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] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-07 Thread Rob Hillis
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 03:01, Charlie Brady wrote: If we take axonlinux as a project that has travelled this path already, they built a new distro iso. To be very brief they essentially took a disto (SGI XFS) and added all the e-smith rpms that the distro did not include by default.

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] [BETA] new RAV panel for SME available

2002-02-07 Thread Dan Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I got that phrase directly from the gnu site? Sure--on the FDL itself. You left out one important word when you took that phrase for your howto--verbatim copies of this *license* document.

[e-smith-devinfo] head scratching over db_get

2002-02-07 Thread Peter Werner
hi all :) ive come across a very wierd occurance in a script im working on. basically i want the variable $host to equal the hostname of the current server. to get this set i use $host = db_get(\%conf, SystemName); (see below). the weird thing is the value of $host wont show up on a webpage,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [BETA] new RAV panel for SME available

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Darrell May wrote: Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The licensing conditions on your documentation are inconsistent. I got that phrase directly from the gnu site? Is that a question or a statement? :-) Yes, the FSF site does state: The standard copyright notice

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] head scratching over db_get

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Peter Werner wrote: the weird thing is the value of $host wont show up on a webpage, but will show up when the script is run from the command line. Will show up when the script is run from the command line, as root. Won't, when run as admin, IINM. Make sure that your

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] [BETA] new RAV panel for SME available

2002-02-07 Thread Brandon Friedman
Hi Darrell Just had a quick look and the add-on! As per usual great work... will test over the next few days! -Original Message- From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 February 2002 05:12 To: e-smith-devinfo Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] [BETA] new RAV panel for SME

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] head scratching over db_get

2002-02-07 Thread Peter Werner
hello charlie perms was it, see my comment about missing something silly. if you're ever in sydney i owe you a beer :) thanks heaps -pete -- I have uncovered the very fabric of the universe. It appears to be a kind of gingham tweed with a cross cable stitch IFOST: http://www.ifost.org.au -

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] head scratching over db_get

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Peter Werner wrote: hello charlie perms was it, see my comment about missing something silly. if you're ever in sydney i owe you a beer :) See you just before Easter then! :-) -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] List behaviour (was [e-smith-devinfo] [BETA] new RAV panel for SME available)

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
Graeme, Des Your comments were appreciated and will be reflected on. Thanks, -- Darrell May DMC Netsourced.com http://netsourced.com http://myEZserver.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered

[e-smith-devinfo] Re: List behaviour

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Des Dougan wrote: I also think it's about time both of you made a constructive effort to be polite to each other. I believe that I have always been polite to Darrell. Please point out to me (off-list) any particular occasion when you believe that I have been impolite, and

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I used the following procedure to upgrade my SME v5.1.2 *test*server to a 2.4.9-21 RedHat kernel: David, many thanks for taking the time to put this mini-Howto together. I might have some time over the weekend to give it a try myself. I do have a general

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Samba RPMs

2002-02-07 Thread Dan York
Greg, I've always wondered why the Samba team packages Samba into one RPM when Red Hat comes out of the box as three RPMs. Well, here's why they do it: Thanks for posting this info. I, too, have always wondered why RH did it differently from the Samba team. Thanks, Dan -- Dan York,

[e-smith-devinfo] Roadmap... Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: List behaviour

2002-02-07 Thread Dan York
Des wrote: its priorities, but I do agree with Greg that a roadmap would at least assist in providing a context to development discussions. Charlie wrote: I'm not sure who could provide a roadmap, or how much value it would add. I don't have any call over what any of you folks do, and I

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Shad L. Lords
This is my first attempt as well at messing with kernel and stuff. But thanks to a great starting point by David Brown and a little bit of spare time I have enhanced the howto for Upgrading the kernel to a 2.4 kernel. I went back to 2.4.7 in order to keep the smp, BOOT, and regular kernel the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Samba RPMs

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Sleight
Isn't the reason RH packages samba in three packages the same reason for splitting up telnet, etc? If the computer is intended as a client there's no reason for a telnet server. Samba packaging is a little more of a grey area since the client could share files. Perhaps it's just easier to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
Shad L. Lords [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is my first attempt as well at messing with kernel and stuff. Looks like a fabulous first attempt to me Shad. Great job! I just wish I had time to try this. Maybe by the weekend. Regards, -- Darrell May DMC Netsourced.com http://netsourced.com

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread David Brown
On Thursday, February 07, 2002, Darrell May wrote: David, many thanks for taking the time to put this mini-Howto together. I might have some time over the weekend to give it a try myself. No problem at all. I'd appreciate it if other people would try this out and verify that it works for

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Don't take this the wrong way, but who cares? Now let me qualify that. :) No worries. Your point is an excellent one. We might have to try both ways. I was only hoping to seek advice from those that have already gone there before to share with us their

