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Pete Brown

Email: MailTo(pete AT SPAMFREE geekbuilt DOT com DOT au)

Background

I am currently based in Brisbane Australia.BR I have been an linux user since 1994 and have used several different flavours of linux. i have also used Solaris, Mac OS and Mac OS X.BR I have also gotten pretty good at the configuration and admin side of Linux and Unix.BR

Projects

Current Projects

I am beginning to get involved in the [http://kolab.org Kolab] project and i am going to be trying to port it to Ubuntu.

I recently started a linux based computer business called [http://geekbuilt.com.au GeekBuilt Systems] and we are going to be using Kubuntu as preferred Desktop OS and Ubuntu on the server side of things.BR The web page is currently a work in progress so please forgive me.

Past Open Source Projects

i was a [http://gentoo.org Gentoo] developer between january 2003 and april 2003 but i got too busy and had to quit.BR i was the [http://xemacs.org XEmacs] package manager between may 2002 and april 2003.BR

Porting

Kolab on Ubuntu

I recently found that Kolab was available in Debian see here [http://pkg-kolab.alioth.debian.org/][[BR]] Ubuntu is my server platform of choice i decided to work out how to port it so i can learn how it is done.BR I will document my efforts on this here.BR

Looks like kolab-cyrus-imapd just got accepted into ubuntu so i shall see if i can add anything to that.BR

packages needed for kolab

recently imported into ubuntu dapper

• kolab-cyrus-imapd
• kolab-cyrus-admin
• kolab-libcyrus-imap-perl
• kolab-cyrus-clients
• kolab-cyrus-pop3d
• kolab-cyrus-common
• libkolab-perl (ubuntu version might need updating to latest debian version)

these packages are now in the debian repository

• kolabd
• kolab-resource-handlers
• kolab-webadmin
• php-net-imap (needed for kolab-rerource-handlers

changes needed for ubuntu

• create the kolab groups (kolab-r kolab-n)
• mkdir /etc/kolab/templates
• cp /usr/share/doc/kolab/templates/* /etc/kolab/templates
• edit templates to reflect Ubuntu config locations.
• move kolab2.schema schema to /etc/ldap/schema
• edit perl modules to change config file paths
• possibly rewrite perl mods to remove hard coded paths

Update

i installed the debian versions of kolab-resource-handlers kolab-webadmin libkolab-perl and kolabd.BR the previous versions weren't working but the new versions seem to work fine.BR i had to muck about with permissions in cyrus and add the kolab user to the mail group so it could actually do its job when making new accounts.BR i couldn't get kolabconf to do its thing in the previous versions but have not checked in the new version.BR i will make some patches and put them somewhere for people to get and will work out how to get them included in the debian releases.BR that way when they get put into ubuntu they will work.BR

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