Misc

This page contains the changes which cannot be categorized into the subsections of Wishlist menu item.

  • MySQL - date time fields for new tables should be changed to varchar from datetime.
  • A program like mex will have 2 different versions, one for 32-bit and another for 64-bit. But a file like php.ini can be patched as per architecture. Should we follow the following approach for patching?
    • If a file has a few changes depending upon architecture patch it after checking the architecture.
    • If architecture based changes are many keep two separate versions of the file.
  • Home page - copyright part should be dynamic. A small Perl script will do the trick of pasting the year after getting the date.
  • Change in the 'Help' content shown on pages.
  • Remove the 'Email' link on pages.
  • modem configuration - not tested on 2.6.0. Should we support modems in the current and future releases? The question pertaining to it should be commented and the link of modem should be removed.
  • Change the color scheme of the UI without making any changes in the underlying logic.
  • LDAP - revamp the schema. Current schema being used is (o = starcom, c = IN). This needs to be made truly global, i.e. (dc = starcom, dc = com).
  • Net Mon
  • Single CD distro
  • UI for Cron Timings
    • Implement a web based UI to control cron timings of various daemon processes of MercE.
  • UI for Network Settings
    • Implement web based UI to display and change network attributes.
  • UI for Printers
    • Implement web based UI to display all printers and their queues.
  • UI for Newsgroup
    • Implement web based UI for newsgroups.
  • UI for Queue File Status
    • Implement a web based UI to display the details of queue files generated by MercE. It should show the details of queues processed successfully as well as the ones for which there were some errors.
  • UI for Running Processes
    • Implement a web based UI to display running processes in the system (top).
  • UI for System Logs
    • Implement a web based UI to display log messages of the system. Last few lines of log messages should be displayed for each services like mail, web, backup etc.
  • UI for Xbackup
    • Implement web based UI for data backup across two MercE servers (xbackup).
  • UI to Block Incoming Connections
    • Implement a web based UI to block incoming connections to ports 22, 25, 80, 8080 from a given set of IP addresses.
  • UI to Start/Stop Services
    • Implement a web based UI to start, stop or view various services (daemons).