release. We may also include support for XFS/JFS/Reiserfs, if there is
sufficient demand and sufficient justification.

I don't know what you mean by "the ability to do things outside e-smith".
The e-smith architecture is deliberately flexible and extensible, and
there's no real restrictions on what you can do on it - if that is what
you are worrying about.

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] XFS under e-smith

2001-09-27 Thread Dean Staff

On 27 Sep 2001 at 16:37, Matt Avila wrote:

> Has anyone tried running e-smith on top of XFS filesystem? Im new to
> e-smith but have been working with XFS for some time now. My specific
> interest is the scalability of a journaled filesystem and the ability
> to do things outside e- smith.
> 
> more information on XFS is available at
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> 


I too am interested in getting SME 5 working with a journaling file system. 
(More specifically a distributed journaling filesystem)

The problem as I see it with XFS is that it requires the 2.4 kernel, and SME 5 
only comes with a 2.2.19 kernel. 

>From what I understand there are some significant compatibility issues to 
getting SME 5 to run with a 2.4 kernel. (anyone else is more than welcome 
to jump in and tell me I'm wrong...) 

There are other journaling FS's (ReiserFS and ext3 are two that come to 
mind) but again I beleive a 2.4 kernel is a prerequisite.

Good luck, let me know how you make out.
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[e-smith-devinfo] help with cron (not SME5 releated)

2001-09-27 Thread Darrell May


Hey everyone, I'm having a bit of an issue with cron.  Maybe it is simply 
lack of knowledge on my part so if you see an error in my comments, 
please share your wisdom.

I'm trying to add, as an example:

/etc/cron.d/mynewcronjob

(I'm of course doing this the template way).

Now it 'appears' that a full reboot is required to have these new jobs 
read and launched correctly.  I've tried all the variants shown below:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start|stop|reload|restart

but only a reboot works.  What am I missing?

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] XFS under e-smith

2001-09-27 Thread Togan Muftuoglu

* Dean Staff; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 27 Sep, 2001 wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2001 at 16:37, Matt Avila wrote:
> 
> There are other journaling FS's (ReiserFS and ext3 are two that come to 
> mind) but again I beleive a 2.4 kernel is a prerequisite.
> 

ReiserFS has been in the 2.2 kernels for a long time. Since SuSE 6.4
ReiserFS was an option to choose if you were  using a heavly patched
SuSE kernel. You may want to try the SuSE 2.2.19 kernel which includes
ReiserFS along with LVM

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] XFS under e-smith

2001-09-27 Thread Charlie Brady


On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dean Staff wrote:

> From what I understand there are some significant compatibility issues
> to getting SME 5 to run with a 2.4 kernel.

That depends on what you call significant :-)

Let's look at the e-smith FAQ entry, http://www.e-smith.org/faq.php3#8q18:

18.Is it possible to upgrade to the 2.4 Kernel?

There are multiple complications with upgrading to the 2.4 kernel series:

 1.You will first need to upgrade a number of other packages.
 2.The driver name for many network cards is different, so that the system
   may need to be reconfigured by hand, using the appropriate driver. You
   will have to guess the appropriate driver, as the e-smith console only
   has the 2.2.x module names available.
 3.IP masquerading of vdolive, raudio, quake, pptp, ipsec, irc, icq, h323,
   ftp and cuseeme protocols depends on specific kernel modules. These
   modules are not compatible with the 2.4 kernel, and a full set of
   replacement 2.4 kernel compatible modules are not yet
   available.
 4.The PPTP VPN feature of e-smith 4.1.x depends on kernel encryption modules
   which are kernel version specific. As far as we know, these modules are not
   available for any 2.4 kernel version.

Point 1 applies to many fewer packages in SME V5 than it did for 4.1.2,
for which the FAQ entry was written.

Point 2 is not quite accurate. There are only a few ethernet and SCSI
driver names which have changed. I'll get that point in the FAQ corrected.

Point 3 is a real and continuing problem. If you wish to masquerade all of
those protocols, you will have some trouble doing so with a 2.4.x kernel,
especially if you use the ipchains emulation module, rather than use
iptables directly. If you don't use ipchains emulation, then you will need
to rewrite the /etc/rc.d/init.d/masq script to use iptables directly.

Point 4 is also valid. The PPTP VPN feature is kernel specific. Source
code for the modules is available, as are instructions for compiling them
against a 2.4.x kernel.

Within these limitations, converting an SME V5 server to use a 2.4.x
kernel is quite feasible. Doing so and also using a journaling file system
is an order of magnitude more difficult.

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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] XFS under e-smith

2001-09-27 Thread Dean Staff

On 27 Sep 2001 at 18:38, Charlie Brady wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dean Staff wrote:
> 
> > From what I understand there are some significant compatibility
> > issues to getting SME 5 to run with a 2.4 kernel.
> 
> That depends on what you call significant :-)
> 
> Let's look at the e-smith FAQ entry,
> http://www.e-smith.org/faq.php3#8q18:
> 
> 18.Is it possible to upgrade to the 2.4 Kernel?
> 
> There are multiple complications with upgrading to the 2.4 kernel
> series:
> 
>  1.You will first need to upgrade a number of other packages.
>  [...]
> Within these limitations, converting an SME V5 server to use a 2.4.x
> kernel is quite feasible. Doing so and also using a journaling file
> system is an order of magnitude more difficult.
> 
> -- 

That sound significant enough to me... :-)
At least enough to discourage the faint of heart.

