Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ technical software manual?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Fantom wrote:

> Fair enough. It's really a case of knowing specifically about the RaQ
> implementation (though any differences between Linux and general Unix
> implementations that affect the RaQ's would be useful too).

The RaQs use a pretty straightforward implementation of Red Hat Linux,
different versions for different RaQs.  However, they're not necessarily
using all the same softwre; for example the standard FTP daemon that
comes with Red Hat is wu_ftpd, while the RaQ uses proftpd (which I use
as well).

Real differences are often the result of how the gui implements things. 
For example, on RaQs "@domain.com" catches all email, even if you've got
users aliased for the domain.  That's because of how the RaQ implements
email, not because of anything special anywhere.  I figured it out by
completely reading /etc/virtusertable (and of course by knowing how it
works).  On the RaQ "@www.domain.com" (or more definitively,
"@hostname.domain.com", where hostname is whatever you put into the
"host" box when you set up the domain) works as a proper catchall for
users who don't already exist.  If you entered that into
/etc/virtusertable on a 'standard' linux or unix box running sendmail,
it would ignore it.  But the problem is the way the RaQ implements
receiving mail; nothing different in the config files, in sendmail, in
linux.

Believe me, there's no replacing almost 20 years of unix experience
<smile>.

> Just throwing the idea open might encourage someone though. Possibly
> someone like me who's going through the problems and making some sort of
> note as he goes along ... but I'm not actually offering!

I don't think there are enough RaQs out there to warrant an aftermarket
book.  I could be wrong, though.

Jeff
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