[Devil-linux-develop] [Fwd: DL improvements]

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Just got this email, but don't think I'll have too much time looking into it.
Anybody got time to take a closer look?

Thx
Heiko

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Subject: DL improvements
From:    gy...@we...
Date:    Mon, March 10, 2008 08:16
To:      he...@de...
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Hi head of DL,

O.K.
If I would suggest some improvements ....

Here is a list of bugs, ie services not working properly or missing ...

By the way DL is a very good frame tool, ie a very good tool to get
hands on experience with setting up a Linux box with working services.
So it is a very good tool for a student to experience with his/her Linux box.

ipsec -- required modules missing (Pluto, netkey)
ipsec -- too old package, should use racoon & setkey (ipsec-tools deb
package) instead

denyhosts -- not in sync with syslog-ng (auth.log not defined in syslog-ng)
denyhosts -- stops immediately after start, should use sshd_sentry instead

updatedb -- cannot be run at all, cannot be fixed, (unimportant small prog)

logwatch -- some required perl modules missing (e.g. Manip.pmc),
though it works

logrotate missing (e.g. from /etc/cron.daily, etc...)

postfix -- /etc/aliases should not be empty, after fix it works -:)
postfix -- in main.cf hash:/opt/majordomo/aliases unnecessary
postfix -- in main.cf alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases (nis not needed)

/etc/init.d/mountfs -- variables DISABLE_MD_AUTOSTART and
DISABLE_LVM_AUTOSTART are not read from  /etc/sysconfig/config
So LVM and RAID keeps trying to start at boot, though someone does NOT
want it.


etc ... (with minor fix> freshclam, clamav)

I share the opinion of those who suggest upgrading kernel to 2.6.x (x>20)
Why>
--a lot of network card unsupported in 2.4.x (e.g. mcs7830 USB)
--a lot of v4l2 device not supported in 2.4.x (e.g. for motion )
--more and most recent iptables modules support
--etc ..

Nowadays a very important view is: Energy Saving, so ....
an old Laptop consumes only 10-20W, compared to a PC box (about 100W)...
(Save the nature)
so (e.g. for me) I am running DL on an old PII Laptop, but it took a
lot of time to tailor DL to my needs. E.g. by default there is no
PCMCIA enabled in DL default kernel, besides cardmgr with module
i82365 has a lot  of bug compared with yenta_socket.
yenta_socket works perfectly
\
Fortunately your custom_cd script saved me a lot of energy in building
a new img -:)
....
Thanks
Gy











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