El lun, 10-12-2007 a las 17:07 +0300, Reinier Battenberg escribió: > Hi, > > I need to do an assessment of software that can handle a small network with > about 10 concurrent users. In our office we are currently using smeserver, > but on all our internet-servers and client machines we use (k)ubuntu. > > The current development in the ubuntu area we therefor find very interesting. > > As i am on a 64kbps line somewhere in africa, downloading ubuntu server and > ebox will take me forever, i would like to ask a few questions beforehand: > > - The ebox allows for the installation of other software (packages). Would > that mean you can freely install (for example) apache, mysql and > mediawiki/joomla/moodle ?
You may change your source lists and install the software you may need. Always compatible with Sarge and, in the future, Ubuntu. > - Can those applications easily use the LDAP server to authenticate? The class object used is 'PosixAccount', I think the standard one. > - Can backups be done incremental? or will the backup software copy all of > the > user-files & config every time a backup is ran? There are two kinds of backups (both full ones). You can save only the configuration settings or save some additional data as mail, shared files, certificates.... > - Can backups be sceduled? No, currently, it's not implemented at eBox level. > - Can updates be sceduled? (Apt & ClamAV & Spamassasin) ClamAV downloads new virus signatures and every night Apt does an update. > - Can the admin website & ssh be configured to allow for remote management > easily? (from within ebox) Yeah. > - Can admin emails/notifications be sent to external email addresses? Currently, these notifications are sent via Jabber. In the future, the email will be addressed as well. > Hope those will generate a lot of one-word-anwsers (as in yes) > > thanx for the effort. Thanks for choosing eBox and best regards, _______________________________________________ Ebox-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
