Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Brandon Friedman
2 Questions: 1) Why is the telnet setup for no access by default? 2) Is the fullname.lastname@domain alias included in this release? Regards BF

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Doerner
> > is there any chance to upgrade from beta 1 to beta 2? > > accept_upgrade at the initial screen will do this automatically > (though I realise that is not your question). > Gordon, it must sound like a stupid question but I don't understand on which 'initial screen' I can use that? Should ther

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Dan York
Folks, > After a few false starts, e-smith is pleased to announce the availability > of the second developer preview of e-smith server and gateway 4.1 - > e-smith-4.1Beta2. FYI, we're also updating the manual as well... you'll see it evolving online at: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Doerner
> After a few false starts, e-smith is pleased to announce the availability > of the second developer preview of e-smith server and gateway 4.1 - > e-smith-4.1Beta2. > > New in beta2 is support for inbound PPTP VPN connections, and scheduled > backup to a SCSI or IDE tape drive. All reported bugs

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:28:01PM +1300, Michael Doerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Charlie, Will I do? :-) > is there any chance to upgrade from beta 1 to beta 2? accept_upgrade at the initial screen will do this automatically (though I realise that is not your question). > I would

telnet and aliases (Was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!)

2001-04-26 Thread Dan York
Brandon, > 1) Why is the telnet setup for no access by default? Because telnet is *really* nasty from a security point of view. Passwords with telnet are transmitted **in the clear**. Unecrypted. Open to sniffing. Bad. *Really* bad! ssh is really the solution you need. More info is at: http:

aliases and mail delivery in 4.1Beta (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] telnet and aliases (Was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!))

2001-04-26 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...Bradon Friedman...] > > 2) Is the fullname.lastname@domain alias included in this release? > > Yes. And in more detail, both firstname.lastname and firstname_lastname are on for all users/domains. Please note tha

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Doerner
> > If I download and install/update all rpm's from the Beta 2 > directory that > > are newer than the Beta 1 release date, would this work? Just an idea. > > How do you tell which are newer? > > BF Brandon, I used an ftp client on a Windows NT machine, sorted by date and downloaded all rpm's you

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-26 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Damien Curtain wrote: > damienc@organism damienc >cp e-smith-4.1b1.iso e-smith-4.1b2.iso This is creating a file called e-smith-4.1b2.iso which is a bit like the desired image file. > damienc@organism damienc >rsync -avn ftp.e-smith.org::e-smith . | \ > grep e-smith-4.1b2.

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Brandon Friedman wrote: > > If I download and install/update all rpm's from the Beta 2 directory that > > are newer than the Beta 1 release date, would this work? Just an idea. > > How do you tell which are newer? Check the rpm version numbers. If you look at the script

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) wrote: > > Learn rsync - it's pretty easy. > > I can attest that rsync IS _very_ easy, and it is _very_ fast. You can go > from a b1 to b2 ISO image in a matter minutes. Of course YMMV. Don't expect a small number of minutes over a modem link :-)

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Michael Doerner wrote: > I used an ftp client on a Windows NT machine, sorted by date and downloaded > all rpm's younger than 1.12.2000. When I compared that with the list in > Charlie's, it matched so it wasn't a bad idea obviously. We are both being just slightly overenth

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Damien Curtain
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Michael Doerner wrote: > it must sound like a stupid question but I don't understand on which > 'initial screen' I can use that? he is meaning on the install disk/cdrom prompt when you 1st boot off the cdrom or the floppy... > So apparently I need to understand the "accept_

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:41PM -0500, Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Damien Curtain wrote: > [...] > > little bit quicker than downloading it via ftp > > Nearly six times faster! :-) Actually it will be even better than that as rsync is also dramatically m

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
> -Original Message- > From: Gordon Rowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:04 PM > To: Michael Doerner > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!! [...] > I will have to > > download the is

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:39:22PM +1300, Michael Doerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there any chance to upgrade from beta 1 to beta 2? > > > > accept_upgrade at the initial screen will do this automatically > > (though I realise that is not your question). > > > Gordon, > it must sound l

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Jason Green
I cannot get to an ftp server anywhere to download the new beta... Can someone tell me where to get it.. other than e-smith.org Jason. - Original Message - From: PeeKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [e-s

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Brandon Friedman
> If I download and install/update all rpm's from the Beta 2 directory that > are newer than the Beta 1 release date, would this work? Just an idea. How do you tell which are newer? BF

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread PeeKay
Hello I downloaded the beta 2 last night and did a fresh install today. My e-smith box is a dell P133 64meg ram with a 10bt 3com nic for external and a 100/10bt 3com nic for internal(I only use it for a few boxes so I dont need that powerfull of a machine). The installation went very smooth. I w

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

2001-04-25 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Michael Doerner wrote: > > The full release announcement can be found at: > > > > http://www.e-smith.org/article.php3?sid=31&mode=threaded&order=0 > > is there any chance to upgrade from beta 1 to beta 2? > I would like to avoid such a big download right now again (we have