Where has all the groupware gone.....

Fri May 3 15:49:14 UTC 2013

Jim,

I'm working it the best I can.  I did find another sogo.conf file in the distro in SOGo-2.0.5/scripts/sogo.conf.  It helps quite a bit now.

SOGo looks to be brilliant and has a lot of features that others don't.  Also, it allows configuration of database, ldap, postfix or sendmail, etc, etc.  I've been looking for something like this to take the place of Exchange/Outlook with little pain.

However, I did read the online install documents, they are, highly, RH specific or Generic Linux specific.

With ports, I think I speak for a lot of people of lesser ability than myself (25 years and 23 years as sysadmin, sr sysadmin, system architect, consultant), that ports is at the level now of 'it just works' almost all the time or the expectation that everything is put in the proper hierarchy and sample files are required.  (Thank you for putting in the sample file!)  Proper man pages are a requirement (there seems to be a bunch for the GNUstep library in .gz format in /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/man that should, probably, be linked to proper /usr/local/man directory as performing man on any of them comes back with 'no manual entry'.

Also, it does seem, from the installation documentation that the web interface relies on Apache, however, it wasn't installed as a dependency and I believe it should.  Also, an informational blurb at the end of the port if it installs correctly that says:  "Please put this in your Apache http.conf file: " or "the parameters for Apache can be found in <path>/sofo.conf-apache"

And another message that says the default configuration file is located in /usr/local/etc/sogo.conf

It's these little things that make ports superior to anything else out there.  The ability for it to 'just work' and to provide all additional information that the user will require to get basics up and running and no 'dependency hell' like Linux systems.

Finally, please understand that anyone who creates a port is another unsung hero in FBSD world.  It's appreciated every time someone does a make install in that port's directory.  Many people don't give it consideration, but I do.  Also, I'll help, if I have the time, to round it out like this.  I want it to be yet another port that sings out of the gate. :-)   Let me know when, if you get a chance to implement a lot of this, to run through it again.  I'm going to continue with my present attempt and let you know what else I find.

Peace!

P.

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 From: Jim Riggs <ports at christianserving.org>
To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Marco Steinbach <coco at executive-computing.de>; Joe Malcolm <jmalcolm at uraeus.com>; "ports at freebsd.org" <ports at freebsd.org> 
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Where has all the groupware gone.....

On May 3, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, I, finally, got around to installing the port from the links below.
> 
> Sadly, I'm trying to find all sorts of things for configuration and various other modifications.....
> 
> There's no man pages installed.
> I can find no documentation on the site or in the install that seems to be of any use.
> Frankly, I can't configure it to run in the jail that I'm testing it in.  (The jail is find and sogo starts but I have no idea how to access the thing....)

The port will get the software installed for you. Beyond that, it is up to you to read the documentation to configure and implement it. See <http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/documentation.html>, specifically chapter 5 in the Installation and Configuration Guide.

I suppose the port could install a /usr/local/etc/sogo.conf.sample file, but configuration of SOGo is so specific and unique to each and every environment that I believe it would likely cause more confusion than it would avoid.

> From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2 at yahoo.com>
> To: Marco Steinbach <coco at executive-computing.de>; Joe Malcolm <jmalcolm at uraeus.com> 
> Cc: "ports at freebsd.org" <ports at freebsd.org>; Jim Riggs <ports at christianserving.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Where has all the groupware gone.....
> 
> Guys,
> 
> I've been reading a lot about sogo and I do like what I see.
> 
> Is this port ready yet?  I just updated my ports tree and I don't see it.
> 
> P.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I ran into the same error, and Jim (creator of the ports, cc'ed) had to 
> fix a rather small oversight.  Things seem to work now.
> 
> Check both out from here:
> 
> https://svn.redports.org/jhriggs/devel/sope/
> https://svn.redports.org/jhriggs/www/sogo/
> 
> 
> Upon installation, the user and group for SOGo will be created 
> automatically from the contents of ${PORTSDIR}/UIDs and 
> ${PORTSDIR}/GIDs, once the port has been accepted into the ports tree.
> 
> For now, you need to manually add the respective user and group to the 
> above files, as the ports system won't be able to handle them, otherwise.
> 
> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=175947.
> 
> Be warned, though, that you may need to adapt the numerical user and 
> group id, because those in the PR may have already been assigned to 
> other ports.
> 
> MfG CoCo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 