[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

[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 prevent

[e-smith-devinfo] Reminder - searchable archives of devinfo available

2002-02-08 Thread Dan York
Just a reminder since I have seen some newcomers on the list. There is a searchable archive of this (devinfo) mailing list hosted at mail-archive.com. You can get to it at: http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org/ Regards, Dan -- Dan York, Product Line Manager, SME Server

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

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Coleman
Darrell, Your prophecy was correct. The process failed on my system. Installed dmc-mitel-recoverydisk-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm Created disk from Server-manager panel Inserted all media (floppy, tape, CD) Shutdown -r now Type accept when prompted (by floppy) Message: Boot failed: Please change disks

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

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

2002-02-08 Thread Abe Loveless
Hi Abe. Welcome to the list :-) Thanks. Instead of a config.txt file you should put your entries in the db configuration file found here: /etc/e-smith/configuration You mean /home/e-smith/configuration? I couldn't find the file listed above. Is the appropriate procedure to append

[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

[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

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Templates question

2002-02-08 Thread Dan York
Filippo, 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 ? Folks like Charlie can give you the definitive answer, but I believe the answer is 'templates-custom'

[e-smith-devinfo] USB tape drives?

2002-02-08 Thread Dan York
Out of curiousity, has anyone used any USB tape drives with the SME Server? If so, which ones have worked? I've got a box that doesn't have a SCSI card in it, and was just wondering if anyone had had any luck with USB tape devices. Thanks, Dan -- Dan York, Product Line Manager, SME Server

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

2002-02-08 Thread Dan Brown
Quoting Shad L. Lords [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kernel. I went back to 2.4.7 in order to keep the smp, BOOT, and regular kernel the same version. SMP, BOOT, and regular kernels are all available for 2.4.9-21 (wish I'd noticed that before I spent all night building them). Check your local

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-08 Thread Trevor Ouellette
Les, Yes, that's a good point. Keep it off the target drive. Trev. -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:24 PM To: Trevor Ouellette; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition From: Trevor

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

2002-02-08 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
Okay, here's a solution (of sorts) for the reinstallation disk problem. I've test on four completely different systems (mainly, different motherboards and floppy drives) and it works. I'll leave it to someone else to either 1) make a contrib to implement, or 2) add to the Mitel CD. 1. Format a

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-08 Thread Trevor Ouellette
Hi Darrell, I don't even have a line of code... :-) I don't think it's anything urgent. I've seen the Rescue Partition used before and it got me thinking... I've seen this implemented on Windows laptops. Just in case Windows gets corrupted, I guess GRIN. Trev. -Original Message-

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-08 Thread Trevor Ouellette
James, I about that. And they use 2.4 kernel in their new gateway server. I wonder if they have a problem with PPTP, RealAudio, FTP and IPSec masqs. Trev. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Robertson Sent: Friday, February 08,

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

2002-02-08 Thread Trevor Ouellette
Hi Darrell, It's there too, under: ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/TrevorOuellette/SRPMS/ Trev. Take a look at Trevor's rpm. It will point you in the right direction. Trevor, to assist Abe I suggest you might want to post up your source rpm as well. Regards, --

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

2002-02-08 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
Okay, I needed to test that last step. 'cp' doesn't like non-standard device sizes, so another copy method is probably needed -- rawread, perhaps. -Original Message- From: Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] reinstallation

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

2002-02-08 Thread Trevor Ouellette
Hi Abe, I'm not a big fan, when people just drop a link on me, but this link does answer some of the questions that you have about the ES templating system. It would give you a good start. http://www.e-smith.org/bboard/read.php?f=3i=10558t=10552 There is no mention of events/actions, though.

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Filippo Carletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Message: Boot failed: Please change disks and press any key to continue... It seems a defective media (floppy). Well in this case I have to agree with Filippo. The only thing currently I am able to test is that the recovery floppy is bootable.

