[e-smith-devinfo] Missing SME 6.0 SRPMS (links)

2003-12-12 Thread Filippo Carletti
The pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/releases/6.0/SRPMS directory on all mirrors contains link to non existent files. See: lrwxrwxrwx 1 1001 1001 102 Dec 11 20:40 zlib-1.1.4-8.7x.src.rpm -> /home/e-smith/files/ibays/library/files/distros/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os/SRP MS/zlib-1.1.4-8.7x.src.rpm C

[e-smith-devinfo] [SME 6] Adding a panel & navigation-conf

2003-10-22 Thread Filippo Carletti
My panel rpm contains translated texts in /etc/e-smith/locale. When using a language different from english I have to run /etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf to create translated server-manager menu. Should I call navigation-conf in the post-install section of the rpm ? Ciao, Filippo -

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DHCPD3 (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Wish list items (...))

2003-06-11 Thread Filippo Carletti
>> It has at least one problem: all names will be lost when you create >> a "self" >> host in server-manager. > I haven't looked at the code, but this implies that the hosts > are not being entered into the hosts database, so the system doesn't > really know about them. It uses a feature of dhcp3

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Wish list items (Re: New Version SME 6.0 : needed include)

2003-06-09 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Check out: http://lordsfam.net/downloads/production/dhcp/ > > I've taken the package the Filippo Carletti started and updated it > for v5.6. It adds all necessary parts to integrate with named and > allow dynamic update of hostnames. I've been using it since v5.6 > c

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] existing "admin"- possible to access from server-manager?

2003-02-03 Thread Filippo Carletti
> example for this was "Sarg reports" which accesses > /var/www/html/squid. You should protect the admin dir with the usual apache password system (require user admin) See SARG for an example (90e-smithAccess20sarg). I really never found a perfect solution for the link in the server-manager navig

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] CIPE

2003-02-03 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Is anyone familiar with this? If so, how does it compare to FreeS/WAN > in levels of security, resource requirements and ease of use? Ipsec is a standard and should work with different devices, while cipe is for a net to net linux vpn. Big plus, works on udp, doesn't need GRE, so it usually work

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Enabling/disabling services (was Re: [Beta] qpsmtpd HOWTO and sql_maillog)

2002-12-17 Thread Filippo Carletti
> InitscriptsOrder is now deprecated, and hasn't been necessary for some > time. It's implicit in the rc7.d symlink which you create and include > in the RPM. In earlier versions those symlinks were created during > post-install and post-upgrade, so the property was needed. Since > "e-smith-service

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [Announce] Updated e-smith-sarg package

2002-12-05 Thread Filippo Carletti
> thanks for your work on the sarg integration into SME, it's much > appreciated. I just updated from version 1.2.1 on a SME 5.5 test server > and ran into a small problem (ssl access related): Most of the work as been done by Pierluigi Miranda and I want to thank him for that. I tested only on 5.

[e-smith-devinfo] [Announce] Updated e-smith-sarg package

2002-12-02 Thread Filippo Carletti
compatibility with e-smith 4.x and monthly archiving of squid logs. Please note that version 1.2.1 had a bug in the rotation of squid access.log which was never rotated. Changelog: * Tue Nov 05 2002 Filippo Carletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.2.3-1 - crontab now uses our sarg scripts (no save and r

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Diald/Dial-0n-demand/DNS discussion

2002-07-16 Thread Filippo Carletti
[ unexplainable huge phone bill ] > You are right, those comments don't help anyone and I apologise for making > them. The reason that more infomation has not been forthcoming from me is > that the server in question no longer exists. I control both sides of a SME dialup connection (hint: I hel

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Diald/Dial-0n-demand/DNS discussion

2002-07-15 Thread Filippo Carletti
> "never" at all times *should* mean no dialups - the diald filter should be > programmed to "down". If it doesn't, then in my book that's a bug. If a It works as it should, "never" means no outgoing dialup attempts. At least on 4.1.2, 5.0 and 5.1.2. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [E

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] diald filter

2002-07-12 Thread Filippo Carletti
> That investigation, and the conclusions you reach, will depend on When diagnosing dialup problems, I usually find useful: killall -WINCH named Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered cus

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] diald filter

2002-07-11 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I am looking at the diald.filter on SME and the stock diald config > > They look the same... is that correct? No. You should look at /etc/diald.filter, after having enabled dialup. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Ping Attacks!

