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Installation and Upgrades / No way to disable local backup of eBox in 1.2.2
« on: December 16, 2009, 08:00:32 am »
Backup is apparently backing up / into a directory of my choosing. In the old eBox 1.2, I could disable this, in new eBox 1.2.2, I cannot disable this.
Forums aren't allowing uploads anymore so I have moved the files to: http://badmarkup.com/ebox/
Forums aren't allowing uploads anymore so I have moved the files to: http://badmarkup.com/ebox/
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Installation and Upgrades / Borken eBox (won't start) because of foomatic-db
« on: August 18, 2009, 05:15:45 am »
ebox got all screwed up on me. I can't get it to start: Cannot write to '/var/log/ebox/ebox.log': Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Log/Dispatch/File.pm line 86.
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Installation and Upgrades / Remaking the eBox sidebar (discussion help needed)
« on: August 10, 2009, 03:45:08 pm »
Hey all. I said I'd help remake the eBox sidebar, but there's no way to do that without scapping the sidebar and making something new.
Here's what the sidebar looks like now in full: http://www.kevinghadyani.info/files/ebox/eBox%20Platform.html. I've been trying to think up ways to just completely scrap it, but I do that best when I have some sort of discussion going for some reason so I'm here making this thread specifically for that very reason.
Can people please give up some ideas? I am having trouble unless I can do some kind of one-on-one or group chat about this. Whenever I get a job in the business world, it's always to figure out what's wrong with things and fix them in new and innovative ways. Problem is, I usually have people I can discuss things with which is why I'm calling on eBox users to help out.
Thanks!
Here's what the sidebar looks like now in full: http://www.kevinghadyani.info/files/ebox/eBox%20Platform.html. I've been trying to think up ways to just completely scrap it, but I do that best when I have some sort of discussion going for some reason so I'm here making this thread specifically for that very reason.
Can people please give up some ideas? I am having trouble unless I can do some kind of one-on-one or group chat about this. Whenever I get a job in the business world, it's always to figure out what's wrong with things and fix them in new and innovative ways. Problem is, I usually have people I can discuss things with which is why I'm calling on eBox users to help out.
Thanks!
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Installation and Upgrades / Lost eBox access via https
« on: August 03, 2009, 01:42:00 pm »
http://pastebin.com/d7f0e0bb7
That's strange enough. My uptime is just extremely high, and I can't access eBox from Firefox or w3m. I'm lost. I tried stopping certain services and doing a lot of different things. I wound up opening up 10 sessions of bandwidthd, that wasn't fun. I just rebooted and let it go. I had to manually start apache from /etc/init.d/ebox apache restart. Other than that, I'm really lost here.
Oh wait, it finally worked! I finally got there. YES! Hopefully someone can help me figure out why it took forever and why aptitude wants me to remove eBox.
That's strange enough. My uptime is just extremely high, and I can't access eBox from Firefox or w3m. I'm lost. I tried stopping certain services and doing a lot of different things. I wound up opening up 10 sessions of bandwidthd, that wasn't fun. I just rebooted and let it go. I had to manually start apache from /etc/init.d/ebox apache restart. Other than that, I'm really lost here.
Oh wait, it finally worked! I finally got there. YES! Hopefully someone can help me figure out why it took forever and why aptitude wants me to remove eBox.
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Installation and Upgrades / Typo on the Website
« on: July 22, 2009, 01:20:00 pm »
"Configurable network interfaces (eth, PPPoE and Wifi), virtual interfaces, virtual local networks" Should be Ethernet and Wi-Fi, not eth and Wifi. Source ~ http://www.ebox-technologies.com/products/gateway/
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Installation and Upgrades / Jabber module + Connecting to external Jabber server causes massive issues
« on: July 22, 2009, 12:14:36 am »
I setup my domain with Google Apps but the webserver is on the eBox. I turned on Jabber in eBox and had one of my eBox users setup as the Jabber account that would be IMing out to my personal gmail account. Then I had the Jabber module in eBox set to connect to external Jabber networks. I went into monitor and saw attached image 1. Then I lost all contact w/ the box. Eventually, I tried to stop the Jabber service through terminal (/etc/init.d/ebox jabber stop), and it failed every time.