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

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Coleman
Will do, although the disk booted the machine, just not the image. I'll get back to you on this -jeff -Original Message- From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:46 AM To: Filippo Carletti; Jeff Coleman; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[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

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Abe Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You mean /home/e-smith/configuration? Sorry that is what I meant to type :-) Is the appropriate procedure to append entries to the bottom? Nope. In long form you use the command: /sbin/e-smith/db /home/e-smith/configuration set/setprop... In short

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Jeff Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Will do, although the disk booted the machine, just not the image. I'll get back to you on this Again probably a bad disk. If what you are saying is your server booted to the accept screen then failed after you entered accept the very next action is

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

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Trevor Ouellette wrote: I'm not a big fan, when people just drop a link on me, but this link does answer some of the questions that you have about the ES templating system. It would give you a good start. http://www.e-smith.org/bboard/read.php?f=3i=10558t=10552

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

2002-02-08 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
-Original Message- From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] reinstallation disk errors On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) wrote: Okay, I needed to test that last step. 'cp' doesn't like

[e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Dan York
Following on what David Brown wrote: Masq modules, OTOH seem to be far more daunting, as they involve actual coding. Anyone truly interested in this thread should look into the status of masq modules for the 2.4 kernel to see if they can help port the ones we need from the 2.2 kernel

[e-smith-devinfo] tape drives revisited

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
I like to gather info on current model IDE tape drives that are in useage and recommended by devinfo members. There has been a number of new IDE drives introduced recently and I'd like to know what everyone has found workable and reliable under SME. Here are a few models I have come across:

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] tape drives revisited

2002-02-08 Thread Trevor Ouellette
I would be interested in hearing about big SCSI drives that work as well. As well as IDE. Trev. -Original Message- From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:55 AM To: e-smith-devinfo Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] tape drives revisited I like

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Trevor Ouellette wrote: I about that. And they use 2.4 kernel in their new gateway server. I wonder if they have a problem with PPTP, RealAudio, FTP and IPSec masqs. I suspect that some vendors might have proprietary kernel modules for dealing with some of these

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] tape drives revisited

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Coleman
Here's my experience with Ecrix. Installs and runs fine. The first backup fails, subsequent backups work and restore properly. This has happened on a number of fresh installs so it's repeatable. I also tried using BackupEdge from Microlite and had exactly the same experience. First time

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It may be necessary to tweak the reinstall disk code (I've not looked) just in case it does a format of the disk It forces a bs=1440 disk in the dd command. I tried what I thought might be obvious bs=1722k, but no go. Regards, -- Darrell

[e-smith-devinfo] netlogon Commands

2002-02-08 Thread Womack, Eric
Anyone have a complete list of netlogon.bat commands they can point me to? I just searched through Google, and couldn't find more than one or two commands. If not, I will volunteer to collect these together from the list into one document to publish under the HOWTO section. Eric Womack Cirque

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

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Coleman
Tried freshly formatted disk (full format), same results. -jeff -Original Message- From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:12 AM To: Jeff Coleman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Filippo Carletti'; 'e-smith-devinfo' Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo]

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] tape drives revisited

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Jeff Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's my experience with Ecrix. Installs and runs fine. The first backup fails, Just to clarify do you mean first backup to a new tape cartridge fails but after the cartridge has been written to, which the process adds an initial 32k block to the

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] tape drives revisited

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Coleman
Darrell, -Original Message Just to clarify do you mean first backup to a new tape cartridge fails but after the cartridge has been written to, which the process adds an initial 32k block to the tape, future backups to this tape then work? Affirmative Check out

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Jeff Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tried freshly formatted disk (full format), same results. Maybe you should post more information as to what 'same results' mean. Message log and apache error log entries would help. Try the standard 'Create reinstall disk' panel. You may have a known

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

2002-02-08 Thread Jeff Coleman
/opinon Gentle counseling accepted graciously : /opinon off To better state the issue. Using SME v5.1.2 I have tried the recovery disk with a fresh fully formatted floppy disk. I get a repeat of the error: Boot failed: Please change disks and press any key to continue... Message Log: Feb

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Jeff Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Feb 8 11:33:53 dev2 e-smith[1987]: Can't exec umount: No such file or /etc/e-smith/events/recovery-disk/S10floppy-put-image-recovery line 41. This points out I have a minor typo. Thanks. Go edit line 41:

Fwd: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread w9ya
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:33:30 -0500 From: w9ya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally someone at e-smith/Mitel that can state the obvious without being in middle of a cat-fight. Thank you.

RE: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread David Brown
-Original Message- From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules Finally someone at e-smith/Mitel that can state the obvious without being in middle of a cat-fight. Thank you.

