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SME Server 8.0 Release Notes |
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21 May 2012 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 8.0 which is based on CentOS 5.8 |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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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 and |
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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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As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
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development. |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Thanks |
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The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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themselves with this release. |
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Notes |
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1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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3. Please note 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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You can download SME8.0 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Major changes since beta 7 |
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* No major changes were introduced since beta 7 |
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Major changes in beta 7 |
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* Require authentication for all emails, including local. |
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* Optional - to use ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems |
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(except for /boot). At the boot prompt use "ext4" or "sme ext4". |
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*** ext4 is considered experimental, so use with caution *** |
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* Optional - LDAP authentication can be enabled. Once enabled it cannot |
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be disabled, so experiment with care. |
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To enable: db configuration setprop ldap Authentication enabled |
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Major changes in beta 5 |
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======================= |
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The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling |
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reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they |
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want because of the PHP version constituted a compelling reason. |
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PHP 5.2.10: is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2. |
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5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce. |
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Changes in this release |
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======================= |
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This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out |
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by SME-associated developers since 2009 where the most recent changes |
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to the package are dated after February 2010. The package changelogs |
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often included earlier changes and changes carried out by non-SME- |
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associated developers; these were removed to shorten the list. Packages |
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recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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not included. |
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Backups |
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- Provide support for Selective Restore with modern browsers |
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- Remove default index.htm from Primary ibay before restore |
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- Allow backup reports to go to an alternate user instead of admin |
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for Workstation Backups |
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- Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks. |
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- Do not make backup fail when due to a modified file. |
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- Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup |
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destination' in the Configure Workstation Backup panel. |
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- Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. |
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Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not |
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restricted to only USB disks. |
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- Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number. |
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- Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during |
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software update. |
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- Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email. |
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- A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of |
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open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed |
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if a MySQL database has a very large number of tables. |
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- Restoring from a Workstation Backup showed a false failure. |
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- Workstation Backup emails include a To: header. |
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- Workstation Backup includes the system name and also indicates failure |
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if applicable in the subject line of the email. |
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- Update backup instructions in server-manager. |
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- The Workstation Backup panel now removes leading and trailing spaces |
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from the hostname. |
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- Fix removal of leading slash in storage location. |
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- The Workstation backup to USB panel no longer presents mounted disks. |
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- Only define Workstation Backup temporary directory once. |
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- Remove relocate_samba_file and all references to /etc/smbpasswd. |
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- Improved upgrade compatibility, remove .orig |
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- create mount point for verify |
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- remove comment re smbpasswd being last |
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- Fix mounting usb disks |
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- Don't backup more than once per day |
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- Fix full backup on Sunday diplayed as Everyday |
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- Add more excludes for compressed filetypes |
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- Porting Jean-Paul Leclere changes in the SME Server 7 tree to SME |
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Server 8: |
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- using credentials file for cifs mount |
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- workstation backup: add cifs credentials expand to |
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bootstrap-console-save |
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- workstation backup: allow many backups in the same day |
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- workstation restore: all needed backups must be available before |
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restore |
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- workstation verify: add option to check integrity of backups needed in |
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a full restore |
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- Fix DAR e-mail message with regards to incremental backups |
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- Fix discrepancy in maximum compression level |
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- Fix console backup from removable media |
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- Fix console restore from removable media (Federico Simoncelli) |
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- Auto-mount USB REV70-drive as usbdisk |
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File Server |
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- Gracefully handle upgrades from SerNet Samba (SME7 TO SME8 VITH YUM) |
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- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. |
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- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). |
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- Use samba3x package for windows 7 compatibility. |
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- Remove require strong key part of regedit file. |
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- Backup all the samba tdb files. |
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- Add dependency /usr/bin/tdbbackup. |
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- Create/remove V2 profile directories |
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- Enable bindinterfaces by default |
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- Set recyle bin permissions |
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- Add registry file to server-resources to allow windows 7 to join Samba |
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3.x domains |
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- Fix warnings in template expansion |
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- Fix migrate fragments for samba |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) |
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- Create samba account during event for machine |
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- Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP |
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- Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account |
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- Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership |
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- Fix cpu critical patch missing ' |
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- LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb |
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- Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database |
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- Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed |
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- Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with |
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regards to LDAP |
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- Fix create user gid parameter |
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- Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script |
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- All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP |
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- Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP |
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- Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master |
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- Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled |
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- Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database |
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- Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix |
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- Change script order: ldap-update should be called after |
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domain-group-maps |
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- LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department |
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- LDAP changes: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config |
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- Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype |
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- Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates |
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- Change startup order for ldap |
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- ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords |
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- Add ldap as an auth type to radius |
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- Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled) |
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- Fix ldap-create errors when adding empty groups. |
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- The LDAP information for admin was not being updated. |
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- Don't try to save ibay password to LDAP. |
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- Fix admin user password change (Daniel B.) |
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- Init database if the ldif dump is empty (ie from sme8b) |
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- revert re-init database |
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- re-init readonly database on post-upgrade |
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- Force SSL/TLS for remote authentication |
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- reuse users_groups_ous.patch2 |
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- Separate groups and users with mailboxRelatedObject |
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- Set readonly access |
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- Fix ldap-update action script to user-lock event |
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- Add Groups entries |
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- Add admin user as a standard user |
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- Add ldap-update action script to user-lock event |
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- Add ldap authentication and tls support |
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- Update schema for newer openldap and remove calFBurl |
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- Convert ldif dump |
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- Create bdb log directory |
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- Change ldap backend to bdb, and fix initialisation problem |
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Localisation |
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- Other fixes include updated translations for the existing languages. |
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- Add Chinese (Taiwan) language (zh_TW). |
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- Add Hebrew language (he). |
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- Fix translation of local nic string in console. |
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- Add Thai language |
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- Add Polish language |
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- Add Romanian language |
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- Add Estonian language |
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Mail Server |
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- Provide option to force the smtp proxy not to use CRAM-MD5 |
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config setprop smtp-auth-proxy PeerPort <port nr> |
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config setprop smtp-auth-proxy MD5Patch enabled |
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- Fix mail to domain pseudonyms pointing to group with dot in name |
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- Fix Mail Log File Analysis reports |
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- Set SO_KEEPALIVE option on client socket to detect dead connections |
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- Add template fragment for pyzor timeout |
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- Remove spamd restart from bootstrap-console-save event |
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- Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external |
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address. |
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- Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. |
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- Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy. |
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- Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary. |
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- Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts. |
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- Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled. |
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- Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work |
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- Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no |
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headers. |
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- Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors. |
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- Fix SMTP proxy wording in server-manager. |
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- Fix SMTP auth wording in server-manager. |
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- New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of |
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mail logfiles. |
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- Disable by default the SMTP transparent proxy, however upgrades from |
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sme7 will retain old default behavior where SMTP connections will be |
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transparently proxied. |
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- Implement a database key (TlsBeforeAuth) to allow SMTP |
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Authentication without TLS. The default remains to require TLS before |
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Auth (introduced in SME 8Beta5). |
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- Update qpsmtpd to 0.84 |
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- Config setting to enable SMTP to ISP Authentication Debug now uses |
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enabled/disabled for clarity. |
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- Fix HeloHost patch. |
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- Remove cron.daily jobs that are no longer needed. |
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- Update email addresses on domain change. |
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- Work around how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
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- Use HeloHost (if present) in smtp-auth-proxy.pl |
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- Allow for changing SPAM subject tag through server-manager |
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- Move creation of chrooted dev/urandom to spec-file |
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- Create chroot dev/urandom for stunnel to use |
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- Updated spec file to require php-pear(HTTP_Request) |
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- SMTPSmartHost template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups |
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- smtproutes template incorrectly uses brackets to avoid MX lookups |
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- Remove qmail-workaround and obsolete it after patch to treat 0.0.0.0 |
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as a local ip |
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- Remove spool and log dir from package (in smeserver-qpsmtpd) |
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- Don't create smtpd user (unused in sme) |
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- Apply qpsmtpd git changesets to implement custom SPAM subject prefix |
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- Update pre requires so scripts don't fail on install |
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- Rebase bad_rcptto patch to remove orig file |
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- Change logging in tls init to prevent warnings |
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- Only run/initialize plugins once |
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- Change spool dir permissions and owner to qpsmtpd:clamav |
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- Change log dir permissions and owner to smelog:smelog |
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- don't add qpsmtpd to start-up by default |
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- add apache config file to qpsmtpd-apache package |
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- use rpm macros for dirs |
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- use a filelist for main package instead of a long list of files |
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- Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log |
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- Remove create option from logrotate configuration |
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- Setup logrotate for /var/log/clamd/smeserver-clamscan.log |
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- Fix permissions on freshclam.conf file |
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- Add HeuristicScanPrecedence option, default to yes |
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- Obsolete e-smith-antivirus |
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- Enable qpsmtpd RequireResolvableFromHost plugin by default, remove |
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database entry and the database default value |
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- Tie template fragment into event system to have it expanded |
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- Add qpsmtpd template fragment for custom SPAM subject prefix |
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- Remove FuzzyOcr |
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- Run sa-update every two hours and check restart every hour |
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- Redirect cron job output to logfile to avoid mail noise |
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- Fix invalid service name in sa-update |
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Server manager |
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- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. |
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- Improve the HTML formatting of the modify quota panel. |
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- Remove empty <p> tag from footer template. |
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- Only display error messages intended for admin in server-manager |
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- Fix css validation errors. |
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- display reconfigure warning once if UnsavedChanges=yes |
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- Fix unitialized value errors in HTML.pm |
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Webmail and Groupware |