2002-07-10 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I have found a work-aroud but would like to know if it is acceptable? > > Here is what I did: > > I edited the /etc/sysctl.conf template and add 2 lines, then restart the > network service: > > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1 > net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1 I'd put "ignore icmp

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Templates question

2002-06-21 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > > 1) send your changes to the developer of the rpm, explain the need for the > > > change and ask the developer if he/she is agreeable, to update their rpm > > > to include your changes and send you the new release. > > Darrell is right, but I would suggest that rather than use > templates-cus

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] diald issues

2002-05-28 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > One area to check, redial timeout in diald.conf is normally set to 10 > > seconds some ISP need up to 90 seconds hold off to clear a line, perm > > or DOD. > > Really? Any idea why they would need that? Or are you saying that they > require it as a matter of policy, to allow other users to gai

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] enable thread sorting on IMAP server...

2002-05-23 Thread Filippo Carletti
> e-smith-wu-imap-1.2.0-04 > > This is the IMAP server, yes? Yes and no. That's e-smith templates for wu-imap. SME has a custom patched version of wu-imap for maildir support. In my opinion (and, I think, also in Michael Weinberger's) it's not a very good patch. Michael has written an howto for

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] How to administer your E-Smith/Mitel SME server using PuTTY

2002-04-15 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > 2) Passwords should not be sent clear use of public keys would be better You will be pretty safe if you type your passwords. Paranoids should read about timing attacks against ssh (start here: http://paris.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/ssh-timing.html). > I tried the public key method by using p

[e-smith-devinfo] Kernel 2.4 and PPTP NAT

2002-03-21 Thread Filippo Carletti
iptables 1.2.6 adds NAT support for PPTP. See: http://www.netfilter.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.6a.txt Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[e-smith-devinfo] https panel access

2002-03-11 Thread Filippo Carletti
My sarg contrib adds a link to the panel that sends a redirect to /squid. httpd.conf is setup with an alias to serve /squid from the sarg reports directory only to admin coming from local network. When I access server-manager from outside using https (using ValidFrom in httpd-admin service) SARG

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announcement: SMEServer Updates for PHP Vulnerability

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I just tried now, and it worked for me. Compare the list of required > RPMs in /home/e-smith/blades to those installed. Perhaps you've missed > one? The version of 'mm' in the update was wrong until earlier today. I didn't want to waste more of your time, downloaded again the whole update direc

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] megaraid.o

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I'm not overly familiar with this driver. Is it for IDE or SCSI disks? SCSI, based on Intel i960, not so high performance. Dell also has DellMgr, a command line utility looking similar to bios utility, but it seems to have problems when resyncing arrays. Resyncing from bios, you have to wait th

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] megaraid.o

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I have used the native raid driver in SME 5.1.2 with a Dell PowerEdge 2550 > and an addin raid controller for the PowerEdge 1400SC. Did you need the new > version to work with newer raid cards or are there data corruption problems > with the old version that I should worry about. Sorry I lef

[e-smith-devinfo] megaraid.o

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
I've built a driver disk for LSI Logic Express 500 aka AMI Megaraid, also aka Dell PERC suitable for SME 5 and 5.1.2. ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/FilippoCarletti/megaraid.driver.di sk/ Brief info on README.TXT at the same location. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announcement: SMEServer Updates for PHP Vulnerability

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > > Because you didn't install the Update 4 *blade* you installed the > > > RPM that is the core of the blade, but the blade also includes an > > > additional RPM that does things like update the blades list, etc. > > > > And this additional blade rpm can't be downloaded from your website, r

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announcement: SMEServer Updates for PHP Vulnerability

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > But why if I install packages by hand, the Blades panel doesn't show update4 > > as installed. > > Because you didn't install the Update 4 *blade* you installed the > RPM that is the core of the blade, but the blade also includes an > additional RPM that does things like update the blades

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announcement: SMEServer Updates for PHP Vulnerability

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Had the same problem several times between 06:00 and 06:30 on 03/08/2002 > EST. The page finally loaded, and the blade install is underway now. Maybe > just a congestion problem?...jmm I can understand congestion. But why if I install packages by hand, the Blades panel doesn't show update4 a

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announcement: SMEServer Updates for PHP Vulnerability

2002-03-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
>Since SMEServer-5.0_Update4 supercedes SMEServer-5.0_Update2 and >Update3, the blades panel will report that SMEServer-5.0Update2 is >not installed after installing SMEServer-5.0_Update4. This is >normal behaviour and does not indicate that the contents of Update2 >and Update3

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Partially obsoleting a package [was Compile a 5.1.2 driver?]