After an hour of fiddling around with the slowest SSH session I'd been in and internal LAN pings of over 150ms, I ended up restarting the entire system. I was unable tojust restart eBox because of the slow speed of the system. See attached image 2 to see what it looked like after I restarted. I manually had to enable /etc/init.d/ebox apache start. And then a few other modules were still turned off. Jabber was apparently missing anytime I tried to stop it. I checked in terminal and in eBox and Jabber was disabled yet eBox said, in the dashboard, that it was still running. Going into apt-get and installing ebox jabber lead to the removal of Jabber in eBox including the module selection screen, the software management area, and the sidebar.
When I went into aptitude it said there are a bunch of modules no longer in use that it wanted to uninstall like snort which I know is used and enabled by IDS. I did not uninstall these, in fact, I want to get eBox working again like it should have. I think I'm going to forgo Jabber even if it becomes working again, I'll just stick with RSS and file logging, the most reliable dispatchers for me at the moment. Still, if I run aptitude, I might actually do a lot of harm to eBox by mistake so hopefully I can fix this before I do that. My system has been working fine since though.
I understand it probably wasn't a good idea to enable a Jabber server to the outside world when another was working, but here's a good instance of what happens if one is already setup and the dispatcher is set to connect to it.
After an hour of fiddling around with the slowest SSH session I'd been in and internal LAN pings of over 150ms, I ended up restarting the entire system. I was unable tojust restart eBox because of the slow speed of the system. See attached image 2 to see what it looked like after I restarted. I manually had to enable /etc/init.d/ebox apache start. And then a few other modules were still turned off. Jabber was apparently missing anytime I tried to stop it. I checked in terminal and in eBox and Jabber was disabled yet eBox said, in the dashboard, that it was still running. Going into apt-get and installing ebox jabber lead to the removal of Jabber in eBox including the module selection screen, the software management area, and the sidebar.
When I went into aptitude it said there are a bunch of modules no longer in use that it wanted to uninstall like snort which I know is used and enabled by IDS. I did not uninstall these, in fact, I want to get eBox working again like it should have. I think I'm going to forgo Jabber even if it becomes working again, I'll just stick with RSS and file logging, the most reliable dispatchers for me at the moment. Still, if I run aptitude, I might actually do a lot of harm to eBox by mistake so hopefully I can fix this before I do that. My system has been working fine since though.
I understand it probably wasn't a good idea to enable a Jabber server to the outside world when another was working, but here's a good instance of what happens if one is already setup and the dispatcher is set to connect to it.
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Installation and Upgrades / IPv6 Tunneling & eBox IPv6 DHPC
« on: July 21, 2009, 08:57:46 am »
Anyone tried IPv6? I have a tunnel going, but I'm wondering if I should install dhcp6 myself or wait for ebox.
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Installation and Upgrades / Upgrading eBox to alphas specifically 1.1.41 this time
« on: July 12, 2009, 09:18:06 am »
Anytime I do upgrades, I normally get errors that the /ebox/ folder it's trying to install to isn't owned by the current user no matter if I'm root or a user.
Half of the time I do an upgrade for eBox, something breaks major and I have to manually recover. When restarting my server, the eth1, eth3, and eth3:1 don't come up for some reason w/ eBox. Also, this time, dhcpd3 wasn't wanting to run. After restarting my server I was finally able to get it to work. Something was also wrong w/ DNS but I dunno what the issue was. Other than DHCPd3, everything else was working surprisingly fine even my webserver, RAID, and other networked disks.
I hope this information helps. Maybe you guys can make some kinda script or module that checks to make sure I have all the packages installed right and stuff.
When trying to manually upgrade certain software packages which obviously aren't upgrading properly using the eBox automatic updates, I get this error:
Trying to save a Full Backup, I get this error:
I can't seem to access any of my shares. I think samba is down. Yeah, the File Sharing module was also disabled for some reason. It wanted me to save changes but it didn't appear to have anything to save so I don't know what happened there.
Now it's all working for me. There's my 1.1.41 upgrade experience for you. I usually upgrade every time something new hits which means I'm on the bleeding edge of eBox so to say.
Half of the time I do an upgrade for eBox, something breaks major and I have to manually recover. When restarting my server, the eth1, eth3, and eth3:1 don't come up for some reason w/ eBox. Also, this time, dhcpd3 wasn't wanting to run. After restarting my server I was finally able to get it to work. Something was also wrong w/ DNS but I dunno what the issue was. Other than DHCPd3, everything else was working surprisingly fine even my webserver, RAID, and other networked disks.
