Re: [e-smith-devinfo] OpenH323 and SME

2003-12-18 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:13 am, Jeff Coleman wrote: Looking in your contribs directory I don't see this work.  Since ftp.e-smith.org isn't available anymore, do you want to put it up on contribs? I think you'd be better off re-evaluating the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Suggestion for SME...

2003-12-08 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:44 pm, Brandon Friedman wrote: Hi Folks Just as a suggestion for SME and the future, and yes we have mentioned this before. The absolute killer app for the system is groupware. Now I have been testing an opensoure project

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Suggestion for SME...

2003-12-08 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:46 pm, Klaus J. Mueller wrote: Hm? For what I understand kolab would make a great extension to e-smith. The kolab implementation is very tightly tied to the concept of everything in LDAP, while e-smith runs its own

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Suggestion for SME...

2003-12-08 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:35 pm, Brandon Friedman wrote: As I mentioned, this is not a trivial exercise. In particular Kolab is built on postfix and Cyrus, SME uses qmail and uw-imap (I think). I prefer using ldap as central database. There are

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Suggestion for SME...

2003-12-08 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:48 pm, Klaus J. Mueller wrote: IMHO only the first option should be discussed here. I wouldn't see, why the second option is not a good idea - but this would simply not be the right place to discuss this. Maybe, but the more

[e-smith-devinfo] Rough development plan

2003-12-07 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This Rev 0.0 of a rough development plan for e-smith 6.1 and e-smith 7.0. Feedback is welcome - there won't be anything if I have to do it alone. Open Issues and Key Assumptions I am using the old e-smith name, which is almost certainly a

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rough development plan

2003-12-07 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:28 pm, Laurent DINCLAUX wrote: Brad Hards a écrit : How do we handle translation / localisation efforts? What happens when features from different developers affect the same package? CSV ?... Comma Seperated Variables

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RPM build of nut

2003-09-03 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:23 pm, Laurent DINCLAUX wrote: #rpm -ba ../../SPECS/nut.spec + cp -a drivers/hidups /var/tmp/nut-1.2.0-root/sbin/hidups cp: cannot stat `drivers/hidups': Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type error: Bad exit status from

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] external isdn modem with usb

2003-08-27 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:07 pm, stephen noble wrote: i changed the dialup port to /dev/input/ttyACM0, a googled guess /dev/usb/ttyACM0 perhaps? But I don't think that is the way that all USB ISDN works. Worth a try though. Brad -BEGIN PGP

[e-smith-devinfo] Fwd: [Linux-aus] NEW PROJECT FORMED: OpenGroupware.org,AS SKYRiX OPEN SOURCES ITS GROUPWARE SERVER

2003-07-10 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI. Thought this might be a reasonable fit for SME server. Brad - -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Linux-aus] NEW PROJECT FORMED: OpenGroupware.org, AS SKYRiX OPEN SOURCES ITS GROUPWARE SERVER Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:22 pm

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [ANNOUNCE] SME Server 6.0beta1 unsupported developer release

2003-06-14 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firstly, I'd like to thank Mitel for continuing to release these, under what must be increasing pressure to adopt another apporach. On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:10 am, Gordon Rowell wrote:    A new system for initializing system databases has been

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Blades interface (Was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Announcing SME Server V5.6 developer release)

2003-01-16 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 02:43, Dan York wrote: As a commercial enterprise, we have to focus on the needs and wants of our commercial customers who ultimately enable us to continue working on this product we love. As the ranks of those customers have

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Blades interface

2003-01-16 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:57, Charlie Brady wrote: There's only one real way for you to find out. Go ahead and write that content and then ask for it to be hosted. I think I just discovered I have something other than provide more content.. Its been

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [BETA] Apache Replacment Indexer RPM and HowTO

2002-12-23 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:54, Graeme Seaton wrote: Greg Zartman wrote: - Expand on a collaboration app so that it offers functionality found at www.eproject.com. Up until about a week ago, Twiggi was my first choice for such an effort. Due to my

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 compatibility?