2002-03-07 Thread Filippo Carletti
> The driver is named 3w-.o, and kernel-2.2.19 provides a file of the same > name. > > Is there a way to avoiding using --force to install a file from one package > over a file with the same name from another? This will not answer your question. I created a driver disk (used with accept dd)

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Update System developer notes

2002-02-25 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > > REPLACE INTO user ( host, user, password ) > > > VALUES ('localhost','user',password('plaintextpassword')); > > > > Is there a functional difference between this and GRANT [privs]? > > REPLACE (same as insert except it will delete an older matching entry > before insertion) is modifying

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Courier IMAP Howto available

2002-02-21 Thread Filippo Carletti
> FYI, I have a sophisticated client running Courier-IMAP on his system > and he has trouble keeping it running. To this date he has been unable > to find out why the service stops. I evaluated all imap servers with Maildir support at the beginning of 2000, I chose courier imap, installed it

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Courier IMAP Howto available

2002-02-21 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > I hope Mitel drops patched UW-IMAP-Maildir patch in favor of courier > imap. > > Hmmm... a few questions: > > 1) Please explain in detail the problems you have experienced with > UW-IMAP. If you create a sub-folder into a folder (ie. Customers/ClientA) and move a message into the subfolder,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Courier IMAP Howto available

2002-02-21 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > 1. POP3, do your rpm install it ? > > Binary is installed, but not configured or started. I only need a working > IMAP and I want to keep system wide modifications at a minimum. Agreed. I think qmail pop3 is working well. > > 2. shared folders, do you support it, if not you should instruct O

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Courier IMAP Howto available

2002-02-20 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Comments are welcomed. Great job. I still haven't tested your howto, but I have courier imap in my test server and know it a little. Two questions: 1. POP3, do your rpm install it ? 2. shared folders, do you support it, if not you should instruct OE users to put INBOX. in Root folder path I

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] reinstallation disk errors

2002-02-14 Thread Filippo Carletti
> - uses a 1494kB format rather than 1440kB. This is still 18 sectors per > track, but 83 tracks. That gives you an extra 50k or so to play with, > but at a little risk that it will not work with all drives. If you want > to try a different format (such as 1722kB), then you just need to chan

[e-smith-devinfo] Survey - Kernel 2.4

2002-02-13 Thread Filippo Carletti
We now have a list of features that a SME server based on kernel 2.4 will lack compared to the actual release based on 2.2. Mitel could start a new survey on e.smith.org website to see what features are really needed / wanted. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please ma

[e-smith-devinfo] SARG update

2002-02-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
A small update of the e-smith-sarg package, to follow Mitel guidelines for templates. Also corrected an error on the %postun section. Who has already installed e-smith-sarg-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm should remove it before upgrade or install http://www.mobilia.it/filippo/download/SME5/e-smith-sarg-1.2.1-

[e-smith-devinfo] Desktop Backup script

2002-02-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
Attached a small shell script which mimics the Backup to Desktop panel function. Useful for cron jobs. Create a share on a pc, give permission to write into that share to a user and call: desktop_backup.sh pc_name share user password You will find a file named smeserver.tgz with the same conten

[e-smith-devinfo] Templates question

2002-02-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
I prefer to create templates in templates-custom because that dir goes into a desktop backup. Kirrily Building contribs tell us to use templates. What is the preferred choice ? Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security i

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [experimental] recovery disk

2002-02-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Message: Boot failed: Please change disks and press any key to > continue... It seems a defective media (floppy). Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL

[e-smith-devinfo] panel links to web pages

2002-02-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
My latest SARG addon adds a panel link to some web pages. I used this panel code, derived from the squidguard work by Trevor Ouellette. sub showInitial ($) { my ($q) = @_; my $url = "/squid"; print $q->redirect(-location => $url); ## these lines aren't that important, they just prev