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

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Jeff here is what I mean: 1) Create recovery disk = no errors in server-manager 2) Boot from recovery disk to boot: prompt = no errors 3) type accept enter = no errors 4) Loading initrd.img = no errors 5) Loading vmlinux = no errors 6) full standard console drivers check/verify appears = no

Re: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread w9ya
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:53 pm, David Brown wrote: -Original Message- From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules Finally someone at e-smith/Mitel that can state

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread David Brown
-Original Message- From: Adam Sleight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:36 PM To: David Brown; w9ya; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules My point is that I hardly think Mitel is behind times Nor do I. The problem is that we are

RE: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Dan Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The point is, many distros have migrated from 2.2 to 2.4 and have this functionality. I consider many of these to have done it right. Which ones support masqing icq, h323, pptp, ipsec,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread David Brown
I think the confusion is based on trying to both firewall and serve? At least it is for me. I seem to remember when e-smith recommended that firewalling and serving should be done separately, on separate equipment. I tend to agree with that. OK, but the issue is being a gateway, not so

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Dan Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I am sugggesting that by incorporating firewalling into this product, and declaring it to be a security solution, the die was cast to cause these issues we are now discussing. I disagree, and

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, w9ya wrote: On Friday 08 February 2002 06:53 pm, David Brown wrote: Understood, but I'm still curious about what other distros are successfully running on the 2.4.x series kernel and have provided ways to masq pptp, h323, icq, and all the others. ... I guess I

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread David Brown
But you want to know when somebody is going to do it for you though! This faceless w9ya is clearly a troll and best ignored. This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. How can discussion like this possibly be productive? Bob was simply stating his opinion on the subject like

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I ask you again: which ones? If this is not what you are claiming, would you please clarify? On a very brief search, and with nothing more then a website vist, I _believe_ Clark Connect has been supporting a 2.4 kernel since Oct 18, 2001. Their latest

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote: Agreed. Bob is raising valid points and your flaming him is not helping the issues at hand. It would help greatly if Mitel management would give us some guidance and help focus some of our efforts, but until that comes around, we need to be free to bat

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread David Brown
I think it's not wise to post things like this without being more thorough. w9ya is Bob Finch, as he posted a little earlier. I don't agree with him, but I won't insult him because of it. Thank you David M. Brown Frick, Frick Jetté Architects [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread w9ya
On Friday 08 February 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, w9ya wrote: On Friday 08 February 2002 06:53 pm, David Brown wrote: Understood, but I'm still curious about what other distros are successfully running on the 2.4.x series kernel and have provided ways to masq pptp,

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote: I think it's not wise to post things like this without being more thorough. w9ya is Bob Finch, as he posted a little earlier. I don't agree with him, but I won't insult him because of it. David, Accepting that Bob has identified himself (and saying

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Blake Girardot
I think Dan Brown has this issue just right. Full support for protocols is different that supports x protocol So very close examination of a product that claims to support x protocol is required I think. For some protocols to be fully supported in a reasonable fashion they needed a kernel

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Dan Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Graeme Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Accepting that Bob has identified himself (and saying he is without providing any means of verification such as company name, contact details, web address etc is borderline identification

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Darrell May
Graeme Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At the worst he is a troll subverting the list. Graeme, enough is enough please. If it is beyond you to apologize to Bob for this name calling, that is your choice. However, there is definitely no need to continue. Even in our worst heated exchanges

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread w9ya
On Friday 08 February 2002 08:18 pm, Graeme Robinson wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote: I think it's not wise to post things like this without being more thorough. w9ya is Bob Finch, as he posted a little earlier. I don't agree with him, but I won't insult him because of it.

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread P. Sanchez
Has anyone look at Astaro? http://www.astaro.com http://www.astaro.com/products/ http://www.astaro.org/ it uses kernel 2.4. Placido Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.geocities.com/lapsch -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, w9ya wrote: An example; Open H323 Proxy and H323 Gatekeeper are reported to work with 2.4 firewall/gateways, and is reported as such here; http://www.clarkconnect.org/forums/Forum4/HTML/01.html It does appear that this combination of software can allow H323 to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Brady
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Blake Girardot wrote: How to port 2.2 modules to 2.4 (sort of): http://netfilter.samba.org/documentation/HOWTO//netfilter-hacking-HOWTO.html sort of is somewhat of an understatement: ... Next Previous Contents 5. Translating 2.0 and 2.2 Packet Filter Modules Look at

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules

2002-02-08 Thread w9ya
On Friday 08 February 2002 10:51 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, w9ya wrote: An example; Open H323 Proxy and H323 Gatekeeper are reported to work with 2.4 firewall/gateways, and is reported as such here; http://www.clarkconnect.org/forums/Forum4/HTML/01.html It does appear that