2002-11-05 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:08, Charlie Brady wrote: There's something that I haven't been able to find clear and unambiguous documentation on. Someone here might know. Will USB 2.0 devices work just fine, but at lower speed, on a USB 1.1 bus? USB 2.0

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] e-smith version number

2002-10-09 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:00, Emmanuel Saracco wrote: hi, where is defined the version number 5.5 in the last stable? I know it is in the /home/e-smith/configuration file but: what package manage this line in that configuration file? rpm -qf

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] IPtables masquerade (was Re: [Announce] SME Server V5 version)5.6alpha

2002-08-10 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:13, Charlie Brady wrote: (*) H323 does now exist, but it may not be stable and requires complex kernel modifications (essentially replacement of netfilter NAT support) and we don't currently have time to implement them. If

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:10, Kevin Flanagan wrote: Hi all, I'm getting ready to do put up a wireless link in the house for my laptop, and think that my Linux box would make a good Access Point, I read about turning a BSD machine into an AP. It seems to me that you would have a lot more

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:19, Charlie Brady wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Brad Hards wrote: USB on 2.2 is pretty marginal at best. I don't know if RH 2.2 kernels have much backport included. They do, especially for keyboards and mice, but also video and storage devices, but I don't know

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] building rpms

2002-07-23 Thread Brad Hards
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:17, Rob Wellesley wrote: rpm2cpio on the real rpm and the src.rpm might be what you need? if i rpm2cpio some_rpm.some_arch.rpm file.txt I get a mountain of binary gibberish ? The man page states - extracts cpio archive for any .rpm Perhaps you want to run the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] building rpms

2002-07-22 Thread Brad Hards
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:01, Rob Wellesley wrote: Hi all Examining the guts of existing RPMs seems like a good way to start learning how to build them. How do I get beyond rpm -qip or - ql and actually read the internal scripts? rpm2cpio on the real rpm and the src.rpm might be what you need?

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Exchange replacements

2002-07-17 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:34, Darrell May wrote: John Crisp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1. Mitels own Free/busy blade option Some continuing ideas... - we should build our own Free/busy contrib Like most people here, I have no idea how Mitel implemented it. However assuming that it is really an

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Quick question about Webmail in E-Smith 5.5

2002-07-05 Thread Brad Hards
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:45, David J. Boccabella wrote: Err.. Richard. Not everyone knows Perl or PHP. And one has to admin that the WebMail is a fairly large and complex system complete with the usual lack or documentation. So rather than becoming exasperate by people asking for information

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Mitel Networks announces SME Server version 5.5

2002-07-03 Thread Brad Hards
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:41, Gordon Rowell wrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:52:13PM +1000, Brad Hards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:51, Dan York wrote: - The timezone can now be set during system installation. The default timezone is US/Eastern (for English installs

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Mitel Networks announces SME Server version 5.5

2002-07-02 Thread Brad Hards
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:51, Dan York wrote: - The timezone can now be set during system installation. The default timezone is US/Eastern (for English installs) and Canada/Eastern (for Canadian French installs). Why don't you try getting it from another machine first? One of the fields in SMB

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Legacy ISA

2002-06-13 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:53, Rob Wellesley wrote: This from a Hardware Supplier Well, there really aren't many motherboards available now with an ISA slot. Basically that's they way things are heading, you might want to start preparing for computers with only USB ports, as DFI has

[e-smith-devinfo] [OT] Re: [e-smith-devinfo] PGP-encrpyt e-mail

2002-05-20 Thread Brad Hards
On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:46, Brandon Friedman wrote: I noticed a few people use encrypted mail... is this something provided by the server or mail client? Client. You really want to do the signing / encrypting locally. Read http://www.gnupg.org to understand what is being done, and then

[e-smith-devinfo] OpenAntiVirus?

2002-05-20 Thread Brad Hards
The latest virus (kleg?) is starting to annoy me. A real AV product would be nice, but I'm mainly linux on the desktop, and 'tis more dollars than I want to spend. One option (almost certainly not as good as a commercially supported product, but a lot cheaper) I've come across is

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] OpenAntiVirus?

2002-05-20 Thread Brad Hards
On Tue, 21 May 2002 02:18, Steve Lewis wrote: I haven't used this, however looks interesting. I am rebuilding my test server and will start playing w/this. In what direction were you going with this. The Squid, Qmail and stand alone piece? Standalone first, with a basic control panel. Then

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Bugzilla on SME

2002-05-06 Thread Brad Hards
On Mon, 6 May 2002 18:10, Brandon Friedman wrote: Yeah, I guessed it would be a little clunky but some of the best software dev projects are using it ie REdhat and Mozilla! You might like to look at Jitterbug (from Andrew Tridgell, aka Mr Samba) http://samba.org/jitterbug/ I am not sure

[e-smith-devinfo] [Announce] TWiki HOWTO and RPM available

2002-04-30 Thread Brad Hards
G'day, After a bit of delay, I finally got the TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) howto and RPM done. The HOWTO is http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/twiki-howto.html and the RPM is available at ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/BradHards/RPMS/noarch/twiki-Dec2001-1es.noarch.rpm For

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Amphora

2002-04-29 Thread Brad Hards
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:49, Devlyn Davis wrote: snip in VirtualHost _default_:443 section add: #Amphora 2 conf Include /home/amphora2/amphora2.0.httpd.conf === Try just putting this into a