[e-smith-devinfo] [ANNOUNCE] SARG

2002-02-08 Thread Filippo Carletti
SARG is available for download. Summary : SARG - Squid Analysis Report Generator templates Description : SARG is a Squid Analysis Report Generator that allow you to view "where" your users are going to on the Internet. This package adds e-smith specific templates. Reports are generated every

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Any news on v5.1.2 DHCP fix yet

2002-02-07 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Has anyone tried to grab some traces (tcpdump) of this in action? A I did when trying to diagnose why dhcpd would not assign addresses on a second interface. Packets were coming in, but dhcpd never replied. dhcp-3 worked. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Any news on v5.1.2 DHCP fix yet

2002-02-06 Thread Filippo Carletti
I had a small problem with DHCP on SME5, but on an unsupported configuration, so I didn't file a bug report. I had two internal lans and two intenal nics, I wanted to offer dhcp service to both. dhcp-2 never worked, as soon as I installed dhcp-3 it worked without any change to config files. /etc/

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-02-04 Thread Filippo Carletti
> >I'm curious as to how simply installing the DHCP 3.0.??? RPM on a SME > >machine will get you up and going with DDNS. > > I'm not sure, but does WINS have to do anything with this? I saw that the > e-smith-dhcp-3.0-1.noarch.rpm setup the SME server as the Primary WINS server > in dhcpd. No. Th

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-02-04 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Way back when Filippo first raised the subject, he did mention an > alternative interface script, which interacted with tinydns rather than > Bind. At the time I warned him that we were leaning towards using tinydns > (from the djbdns package), so work which depended on bind9 might become > orph

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-02-04 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > Do hostnames resolve correctly ? > > I'm curious as to how simply installing the DHCP 3.0.??? RPM on a SME > machine will get you up and going with DDNS. This version of DHCP went You need to install dhcp-3 from redhat and my e-smith-dhcp-3. My rpm modifies dhcp and bind configuration to mak

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-02-04 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > Do hostnames resolve correctly ? > > I tested this on my 2 computer-home-network. I change the computer name a > couple of times and rebooted. I was able to ping the machine by its name. Please, check also reverse resolution (host ip.ad.dr.ess). Thanks Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bug

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-02-02 Thread Filippo Carletti
> could not find dhcp-3.0-4.i386.rpm so used dhcp-3.0-6.i386.rpm Rawhide develps really quickly. It happened the same to me, -6 works. > I got this message below but seems to install fine. > > [root@slash DNS3]# rpm -Uvh dhcp-3.0-6.i386.rpm > Preparing...#

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Upgrade to 5.1.2 problem

2002-02-02 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Has anyone run into the problem of having dhcpd die after upgrading to 5.1.2 > from 5.1b3? I guess you had dhcp-3 installed. SME 5.1.2 still has dhcp-2 (like redhat, version 3 will probably be included in next redhat release). If you have installed my e-smith-dhcp-3 you need to re-apply dhcp3 a

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] New HOWTOs up online, including Eric Womack's YAPPA HOWTO

2002-01-25 Thread Filippo Carletti
Greg Zartman HOWTO on Win2k (bottom of page) is missing the link. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-01-19 Thread Filippo Carletti
You should install dhcp-3.0 before. I will add to the require section of the rpm Ciao, Filippo > I was trying to install you package and I got the following error message. > " > [root@sme /tmp]# rpm -Uvh e-smith-dhcp-3.0-1.noarch.rpm > Preparing...

[e-smith-devinfo] dhcp-3.0: testers wanted (dhcp-dns)

2002-01-18 Thread Filippo Carletti
I need some testers for ISC DHCP Version 3 on e-smith/Mitel SME5. It offers dynamic dns updates natively. Quick HOWTO rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/dhcp-3.0-4.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://www.mobilia.it/filippo/download/e-smith-dhcp-3.0-1.noarch.rpm What should b

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Developer interested in Rolodap?

