From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 01:07:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D9316A407 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0E243D45 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:07:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by small.pukruppa.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k8R3310c004045; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:03:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:03:00 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" To: Erik Norgaard In-Reply-To: <45199F80.70707@locolomo.org> Message-ID: <20060927045325.I3859@pukruppa.net> References: <20060926180613.15547.qmail@web27211.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <45199F80.70707@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Desmond Coughlan , freebsd mailing list Subject: Re: calenders .. silly question ! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:07:40 -0000 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Desmond Coughlan wrote: >> The thread on calendars has got me thinking.... The 'non-profit' >> organisation I mentioned, is a school. Here in France (and no doubt >> in dozens of other countries), many universities have constructed 'virtual >> campuses'. By that, I mean that the student logs in, he has not only his >> grades, but his timetable (classes, seminars etc), and he can send and >> receive e-mail to and from his tutors. Can this be done under FreeBSD >> (that was the 'silly' part of the question) ? Any pointers to where I >> can start learning about that stuff? As Eric wrote there are dozens of things you have to think about. But since you only ask for a pointer: If you search Google (and our ports directory) for "Content Management Systems (CMS)" and try to install one you will get some impression what can be done. I think ports/www/mambo (PHP based) or ports/www/plone (Python based) can be set up quite easily. Regards, Uli. > Setting up the MX is the most urgent, >> but afterwards, we can start to have fun with SQL, forums, campuses etc? > > Honestly, I think you will have a hard time getting any useful answers: Your > question is vague and broad and posting under a completely different topic is > not helping. > > Before asking the "how" question, you gotta understand the problem you want > to solve - that is first, figure out what is the problem: > > - how many users? > - how will you manage users? > - who will manage users? > - how will users access services? > - from where will users access services? - routing? - firewall? > - does the infrastructure exist to provide access to services? > - network? wireless? dns? etc. > - how often will users access services? > - how much data will be handled by the servers? > - what hardware is required to support the expected traffic? > ... > and on and on. > > Once you have a clear idea of that you can start asking more concrete > questions: > > - which MTA? > - how do I setup that MTA? > - what MDA? can the MTA work as MDA? > - how do I setup that MDA? > etc. > > So, I recommend you rethink your problem and make it clear what you want to > achieve in your next post - under a suitable subject... > > Cheers, Erik > -- > Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org > X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt > Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany