New Development Announcements September 2004

A list of all development that has been announced in September. Sorry for any missing items.

[Announce] Backuppc contrib SME built

save data
Date: 30 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by Duncan Thomas
Release supported: 6.x
forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24320
download loc.: http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dthomas/smeserver/6.x/Beta/Backuppc/

[Update/script] PHP upgrade v4.3.9 (based on Laurent Dinclaux's RPMS)

updated hypertext preprocessor
Date: 30 September 2004 at the forums
Made by ergozd/Ergin
forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24305
download loc.: http://ergin.dyndns.org/download/php4.3.9-upgrade.sh

[Announce] PHP 4.3.9 packages with curl extension

updated hypertext preprocessor
Date: 28 September 2004 at devinfo
Made by Laurent Dinclaux
devinfo thread: http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/devinfo/msg06962.html
download loc.: ftp://ftp.gecka.com/os/sme/contribs/lox/RPMS/i386/

[Announce] Clam Antivirus for sme (clamav-es 0.75.1) packages available

updated antivirus
Date: 21. September 2004 at pagefault.org
Made by pagefault.org
devinfo thread: ?
download loc.: http://www.pagefault.org/howto/e-smith-antivirus.shtml
Note: pagefault's news is dated 21. August but i am sure it had not appeared before September -mbn

[Announce] Update script for 6.0.1-01 for testing contribs and updates

Updates and Contribs installation
Date: 20 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by Greg Swallow
Forum thread (Version 1): http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24202&sid=93c7fadc19254e1b08d39ada6467b5dc
Forum thread (Version 2): http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24285&sid=a959563ccadb82e42912db07722d114d
Latest Version (wiki page) Latest version of update scripts

[Howto] Instructions for installing an SSL certificate from instantssl.com (and other chained SSL certificates)

Secure connections
Date: 08 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by Greg Swallow
Forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24067&sid=cb4900dbcac6ada8888cfe8082cb46c8

[Update] version 0.9.0 of the Lazy Admins Toolkit: e-smith-lazy_admin_tools-0.9.0-1.noarch.rpm

Automate batch tasks and admin jobs
Date: 08 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by Michiel Blotwijk
Forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?p=96072&sid=cb4900dbcac6ada8888cfe8082cb46c8#96072
Download loc.: http://www.contribs.org/contribs/mblotwijk/Contribs/lazy-admin-tools/

Installation%20and%20Usage%20of%20the%20Lazy%20Administrator%27s%20Tools (RM)

[Announce] Serveur de fax en réseau / Network Fax Server: SMERPFax-0.6b1-9.noarch.rpm

Sending and Recieving Facsimiles with SME, engl. and frz.
Date: 08 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by SMERP
Forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24047&sid=cb4900dbcac6ada8888cfe8082cb46c8
Download loc.: http://smerp.free.fr/

[Announce] Advanced Workgroup: e-smith-advworkgroup-0.3-4.noarch.rpm

Handling Workgroups, Domain, Samba for Windows boxes; adds server panel
Date: 07 September 2004 mentioned at the forums by bobk
Made by jprice
Forum thread: none
Download loc.: http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/jprice/beta/e-smith-advworkgroup/

[Howto] SME NFS Server Howto

Access the ibays used by windoze boxes from SuSE 9.1
Date: 07 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by Damian O'Hara
Forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24054&sid=cb4900dbcac6ada8888cfe8082cb46c8

[Howto] Monitor email activity with AWSTATS

Extends awstats functionality
Date: 02 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by Rasmus Trenskow
Contributors: Jesper Knudsen
Forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=24002&sid=e9225d01513b5762d0fe6858664d35fd
Download loc.: http://www.trenskow.dk/sme/awstats_mail.html
Note: Jesper Knudsen released an AWSTATS install script in July 2004 wihtout email support

[Howto] Install VMWare GSX 2.5 Server on SME 6 final

Enhance functionality. Will publish only if SME is free in the future
Date: 01 September 2004 at the Forums
Made by gbl
Forum thread: http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=22851&sid=e9225d01513b5762d0fe6858664d35fd
Note: gbl did not share the howto. Follow the install method mentioned in the thread

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