2002-01-17 Thread Filippo Carletti
hould not be a "god" user BIND_AS : cn=Filippo,o=F.B.F. # bind password BIND_PASSWORD : e-smith has an ldap db for username storage, but not for auth. ldapsearch cn=* returns: uid=filippo,dc=fbf,dc=dnsalias,dc=com objectclass=person uid=filippo cn=Filippo Carletti given

[e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-skel-0.2

2002-01-15 Thread Filippo Carletti
The root dir of e-smith-skel-0.2 has the setgid bit set. Is this intended ? Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[e-smith-devinfo] [ANNOUNCE] e-smith-dhcp-bind-0.1

2002-01-15 Thread Filippo Carletti
Warning: Beta release Tested on: SME 5.0 Based on a work from Stephen Carville, a quick (really quick) hack to update dns hostnames from dhcp leases. It updates both the DomainName zone (domain assigned to server during setup) and the reverse. It's orrible: a perl script runs from crontab every

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions on skel rpm

2002-01-15 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > > > Requires: e-smith-base, e-smith-lib, e-smith >= 4.1 > > > > Especially the last part "e-smith >= 4.1". What are we supposed to > > put in here? > > Just drop the 'e-smith' dependency. It is now historical. There used > to be (way back when) a single e-smith RPM. It has now been split into

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DNS

2002-01-09 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I'm interested in getting SME 5.1 to bind to a W2K Active > Directory or > At least replicate user information from the available LDAP tree. Integration of an Active Directory setup (win2k based) with a SME5 server has never been discussed if I recall well. But I think it's a widespread setup,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Burn-in script!

2002-01-03 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/lucifer/ > > Requires you to 'make' the install. UNTESTED by me. Just reporting. I > might find the time later to give this a go. I used Lucifer once: very basic. I would suggest adding to the list: http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ Ciao, Filippo --

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DNS

2001-12-18 Thread Filippo Carletti
[ DNS-DHCP integration] > I can help with testing the templates and adapting it to sme. Ok, thanks. I'll send you everything I have. I would like to receive a pseudo-official comment from Mitel on plans to use bind 9 (RedHat 7.2 uses bind 9) in next releases. bind 9 offers dhcp integration nati

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DNS

2001-12-14 Thread Filippo Carletti
> >It seems it's working, I need to find time to package it. > > > >Is there anybody who wants to help ? > > I have found the 'mku' (make_uninstall) very useful, it could now make In this case "packaging" doesn't mean to make an rpm (that's not so hard) but transforming it into templates and adap

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DNS

2001-12-12 Thread Filippo Carletti
>I would like my e-smith server (sm5) to resolve the real names >of my local network computers insted of pc-1, pc2 >...etc > >Anyone can help me ? I'm testing a solution involving bind and dhcp2 with some perl scripts from Stephen Carville (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) It see

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] transparent proxy

2001-12-11 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > The only thing I can think of, is that their app tries to connect to > > port 80 of a remote server issuing a strange request and they didn't > > think about a proxy in the middle. If they used another port it > > would have worked. > > Testing the application with a /non-transparent/ proxy

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] transparent proxy

2001-12-11 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > http://mauro192.168.1.65/aut2001XXX/salvatoken.asp - > > DIRECT/mauro192.168.1.65 - > > Can you lookup "mauro192.168.1.65" on your local network? I doubt that you > can. That would be a feature of the windows resolver, I think nobody knows how it works. :-) However, the token app works witho

[e-smith-devinfo] transparent proxy

2001-12-11 Thread Filippo Carletti
I've found a glitch with tp. Now that it's becoming the default (see SME5.1) I had to disable it. I would like to find the problem, but I don't see it clearly, so I'm asking help. The site which has the problem with tp issues an authentication token (in form of an executable I think, but Internet

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME5.1 + EXT3 FS

2001-12-07 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Mitel wants us to look at EXT3 on 2.2.19-7.0.12. Let's make this happen > first. I vote for ext3, it will greatly simplify the upgrade of exisiting installations. I also think that it will be a bit harder making it work on kernel 2.2. Maybe 2.4 (taken directly from redhat) will be quicker. C

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] hylafax isdn and internet

2001-12-06 Thread Filippo Carletti
This is a development list. Your question could be apprpriate only if you are testing SME5.1beta1 which adds support for isdn. Otherwise direct your question to the forum. Ciao, Filippo > how configure a passive isdn card (HFC) for > > 1) hylafax , it's possible send and recive fax ?!? > > 2) i

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DVB Satellite

2001-12-06 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Basically the Sat card has published drivers for kernels 2.2.14 thru > 2.2.17 - the card is Telemann Skymedia 200D (it's one of two for which I can > find Linux drivers). This encompasses the e-smith 4.1.2 kernel (stable and > I'm more than happy with it - 'twas NT based stuff before that). Fi

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] adding services?

