So ClearOS has come out of beta, they have gone live with clearsdn beta for their services. Basically ClearOS is the new clarkconnect for anyone that cares

*Windows 7 Support with Samba 3.4.3
*Antiphishing
*Graphical console tool
*Improved usability in the web-based interface
*Core system upgraded to CentOS 5.4

http://www.clearfoundation.com/346-clearos-51-final-version-and-clearsdn-beta-released.html

What I particularly like is the fact that they have done a full release and included multi-wan and started to sell their services only which I think is a positive step forward.

Installed it yesterday, and it was honesty leaps ahead of clarkconnect 4.3 on the same hardware. Holy gui batman not used to seeing x after using clarkconnect

Also something to note is that apt update has been replaced by yum. Squid is ver 2.6.STABLE21. I would have like to see version 3 included but meh.

Running hardware
P4 3.6
P35-DS3R - using AHCI
2gb ram
2x 80gb sata drives running swap and /boot raid 1
6x 500gb sata drives running / in raid 6 (includes /var/flexshare/shares)
2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller

Also had to rejoin every workstation to the new domain part and parcel of 4.x - 5x upgrade. I may have a play with samba 4 but I think I will wait until its a bit more stable.

Samba4 Available for ClearOS 5.1 - John Terpstra from the clear forums has a excellent post here if your keen
http://www.clearfoundation.com/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,232/catid,18/func,view/id,2034/

Documentation is still patchy as they are migrating it from clarkpoint over to clear and building up a manual
http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/user_guide/clearos_enterprise_5.1/start

Some of the howto documents
http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/howtos/start

ISO and VM DL from
http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/downloads

first link broken

fixed

God damn the demo looks good... thanks for the info dude

Its a full release not sure what you mean by demo

* Graphical console tool

That doesn't sound very clear ...

Herbal the live demo on their website where you can use the web based gui and check out how easy it is to config and use etc...

That would be an x console interface in addition to shell and https etc etc

thank you

wow, this is way better than expected (playing with the web demo)

I'm going to check this out in the new year
I really enjoy getting dirty in a kernel and doing everything via cli
but it's not always practical in a business setup

I am going to have a crack at torrent-flux and a newsreader next weekend if time permits.

But I have just discovered servocity.com and I might finally be able to build one of two projects being a sentry gun (combined with http://www.paintballsentry.com/ for the motion tracking) and a pan/tilt cablecam system which may actually see the light of day

Okay kids added torrentflux-b4rt

Quick walk through

Turn on the webserver under server - webserver then select start service and boot to either auto or leave it on manual
Turn on the sql server under server - database then select start service and boot to either auto or leave it on manual (you will then be prompted to create a root password so create one. *When I created my sql root password then system didn't recongise it, and kept throwing localhost password;YES errors and wouldn't let be progress to phpadmin menu. Don't know if this is a bug or not

But if you have this issue then create a text file call it mysql-init copy it to your server

Add this code to the contents
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=YOURPASSWORD GOES IN HERE('MyNewPass') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;


mysqld_safe --init-file=/home/me/mysql-init &

The server executes the contents of the file named by the --init-file option at startup, changing each root account password.

After the server has started successfully, delete /home/me/mysql-init.

(replace /home/me/ to your directory path to the mysql-init file)

This will flush out any f***ups also see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html from the mysql 5.0 ref manual

Use timbo80's torrentflux-b4rt walk through from the clarkconnect forums

http://ccforums.clearfoundation.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB6&Number=95646&page=0&fpart=1

download and untar the tarball, using Code:

cd /var/tmp
wget http://download.berlios.de/tf-b4rt/torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta1.tar.bz2
tar jvxf torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta1.tar.bz2

move the html directory to your website root, like soCode:

cd torrentflux-b4rt
mv html /var/www/html/torrentfluxb4rt

note the name it may be whatever version you download in this case its torrentflux-b4rt_1.0-beta1 not torrentflux-b4rt

point your browser at http://cciphere/torrentfluxb4rt/setup.php
follow through the install process, add in your mysql server username and password, and tick the box that says create table

You will need to make the config directory writeable, like so:
Code:

chmod 777 /var/www/html/torrentfluxb4rt/inc/config


The setup should finish, it may complain about some missing commands for optional components but these are fine.
Delete setup.phpCode:

rm /var/www/html/torrentfluxb4rt/setup.php


Point your browser at http://cciphere/torrentfluxb4rt/ and login. The first time you login will be your admin account so remember your password! check the settings and off you go

Things to note with the beta some utilities are not included and can be downloaded as separate modules if you require them

grep /bin/grep Path found Ok. /bin/grep is executable.
netstat /bin/netstat Path found Ok. /bin/netstat is executable.
php /usr/bin/php Path found Ok. /usr/bin/php is executable.
awk /bin/awk Path found Ok. /bin/awk is executable.
du /usr/bin/du Path found Ok. /usr/bin/du is executable.
wget /usr/bin/wget Path found Ok. /usr/bin/wget is executable.
unrar NOT FOUND Warning: could not find unrar on your system. Default path /usr/bin/unrar used.
unzip /usr/bin/unzip Path found Ok. /usr/bin/unzip is executable.
cksfv NOT FOUND Warning: could not find cksfv on your system. Default path /usr/bin/cksfv used.
vlc NOT FOUND Warning: could not find vlc on your system. Default path /usr/local/bin/vlc used.
uudeview NOT FOUND Warning: could not find uudeview on your system. Default path /usr/local/bin/uudeview used.

Also during the install it may have a piss and moan that /usr/local/torrentflux/ directory doesn't exist so just mkdir one with the correct permissions remember though that the permissions need allow a web-user to write to the dir as well.

When I get some more time I will add how to add directly to the menu system within clearos


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torrentflux-b4rt is a great app but trouble is it hasn't been updated in ages and I've found it a little unstable with the latest release of ubuntu e.g. had torrents randomly dieing and on a few occasion ubuntu completely crashed but don't have those issues with the normal flux app in 9.10. Only problem with the normally flux app is it's s*** compared to b4rt. So I guess here's the part where you tell me to use ClearOS instead :)

Can't really comment on running it on ubuntu server, chances are likely I would run deluge instead but I figured as I got b4rt running on clear I figured someone here may find it useful