Topic: XF86

[Keith Bellows]

Forgive me if this has been approached before.  I am wondering if installing X would interfere with the e-smith server.

I know why????

To demo the product, I would like to use just one computer (the server) run KDE w Netscape to demo the browser config part of E-Smith.

I could actually kill two birds with one stone as I can dem KDE (GNOME) and the server at the same time.

If this is possible does anyone know of an install script that would install the above w/KDE (or Gnome) preconfigured to run.  I need to get this going very soon and don't really have the time to config everything form scratch....

Thanks in advance

keith

[Joseph Morrison]

Keith Bellows wrote:

> Forgive me if this has been approached before.  I am wondering
> if installing X would interfere with the e-smith server.

Shouldn't be a problem, although we haven't tried it ourselves.  Another possibility is to start by installing a normal Red Hat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.0 distribution, then just adding the e-smith RPM by running these commands:

rpm -ivh e-smith-3.0.4-1.i386.rpm
/sbin/e-smith/reset-config
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-install

After you reboot, you can switch to the e-smith console using Ctrl-Alt-F1, and back to X using Ctrl-Alt-F7.

Good luck!
- Joe Morrison

[keith bellows]

Excellent, I was wondering if I could do the RPM thing!!

Thank you very much I'll give it a try and let you know how it worked if you wnat to know.

keith

[keith bellows]

Your solution works!  I've have had some weird things happen when rebooting.  I haven't really had the time yet to write anythig down.  After I get done with the demo I'll play with it some more and let you know.  I know this shouldn't be a big issue as you don't want X on a server but you never know.........

[Charlie Brady]

keith bellows wrote:

> Your solution works!  I've have had some weird things happen
> when rebooting.  I haven't really had the time yet to write
> anythig down.  After I get done with the demo I'll play with
> it some more and let you know.

I hope that enough works for your demo to go OK. If it doesn't, or you still have time, installing more of the RPMs from the e-smith distribution will fix your problems. I think that it will even be safe to go to the RedHat/RPMS directory on the e-smith CDROM and do "rpm -Uhv *.rpm".

> I know this shouldn't be a big
> issue as you don't want X on a server

Nope, you certainly don't....

[Keith Bellows]

The demo went very well thanks for all your help.

I'll know more later (couple weeks) but I think I may have some new customers for you guys.  People kept comparing your solution to e-soft's team internet solution and you kept winning.  I certainly like your product better even more so now that I have read their EULA.

I did have an interest in keeping the X server on the machine in an Intranet environmetn so i ma going to paly with this some more and see if I can get it working properly!!  

Thanks for the hard work and the wonderful product you have put out.  Open source in my mind is the only way to go especially in this kind of application.

later.

keith

[Keith Bellows]

Okay first problem.  I have installed the rpms form SRPMS and run the reset-config and signal-event post-install commands.  

User Accounts (using the e-smith manager) can create the account but cannot change the password.  Get this message:

Failed to set UNIX password for account (username)
for help please send mail to (admin@mycompany.xxx) (yes I have set the domain name), giving this error message and the time and date of error.

any ideas?

keith

(oh yes I am still running the -15 kernel.....)

[Joseph Morrison]

Hello Keith,

> Okay first problem.  I have installed the rpms form SRPMS and
> run the reset-config and signal-event post-install commands.
>
> Failed to set UNIX password for account (username) for help
> please send mail to (admin@mycompany.xxx) (yes I have set the
> domain name), giving this error message and the time and date
> of error.
>
> any ideas?

From your description, I wonder if the setuid bits didn't get set on the CGI scripts. Try the following (logged in as root):

chmod +s /home/e-smith/web-functions/*

or if you have applied the updated e-smith-3.0.4 RPM, it should be:

chmod +s /etc/e-smith/web/functions/*

Let me know if that makes a difference. Best regards,
- Joe Morrison