I hope this information helps. Maybe you guys can make some kinda script or module that checks to make sure I have all the packages installed right and stuff.
When trying to manually upgrade certain software packages which obviously aren't upgrading properly using the eBox automatic updates, I get this error:
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The packages installation has not finished correctly . More information on the logs
root command sh -c 'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" && /usr/bin/apt-get install --no-download -q --yes ebox-remoteservices' failed. Error output
I've had this error since 1.1.30. The messed up packages are attached.Trying to save a Full Backup, I get this error:
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Some error has happened in eBox:
Error dumping the postgresql database eboxlogsConfiguration backups work just fine.I can't seem to access any of my shares. I think samba is down. Yeah, the File Sharing module was also disabled for some reason. It wanted me to save changes but it didn't appear to have anything to save so I don't know what happened there.
Now it's all working for me. There's my 1.1.41 upgrade experience for you. I usually upgrade every time something new hits which means I'm on the bleeding edge of eBox so to say.
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Installation and Upgrades / Samba permissions can botch file owners
« on: June 20, 2009, 09:32:26 am »
I didn't realize this until now but I setup a Samba share for the entire / drive in eBox. I need this kind of functionality, only problem is, anytime I access files or folders, root becomes the owner. Well this makes SFTP difficult and this makes programs have issues bc now files and folders are root kinda like the config file you need to even run the program. I don't know if this is a bug or if there's some way to fix it or hopefully permanently fix it at the same time.
Thanks
Thanks
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Installation and Upgrades / Restarting DNS module, lose internal custom domains
« on: June 12, 2009, 03:04:44 pm »
I am using eBox as a webserver and the addresses always work externally, but internally, I keep having issues because restarting the DNS module will erase all my custom internal DNS settings. Should I remove the DNS module from the Modules page? If I do that will eBox still cache DNS requests server-side?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Installation and Upgrades / Orbit-ebox-usercorner error after installing alpha 1
« on: April 29, 2009, 12:38:49 pm »Code: [Select]
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main ebox-monitor 1.1.0~svn13415-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1 [46.0kB]
Fetched 46.0kB in 0s (65.4kB/s)
(Reading database ... 41034 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ebox-monitor 1.1.0~svn13380 (using .../ebox-monitor_1.1.0~svn13415-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ebox-monitor ...
Setting up ebox-monitor (1.1.0~svn13415-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1) ...
Subroutine get redefined at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/GConfModule.pm line 779.
WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-ebox-usercorner is not the current user
** (gconftool-2:11863): WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-ebox-usercorner is not the current userI get that multiple times when starting/stopping eBox services and when upgrading eBox services.
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Installation and Upgrades / Connect to OpenVPN from Windows?
« on: April 26, 2009, 07:32:57 am »
Is it possible to connect to the eBox OpenVPN server using any version of Windows without installing anything special?
If not, are there alternative programs to OpenVPN?
If not, are there alternative programs to OpenVPN?
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Installation and Upgrades / Thin Net / PXE boot
« on: April 04, 2009, 04:10:07 am »
I'm wondering about the error eBox gives when trying to configure a Thin Net. Since the documentation shows nothing about it, I've been asking around for the last week trying to figure something out and no one knows.
The error I get is: "You need to upload a boot image to eBox if you set it as next server"
I've looked. What is a boot image?
The error I get is: "You need to upload a boot image to eBox if you set it as next server"
I've looked. What is a boot image?
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Installation and Upgrades / Hooking up a Phone or Windows Mobile device as an Internet Source
« on: March 28, 2009, 11:40:19 am »
I have a Windows Mobile device I use when my Internet has gone out, and I hook it up to my laptop and do Internet Connection Sharing through the ethernet jack. I've had this phone work in Linux Mint and have it show up in Elive (although not the Internet part). I'm wondering if I can set it up so eBox finds it on the fly and knows what it is.
This particular phone shows up as ID 0bb4:0b2e High Tech Computer Corp. in lsusb.
but it comes up as 0bb4:0303 High Tech Computer Corp. when connecting as a Modem. Although it's not really a modem because it's got its own DHCP server and creates an Ethernet interface in eBox that it is the DHCP server for. It works if I am using Active Sync mode, but not Internet Connection mode.
