Messages

1

Installation and Upgrades / Cannot Change User Password

« on: February 20, 2011, 07:24:44 pm »

I cannot change user passwords in my system.  I am not getting any error messages the browser reports that its uploading data however nothing ever changes.

These are the errors I'm getting in syslog.

Code: [Select]

Feb 20 13:19:52 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(50): no connection!
Feb 20 13:19:52 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(50): no connection!
Feb 20 13:20:01 HPDL145 CRON[17220]: (root) CMD (/usr/share/ebox-usersandgroups/slave-sync)
Feb 20 13:20:01 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(50): no connection!
Feb 20 13:20:19 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: last message repeated 3 times
Feb 20 13:20:19 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(51): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:22 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: last message repeated 103 times
Feb 20 13:21:22 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (jabberUid) not indexed
Feb 20 13:21:22 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (jabberUid) not indexed
Feb 20 13:21:22 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (maildrop) not indexed
Feb 20 13:21:32 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(45): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:32 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(45): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:33 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(43): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:33 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(43): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:37 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(47): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:37 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(47): no connection!
Feb 20 13:21:58 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (jabberUid) not indexed
Feb 20 13:21:58 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (jabberUid) not indexed
Feb 20 13:21:58 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (maildrop) not indexed
Feb 20 13:22:04 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(31): no connection!
Feb 20 13:22:04 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(31): no connection!
Feb 20 13:22:04 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(42): no connection!
Feb 20 13:22:04 HPDL145 slapd[7041]: connection_read(42): no connection!

Can anyone help with this error?

I am running the latest version of Zentyal 2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04.  Here is my version Info http://paste.ubuntu.com/569741/

Here is a paste of my ebox.log file.  http://paste.ubuntu.com/569749/ 

2

Installation and Upgrades / Re: IMAP Connection Failure

« on: September 08, 2010, 12:41:59 am »

Thank you for this tip.  I was having problems with this issue after the upgrade.  I'll bookmark this post so I know what to undo with the next upgrade to see if its fixed.

3

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Getting eBox to work on ARM

« on: August 09, 2010, 12:40:26 am »

I sure can.  I am using the Foxconn RS-233 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811153099&Tpk=rs-233

There are other cases available that fit this board.    http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007583%20600006318&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20

All of those cases fit ITX form factor boards.  I picked the RS-233 because it seemed to be the best of them.  Its also totally silent.

4

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Where Change the directory of profiles?smb.conf.mas?

« on: August 09, 2010, 12:20:52 am »

Ok this is going to be pretty easy.

If you want it quick and dirty this is how I would do it.  Create the share in eBox using whatever name you want. Then type the following command into the terminal.

sudo umount /dev/sdb
sudo mount /dev/sdb /home/samba/shares/putnamehere

This command is going to unmount the RAID array from its current location and remount it to the /home/samba/shares/putnamehere directory.

After you do this and you see that its working fine you need to make it permanent.  In order to do that you are going to have to change the /etc/fstab and redirect the mount point of the drive.

Please let me know if you have any problems or questions.

Edit:  I would say to make the mount point /home/samba/shares however that would take some additional steps.  Please let me know if thats the case and I'll write a guide for it

5

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Install Fail - Ubuntu Desktop - Is Server Edition REQUIRED?

« on: August 08, 2010, 05:37:22 pm »

My solution wasn't OS dependent.  X11 forwarding is a feature of SSH and can be utilized from any platform.  I could just as easily do the same thing from any OS.  And since its included with the eBox software I figured it was relevant.

Sorry I offend you.

6

Installation and Upgrades / eBox and Hyperthreading Performance

« on: August 08, 2010, 03:15:50 pm »

I have a eBox server setup on a Intel Atom D510 (Dual Core) and I was noticing a lot of lag in the system.  I was going through trying different options to speed it up and turned off the hyper-threading to see how it would perform.  To my amazement the system is roughly 50% faster while under load.  The eBox administration website is more responsive and my rsync transfers over my gigabit network went from 26MiB to 52MiB.

I did some quick searching around the internet and I discover that hyper-threading comes with some pretty hefty drawbacks.  Resources such as cache, the floating point unit, etc, are shared - so if these parts of the processor are being heavily utilised by one process then the other process may not get its fair share of these shared resources.  While the throughput of the processor can (*in some applications*) increase up to 30% using hyper-threading this comes with a lot of latency.  Some applications latency doesn't matter and this is not one of them.  

This latency was rearing its ugly head on my system even more because I'm using software raid and it was causing a snowball effect.  All the cores were waiting for a shared resource (my hard drive) and the mdadm software raid system was left scrambling trying to maintain itself.

While hyper-threading might be good for some things it appears eBox isn't one of them.

I know we all want our servers to perform at their peak efficiency so I figured I would let everyone know my findings.

7

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Where Change the directory of profiles?smb.conf.mas?

« on: August 08, 2010, 02:35:07 pm »

No that isn't quite what I meant.  Modifying the smb.conf.mas should be a last resort.  I was referring to turning the directory "/home/samba/shares/yourshare" into a symbolic link, linking to another location in the file system.  Or you could create a symbolic link in the location you wish to access the files and have it point to the "/home/samba/shares/yourshare"

I think the far better solution is to mount your file system where you want it.  

