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The Developer manual is maintained separate to this wiki, corrections and suggestions are to be made on the Bug Tracker.
The Developer manual is maintained separate to this wiki, corrections and suggestions are to be made on the Bug Tracker.
[http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/gordonr/devguide/html/devguide.html Developer Manual Booklet (All the chapters on one page .html)]
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[http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/gordonr/devguide/devguide.pdf Also available as a one page .pdf]
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[http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/gordonr/devguide/html/book1.htm Table of Contents.]
[http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/gordonr/devguide/html/book1.htm Index page.]
I. An overview of the SME Server
1. About this manual
2. Who should read this manual?
3. What is the SME Server?
4. Design philosophy
Principle 1: Automating best practice
Principle 2: Simplicity
Principle 3: Extensibility
Principle 4: Reliability
5. Architecture overview
II. SME Server internals
6. Configuration database
Overview
The configuration databases
Namespace issues
7. Actions and events
Actions
Events
8. Configuration file templates
Design of the template system
The Text::Template module
Template expansion
9. Process startup, supervision and shutdown
Process startup
Process supervision: runit (and supervise)
10. The server-manager web interface
The web directory
Web function scripts
Common files
Panel definitions
III. How to create an SME Server package - step by step
11. Getting started
Creating a development environment
12. Getting to know how to customize the SME Server
Exercise 1: Changing a configuration template
Exercise 2: The magic of templates
Exercise 3: Using events and actions
Exercise 4: Adding new configuration database parameters
Exercise 5: Adding a user interface screen
Exercise 6: Adding a new event type
Exercise 7: Thought experiment - adding a new server application
Customization guidelines
13. Packaging your application
A quick introduction to RPMs
Selecting and creating RPMs for your application
Setting up your RPM development environment
Building an RPM
14. The SME Server development environment
Configuring your development environment
Modifying an SME Server package
SourceForge developer CVS access
IV. Advanced customization of the SME Server
15. Advanced customization principles
Leveraging the provisioning system for users, groups, and i-bays
Programmatically creating users, groups, and i-bays
Reserving accounts to avoid conflicts with user, group, or i-bay names
Adding new account properties
Using the LDAP server
Data backup
Using the MySQL database
Sending email messages
Managing the firewall
Starting up programs automatically upon system boot
V. Documentation and resources
16. Perl modules
VI. License texts
A. GNU Free Documentation License
B. GNU General Public License
===Documentation Links===
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