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Hi Jim,
I've cc'd this to csuite-dev and invite any additions or contrary opinions
of my answers.
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jim Foltz wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for your offer.
>
> As I mentioned, I volunteer for the Akron Regional Online Resource Network,
> or ACORN. You can find out about ACORN at www.acorn.net, if you are
> interested.
>
> At the time of writing my last message, I hadn't found any info on where or
> how to download CSuite. I ended up doing a completely separate www search
> for csuite which came up with the Csuite download and license information. I
> think it's odd that there is no link to where or how to download it anyhere
> on the CCN, or the CSuite Information pages. I couldn't find it, anyway.
We're not very good at redirecting this sort of enquiry. It's now on my
list of todos again:)
> I have since located the pages containing the license and applicaion form. I
> hope to be downloading CSuite in the near future for ACORN to evaluate.
>
> Now, on to some questions.
>
> Is there a csuite FAQ that can answer all these questions?
No; but perhaps this will be the start.
> Are there any special system requirements to run csuite?
Not over and above what is normally expected of a system supporting many
simultaneous activities. CSuite is running on Solaris and Linux and lots
of memory and cache would improve performance.
> Can we install and evaluate csuite without interuption of our current
> services?
Yes. Normally, CSuite would install into /var/csuite and it does add some
entries into the passwd and group files and possibly it might create a
link between the existing sendmail and the CSuite zmailer. I'm not sure if
that last action has been disabled.
> How mature is the installation? Is it possible to give an approximate time
> limit for an installation? How large is the total csuite package installed?
> Once installed, how much tweaking needs to be done?
The installation itself is pretty straight forward if all the necessary
system tools are aboard and took about 2-3 hours on a 166 Pentium. Some
site information is input and should be prepared and ready. The steps
necessary to configure CSuite are a part of the install. Tweaking is a
continual process as much of the package is merely a reflection of CCN
site policies and actions that each new site will want to refine.
> Are the executables in csuite distributed in source or binary format? Are
> there any special compiler/development requirements?
All distributed in source; gcc is required.
> I logged into the CCN over telnet to look around. I assume that the
> text-mode interface is Lynx? Are there any special patches made to the
> source code of Lynx just for csuite? Are there any patches made to any of
> the software used in csuite?
Lynx is the interface, yes. Some security patches are implemented but I'm
not sure exactly what precise changes were made. The language and setup
screen are now a part of the Lynx distribution. Other packages have been
patched but mostly to address security issues. Majordomo has been changed
but we do update to newer versions on Chebucto Community Net and the
transition does not appear to be onerous.
> I noticed links in the text-mode interface were numbered with [#]. Can we
> eliminate this if we desire?
This can be customised in the (s)ettings screen.
> Mailing list archiving is one feature we are interested in. I was looking at
> the mailing list arhives for csuite-dev through the CCN. I presume they were
> automatically created by CSuite. However, they didn't make a bit of sense to
> me. The archive was list of questions, but there were no replys. It just
> seemed like a partial archive, not the whole story. Where are the replys? Is
> this how CSuite archives mailing lists and is it's behaviour configuable?
> Doesn't it organize the archive into Subject threads? Or were the replys
> simply not sent to the list?
We have just moved onto a Solaris box and the archives are a little messed
up right now. I'll take a look and see what the problem is.
The archiving can use our utility arch2html as a pipe at the top of the
listname or you could install your own archiving utility. We've looked at
others but found they were quite resource intensive although they offered
features that arch2html did not. Mhonarc (sp) was one that did work nicely
but our review was done on the old overworked system we have just left.
We should re-review that I guess.
> Thank you for your time.
Always happy to help.
> --
> Jim Foltz <aa204@acorn.net>
Regards,
David Murdoch CET
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http://www.chebucto.ns.ca - 902 494 2449 voice
General Manager, CSuite Networking Cooperative Limited
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