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Stopping perl expanding things that should be literal

2002-04-29 Thread Brad Hards
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 23:53, Charlie Brady wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Gordon Rowell wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:39:55PM +1000, Brad Hards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I really need to handle the $wikiHomeUrl and $defaultUrlHost (and assign them to the contents of SystemName

[e-smith-devinfo] Stopping perl expanding things that should be literal

2002-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
G'day all, I'm working on an RPM for TWiki (http://www.twiki.org), one of the WikiClones. TWiki is especially nice for people who like revision tracking, since it is integrated with rcs. The problem I am having is with the main configuration file. It contains %variable and $setting type

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [contrib] OpenH323 Gatekeeper available for initial testing

2002-04-06 Thread Brad Hards
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:22, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Hi, Thanks for this contrib :) Just a question, is ICQ Phone going to work with this or is it only for NetMeeting under Windows ? ICQ is (AFAIK) a totally different protocol to H.323, so it will not work. I've never used ICQ, so I could be

[e-smith-devinfo] [contrib] OpenH323 Gatekeeper available for initial testing

2002-04-05 Thread Brad Hards
G'day, My first real SME contrib is now available for download from my contrib directory on the e-smith ftp site. This is an experimental release (to get feeback on approach and future features) and is NOT intended for production servers. There is no support at this stage for this product.

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] kernel-headers (was Re: SME 5.1.2 kernel compilation issue..)

2002-04-02 Thread Brad Hards
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:59, Bart Koppers wrote: This kernel-headers thing is confusing, but important. Linus himself mentions : The fact is, that the header files should match the library you link against, not the kernel you run on. This is mostly true, but not always. For example, if you

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Problems with configuration database manipulation

2002-03-28 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:03, Darrell May wrote: Brad Hards [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can't see what is different, or why it doesn't work. Usually if it works from the commandline and not the server-manager it is a setuid error. Your functions script must have the following attributes

[e-smith-devinfo] Problems with configuration database manipulation

2002-03-26 Thread Brad Hards
G'day, I'm try to develop a web manager function for OpenH323 Gatekeeper, which is basically done apart from the user interface. My problem is in manipulating the configuration file from the manager. I basically tried to copy some similar things (eg the backup panel, and the reboot panel), but

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [Announce] minimal GhostScript RPM

2002-03-10 Thread Brad Hards
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:22, Charlie Brady wrote: For those wishing to dabble with PDF file psuedo-printers and outgoing fax gateways, I've rebuilt a recent RedHat GhostScript RPM with a minimal set of drivers. This RPM can be installed without an extensive set of other packages being required

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

2002-03-06 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:04, Tom Keiser wrote: If anyone is set up to compile on 5.1.2, I'd be grateful if you could compile a 3ware raid driver for me. They have provided the .c, the .h, a text explanation, and a redhat makefile. If a small snip I did this, but found a minor problem. The driver

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restarting the console

2002-03-05 Thread Brad Hards
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 02:15, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Brad Hards wrote: The only issue I still have is restarting the console (/sbin/e-smith/console). Out of interest, why do you need to/want to restart the console? Basically the rpm loads two kernel modules and patches /usr

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restarting the console

2002-03-05 Thread Brad Hards
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:40, Charlie Brady wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Brad Hards wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 02:15, Charlie Brady wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Brad Hards wrote: The only issue I still have is restarting the console (/sbin/e-smith/console). Out of interest, why do you

[e-smith-devinfo] libssl versions

2002-02-25 Thread Brad Hards
G'day all, My OpenH323 Gatekeeper + Proxy contrib is getting closer, but I'm not there yet. I'm currently building on a RH7.2 box, targetting SME 5.1.2. I am having trouble with openssl versions. RH7.2 ships with openssl-0.9.6b-8, while SME 5.1.2 has openssl-0.9.6-9. Seems to be some

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] samba-2.2.3 recall

2002-02-19 Thread Brad Hards
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:49, Greg Zartman wrote: snip have been about like walking into a crowded theater and yelling BOMB!! on Samba's site any longer and the Samba Team leader was called in from a convention in Australia to fix the problem and put out what they termed as a brown bag release.

