[BlueOnyx:07445] Re: Latest YUM update

[Richard Morgan]

Hi Michael

Sounds fantastic... I'm sure you get a lot of thanks, but always rest 
assured your (and all the developer's) hard work is appreciated :o)

Richard (and I'm certain many others too)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Stauber" <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:37 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:07444] Re: Latest YUM update


> Hi Darrell,
>
>> Other than the obvious ProFTP update, what changes can we expect from the
>> latest YUM update?
>
> Summary of updates:
> ===============
>
> base-vsite & base-user & base-apache:
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> These have been extended with the ability to prefix usernames with a 5
> character alphanumerical prefix. If a prefix is set (and only if), then 
> all
> (new) users of the site will be named <prefix>_<username>. If a server 
> admin
> sets a prefix, a siteAdmin cannot remove it. So it forces the siteAdmin's 
> to a
> naming scheme of their users which can make the life of a server admin a 
> bit
> more convinient.
>
>
> base-maillist:
> ----------------
>
> Contains the improvements that Christoph made, plus the fixes that I 
> applied
> to make it work in an either/or fashion with the new Mailman support.
>
>
> base-mailman:
> -----------------
>
> I made a final fix to it and released it from testing to public. When a 
> new
> site prefix is set, then the new site prefix gets used as prefix for the
> mailing list as well. This replaces the old (mandatory) random numerical
> prefix. If no site prefix is set, the old random numerical prefix is used 
> in
> the list name.
>
> How to remove Majordomo and how to switch an existing box to Mailman is
> outlined here:
>
> http://www.blueonyx.it/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=75&cntnt01origid=62&cntnt01returnid=62
>
> Future BlueOnyx ISO's will contain base-mailman by default.
>
>
> base-email:
> --------------
>
> Contains some fixes to make it work with both base-mailman and 
> base-maillist.
>
>
> base-blueonyx:
> ------------------
>
> Contains some fixes to make it work with both base-mailman and 
> base-maillist.
> Contains Christoph's alias removal to free up some more aliases. Removed 
> some
> troublesome lines from the post install scripts, which sometimes caused 
> small
> glitches.
>
>
> base-documentation:
> -------------------------
>
> Updated some URLs and text strings, as some info there was now outdated.
>
>
> proftpd:
> ----------
>
> This is a slightly updated version with a much better post-install script.
>
>
> -- 
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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