Re: [cobalt-developers] Bits flying over fences ...

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxx>]

> What is this "Cobalt Linux" anyway ? Here I thought it was Red Hat Linux,
> with the Cobalt appliance management system software installed upon it ?
>
> There's a lot of ported patches and such, but are all those needed now ?

Not after we drop or port LCD support and fix the system calls in the
base-<service>.mod modules.  The stats monitoring requires some picky log
setups in particular.  Little tweaks here and there.

> Like you both say, the "new" codebase would probably do better assuming
> a more *general* underlying Linux ? At least "vanilla" Red Hat 7.3...
> And outside the Sun sphere, doesn't FreeBSD come before Solaris X86 ? :-)

lol, no sir, Solaris first, then Linux ;-)

> This would make it all closer to Plesk's "PSA" or Ensim's "WEBppliance".
> But I don't think the world needs another "Sun Linux 5.0" distribution ?
> (which BTW didn't even last a year, but that is a whole other discussion)

Yes, Plesk and Ensim use simpler models for an appliance than the Cobalt
integrated-OS environment.  Nothing that can't be fixed.

> It is missing the source code for the CCE module for php.
> (/usr/lib/apache/php/cce.so)
> The source code for the I18N module for PHP *is* present.
> (/usr/lib/apache/php/i18n.so)

Thank you very much, please grab the missing bits at:

  ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/unsupported/qube3/OSS/

> AFAIK, these are rather straightforward links into the clientlib ?

Yes, largely.

> Oh, and there is a typo in both the "cce" directories Makefile!
> It says TMPFILE=$$TMPDIR/cce-$(CCE_VERSION)-$(RPMRELEASE).tar.gz,
> but only defines RPM_RELEASE ? i.e. There's an underscore missing.

There are many bugs and once this repository is in revision control I'll
push some patches out.  Please remember that this is completely
unsupported software so send questions and requests to this list, not to
my poor email box ;-)

> And here I thought that web and mail *servers* administered by people
> not knowing any Linux Administration at all was somewhat dangerous...

We could easily add industrial control monitoring to Active Monitor.
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	-- Will