Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 3, IMAP, MySQL, PHP question from inexperienced new owner: be gentle!

[Hendrik Runte <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Which finally leads me to my questions!
> 
> 1. On my system, my IMAP client (Outlook) can\'t create folders. Is
> this
> a property of the IMAP server that I didn\'t enable, or do I always
> have
> to create folders on the Qube in WebMail?
>
> 2. I compiled IMAP with the \"modern linux\" option. Is that the right
> one
> for the Qube 3? Anything else I should have done? Is there an RPM for
> this that I can use?
> 
> 3. Are there any special options that MySQL should be compiled with,
> or
> is a straight \"default\" RPM build/install exactly the right thing to
> use?
> 
> 4. Same for PHP: there wasn\'t any RPM I could find, so I just sort of
> compiled it with the options that looked \"right\". But I clearly
> guessed
> wrong a number of times, and I\'m more than a bit worried that I missed
> some stuff. What options should I compile with to get this done
> \"right\"?
> 
> 5. I\'d like to connect the Qube 3 to a APC SmartUPS 500 (USB).
> However,
> hunting around, it doesn\'t look like the various UPS control packages
> support this UPS. And the ones that do (APC\'s) seem to have GUIs,
> which
> -- obviously -- the Qube doesn\'t have. SuSE has something that I found
> during my search, but this is a RedHat distribution and it probably
> won\'t work. Suggestions?
> 
> 6. The Qube 3 web setup doesn\'t seem to support virtual domains; if
> they\'re to be done, it looks like they have to be done manually. Is
> this
> something I can add to the friendly GUI with some optional package I
> don\'t know about?
> 
> 7. Finally, any suggestions on a good book or two on Linux admin with
> a
> focus on the non-GUI stuff that\'s just not on this box? I looked at a
> few that weren\'t very detailed or well indexed...I figure the list
> subscribers/readers have been through the lot, and have detailed
> opinions.
> 
> Thanks so much, in advance, and I\'m very sorry for both the length of
> this post and my obvious inexperience in all things Linux. Truly, I\'m
> shocked I was able to get things working at all! (A big thank you to
> everyone who has posted previously, since I raided your knowledge over
> and over again.)
> --
> Dave Nanian
> 
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1. That may depend one the kind of IMAP server you have, but normally this 
should be no problem to let any client create folders apart from INBOX. I 
recently had some problems with my IMAP services. Re-installing ncurses and 
imap4.7c helped.

2. dunno.

3. I made best experiences with a straight install.

4. Well, I think it\'s best to install PHP from the original tar ball coming 
from php.net. There are some compile options which are helpful:

./configure\' \'--with-mysql=/usr\' \'--with-imap=/usr/src/imap-2000b/\' \'-with-
gd\' \'-with-zlib\' \'--enable-track-vars\' \'--with-apxs\' \'--with-jpeg\' \'--with-png\'

--with-mysql=/usr
option for including mysql into the compilation. tells php where to find the 
database (/usr)

--with-imap=/usr/src/imap-2000b/
using imap with the specified path

... and so on. Don\'t forget to retrieve the software you want to use with php 
first. ;-)

5. dunno

6. Haven\'t you got a RaQ3 question? ;-) Sorry, dunno 

7. Tips & books: you can find very good books on how to use all the shell stuff 
at O\'Reilly\'s (where my _personal_ favourites come from)
- A bit large but very good in explaining complex matters is: Essential system 
administration, 2nd Ed., Aeleen Frisch, O\'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
- Not from O\'Reilly & Assoc. but one of the best MySQL books I know is: MySQL, 
Paul Dubois.
- As for PHP, this is hard to say, \'cause I made the experience that all these 
all-php-in-one books do not really help in specific topics. Not bad is: PHP 
Developer\'s Cookbook by Sterling Hughes & Andrei Zmievski, ISBN: 0672319241
Ok. This one\'s not from O\'Reilly either...

Apart from that, did you think of installing a \'third-party-gui\' such as 
webmin? I have made only best experiences with installing webmin from 
http://www.webmin.com -- it does not collide with cobalt gui (\"but may affect 
your warranty...\"). And a brilliant MySQL GUI is included...

[Till now I didn\'t get any dough from O\'Reilly and Webmin, Caldera]

regards,

Hendrik Runte