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- Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5 |
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- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional |
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identities. |
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- Add the ability to have a local LDAP Group Address book. |
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- Templated attributes.php to add ability to have multiple email |
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values for a contact. Separate entries with a comma and a space. |
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- Update to freebusy info in sources.php |
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- Update to remove turbaContact info that SME is not using. |
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- Change horde's templated mime_drivers.php file so some additional |
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settings can be customized |
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- Make sure username is always saved in lowercase to horde db's |
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- Updated spec file to remove requires and obsoletes of |
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php-pear-HTTP-Request information moved to e-smith-imp for both sme7 |
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and sme8 |
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- Update to Spec file to obsolete smeserver-trean < 0.1-8 |
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- Patch to conf.php template to set a blank cookie domain so that FQDN |
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and non-FQDN access to webmail will work. |
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- Remove klutz template from registry.php |
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- Template imp's mime_drivers.php file so some settings can be |
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customized |
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Web Server |
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- Enable automatic redirection for /server-resources |
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- Disable SSLv2 by default. |
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- make user 'apache' an alias for user 'www'. |
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- Default expose_php in php.ini to Off. |
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- Add option to disable SSLv2 |
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- Add OpenOffice2 MIME Types |
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- Add OpenOffice MIME Types |
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- Add XML MIME Type |
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- Add Microsoft Office 2007 MIME types |
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Other fixes and updates |
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- Add MAC address into console network selection |
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- Fix non-translated locale in ibays panel |
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- Improve error message for quota |
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- Obsolete smeserver-php5-cgi & php-mcrypt |
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- Initialize ExternalInterface db structure so hwaddr in console works. |
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- Option to select ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems at boot prompt. |
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- Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well. |
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- Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only. |
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- Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC. |
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- Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories. |
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- Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf. |
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- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. |
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- Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add |
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FQDN). |
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- Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks |
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- Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be |
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inserted in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address. |
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- Add validator back for ip or cname entry. |
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- Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts |
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- Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be |
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configured by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift. |
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- Set the TimeZone property earlier, so templates can rely on it. |
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- Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and |
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ClientAliveCountMax to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by |
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network inactivity. |
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- New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration. |
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- Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration. |
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- Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units. |
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- Obsolete magic_quotes_gpc settings. |
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- Set default timezone for php version 5.3.3. |
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- Handle no network interface scenario in console. |
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- Do not allow pool.ntp.org as NTP server. |
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- Prepare for obsoletion of magic_quotes* when we supply PHP 5.3.0+ |
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- Fix missing space causing errors parsing the iptables rules. |
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- Migrate MirrorList properties to sme8 repos. |
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- Remove BaseURL properties if migrating to sme8 repos. |
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- Remove yum databases and repodata if migrating to sme8 repos. |
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- Enable cpuspeed by default. |
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- Fix scriplet error in e-smith-service script when service is disabled. |
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- Allow use of CNAME in remote hosts. |
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- Add Obsoletes for php5-cgi-{imap,ldap,mysql,pear,xmlrpc}. |
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- Restate smartd dependency. |
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- Fix gettext errors in WAN/LAN subnet error message |
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- Improve security by using SHA1 algorithm for certificate signing |
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- Fix eth? swapping |
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- Bump certificate encryption from 1024 bits to 2048 bits |
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- Add a dummy call so xgettext can pull translated $ifName in console |
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configuration pages. |
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- Translate $ifName in console configuration pages |
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- Prevent IP conflicts between local and external interface in server |
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gateway mode |
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- Clean up: remove unused nonetworkdrivers |
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- Clean up stray symlinks in /lib/modules before depmod |
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- Allow for different mdadm output formats for DeviceSize |
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- Add compiled python files to the packaged files list |
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- Update path for 64-bit compatibility |
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- Remove hiddenmenu entry from grub.conf |
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- adds the hwaddr parameter to probeAdapters() |
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- Update path for 64-bit compatibility |
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- Add patch (Federico Simoncelli) to prevent re-use of uids |
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- Fix log-error detection algorithm |
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- Fix another instance of ups model for new version of nut |
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- Template sshd login grace time, kept default at 600s |
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- Enable port forwards to localhost if mode is serveronly |
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- Adjust xml entry in locale |
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- Add option to limit port forwards from source ip |
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- Remove unnecessary Mount Proc line |
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- Fix owner/perms for radius files |
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- Fix typo in /sbin/service patch (Federico Simoncelli) |
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- Exit with zero exit status for services not listed in configuration |
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database to avoid failures in post scriptlets |
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- Merge in SME Server /sbin/e-smith/service wrapper so that only |
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initscripts which exist in run-level 7 can be run. This ensures that |
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the supervised service is run, if one exists, and protects against |
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running "service httpd restart" |
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- Add requires on e-smith-lib so www user is created first |
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- Fix regular expression to actually replace the colon with a dot |
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- Remove the leading path for yum in newrpms |
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- only unlink file if we created it |
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- Import only keys not already imported |
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- set unsaved changes in yum event |
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- move yum warming to sme yum plugin |
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- ensure file exists before unlinking |
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- remove semicolons from yum plugin |
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- Add frequency of updates toggle |
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- Add /etc/yum.smerepos.d to package |
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- Change SME mirrorlists to point to ibiblio |
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- Require mailx |
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- Add yum-protect-packages support to prevent removal of needed pacakges |
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General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.8 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.14 2012/03/19 15:13:47 wellsi Exp $ |
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