-$Id: TODO,v 1.32 1999-07-08 01:02:24 ivan Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.42 2000-03-06 14:12:56 ivan Exp $
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+more email which should make it into a more organized TODO list:
+.
+I would also love to see Freeside support bandwidth billing by reading the
+Cisco NetFlow Accounting data so we and other ISP's could automatically bill
+co-located servers and even potentially other virtually hosted sites like
+MUD, Palace Chat, IRC Chat, etc based on the bandwidth they use or average
+sustained rates or whatever. I'm not much of a programmer so I don't know
+what all this entails but I did download a NetFlow client agent/whatever for
+Linux though.
+ .
+It would also be nice to see Freeside be able to read Apache log files and
+bill customers for web traffic that way as an option also. Plus an option to
+bill for excessive disk usage without having to use quotas if you didn't
+want to, would be a nice feature as well. So you could monitor with a script
+or something to see how much disk space a user was using then get some
+average and charge a certain amount for anything above some preset limit for
+that account type. I might be able to hack something like this up, but I'm
+not 100% sure where to start or if there is something out there that could
+be modified or not.
+.
+Do you think that you will ever support the HKS CCVS (Hell's Kitchen
+Software Credit Card Verification Software) since Red Hat bought them out
+and is going to be including that for credit card processing when you buy
+the professional version? What about possibly supporting the OpenCCVS which
+is a GNU/GPL version of a credit card program? I haven't had time to comb
+through the Freeside code to see how hard it would be to add support for
+these as externally called programs.
+.
+Also any thoughts on help desk, and knowledge base stuff? Any thoughts on
+this stuff, and how possible and what kinds of work or time frame would be
+involved?
+.
+Tim Jung
+System Admin
+Internet Gateway Inc.
+tjung@igateway.net
+
+
+
+ CVS via SSH (Score:1)
+ by platinum (jedgar at fxp dot org) on Thursday September 30, @07:13PM EDT (#4)
+ (User Info) http://www.fxp.org/~jedgar
+ The links above are your best bet for basic cvs server configuration. Once you have a pserver set up, you
+ may consider using cvs via ssh. All you need to do is the following:
+
+ 1) Have ssh and sshd set up on the client and server machines
+ 2) Set CVSROOT="joe@example.com:/home/ncvs"
+ 3) Set CVS_RSH="/usr/local/bin/ssh"
+ 4) Use cvs normally
+ (Obviously, insert the proper host/paths above)
+
+ You can also set up cvs/ssh to not need a password every time (similiar to an initial 'cvs login'):
+
+ 1) run ssh-keygen on client machine using no passphrase.
+ 2) copy/add ~/.ssh/identity.pub on the client to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server
+ (man ssh for more details)
+
+ The main reason I mentio
+ CVS via SSH (Score:1)
+ by platinum (jedgar at fxp dot org) on Thursday September 30, @07:13PM EDT (#4)
+ (User Info) http://www.fxp.org/~jedgar
+
+
+There's no way to do this currently, though it would be pretty
+straightforward to modify the source - specifically, the _collect_
+subroutine in FS::cust_main.
+>
+On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 04:05:32PM -0700, Jeff Garner wrote:
+> Freeside will e-mail my users when they are billed if they are setup as
+> billing.
+>
+> When setup by credit card it does not e-mail them. Is there a way to
+> turn on e-mail invoices for those who are billed via credit card? Kind
+> of like a recipt of billing....
+
+
+doc: http://www.softagency.co.jp/mysql/qmail.en.html
+
+sql1992.txt standard is 18 character column names. shoot for that, not just
+32 (postgresql default)
+
+Also note that (AFAIK) Freeside won't display any package that has more
+than one service on the "Add Customer" page. The reason for this is
+because there's no way to dynamically alter the displayed html form
+based on which package is selected. One possible solution would be to
+make an additional page that's used in the signup process that would
+display the form for each package, like a MS-style "Wizard". The first
+page lets you select the package, then the second page has the custom
+form with fields for each service in that package and a save button. Of
+course, that would require a little perl work.
+.
+Later,
+Scott Cruzen <sic@boernenet.com>
+
+
+Your suggested script with back up /usr/local/etc/freeside, but will miss
+any database not named `freeside'. Both of our scripts are specific to
+MySQL. If you're interested in contributing to Freeside, maybe you could
+work on a script which: reads the mapsecrets configuration file and then
+each secrets file to find out what specific database engine(s) (MySQL,
+PostgreSQL, etc.) and database(s) need to be backed up, then does so,
+serializing backups of the same engine, i.e. stop mysql, do all the mysql
+backups, start mysql, stop postgresql, do all the postgresql backups,
+start postgresql, etc.
+> #!/bin/sh
+> apachectl stop
+> mysqldump -t freeside > fs-backup.sql
+> apachectl start
+> tar -Pzcvf fs-backup-`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`.tgz fs-backup.sql /usr/local/etc/freeside/
+> rm fs-backup.sql
+
+I chose to use counters in the filesystem because there is no standard way
+to get the value of an auto-incrementing keyfield which is common across
+all databases (as seen through DBI/DBD).
+.
+It certainly wouldn't be a bad idea to use the database-specific methods,
+when available.
+
+htdocs/edit/svc_acct.cgi:
+(Does the `*HIDDEN*' show up when you are adding a new account, and
+specify the password, then receive an error and are returned to the form?)
+
+more DOC:
+Thought some of you might be interested in this:
+
+<ftp://ftp.minivend.com/pub> has CyberCash compatibility modules for
+Paymentnet <http://www.paymentnet.com> and Authorizenet
+<http://www.authorizenet.com> which should allow you process transactions
+using those services as well as CyberCash.
