Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Simon Bland
I've just changed companies that I work for, and the new place is a real mess.. One of the first things I want to do is to tie together all the user stuff that's floating around. ATM the systems are very roughly tied together with systems to create users at places trigger by usage of others, I'd

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Brad Lay
I would say what you need is an ldap directory. The only thing I'm not sure on is if ldap and exchange work together (I'm sure they would). It definetly works with Samba and samba can do the domain login stuff as a side product. Debian package: slapd - OpenLDAP server (slapd).

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Simon Bland
LDAP was my first thought, but I've never really played with it, I've seen a few comments on Exchange using LDAP for an address book, but not as a source for it's own configuration. I'll take a look into LDAP and see what I can find. Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Simon Bland wrote: [snip] Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand that's somewhat of a 'Holy Grail' for us all. Does anything out there come close to a replacement? The main things this place uses it for is the shared calander and shared folders -

RE: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Stefaan Teerlinck
Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand that's somewhat of a 'Holy Grail' for us all. Does anything out there come close to a replacement? The main things this place uses it for is the shared calander and shared folders - from outlook, and they aren't likely to take

Re: SpamAssassin Causing Server Startup Failure

2003-01-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 18:44, David Bishop wrote: On Friday 10 January 2003 10:11 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: For some, this is near impossible - I'm in Zurich, my server is in Bern... Then I don't understand how you would expect staying in runlevel 1 would work at

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:06, Simon Bland wrote: LDAP was my first thought, but I've never really played with it, I've seen a few comments on Exchange using LDAP for an address book, but not as a source for it's own configuration. I'll take a look into LDAP and see what I can find. Also,

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-12 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:45:58AM +0100, Javier wrote: I think that vmstat 5 2 and getting the last line could give you a good result. BTW: I started to keep a vmstat 5 | logger -t vmstat: while true; do ps faxu|logger -t ps: ; sleep 15; done running and log the output with

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Simon Bland
Ximian looks pretty good, but from what I can understand there isn't a 'Ximian Server'.. I couldn't quite follow what they meant by that. Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly provide a nice way to tie linux machines into a MS based network? On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Simon Bland wrote: Ximian looks pretty good, but from what I can understand there isn't a 'Ximian Server'.. I couldn't quite follow what they meant by that. Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly provide a nice way to tie linux machines into a MS

RE: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Shane Machon
Simon, If you are looking at something to replace exchange, take a look at samsung contact (www.samsungcontact.com), it is a revamped/rebadged version of hp openmail. It is commercial, and it does run on debian (well, using alien as documented at samsungs site) as well as some other flavours of

Re: Consolidating user databases

2003-01-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:41, Simon Bland wrote: Ximian looks pretty good, but from what I can understand there isn't a 'Ximian Server'.. I couldn't quite follow what they meant by that. Can Ximian be put in to replace Exchange? Or does it mostly provide a nice way to tie linux machines into