Re: [cobalt-users] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![MASTER-CD]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

["Cobalt User" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys,

I didn't want to start a "war" in here. I see a lot of people running
"against" the road, I just thought that it would be cool if we were able to
have their system "GUI" running on our machines, not the system may be just
the scripts for web administration, that's all I want! Run the scripts on a
machine, not to sell, not to trade, but to have it here, and if anyone else
asks for it, I'm sure we could give this person the codes and scripts.
Nobody is here to sell stuff, we're here to help each other right?

Now, Steve Werby, you said you have the scripts running on your machine, do
they work fine? Would you please tell me what you've done?

Thank you,

Rafael Azevedo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![MASTER-CD]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!


> "Cobalt User" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We just started the Cobalt "cracking" service.
>
> > So, I loged on my server using TELNET, went to the directory
> /usr/admserv/ -
> > there are a lots of hidden directories, all named .cobalt, where you'll
> see
> > basicly all the scripts.
>
> That's not exactly a revolutionary discovery since it's never been a
secret.
> I run several of these scripts from the commandline.  For example, I use
> /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi to repopulate the DNS .pri
files
> from the records file which I edit manually.  There have been plenty of
> emails on this list describing how to edit these scripts to change their
> behavior and how to run them from the commandline.
>
> > Then, I copied everything to another Linux machine,
> > and I'll try to run the services... hope it will run! We can't forget to
> > setup the APACHE SERVER for the ADM SERV (running on port 81).
>
> Assuming that it's technically possible to achieve your goal, I'm quite
sure
> it violates the Cobalt license.  If it was easy to replicate the *entire*
OS
> on a generic machine, one would assume Cobalt would go to lengths to
ensure
> that it wasn't easy to do so.  I would assume they'd use a compiled
language
> such as C++ instead of Perl and PHP if that was the case, but they
probably
> chose Perl and PHP partly so Cobalt developers and users could freely make
> modifications and improvements to the system.  Though it would be nice to
be
> able to run the OS on some of the old Pentiums I have laying around for
> testing purposes, if your goal is to sell a 1U server with a GUI, you
might
> want to look at implementing a free GUI like Webmin or one of the
fee-based
> GUIs that work out of the box on different Linux flavors.  Anyway, I'll be
> eagerly following your progress.
>
> --
> Steve Werby
> President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
> http://www.befriend.com/
>
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