2001-12-06 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Step 1: - install the software as required to populate init.d with the > new service: > Step 2: - Add the service to the configuration database: > Step 3: Create a link in rc7.d to e-smith-service: > Have I got this right? Will this service and link survive an SME upgrade? I think yes, but Mi

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] sar

2001-11-29 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > Is there anyone who installed sar (sysstat) on SME ? > > sar/systat should just install and work. I'll give it a try. > > Would Mitel consider adding it to the next release ? > > The big question is what you do with the statistics that are > collected. Our philosophy is that users don't ne

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] help isdn pci hfc sme5.1b1

2001-11-29 Thread Filippo Carletti
> hi , i live in italy I'm in Italy, too. > i want to configure my hcf pci isdn adapter ? > my phone number is 0575370222 > > whit SME 5.1b1 it's possible ? > > type=35 protocol=2 Correct. > and modem int = ? &E575370222S14=3 I installed an HFC card today, but I had to use SME5. Charlie

[e-smith-devinfo] sar

2001-11-26 Thread Filippo Carletti
Is there anyone who installed sar (sysstat) on SME ? Would Mitel consider adding it to the next release ? Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SquidGuard

2001-11-20 Thread Filippo Carletti
> SquidGuard is stable for 4.1.2, however, it is not ready for SME5. I really > don't have much time for upgrading it to SME5 in the near future, but I > would be happy to answer any questions if someone else wants to do it. I would like to spend some time on "porting" to SME5. I have squidguard

[e-smith-devinfo] SquidGuard

2001-11-20 Thread Filippo Carletti
Is squidguard-21.tar.gz from Trevor Ouellette considered stable or is it beta and needs some more efforts to be usable ? What areas need to be addressed / improved ? Trevor, are you still following the list ? Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Obtuse SMTPD and 8bit MIME

2001-11-19 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Wouldn't Cyrus be a better fit where you don't have to support > traditional mailbox format? I'd suggest courier-imap, lightweight, feature-rich and probably simpler to add than Cyrus. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss s

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] developer idea - SME PDF server

2001-11-09 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Why not put them under the user's home directory or > mail them back as attachments? You would only > have to use a shared location if you allow guest > connections. When you print using samba, the only parameters available are the printer name and the spool file name. There is no concept o

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] developer idea - SME PDF server

2001-11-09 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue72/bright.html shows the approximate path. > > > > I was planning to work on this, but am a bit short on time. Anyone interested > > on working together on it? > > > > Yes, - I would like to participate and, - I would like to use the > function. The idea

[e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-transproxy-0.3-1.noarch.rpm and SME5

2001-10-26 Thread Filippo Carletti
e-smith-transproxy-0.3-1.noarch.rpm, from Charlie Brady (I think, found in his contrib directory) has a small problem with additional networks on SME 5. I had to change 35transproxy, line 21 and 26, key becomes network. Should I make a new rpm available or is Charlie "maintaining" this ? Ciao,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] apcupsd

2001-10-26 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I would like the rpm > > Where can I download it from or You can mail it to me... You can find it in my temporary download area: http://www.mobilia.it/filippo/download/SME5/ The rpm has been built from the RH7.0 srpm on a RedHat 7.1 and tested on various RH 7.1 system and one SME5 serv

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] apcupsd

2001-10-26 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > Power drains out - system shuts down. Good. > > Mains power comes back on. > > System starts up. > > Power goes out again !@$$! - as the workmen try a few times to get the > power back online - with varying degrees of success - continued brown outs. All APC SmartUPS does NOT power ON your e

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] apcupsd

2001-10-25 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Has anyone rebuilt the apcupsd rpm specifically for 4.1.2/SME5 auto > install yet? I use it. I have rebuilt the rpm from source, using srpm for redhat 7.0, both on 4.1.2 and SME5. Here's what I did: - install apcupsd.rpm (I can send you the rpm, if you need) - edit /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

[e-smith-devinfo] SARG

2001-10-09 Thread Filippo Carletti
I was going to rebuild the sarg contrib on SME5 and I thought about a couple of little cosmetic changes. I'm asking your advice. - Is e-smith.domain.com/squid-reports a good choice for the URL to access the reports ? Better suggestions ? - Would it be useful a link on the server-manager panel ?