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] development roadmap

2002-02-13 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:48, Les Mikesell wrote: snip Having an XFS filesystem would be nice too, but secondary to the range of services available. They appear to mention they already use RedHat 7.2, ext3. I think XFS or Reiser would be a better fit for running qmail and its

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-10 Thread Brad Hards
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:59, Charlie Brady wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Brad Hards wrote: snip 2. (much more importantly) Don't assume that just because you needed extra modules with ipchains that you will also need one with iptables. What (exactly) is it that you think that you need

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Ethernet Card Recommendations

2001-12-31 Thread Brad Hards
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 02:17, Les Mikesell wrote: What I'm looking for is an easy way to get a USB-ethernet adapter working with e-smith. I have a tiny computer not much larger than it's CD drive with a built-in NIC and 10Gig hard drive that I'd like to use as a remote office gateway/server but

[e-smith-devinfo] Problem with custom template (newbie)

2001-12-12 Thread Brad Hards
G'day all, I'm trying to set up Twiki (http://www.twiki.org) on my sme server (5.1alpha1), partly as a learning exercise on e-smith, and partly because of the groupware application. It needs some apache config, and here is what I am trying to use (in

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: Solved - [e-smith-devinfo] Problem with custom template (newbie)

2001-12-12 Thread Brad Hards
Brad Hards wrote: I'm trying to set up Twiki (http://www.twiki.org) on my sme server (5.1alpha1), partly as a learning exercise on e-smith, and partly because of the groupware application. snip $OUT .= Alias /twiki/ \/home/httpd/html/twiki/\\n;{ OK, I'm not good enough

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] apcupsd

2001-10-25 Thread Brad Hards
Gordon Rowell wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:43:51PM +1300, Michael Doerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I like the monitoring features through it's web interface, and use (internally) it's master/slave features to protect our production plus test server with 1 UPS only. The

[e-smith-devinfo] When does console content get regenerated?

2001-10-11 Thread Brad Hards
on e-smith 5.0, although a simple recompile of the source code (winbond-840.c) provided in the TRENDnet download would be enough. Questions or Feedback Contact Brad Hards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with any questions or suggestions on this HOWTO. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB Printer

2001-07-27 Thread Brad Hards
Orville Carter wrote: A client just offered us a NEW Epson inkjet printer. (Hey, we are nice guys - and we work cheap ;-) ) It is an all USB printer. I would like to use it as a network printer on e-Smith 4.2.x. Err, did I miss a release announcement? Any ideas on how to configure the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Local Side Wireless and E-smith

2001-07-04 Thread Brad Hards
Richard Ford wrote: So do you think I have a shot in my scenario? Worth a try. I was thinking of getting an extension lead and the aerial on the roof. Antennas are important. Does the number of users affect signal strength? Presumably the noise floor would raise, but the effect is

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] How to burn an ISO image to a CD

2001-04-26 Thread Brad Hards
Frank Carver wrote: What software do people use to burn an ISO image into a bootable CD, and how do you do it? The Easy CD Creator software which came with the CD-writer I use only seems able to put the image on the disk as a file - definately not bootable or usable. For a CD image it seems

Rescue disk problems with e-smith 4.1beta2

2001-04-26 Thread Brad Hards
I found the lack of progress indications while making the rescue (boot) disk a little concerning. I found the lack of progress while making the rescue (boot) disk a lot concerning. I haven't had a solid look into it, but it looks like there is either a hardware problem on my test box, or maybe

Observations from log files

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
files? I don't think that the problems are really important, but fixing them would make admin a bit friendlier. Brad Hards

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Observations from log files

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
Charlie Brady wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Brad Hards wrote: There are also some other entries that indicate other problems, such as: Jan 1 15:00:48 e-smith e-smith[2205]: 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/util.pm line 197. Jan 1 15:00:48 e-smith e-smith[2205]: In /etc/e-smith

doco problem - i-bay creation

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
_Executive Summary_ Config: 4.1beta2-1 Problem: minor doco problem on cgi-bin output for creating info bays. _Detail_ I have e-smith-4.1beta2-1, no updates. I wanted to create an information bay to make it easy to get admin type files (rpms, server logs, etc) onto, and off of, the server. I had

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RFC: 4.1 to ship with webmail disabled by default

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
I'll play devil's advocate (even though I kinda agree with the philosophy:) 1. Performance. On low memory systems, loading mod_php consumes considerable system resources (actually, on any system it does, but it is really noticable on low end systems). How much? What impact? How does this

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RFC: 4.1 to ship with webmail disabled by default

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
Darrell May wrote: What about the further thought for an uninstall option if for instance webmail isn't enabled why not offer a further option to uninstall all related packages to free disk space. Thoughts for future versions... OK - my time for devil's advocate. Given that

Multiple products?

2001-04-25 Thread Brad Hards
As I watch what people are asking for, I am not sure that e-smith can be a single product that fits all server and gateway requirements. Maybe there needs to be multiple products, for example: 1. Minimal file server / intranet web server. When it comes down to it, e-smith is about the easiest