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[e-smith-devinfo] OT : ucd-snmp problems

2001-09-27 Thread Craig Foster

This isn't SME dev as such(I don't think so anyway), so could replies be
off-list

Does anyone else have ucd-snmp running successfully?

snmpwalk localhost public 1.1
works "system.sysDescr.0 = Linux smeserver 2.2.19-7.0.8 #1 Thu Jun 21
05:34:38 EDT 2001 i686"

snmpwalk localhost public
returns
system.sysDescr.0 = Linux smeserver 2.2.19-7.0.8 #1 Thu Jun 21 05:34:38
EDT 2001 i686
system.sysObjectID.0 = OID: enterprises.ucdavis.ucdSnmpAgent.linux
.
.
.
system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01
Timeout: No Response from localhost

and

snmpwalk localhost public interfaces.ifNumber
returns
snmpwalk localhost public interface.ifNumber
interface.ifNumber: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: mib-2 ->
interface)
and there's  *alot* of floppy disk activity going one and lots of

Sep 26 10:35:31 smeserver ucd-snmp[3468]: Received SNMP packet(s) from
127.0.0.1
Sep 26 10:35:31 smeserver kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Sep 26 10:35:31 smeserver modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
block-major-8
Sep 26 10:35:33 smeserver kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00
(floppy), sector 0
Sep 26 10:36:40 smeserver kernel: cdrom: open failed.

This is using  ucd-snmp-4.2.1-1.rh7.0.i386.rpm and
ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.1-1.rh7.0.i386.rpm direct from sourceforge.
Happens on SME5.0 unpatched clean install and ESSG4.1.2 patched and
prodded like an old teddy bear.
I've allowed snmpd : 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.allow and I've also relaxed
all security within 192.168.1.0/24 and 127.0.0.1/32
Any clues, or is the MIB's corrupt? Either that, or someone know how to
keep running logs of PPP0 traffic over disconnects?

Regards,

Craig Foster
FostWare Enterprises
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[e-smith-devinfo] RE: Add user script for Samba 2.2.1a

2001-09-27 Thread Dan Brown

 
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> Dan's Samba
> Upgrade How-To 2
> (http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/samba-upgrade-howto-2.html).

I've updated this with the information you've provided.  Thanks
much!


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RE: [e-smith-devinfo] My Samba howtos

2001-09-27 Thread Dan Brown

 
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> Further, I think the "bypass" approach is the better one as it
> seems more  

I don't think this is correct.  The biggest danger I see is that the
e-smith manager would (try to) create a regular user account with the
same name as a machine account, and only be able to partially create
that account.  By adding the account to the e-smith user database,
this is avoided.

> add machines accounts, but I would hate for these accounts to 
> show up in the
> server manager along with user accounts (as often happens with X 

They shouldn't--there's an entry in the accounts database that
identifies them as machine accounts, and I expect the user accounts
panel skips those.

So long as it can be made to work properly, which I think is now the
case with David's suggestions, it seems that there's nothing to lose
by going the e-smith way, and possibly something to gain.


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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] help with cron (not SME5 releated)

2001-09-27 Thread Des Dougan

Darrell,

You shouldn't have to do anything - the cron daemon refreshes when changes 
have been made according to the man page. For example, when I made the 
change for flexbackup, it was picked up OK. Do you want to post an example 
to see if there's something obvious you may have missed?

At 15:02 27/9/2001, Darrell May wrote:

>Hey everyone, I'm having a bit of an issue with cron.  Maybe it is simply
>lack of knowledge on my part so if you see an error in my comments,
>please share your wisdom.
>
>I'm trying to add, as an example:
>
>/etc/cron.d/mynewcronjob
>
>(I'm of course doing this the template way).
>
>Now it 'appears' that a full reboot is required to have these new jobs
>read and launched correctly.  I've tried all the variants shown below:
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start|stop|reload|restart
>
>but only a reboot works.  What am I missing?



Des


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Re: [e-smith-devinfo] possible bug in e-smith-loginscript-0.2-1.noarch.rpm

2001-09-27 Thread Daniel van Raay

On 27 Sep 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi to Daniel and all readers of the list 
> 
> First off all, i'm pretty happy with the contrib e-smith-loginscript-0.2-1.noarch.rpm

Good to hear.

> However, I think i've found what I believe to be some errors in it.
> 
> 1) location of /etc/e-smith/templates/home/netlogon.bat
> this should be 
> /etc/e-smith/templates/home/netlogon/netlogon.bat
> 
> (according to the standard template-part 
>/etc/e-mith/templates/etc/smb.conf/61netlogonshare
>  the location of logon-scripts is /home/netlogon/ not /home/)

Right you are.

> 2) the link to conf-logonscript
> /etc/e-smith/events/conf-logondrive/S75conf-loginscript -> 
>../actions/conf-loginscript
> should be
> /etc/e-smith/events/conf-logondrive/S75conf-logonscript -> 
>../actions/conf-logonscript
> 
> (guess login vs logon confuses not just me:) )

If you hadn't mentioned that I'd probably have stared at it for ages 
trying to spot the difference.

These two bugs are both fixed in version 0.2-2 of e-smith-
loginscript, now available on the ftp.e-smth.org site.

> PS: i do use a (over time) highly customized version of essg 4.1.2
> so i might be wrong ...just wanted to let you know my experiences

Nope, I looked at the sources to the RPM and those bugs were 
staring straight back at me.

Cheers,
Daniel van Raay


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