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SME Server 7.4 Release Announcement |
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November 21 2008 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes |
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in this release are the use dar for backups and the change to UTF-8 |
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along with translation into 6 additional languages. |
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All SME Server users should upgrade to this release. |
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The release should be obtained from your closest mirror, see |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised |
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in the bug tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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Please Note |
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It may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License |
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and is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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Thanks |
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The development team would like to thank all of those involved in |
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this release. However, this distribution cannot continue with the |
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current level of support. More people are required to help with |
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bug triage and verification testing. |
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This release contains many new features, all released updates for |
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SME Server 7.3 and fixes for many reported problems. Upgrades |
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will be available by CD, the Software Installer and command line. |
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Upgrades |
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- Always perform a backup prior to major system upgrades |
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- An upgrade will preserve the existing data |
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Changes in this release |
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Installer |
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- Fix grub label to keep consistent with the SME Server brand. |
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Mail system changes |
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- Introduce a web interface to configure the pseudonym "visible" property |
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(internal|external) |
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- New feature now allows a "catch all" situation where you have the ability |
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to redirect "@virtualdomain1.com" to user "joe". |
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- Fix the "Ugly" log messages (Use of uninitialized value) when spam checking |
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results in 0 hits. |
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- Emails sent to a null address like ""@domain without the username part |
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are now rejected. |
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- qplogsumm is a optional feature that should be disabled by default. |
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- A request that the log information is reduced with the default loglevel |
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setting of 6 in qpsmtpd. |
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- Support for sending mail to ISP via Secure SMTP |
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- Enable the auth plugin for local lan connections |
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- Migrate (remove) "ordb.net" from the RBL lists to prevent mail bouncing. |
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- Remove blackhole.securitysage.com as service no longer in use. |
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- Remove sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org from default lists and use a more improved |
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list in zen.spamhaus.org. |
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Console |
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- Improved validation will check password on first enter password screen |
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before verifying if too simple then asking to verify and proceed to |
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configuration of server. |
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- Passwords should be validated for strength on first entry rather than |
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waiting for the second confirmation entry. |
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- The console should validate passwords using the common method, |
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using esmith::util::validatePassword |
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- The last item in the server console, "Exit from server console", is removed |
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as it is redundant. |
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- Display frames in console server-manager. |
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When browsing server-manager through console pressing 'H' goes to |
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http://localhost/server-manager |
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Backups |
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- Backups now use dar which enables a backup to consist of more than 2GB |
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of data to a workstation in any of the following supported methods: |
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cifs, nfs or local usb disk. It also gives the option to set how many |
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rotating backups are required and allows to split size of backup |
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to DVD size. |
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- Removed 'restore from desktop' functionality |
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- The error codes from tar are now logged, in line with flexbackup, and do not |
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cause a backup to fail. |
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- A Iomeage USB REV-drive was by default mounted in /media as a cdrom device. |
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It is now automagically mounted as an usbdisk so it can be used as a backup |
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device without manual intervention. |
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- Set dar compression to default to gzip |
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- dar backup to be less verbose in panel |
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- Correct mounting for usb disks |
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- no compression for ogg media files |
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- Make dar use defined list of directories to backup |
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- Remove obsolete smbfs backup method |
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Localisation |
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As part of a major update with translations we have added six new |
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languages and made it much easier to add other languages in the |
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future. |
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We now support the following languages in the server-manager: Danish, |
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Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, |
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Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. |
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We have made major strides to assist the non-English community by |
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using a tool called pootle. This is a web based translation tool that |
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will allow new languages to be added and existing languages to be more |
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easily maintained. |
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We have cleaned up a lot of the packages as a part of getting them to |
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work with pootle. Another big change as part of this upgrade is the |
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switch from ISO-8859-1 (Latin) charset to UTF-8 (Universal) charset, |
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this will allow us to support languages that don't use latin |
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characters (like Greek). |
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Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. |
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Software Installer |
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- smeextras repository added, it is used for building the installer and ISO |
