[afnog] RE: Linnet Installation

[Brian Candler]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:47:41AM -0700, anyuru francis wrote:
> I installed linnet on a 4.10 freebsd box. But a few
> issues came up.
> 1. Need to know how to change the useraccount passwds

Your mail accounts are in userdb? The command is

# linnet db modify fred at example.com systempw

(This needs documenting, although "linnet db" or "linnet db help" will show
you a summary of commands)

> 2.Can I install apache independently and it works with
> linnet.

The Apache installation in Linnet is currently only providing webmail
service. I was hoping to do some decent webhosting too, but that looks like
it's going to be set aside for a while as I do my real-world job :-)

You can run the two side-by-side, as long as:
(1) they are listening on different ports, or
(2) they are listening on different IP addresses.

However, I haven't made an /etc/linnet/0.5.0/apache/httpd.conf yet which
would let you override those sorts of settings. So right now you'd have to
edit /usr/linnet/0.5.0/conf/httpd.conf yourself if you want to change the
behaviour of Linnet's Apache (but that means making the same change whenever
you upgrade to a new Linnet version, which is against the Linnet philosophy)

Perhaps easier, you can configure your own Apache build to point to the
relevant bits in Linnet. Just set up a virtual host for webmail, with

DocumentRoot "/usr/linnet/0.5.0/www/sqwebmail/html"
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/linnet/0.5.0/www/sqwebmail/cgi-bin/"

> The version I installed is "Current version set to
> 0.5.0"
> Will be very gratefull.
> Well for my installation used the doc from
> "linnet.rubyforge.org" and it doesn't mention anything
> about changing user passwds

Yes, I'm very aware that there's a lot missing in the handbook right now.
Bringing the handbook up to date is a higher priority for me than adding new
features.

Regards,

Brian.