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
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
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 that
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
came out without any problems.
I
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 works
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
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 was
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.
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- crontab now uses our sarg scripts (no save and restore
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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 help
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,
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That investigation, and the conclusions you reach, will depend on
When diagnosing dialup problems, I usually find useful:
killall -WINCH named
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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.
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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 in
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-custom in the
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 gain access
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
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
iptables 1.2.6 adds NAT support for PPTP. See:
http://www.netfilter.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.6a.txt
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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
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 are
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
as
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 list,
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,
right ?
FTP
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
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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 left
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
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
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) with
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 the grant
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 OE
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
- 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 change
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.
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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
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 prevent
Message: Boot failed: Please change disks and press any key to
continue...
It seems a defective media (floppy).
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Filippo
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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,
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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
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
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.
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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.
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,
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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 make
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
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. The only
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
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...
Greg Zartman HOWTO on Win2k (bottom of page) is missing the link.
Ciao,
Filippo
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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...
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
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
givenname=Filippo
sn
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
many component
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
The root dir of e-smith-skel-0.2 has the setgid bit set.
Is this intended ?
Ciao,
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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, at
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
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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
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 adapting it
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 seems
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
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 without tp. I
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 might be
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.
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). First
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)
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 need to
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
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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
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,
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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 of
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 equipment
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
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,
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
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
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 send
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
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
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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
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
Here
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
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.
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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 with an
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
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
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