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Came in contact with Clarkconnect back in spring 2002. Started with CC1.0 and soon joined the club as main translator for the Dutch Language Option. Installed, upgraded and tested every version since then.

Like to tinker and test with my CC-box. Started with an ancient Compaq Prolinea 486SX/25Mhz with 2.5 GB disk and 32MB. Now it's a Compaq Evo P4-2.4Ghz with 2GB Ram and 80+ 2 x 500Gb HDD ;-)

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Noord-Holland
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Heerhugowaard
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Netherlands

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Paul van Voorst
Paul van Voorst
Happy with ClearOs 5.1 on his gateway
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  • Monday, 28 October 2002 11:15
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2 days ago
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Timezone issues in the forums.
Thanks Marcel and Wayne! We were busy with the Canadian long weekend I try to catch most of the forum threads, but if I fall more than a couple of days behind, things start to get missed.

- I added the Bandwidth Viewer issue to the tracker @ tracker.clearfoundation.com/view.php?id=1148

- I'm not able to reproduce the problem with the software update log. The app is reading the information straight out of /var/log/yum.log.

- If the overflow is a potential security issue, please send the report to developer@clearfoundation.com.
08:23 AM
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Storage manager in the forums.
Scott wrote:
Hi, I understand that this app is still Beta, but is there going to be documentation on how to mount Multiple Hard drives and/or network drives? or was this kinda explained already and I need to get a better handle on how drives are mounted and that /storage will work all devices (sigh).
There's good documentation on how to mount drives somewhere on the Internet, it's just a matter of finding the document and linking to it

By default, the Storage Manager only uses one storage target. However, you can override the "configlets" to implement multiple storage targets (e.g. storage for the web proxy on disk1, storage for Flexshare on disk2). There's a mini-example mentioned in the Configlets section of the Technical Guide.
07:57 AM
1 week ago
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:VLAN Support in the forums.
Hi Brian,

Add "Connection Type" of "none" to list - ie: This would allow the ability to have an interface configured, but specify that it should NOT have an IP address. While there are probably many reasons for doing this, the most common one would be for when VLANs are configured, and one does not wish to use the base interface (ie: ethX) untagged. ie: I might wish to specify each VLAN on eth0 as tagged (ie: eth0.1, eth0.2, etc) without having eth0 itself to have an IP. This can be done by having "BOOTPROTO=none" and NOT specifying an IPADDRESS=line (and NETMASK, etc) at all.
Good idea -- added to the tracker: tracker.clearfoundation.com/view.php?id=1145

(also useful to set IPV6INIT=no and IPV6_AUTOCONF=no, but I don't do this, don't use IPv6 at all myself).
I'm sure that will be part of the IPv6 initiative in ClearOS 6. That reminds me, I need to go request my address block from my ISP!

Oh, and BTW - if you were to add the ability to stop/start an interface from web config (per my prior suggestions), I would recommend that if the user clicks this on the physical interface (ie: ethX) that also has VLANs configured (ethX.Y), that the app would warn the user that "Stopping or restarting a physical interface will stop or restart all VLANs configured on that interface. It you are accessing this webpage from one of those VLANs, this may disconnect you. Would you like to continue?"
Noted!
May 16
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Very, very slow your website and repository in the forums.
We've had it with the performance of the forums and are now actively looking at alternatives. 400 database queries to load the main forum page is just ridiculous! The blog software is also broken and the URL rewrite engine (sh404SEF) is a horror show. Other bits of ClearFoundation infrastructure are okay (though the translation server is sluggish too):

- Translation: translate.clearcenter.com
- Build system: buildsys.clearfoundation.com/
- Issue Tracker: tracker.clearfoundation.com/
- SVN/CVS: scm.clearfoundation.com

Our mirror system is well designed to get updates out quickly, but it suffers from two weaknesses:

- If an update fails high up on the mirror hierarchy, the mirrors further down the line are marked as "offline". This increases the load on the higher mirrors which in turn might get overloaded and taken offline. Aaaaand death spiral. That's exactly what happened a few days ago.