Example:
mount /dev/sdd1 /home/samba/shares

Then you could have a 2nd, 3rd, etc, etc hard drive devoted to that purpose.

Example:
/  = 30gb SSD Hard Drive
/home/samba/shares/documents  =  250gb Drive
/home/samba/shares/applications  = 250gb Drive
/home/samba/shares/cindy  =  1tb Drive

Give me more information about what you want to do and I'll tell you the way I would do it.

8

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Getting eBox to work on ARM

« on: August 08, 2010, 07:29:16 am »

I am using Atom D510 to run ebox and they work great.  It makes a fantastic network appliance.  If you guys are looking for a small form factor unit that is the solution.

I measured the power use using my Kill A Watt meter and it uses 49 watts maximum.  Thats with 2 hard drives in the case.  The power use could be further decreased by using a better power supply (pico psu) however I'm pretty happy with 49 watts.

I just thought I would throw in my 2cents.

9

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Where Change the directory of profiles?smb.conf.mas?

« on: August 08, 2010, 07:22:19 am »

I just went through the configuration file and took a look.  While I can say it IS possible to do what you guys are requesting it would be a big pain in the you know what.

Code: [Select]

% foreach my $group (@dirgroup) {
[<% $group->{'sharename'} %>]
 comment = "<% __x('{group} share directory', group => $group->{'groupname'}) %$
 path = <% $group->{'path'} %>
 valid users = @"<% $group->{'groupname'} %>"
 force group = "<% $group->{'groupname'} %>"
As you can see by this little snippet that I put in above everything is setup using variables from the ebox system.  It would require a lot of work to change the directories.

Well there is the bad news here is the good news.

Ubuntu allows you to mount a file system anywhere you desire.  You could easily mount a 2nd drive and have it be the /home/samba directory.  If anyone needs assistance with this I would be more than glad to help.

The other option that could be possible would be to use a symbolic link to the path of your choice.  I'm not for sure if samba respects symbolic links though.

Hope this helps

10

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Install Fail - Ubuntu Desktop - Is Server Edition REQUIRED?

« on: August 08, 2010, 07:08:57 am »

Here is what I would do if I wanted it on a Desktop version.  I would install from the alternate cd and I would specify to install both the Ubuntu Server, and the gnome or kde window system.

I have to ask though.  Why would you want the machine setup as a desktop?  By default ebox installs the required X11 components to allow for X11 forwarding.  I am running firefox via X11 to my Windows 7 box as I type.  Personally I would install Xming on your desktop and use the X11 forwarding versus having a full blown desktop OS running on the server.

Hope this helps

11

Installation and Upgrades / Re: eBox ftp module feedback

« on: August 07, 2010, 09:07:15 pm »

Then go to the Status setting and uncheck the box in the status column for ftp. After saving, you will now be able to edit the configuration for vsftp manually without risking that it gets overwritten again.

You find the configuration for vsftpd in /etc/vsftpd.conf and you can edit it from the commandline by using

I have a question about how the configuration files of ebox work.  Wouldn't it be better to edit the /usr/share/ebox/stubs/ftp/vsftpd.conf.mas  file versus trying to fight the system?  I'm guessing that sooner or later the system is going to overwrite changes to /etc/vsftpd.conf with the configuration found in the stubs.

It seems from the modifications I've done so far that you have to modify in the stubs if it exists there.  If the item isn't in the stubs you just modify the configuration files normally (in usual place).

I've been working on a bunch of changes to ebox (VoIP) that I'll share once I get them all tested

I'm still new to ebox and I'm just trying to learn.

12

Installation and Upgrades / Re: Not working: system, network, users, http proxy, firewall, etc.

« on: August 07, 2010, 01:20:21 pm »

More information is needed.

Did you follow the instructions http://trac.ebox-platform.com/wiki/Document/Documentation/InstallationGuide  ?

I just did an install last night and its working perfectly.

13

Installation and Upgrades / Re: [SOLVED] [Ad Block Feature] HTTP Proxy (Squid + Adzapper)

« on: August 07, 2010, 11:28:10 am »

I thought I would add a little proof of how good this really is.

This is a screen shot of the website without the Adzapper running.



This is a screen shot of the same website with Adzapper running.



Which would you rather read??  Notice how you can read the entire article in the 2nd picture.  
This is with a totally bone stock copy of Firefox.  No extensions or plugins.

If anyone uses this please leave a post.  It will put a smile on my face

14

Installation and Upgrades / Re: [SOLVED] [Ad Block Feature] HTTP Proxy (Squid + Adzapper)

« on: August 06, 2010, 09:11:52 pm »

Hi there,

Thanks very much for sharing this! 

It is really appreciated.

Best,

I'm glad I could contribute something.  I plan to lend my assistance with documentation and any features that I can possibly add to make ebox better.


+1 Vote for Adzapper to become a "tick" box    (Should be just a few lines of code)

15

Installation and Upgrades / Re: i can't join PDC server with any client

« on: August 06, 2010, 03:23:42 am »

Great   No problem glad I could help

Be sure to modify the subject of the original post with [Solved]