Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Hillis
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:27, Gordon Rowell wrote: > > As someone who's best described as relatively new to Linux (i.e. if I > > haven't seen the problem before and learnt how to fix it, I'm stuffed) I > > had no idea what was causing the problem. I don't remember checking my > > logs at the time,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:13:35PM +1100, Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > As someone who's best described as relatively new to Linux (i.e. if I haven't > seen the problem before and learnt how to fix it, I'm stuffed) I had no idea > what was causing the problem. I don't remember

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Hillis
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:16, Gordon Rowell wrote: > > I noticed the same when I upgraded to SMEv5, although since I need to > > ensure that my backup MX record is also recorded, I've been using one of > > their own update clients for almost all the time since I upgraded... > Please help us by repor

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-samba-1.1.0-25 roving profiles

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:02:12AM -, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone. I'm just getting myself up to speed on the latest samba > changes everyone has been discussing. I've just had a look at > e-smith-samba-1.1.0-25 and have a few questions: > > logon home = \\%N\%U

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-samba-1.1.0-25 print$ driver share

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:22:17AM -, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > writable = yes > > Is this change working for everyone? I'm trying to restrict permissions - please check. > Looking at the code, without a write list, whom is it writable by? admin, the owner of those

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] smeserver-5.1beta1.iso

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:31:42AM -, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Or better yet, use rsync to quickly update the alpha iso to beta1 which > is what I did, details here: Precisely. Or better yet, rsync from one of our mirrors :-) Many of our mirrors support rsync, and in

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] smeserver-5.1beta1.iso

2001-11-25 Thread Darrell May
Gordon Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Yes, but as yet unannounced :-) The release notes should be out > tomorrow. The ISO image is on our mirrors, so please fetch locally where > possible. Or better yet, use rsync to quickly update the alpha iso to beta1 which is what I did, details here:

[e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-samba-1.1.0-25 print$ driver share

2001-11-25 Thread Darrell May
Another question. Again, I'm not reporting a problem but just curious about the change as previously it was: read only = yes write list = @admin root admin Administrator which has been replaced by: writable = yes Is this change working for everyone? Looking at the code, without a write l

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:11:43PM +1100, Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I noticed the same when I upgraded to SMEv5, although since I need to ensure > that my backup MX record is also recorded, I've been using one of their own > update clients for almost all the time since I up

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] smeserver-5.1beta1.iso

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:45:59AM -, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings everyone. I'm back from vacation. I just worked my way > through the 190+ devinfo e-mails. now I may have missed something > but it appears there is a recent 'smeserver-5.1beta1.iso' on e-smith

[e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-samba-1.1.0-25 roving profiles

2001-11-25 Thread Darrell May
Hi everyone. I'm just getting myself up to speed on the latest samba changes everyone has been discussing. I've just had a look at e-smith-samba-1.1.0-25 and have a few questions: logon home = \\%N\%U\._winprofile logon path = \\%N\%U\._winprofile IIRC, WinNT/W2K/XP uses an _internal_ enviro

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] smeserver-5.1beta1.iso

2001-11-25 Thread Des Dougan
At 21:45 25/11/2001, Darrell May wrote: >but it appears there is a recent 'smeserver-5.1beta1.iso' on e-smith.org. Trust you to spot it before anyone else :) It hasn't been announced yet. There are still some issues with the alpha1, AFAIK. Welcome back. Hope you had a good vacation. Des -

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread D.Sweet
I have v5 running with the free dyndns custom dns working from the e-smith for my primary domain. It was functional before I upgraded but after the upgrade to v 5 I had to put a third party client in to do the updates, I thought that it was because I was using 2 domains on the same box, however

[e-smith-devinfo] smeserver-5.1beta1.iso

2001-11-25 Thread Darrell May
Greetings everyone. I'm back from vacation. I just worked my way through the 190+ devinfo e-mails. now I may have missed something but it appears there is a recent 'smeserver-5.1beta1.iso' on e-smith.org. Is this the latest and greatest? What is still planned for inclusion into SME5.1

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Rob Hillis
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:14, Lionel wrote: > Just letting you know that I've finally gotten around to investigating > the problem with this feature that I discovered some months ago: [...] > Which is functionally the same, but without the '&system=dyndns' field > that was screwing up the updates.

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: ext2 filesystem limitations?

2001-11-25 Thread Charlie Brady
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Charlie Brady wrote: > > > > Now as far as I understand it, the problem seems to be the 2GB single file > > > > size limitation for ext2 filesystem. > > > > > > The RedHat kernel has large file size patches that allow single files up > > > to 8GB. There is no 2GB file size l

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Dan Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > From: Gordon Rowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I think you'll find others are as well, Dan Brown provided the > script, Been a while since I did anything with it, though. The problem is that dyndns.org has three services: dynamic DN

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: Format

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:34:06PM +0100, Brossin Pierrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > And I didnt read the SME v5.0 installation carefully ... > [...] This is a technical support question and not appropriate for this list. It _may_ be possible to recover _some_ of the data, but you sh

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:14:23AM +1100, Lionel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Which is functionally the same, but without the '&system=dyndns' field > that was screwing up the updates. Could you provide details of exactly what is failing (logs, etc.) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? > I don't kno

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: Format

2001-11-25 Thread Brossin Pierrick
> Maybe you should try Powerquest Lost & Found, but when SME already > repartitioned and installed something I think your data is lost defenitely. > Lost and Found recovers data from drives that have been formatted, lost partitions through accidental deletion, etc. This applies to FAT or

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread John Powell
Strangely I had been using it up until a few months ago (same dyndns.org) for my home e-smith box and it worked fine. I was on 4.1 though, perhaps it had broken after that. JP - Original Message - From: "Lionel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Format

2001-11-25 Thread timothee
Maybe you should try Powerquest Lost & Found, but when SME already repartitioned and installed something I think your data is lost defenitely. Timothée - Original Message - From: "Brossin Pierrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "E-Smith Developers Info Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Su

[e-smith-devinfo] Format

2001-11-25 Thread Brossin Pierrick
Hey, It's a question about SME. Who could answer me better than you guys :D SME formatted a HD where I had 52Go of important datas and now I wanna try to get them back. Could you give me some information like the program you use to format HD and if it's a soft or hard format... And if you know

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Nigel Gent
I'm using the dyndns freebee service but I suspect my address changes infrequently though I had suspicions of a problem as I'm having to do a manual update about once a month. I'm using SME 5 and I've just edited my file as you suggest so I'll post again if I get any problems etc. :¬} Nigel -

[e-smith-devinfo] Dyndns.org update script, E-Smith 4.12 (& later?)

2001-11-25 Thread Lionel
Just letting you know that I've finally gotten around to investigating the problem with this feature that I discovered some months ago: In /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/dyndns.org, the update URL is generated like so: --- wget -q -O /tmp/dyndns.log \ --user-agent="e-smith-dyndns.org/0.1" \ http: