I’m thinking loudly if a tool to test the network configuration exists, I mean that experimented system administrator won’t need it, but I see here people who are not really at ease when you speak to open a terminal, and after that they don’t know what you need to write in it
In a lot of router we have a network diagnostic tool, why not here.
My concern is that it cannot be an additional module, because when you need it, you cannot install an optional module if you face some misconfigured network settings. Therefore the module should be installed with the base.
I could see a tab panels module where each additional module could put there a test of the services they brings, but at least I would see
ip addr
ip route
ping google.fr
nslookup google.fr
traceroute google.fr
of course we will have the choice to change the host as wanted.
I’m a huge fan of improvements like that, helping people “not at ease when you speak to open a terminal” should be one of our main goals as NethServer community.
Suggested something similar in an old post
mhhh i’m not sure… my idea is primarily to check if the server send correctly mail to my admin account (internal or external if configured in root>profile from gui)
something like this:
my concern is if you want to deliver the email, you must/should use a smarthost relay, else you will be spammed by email server, of course maybe not yours on localhost.
well something workable to send email, even without the email server stuff installed (postfix is from base, I use sendmail)
my concern is if I can send a message to root or to another external user (if the smart host relay is configured) the output of the ‘Mail Delivery System’ is directed to the root email, and it is not easy to retrieve it because with the resticted permission, we cannot let other users (like srvmgr) reads it.
If the email is not received by the user, then the sysadmin should go himself to roundcube or sogo and see what is wrong in the webmail. My issue is unix permission