- For most mirrors, all you need is rsync and cron. ClearFoundation's mirrors are more complex to configure and it has been hard to convince potential mirror hosts to bit the bullet.
May 15
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:VLAN experts - some questions in the forums.
Hi Brian,

I think being able to show the MAC address for each interface would be EXTREMELY helpful, as would (which I didn't mention before) showing the network driver name (ie: "ASIX USB Ehternet Adapter" or "r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver", etc). This would help one to find out (without dropping to the shell or messing with network cables) which NIC actually got mapped to which device.
I added an enhancement request to the tracker:
tracker.clearfoundation.com/view.php?id=1142

BTW - one question - I haven't looked at this much in COS 6.4, but do we still have to do the EXTRALANS= thing that was required in COS 5.2 to have COS route between LANS? (at the time it was in /etc/system/network, though looks like now its /etc/clearos/network.conf). This would also be nice if web admin would ask about and configure for you.
Yes, that command line parameter is still around. And yes, adding "static route manager" is on the todo list too!
May 14
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Amazon EC2 Beta in the forums.
Hi Peter,

The images can be accessed via the Amazon Launch Wizard. Search for "clearos" or the specific AMI ID to find the launch image.
May 14
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re: Solved: Re:Boot failure after auto update 6.3.0 -> 6.4.0 in the forums.
I have added a tracker item for this:

tracker.clearfoundation.com/view.php?id=1141

The vga= line is already kludged in there. Ideally, we would patch the anaconda installer instead of doing a post-install hack. No matter, it's on the TODO list.
May 14
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:COS 6.4 DDNS why Round Robin Load Balancing isn't included? in the forums.
Hi Jorge,

I understand your use-case...its just that it's not a common one and the original design of the dynamic DNS service binds a domain to a device's hostkey...In other words, it would be a lot of work for very few people's benefit to break that 1:1 relationship and bind to something like hostkey:ethX.

Ben
May 13
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:Cyrus mail in the forums.
Code:

su -s /bin/bash cyrus

May 13
2 weeks ago
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:Now on verge of nervous breakdown in the forums.
Hi Ken,

I heard from Darryl and David that they were able to get you back up and running. Darryl suspects (but it is unconfirmed) that running CloneZilla Live CD may have started the array and made changes.

Your lucky day, I guess....depends on how you look at things.

B.
May 08
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:Can't access www.clearfoundation.com in the forums.
@Nick...sorry - really lame attempt at joke. My best effort at SQL injection

@Marcel...Your IP has been whitelisted

B.
May 07
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:6.4 is bringing me big smiles! in the forums.
Hey Drew,

Thanks for your post...I know it's the nature of forums to be asking for help, which necessitates there being a problem, but not enough people use these forums to post their positive experiences. Nice to see/hear...

B,
May 07
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:Mail Archive in the forums.
Hi Ken,

The messages are located in the system MySQL database. If you're familiar with MySQL, use the access instructions.

I wrote the archiver, so you can blame me directly for the POS. We don't use it internally, so I've been reliant on feedback (mostly coming from partners and paid support or consulting) to know how it is doing in the real world.

I'm going to be rewriting parts of it when the conversion to a 6.x app is underway. I already have some thoughts on how to make it less dependent, or possibly completely independent of MySQL, which adds complexity and usually requires someone to keep an eye on things.

Ben
May 06
Ben Chambers replied to the topic Re:Mail Retrieval and SMTP Server Issue in the forums.
Almost there...there was an issue with line identification and how data array's were being constructed. If anyone following this thread can install the latest update and give me feedback on if they can reproduce any of the 'wonky' behaviour, I'd appreciate it.
Code:


yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing upgrade app-mail-retrieval



If I get a thumb's up, I'll push this out to the updates repo where everyone will pick it up automatically.

B.
May 04
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Amazon EC2 Beta in the forums.
Unfortunately, I will be away until May 13. I'll circle back around when I'm back.
May 03
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Boot failure after auto update 6.3.0 -> 6.4.0 in the forums.
Unfortunately, I will be away until May 13. I'll circle back around when I'm back.
May 03
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:Bandwidth Manager - Advanced Rules - Beta in the forums.
Unfortunately, I will be away until May 13. I'll circle back around when I'm back!
May 03
Peter Baldwin replied to the topic Re:VLAN Support in the forums.
Unfortunately, I will be away until May 13 (bad timing for VLAN development). I'll circle back around when I'm back!
May 03

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