The reason I ask is because eBox is built as box designed for many functions via a simple web interface. I'm sure, provided the drivers get installed somehow, that it can support this sort of an interface, that would be a great way to have an alternate connection method if my main source of Internet ever goes out.
If I can get this out, I hope more people can see this post and use their phones in the same way.
This particular phone shows up as ID 0bb4:0b2e High Tech Computer Corp. in lsusb.
but it comes up as 0bb4:0303 High Tech Computer Corp. when connecting as a Modem. Although it's not really a modem because it's got its own DHCP server and creates an Ethernet interface in eBox that it is the DHCP server for. It works if I am using Active Sync mode, but not Internet Connection mode.
The reason I ask is because eBox is built as box designed for many functions via a simple web interface. I'm sure, provided the drivers get installed somehow, that it can support this sort of an interface, that would be a great way to have an alternate connection method if my main source of Internet ever goes out.
If I can get this out, I hope more people can see this post and use their phones in the same way.
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Installation and Upgrades / DHCP to two subnets & multiple public IPs with the same Gateway
« on: March 28, 2009, 11:28:48 am »
First thing, I just found out I got eBox when it was released to the public. Kinda funny actually since I was given the link randomly by someone. Congrats on the 1.0 ISO people! 
Great job.
I have two configuration issues.
FIRST ISSUE
PROBLEM
I found out that the DHCP server fails to start if you have one physical interface giving out IPs to two subnets even though one of the subnets is only statically assigning IPs.
EXAMPLE
eth0 = 1.1.1.1
Assigns IPs based on MAC address: 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3
eth0:1 = 2.2.2.2
Assigns IPs to a range of IPs: 2.2.2.3 - 2.2.2.254
QUESTION
Do I need bridging or static routes to do something like this? I looked up bridging in the forums and saw a bunch of IP table stuff, I don't really understand.
SECOND ISSUE
PROBLEM
I can receive multiple IPs from my ISP, but I need to DHCP them first to use them. I am assigned them based on MAC address. Sometimes they have the same Gateway, sometimes not.
EXAMPLE
I have eth0, eth1, and eth2. eth0 gets 64.4.4.4 and eth1 gets 64.6.6.6 both assigned to Gateway 64.1.1.1 and eth2 gets 65.5.5.5.
QUESTION
I'm guessing I need to setup static routes, but I'd kind of like this to be dynamic where I can change which public IP is going to a machine on-the-fly say if I have a public server on 64.4.4.4 and another on 64.6.6.6, but I need to take down the server on the machine using IP 64.6.6.6, so then I have to have the machine using 64.4.4.4 change to 64.6.6.6 or have it use both IPs at the same time. This is the kind of stuff I'd like to know how to do.
Great job.I have two configuration issues.
FIRST ISSUE
PROBLEM
I found out that the DHCP server fails to start if you have one physical interface giving out IPs to two subnets even though one of the subnets is only statically assigning IPs.
EXAMPLE
eth0 = 1.1.1.1
Assigns IPs based on MAC address: 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3
eth0:1 = 2.2.2.2
Assigns IPs to a range of IPs: 2.2.2.3 - 2.2.2.254
QUESTION
Do I need bridging or static routes to do something like this? I looked up bridging in the forums and saw a bunch of IP table stuff, I don't really understand.
SECOND ISSUE
PROBLEM
I can receive multiple IPs from my ISP, but I need to DHCP them first to use them. I am assigned them based on MAC address. Sometimes they have the same Gateway, sometimes not.
EXAMPLE
I have eth0, eth1, and eth2. eth0 gets 64.4.4.4 and eth1 gets 64.6.6.6 both assigned to Gateway 64.1.1.1 and eth2 gets 65.5.5.5.
QUESTION
I'm guessing I need to setup static routes, but I'd kind of like this to be dynamic where I can change which public IP is going to a machine on-the-fly say if I have a public server on 64.4.4.4 and another on 64.6.6.6, but I need to take down the server on the machine using IP 64.6.6.6, so then I have to have the machine using 64.4.4.4 change to 64.6.6.6 or have it use both IPs at the same time. This is the kind of stuff I'd like to know how to do.