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Shad L. Lords
From the work I have done trying to get PPTP working with the 2.4 kernel I think that the ppp.o and ppp_mppe.o modules that exist in the /lib/modules/2.2.19-7.0.8-e-smith/net directory are going to need to be recompiled for the new version of the kernel (2.4.7 or 2.4.9). Is there anyone out

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Edward . Tak
Well, I'm going to mess with taking the latest RedHat 7.2 versions of all the packages on the SME v5.1.2 disk and make a custom iso to install a To give you a heads up, I tried to build a custom iso cd of the 5..2 release and had lots of problems. First, the RedHat directory generally in the

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Dan Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'is this the _best_ way to go?' Best in the sense of being the most comprehensive, complete, compatible way of doing things? Probably not. From that perspective, it's probably better to

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: First, the RedHat directory generally in the RedHat cd was rename to e-smith That one is easy. I build custom isos daily. When I give you the answer don't scream too loud Change to the base directory of your iso copy. Let's say if your copy is located at

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread David Brown
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote: Here's the biggest problem (as has already been stated several times): even if we get all the latest up to date RedHat 7.2 packages up and running. I guess I should read what I post before I post it. :) What I meant to say was: Here's the biggest

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: we still need masq modules for pptp, ipsec, realaudio, h323, icq, and Agreed, they are extremely valuable to those that do use and need them. However, from another viewpoint, many small business SME users don't use them, don't need them and therfore won't

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Darrell May wrote: However, from another viewpoint, many small business SME users don't use them, don't need them and therfore won't even miss them. This is especially true for servers running in serveronly mode. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread David Brown
-Original Message- From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:43 PM To: David Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: we still need masq modules for

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is especially true for servers running in serveronly mode. Absolutely, ... how did I miss that great example! Definitely not needed there and that takes care of most of the larger SME corporate clients where corporate firewalls/VPN are already in

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread David Brown
-Original Message- From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:01 PM To: Charlie Brady; Darrell May Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote: Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is especially true for servers running in serveronly mode. Absolutely, ... how did I miss that great example! Definitely not needed there and that takes care of most of the larger SME corporate

[e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-07 Thread Trevor Ouellette
Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is corrupted and fails to boot. It could also be used to revert a system back to factory specs. Any thoughts on the idea? Trev. -- Please report bugs to

[e-smith-devinfo] 1:1 NAT - Testers

2002-02-07 Thread Abe Loveless
I'm a newbie at Linux development. I've been watching this list for several months, and finally think I may have something to contribute. I work for a state funded organization that started pushing the idea of an SME server to our school districts as an easy to use content filter with Trevor

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Form Overlays with PCL Printers

2002-02-07 Thread Steve Bush
I have pretty much completed the forms overlay system how-to. This is currently running on three production servers. All of the appropriate files are housed in a single zip file. The only item left is to recompile the overlay source files on my RedHat 7.2 development machine when I return from

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 1:1 NAT - Testers

2002-02-07 Thread Trevor Ouellette
If someone is looking for a starting place, you may want to check out the External IP Alias Panel that I wrote. Obviously, it will have to be modified to solve Abe's problem, but I have made some headway so far. ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/TrevorOuellette/RPMS/noarch/ Trev.

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
From: Trevor Ouellette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is corrupted and fails to boot. It could also be used to revert a system back to factory specs. I'd

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, anyone find the src.rpm for the anacronda that was used to build the cd? It'll soon show up with all the other src.rpms from the 5.1.2 distribution. It was omitted because it's not in the RPMS directory, so was missing from my list.

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
Trevor Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is corrupted and fails to boot. It could also be used to revert a system back to factory specs. Any thoughts on

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-07 Thread Ruwan Jayasinghe
Trevor/Darrel, We use Altiris Deployment Server to manage our Win9X wstns.. This has something called bootworks which is said to be resident in a partition(or sector) marked as bad so doesnt show up in Windows. They use this to boot first into dos, connect via smb to the server and look for

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-07 Thread James Robertson
the Aries server by Celestic has a function like this - 2 diffrent boot options, one boots off a diffrent partition and extracts a darball over either the system or data partition, restoring it to factory defaults. The other idea i had was to make the rescue disk a standard ISO9660 bootable

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 1:1 NAT - Testers

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
Abe Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm a newbie at Linux development. I've been watching this list for several months, and finally think I may have something to contribute. Hi Abe. Welcome to the list :-) I'm also looking for feedback: Am I going about this the best way? Well on a

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

2002-02-07 Thread Darrell May
{experimental] COMPLETED UNTESTED! Sorry folds but I do not have a spare server at the moment to test this. Treat this as completely experimental. In fact let me guarantee to you that it will not work, then you will not be disappointed ;- For those wishing to continue, this simply adds a