[ZendTo] Re: Centos Yum install

[Jules]

On 15/04/2011 14:22, Elston, Ian wrote:
> Hi
>
> Re. the local - IPs - you say that the 3.90+ version is in Beta, but
> this is 3.74 from yum.
Ah yes. It is used in the new user interface which is still in beta 
until this weekend.
> The AD /group authentication - it works, but it just gives 4 errors, not
> 1.
Okay, thanks for that. I probably won't have time now, but will try to 
get to it over the weekend.
> Re. mail - I've edited the sendmail.mc, ran the make and yeah, it works,
> if I less the sendmail.cf I can see that the hostname has changed (for
> the sake of testing I changed it to the IP). Mail still doesn't get
> delivered though.
After doing the "make" you need to "service sendmail restart" as well to 
make it re-read the configuration.
>   If I check /var/log/maillog it's complaining about 'no
> route to host' .  Is there something else to configure in sendmail? The
> zendto server can lookup my smtp server, and I can complete the
> transaction via telnet using the same sending address. So it appears
> sendmail can't route to the smtp server.
>
> " Apr 15 14:17:00 mumford sendmail[27299]: p3FDH0aw027299: from=apache,
> size=688, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<201104151317.p3FDH0aw027299 at mumford.bolton.ac.uk>,
> relay=apache at localhost
>
> Apr 15 14:17:03 mumford sendmail[27299]: p3FDH0aw027299:
> to=ian.elston at gmail.com, ctladdr=apache (48/48), delay=00:00:03,
> xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=relay, pri=30688, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host"
>
>
> Re. Graphs - indeed they are there now.
Cool. But I will look into the missing png file though. As you say, this 
shouldn't happen!