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- The yum-update event now includes the yum-import-keys action to allow |
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users to update yum packages and configuration without rebooting, |
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which enables updating when there is a compatibility problem. |
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- Correct yum-update-dbs action to adjust yum service properly. |
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- The BaseURL property has been removed for repos with mirrorlists. |
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- The message "This system is up to date." is displayed if no updates are |
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available. |
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Webmail |
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- Horde, imp, turbo and ingo have been updated to the latest versions |
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- Support the ability to save user kronolith free/busy information to the LDAP |
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database. |
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- Servers with a custom template for 110AppRegistryHorde found webmail no |
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longer worked. |
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- The name of the webmail installation is now configurable. |
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To use - config setprop horde Name xxxx ; signal-event email-update. |
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Server manager |
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- The name of the log file being viewed via the Server Manager 'View log |
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files' is now displayed as the first line. |
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- Disabling the daily update check in the server-manager did not stop the |
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check4updates task sending mail to the server administrator. |
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- Server-manager > printers > add printer - now advises users to avoid |
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certain names and descriptions as this causes printer state to be incorrect. |
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- Fix the Unknown heading in server-manager after an update. |
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- Fix inconsistency within the navigation.xx files which no longer adds extra |
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spaces and newlines in panel headers. |
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- The Anti-virus (ClamAV) panel text was updated to remove the word 'entire' |
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as this could be misleading. |
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- Allow server-manager to successfully create a one character user account. |
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- After adding a user and trying to set password via server-manager or |
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user-password using the ";" sign you encountered a "white screen of |
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death". This was due to the version of perl-Object-Persistence being used. |
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- Remove the last 'pleasewait' message as it is no longer needed. |
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- The button to add a new user in the server-manager was missing due to a |
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problem with the free/busy code in usermanager causing the panel to exit. |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Updated Samba resolves various file sharing problems |
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- The length of an Ibay name is now configurable via maxIbayNameLength |
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- The Samba "unix extensions" are turned off for Mac compatibility |
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- radiusd.conf allows support for additional authentication methods |
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- Ability to modify pseudonyms with special characters |
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- Prevent NameServer being set to current IP of SME Server |
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- Allow support for server side includes for ibays when a directory is |
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browsed. |
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- Made mtu/mru settings configurable. |
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- Increased the templating in php.ini |
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- Fixed timezone detection issues for certain timezones during certificate |
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generation |
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- Added support for cciss RAID controller |
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- Enable a new feature to allow admin to have own password not shared with |
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root. |
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- nut is now started after the network to avoid mails to the admin mailbox |
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about lost communication. |
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- e-smith-openssh contained unused template fragments were removed. |
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- ibays can now be set as non-browsable (hidden), but accessible via their |
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UNC. An ibay can be hidden by setting the Browsable property to disabled. |
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- Suspicious string scanning (supscan) has been disabled due |
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to being CPU and I/O intensive and prone to producing false positives.. |
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- The audittool script has been updated to also identify modified events. |
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- If a custom motd was used this could have been sent with the smolt data, now |
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only the version from e-smith-release is sent. |
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- The wrong URL was shown for the smolt profile, it has been updated to |
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http://smolt.contribs.org/ |
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- Patch djbdns around TCP bug: http://alkemio.org/dns_transmit-bug.html |
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- Change license of djbdns to "Public Domain' - |
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http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html |
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- Do not display symlinks via ftp. |
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- New LPRng where both inbuilt filters as well as smbprint filters work. |
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- Resolved false positives that were being reported by rkhunter. |
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- Move the clamav scan schedule to the correct crontab file for ease of use. |
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- Use yum installonlyn plugin to keep only the last 5 kernels. |
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- Change Wpad URL to match system domain to enable the Wpad feature. |
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- dnscache will now ignore referrals when in forwardonly mode. |
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- On servers with no ibays and less than two users the shadow-copy-rotate |
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script would fail. |
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- Correct the step-ticker to pool.ntp.org hosts. |
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- Hide normally hidden files from view when using roaming profiles. |
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- The dungog yum repository has been obsoleted as the packages are in |
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smecontribs. |
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- When a user is deleted from the server-manager his/her pseudonyms should not |
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appear in any configuration file. |
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General features |
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- Based on CentOS 4.7 and all available updates |
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There are a few differences from previous releases <=7.2 |
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After installing for the very first time: |
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- First night you may receive an email from cron about sa_updates. |
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- First night you should receive a large email saying a bunch of |
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groups/users were removed/added (rkhunter email notification). |
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- Any time you change users/groups you will receive an email the next day |
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about those changes (rkhunter email notification). |
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