[Kolab-devel] kolab admin tool (was integrating kolab in debian sarge)

[Stephan Buys]

Another couple of thoughts.

It should be trivial to:
a) drop "kolab" command in /usr/bin/
or
b) link /kolab/bin/kolab to /usr/bin

This way a user doesn't need to know about opa, or even about the kolab 
hierarchy. They just need to know to run the kolab command.

A backup script and the bootstraps, etc. can also be integrated as well. All common
admin tasks can be integrated.

The "kolab" command can even detect if a machine has not been bootstrapped yet
and guide the user to it...

Lots of possibilities.

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 11:21, Stephan Buys wrote:
> The kolab tool should work now and the latest packages from CVS should contain 
> all the files. I forgot to add "showuser".
> 
> The idea behind this (and we need "buy-in" from all users and distributors) 
> is that maintainers will customise the scripts to fit with the distribution.
> 
> For example the #kolab showlog command.
> 
> The idea here is that all critical logs for diagnosing Kolab are accessible 
> through this script. 
> One of the issues we had on the list with Mandriva is that we didn't always
> know the path to the spool directories/logfiles for the distribution-specific
> Kolab installs.
> 
> With the "kolab" command we can the ask a user to check his postfix log
> by just running #kolab showlog postfix
> 
> maybe we can even implement a "goto" command:
> 	#kolab goto imapd
> 
> Which will take you to the spool directory of imapd
> 
> and #kolab goto openldap
> 
> Which will tkae you to the var directory for openldap
> 
> Then we can tell users to run ctl_cyrusdb and db_recover in the local
> directories instead of having to worry about where it is... Especially with
> novice users.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 22:52, Benoit Mortier wrote:
> > Le Mardi 7 Juin 2005 10:33, Stephan Buys a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just wanted to let you know of this tool as well:
> > >
> > > http://kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-devel/2004-November/002383.html
> > >
> > > I designed it with the mind to help packagers integrate into other
> > > distributions but keep the administration model the same. Its pretty
> > > simple at the moment, and might be slightly broken because of all the
> > > changes.
> > >
> > > Depends on the amount of effort you are putting into the Kolab
> > > integration I would like to assist you and at the same time attempt to
> > > stabilise the tool.
> > >
> > > I'll probably bring it up to date with Kolab2 over the next couple of
> > > days.
> > >
> > > If you are interested in this effort we can co-ordinate here on the list?
> > 
> > Yes i'am interested an we can coordinates on this lis ;-)
> > 
> > Cheers
> 

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