Cheers,
Jules.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf
> Of Jules
> Sent: 15 April 2011 12:48
> To: ZendTo Users
> Subject: [ZendTo] Re: Centos Yum install
>
>
>
> On 14/04/2011 17:04, Elston, Ian wrote:
>> Sorry, I am an idiot. More proper-reading of the documentation meant
> I'd
>> missed updating PHP to 52.
>>
>> I was getting more errors in error_log which pointed to the line in
>> preferences.php which defines local IP addresses. I'd commented that
> out
>> because the documentation says that it wasn't used yet.
> It is used in version 3.90 onwards, and I will fix the documentation!
> Sorry :-(
>>
>> Anyway, my authentication (unexpectedly) works. However if I use a
> user
>> not in the 'ZendTo' AD group I've created/defined, I get 4 errors:
>>
>> [error]		Authorisation Failed
>> Sorry, you are not authorized to use this service.
>> [error] 	LDAP Error
>> Check User: Unable to connect to any of the authentication servers;
>> could not authenticate user.
>> [error] 	LDAP Error
>> Check User: Unable to connect to any of the LDAP servers; could not
>> authenticate user.
>> [error] 	Authentication Error
>> The username or password was incorrect
> I haven't done much testing on the group requirement, it was a thing
> someone else contributed. I will need to double-check that all works
> properly. Do bear in mind that the 3.90+ series are still betas at the
> moment.
>> I have another couple of Questions, I hope you don't mind.
>>
>> 1) I mis-configured sendmail - I added the name of the mail server but
>> didn't remove the dnl from the start of the line. I assume what I'm
>> doing with the 'make' command is recompiling sendmail?
> No, just recompiling the sendmail configuration. It turns sendmail.mc
> into sendmail.cf (which is plain text but not hugely readable unless you
>
> understand sendmail in depth).
>>    However if I try
>> and do this again once I've edited the sendmail.mc, it says there's
>> nothing to do. I tried rpm -e sendmail but it failed, said there were
>> dependencies. I can send an email to a gmail account via telnet from
> the
>> zendto server so it's def a sendmail problem.
> Make sure do
>       cd /etc/mail
>       make sendmail.cf
> and as long as the modification date on sendmail.mc is newer than
> sendmail.cf, it will rebuild sendmail.cf for you.
>> 2) the instructions for "Setup Mail" say: "The only change required is
>> to remove and "dnl" from the start of the line that defines
> "SMART_HOST"
>> and set the value to the fully qualified name of your SMTP server or
>> "smarthost" - when it says remove "and dnl" is there a bit missing? Is
>> it literally just the 3 letters 'dnl' that need removing?
> You just need to make sure the "dnl" word isn't there in that line.
> "dnl" comments out the rest of the line, so you need to un-comment it.
>> 3) for an admin user who checks out the stats, it looks like there
>> should be graphs. Error_log says:
>> [Thu Apr 14 16:32:15 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.152] PHP Warning:
>> readfile(/var/zendto/rrd/notfound.png) [<a
>> href='function.readfile'>function.readfile</a>]: failed to open
> stream:
>> No such file or directory in /opt/zendto/www/graph.php on line 68,
>> referer: http://zendto.bolton.ac.uk/stats.php?period=month
> That's just because it hasn't written any stats yet. Wait a day or so
> and that should disappear.
>> That line 68 says: "readfile(RRD_DATA_DIR.'notfound.png');"
>> So I recognise rrd as maybe somthing *else* I missed on the
> instructions
>> (!)
>>
>> So I yum list rrdtool lua-rrdtool perl-rrdtool : and it looks like I
>> have it installed:
>> rrdtool.x86_64     1.4.4-1.el5.rf
> installed
>> But the /var/zendto/rrd directory is empty. Is this right?
> That's okay. It will fill it for you from a cron job run overnight.
>> Sorry again for not reading the instructions properly. I struggled
> with
>> the elinks browser-based downloads, tried to get round it by adding
>> repos and using yum, but i think that's how I missed things.
> No worries, I still need to improve the docs some more!
>
> Jules.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf
>> Of Elston, Ian
>> Sent: 14 April 2011 11:08
>> To: ZendTo Users
>> Subject: [ZendTo] Re: Centos Yum install
>>
>> Cheers, that fixed it. I did go through the instructions and thought
> I'd
>> yum'd a lot of the other packages.  It would be ace if you only had to
>> do 'yum install zendto' after adding the other repository(s) and all
> the
>> dependencies were there. Almost easier than the VM... (which I
> couldn't
>> get to import, but again that might be me/my vCenter). Wouldn't it
> make
>> updates a lot easier?
>>
>>
>> If I go to about.php now the page loads (albeit with reference to ECS,
>> which I can fix) I get these errors at the top
>> Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [function.mysqli-mysqli]: (HY000/2003):
> Can't
>> connect to MySQL server on 'mumford.bolton.ac.uk' (113) in
>> /opt/zendto/lib/MySQL.php on line 48
>>
>> Warning: mysqli_autocommit() [function.mysqli-autocommit]: Couldn't
>> fetch mysqli in /opt/zendto/lib/MySQL.php on line 54
>>
>> And at the site root:
>>
>> Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [function.mysqli-mysqli]: (HY000/2003):
> Can't
>> connect to MySQL server on 'mumford.bolton.ac.uk' (113) in
>> /opt/zendto/lib/MySQL.php on line 48
>>
>> Warning: mysqli_autocommit() [function.mysqli-autocommit]: Couldn't
>> fetch mysqli in /opt/zendto/lib/MySQL.php on line 54
>>
>> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>> /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 913
>>
>> Next I'm going to wade through the other configs/add the SSL cert. And
> I
>> don't think my AD authentication settings are anywhere near right.
>>
>> I'm weirdly enjoying the challenge though!
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------
>> Ian Elston
>> Networks&   Developments
>> The University of Bolton
>> http://www.bolton.ac.uk
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On Behalf
>> Of Julian Field
>> Sent: 14 April 2011 09:42
>> To: ZendTo Users
>> Subject: [ZendTo] Re: Centos Yum install
>>
>> Many thanks for the feedback about the yum/rpm setup, I will try to
> fix
>> all of that before version 4 goes into production "stable" use.
>>
>> As for the mysqli problem, you need to install the package php-mysql,
>> then restart httpd with "service httpd restart".
>>
>> Any more problems, just yell! :-)
>>
> Jules
>

Jules

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