Topic: E-Smith Proxy-Auth

[Steve Lewis]

Cimuser 2000,

Once you install the e-smith-squid.rpm, reconect to the user manager and check under "Collaboration" there should a "Proxy Users" entry.

I have not even used it yet.

Also, for adding contribs, I suggest the Update system located at http://myezserver.com/mitel/contrib

This is Darrel May's website. I have found any contrib he hosts on his site to be of excellent quality.

Steve Lewis

[Cyrus Bharda]

http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/

Dungog has a lot of really usefull RPM's too

Cyrus Bharda

[Cimuser2000]

Cyrus,
  I might be getting somewhere.... I installed "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.i386.rpm" from the command prompt (rpm -ivh blah..blah..blah). You mentioned using the "update system panel". I don't see that in the "server-manager" screen. Should I load the rpms some other way than the command prompt? Is there something I am missing?

TIA

[Cyrus Bharda]

Well I'm a bit of a noobie at Linux stuff, but I dunno what "rpm -ivh " does, I thought you had to install it using the "rpm -Uvh " command? Also you can download a Update System package that allows you to install rpm's from the server manager, it can be found here http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/ .

But you might want to try forcing it from the command line "rpm -Uvh --force " that might force it to install, but it might break something too, try using -Uvh first and then see what happens..........  

Cyrus Bharda

[Bob Todd]

warning about using the system up date panel - a few RPMS's I've tried recently failed to install properly with it because they needed some input from the user as part of the install procedure - this for example broke my install of php-nuke which I couldnt then uninstall, so it was back to a fresh install of SME and begin again - luckily its only a test setup I'm running so far.

[stephen noble]

>warning about using the system up date panel

it'll work with anything at my site and probably everything at darrells
for more complicated rpms when you probably need to do more stuff at the command line like *nuke it's a fair comment

i use the command line because i can type faster than i can click

fwiw
i don't believe you can have transproxy and proxy auth at the same time

regards
stephen noble
dungog.net/sme

[Bob Todd]

wasnt a criticism of the update panel - I like it a lot, just a warning not to get too reliant on it as some of us noobs can do

[Cimuser2000]

How do you un-install "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.src.rpm"? I tried running "rpm -e e-smith-squid-0.3-2" and I get an "error: package e-smith-squid-0.3-2 is not installed". I have installed it on top of itself with "rpm -Uvh e-smith-squid-0.3-2.src.rpm and it replies with "1:e-smith-squid ########################################### [100%]" Then I try un-installing again and get the same error. I've finally given up trying to get squid's "proxy users" panel to show up in "server-manager". Now I can't un-install it. Anybody know how to manually un-install an RPM?

[Cyrus Bharda]

Yeah I had the same problem except with a different rpm, I couldnt figure out a way other than a good format .  rpm -e  gave me the same message.

Cyrus Bharda

[Dan Brown]

You don't really uninstall a source rpm using the rpm command, but it doesn't matter, as uninstaling it won't change anything.  There's certainly no need to reformat.

If you aren't a developer, don't even look at .src.rpm files; they won't do anything for you.  If, however, you've inadvertently installed one, don't worry; it won't hurt anything.

[Cimuser2000]

Dan,
  How do you un-install a source rpm program then? I installed "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.src.rpm" to try to get squid's "proxy users" panel to show up in "server-manager". Did I install the wrong file and now there is no way to un-install it?

[Dan Brown]

A source RPM isn't a program in a usable sense; it's the source to a program.  Thus, there's really nothing to "uninstall", though you can delete the related files from /usr/src/redhat if you really want to.  Yes, you installed the wrong file--you should have installed either a .noarch.rpm (most likely) or (possibly) an .i386.rpm.

[Cimuser2000]

Dan,
  You did it! I finally got Squid running. I did install the wrong file (the .src file). I installed "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.i386.rpm" and the "proxy users" panel showed up in "server-manager"!

Thanks so much for catching my installation mistake.

[Juan J.]

use 'rpm -e e-smith-squid' instead of 'rpm -e e-smith-squid-0.3-2' (only the package name, without version and release ).