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME5 Intel PRO 100 error and fix

2001-10-06 Thread Filippo Carletti
> The RedHat 7.1 driver for the Intel PRO 100 (eepro100.o) appears to be > problematic. I had problems with e100.o from RedHat 7.0 (i.e. e-smith 4.1.2) that's version 1.2.1. It had problems with masqueraded connections, I didn't investigate much further, I immediately noticed impossibility to sen

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SARG on SME5

2001-10-04 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I am about to upgrade a production server to SME5 and SARG is the only > thing I had left to test. > > Have you built a new installer ??? No, e-smith-sarg is ok on sme5 (I checked the post-install script). I will probably rebuild sarg on redhat 7.1 for sme5, but it's not necessary. rpm -Uvh tr

[e-smith-devinfo] SARG on SME5

2001-10-03 Thread Filippo Carletti
I tested my SARG package on SME5 today: it works. e-smith-transproxy-0.3-1.noarch.rpm also works. Has anyone found problems with SARG on SME5 ? Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered custo

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Shutdown problems

2001-09-25 Thread Filippo Carletti
> I'm having a problem with shutdown, if I shutdown the system when its apm should be active. In Award bios is PM control by APM menu voice under Power Managment. Ciao, Filippo -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support f

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DRAFT of a RAID recovery HOWTO

2001-09-14 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Have you confirmed the hdd must be prepared with fdisk prior to running > the raidhotadd command? I can confirm that you must partition the new hard disk like the other disk in the array. Linux soft raid works at partition level, you could mirror two partition on the same disk (only for test pu

[e-smith-devinfo] ispell-it

2001-09-05 Thread Filippo Carletti
I've packaged an ispell dictionary for italian language (using a spec file from Mandrake). It's useful for the webmail (IMP). Download from: http://www.mobilia.it/filippo/download/ispell-it-0.03-9es.noarch.rpm http://www.mobilia.it/filippo/download/ispell-it-0.03-9es.src.rpm Ciao, Filippo -

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RE: BIND9 (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DHCP Server Problem??)

2001-09-05 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > Dynamic updates from DHCP need to be looked at in more detail, as > > the BIND files are generated, so the dynamic updates may be lost. > > Yes, I've been considering what one would do about active leases and their > DNS, in the case an e-smith event is triggered that would rebuild > named.con

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Log structured file systems (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] E-smithmonitor suggestions)

2001-09-05 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > That's why our next work will be to implement ReiserFS > > on e-smith. > > Be sure to consider using JFS instead. > > Remember that is will cost you performance compared to ext2. And remember that RedHat chose ext3 for 7.2. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-22-004-20-NW-RH

[e-smith-devinfo] Expanding /home/dns/etc/named.conf

2001-08-25 Thread Filippo Carletti
Anybody knows how to expand named.conf ? Expanding /etc/named.conf works, but the config file should go in /home/dns. Expanding /home/dns/etc/named.conf doesn't work. I tried looking at some events (host-delete, actually I go to the admin panel and delete an host to have my template expanded), bu

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] backup question

2001-07-30 Thread Filippo Carletti
> little things. I need to backup EVERYTHING!!! I, unfortunitly, dont have a cd / && find . -xdev | cpio -oH crc | gzip -c >file.gz (or over network) Will leave out /boot on e-smith. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Sup

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] email Rules engine and backup

2001-07-13 Thread Filippo Carletti
> > When I delete the IMAP mails, it appears crossed on my PC, and it is still > > there next time I start Outlook Express, even I have set the delete mail > > option. Is this correct behaviour? > > Don't know how it works with OE. You should have another button on OE taskbar named "Delete" but w

Service addition

2001-07-03 Thread Filippo Carletti
I need to add a service on startup of the e-smith server, ie creating a link to /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service in /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/. /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/ is cleared and refilled on post-upgrade, so I will loose my link. I already added the service to the db, but I don't have a template or an action

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] How install GCC ?

2001-06-26 Thread Filippo Carletti
> If you're considering installing GCC, please read the FAQ entry at > http://www.e-smith.org/faq.php3#8q7 and make sure you understand why we > don't recommend putting GCC on your e-smith system. I think that the FAQ entry above is not really current. This is what I did to install a development