+
+The files are named CCLib.pm.paymentnet and CCLib.pm_authorizenet,
+respectively, and are installed by renaming to CCLib.pm and moving to your
+site_perl directory. Otherwise, follow the directions for Cybercash v2 in
+htdocs/docs/config.html
+
+DOC:
+fs_passwd/ is a client-server replacement for the `passwd', `chfn' and
+`chsh' commands that updates the Freeside database. (so for that to be
+useful, you'd have to be exporting that data periodically)
+
+fs_radlog/ is a client-server RADIUS log parser that stuffs the data into
+SQL. It isn't finished, and probably won't be unless someone who I can't
+convince to use one of the RADIUS daemons that logs to SQL directly pays
+me money or something.
+
+fs_signup/ is a client-server signup server. i'm just finishing it up
+now; probably isn't on your machine yet.
+
+
+http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00812.html
+
+package definitions should be implicit allow wrt agent types, not implicit deny
+(with the old behavior possible via a config file)
+
+> So is there anyway it could be setup to allow you to select a "primary
+> service" from each package? This service would be the one you were prompted
+> for. Could the signup server then be expanded to allow users to go into
+> their package and "turn-on" the remaining non-primary services(using the
+> primary account.)
+
+take the GPL'ed whois proxy stuff at www.geektools.com and turn it into
+intelligence for Net::Whois.
+
+A web version of the fs_passwd stuff would be nifty.
+
+If you have Cistron authenticating directly from MySQL, you can replicate
+in real-time instead of exporting periodically. See
+<http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Common_problems.html#Replication>.
+
+these go in docs:
+<http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00546.html>, and
+<http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00554.html>
+
+and http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00423.html
+
+> > 5: Is there anyway to get freeside to send a sysadmin a warning when a
+> > credit card has expired?
+No, but there should be.
+
+Put this in the doc (quoting Mark Wells <mark@pc-intouch.com>):
+>Of course, thanks to the sheer coolness of SQL and MyODBC, you can do
+>whatever reports you want in basically whatever application you want.
+>There's no need for Freeside itself to do any reports at all.
+
+middle names and titles
+
+On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 01:11:40PM -0400, Frank Nazario wrote:
+> Playing and entering information to Freeside i encountered the following
+> missing reports:
+>
+> View Customers by Agent
+>
+> View Pending Invoices
+>
+
+grep 'uncomment this to encrypt password immediately' site_perl/svc_acct.pm
+Not to say that it shouldn't be a configurable option.
+
+in site_perl/cust_main_invoice.pm (elsewhere?), error out if mydomain config file is gone
+(at least until the idea of a default domain goes away)
+
+FS::Record::qsearch does an eval every loop iteration (which is itself not
+guaranteed to work across all DBD's and should be fixed). This has got to be
+slow. Fix it. (I think recent Perls might have a way to accept a variable
+there, no eval needed?)
+
+Could you have added /bin/sync, /sbin/shutdown, and /bin/halt to the
+`shells' configuration file before importing, and removed them afterwords?
+(even better if svc_acct.import did that automatically - it could just
+munge and restore @FS::svc_acct::shells... hmm.)
+
+> BTW, Ivan, I am trying to verify in an additional database table that a
+> particular user doesn't exist. This database is used to store email aliases a$
+> additional POP boxes for our customers (kinda like AOL allows). I have toyed
+> with the idea of just writing the aliases to an email only svc_acct that
+> doesn't write to the password file, but that isn't really how I want to do it.
+
+Actually, I think that's a pretty good way to do it. Cerkit contributed
+support a little while back for svc_acct.pm and svc_acct.export for
+multiple export targets. It needs to be cleaned up and documented, which
+I'll try to get to soon. For this to work correctly, the svc_acct_sm
+table should go away, along with the concept of a "default" domain.
+
+default setting for new packages should allow all agents to purchase them...
+with a config file for the old behaviour
+
+fix or replace Term::Query (Quiz::Question doesn't do what i need)
+
+Check config file reading stuff from CPAN
+
+Authorizenet module from CPAN!
+
+<http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/mutt/faq.html> has a good y2k complience
+statement!
+
+ I'm hoping Freeside can support arbitrailly complex pricing plans
+ because of a simple concept: all prices are perl expressions. So if
+ you use `19.95' for example, perl evalates that to be `19.95'. But if
+ you need to do a complex pricing scheme, you just need to write an
+ appropriate perl expression, which will most likely pull data from the
+ database to return pricing. Some things will already log to SQL; for
+ example most RADIUS servers can or have a patch available. Getting
+ Freeside to bill based on any sort of data then becomes a matter of
+ importing the data into the database.
+
+ There are some issues involved with pro-rating, partial month charges,
+ that sort of thing. Expressions will need a standard way to have the
+ applicable time/data ranges passed to them. Also the expressions are
+ currently running under the Safe perl module, and the opmask might not
+ be right in all situations. I'll try to spend some time working on
+ this if you are using it.
+
+> 2. can customers view their bills on-line.
+
+Not yet; it needs to be proxied from Freeside to a customer web server in
+a secure way using something not completely unlike the fs_passwd,
+fs_passwdd, fs_passwd_server trio.
+
+
+> Lastly, if someone over pays on an invoice, the credit part does not flow
+> over to other invoices..
+
+The total balance flows over correctly, but individual payments don't.
+The code you're looking for is in FS::cust_pay::insert
+
+The question of what to do with overpayments that don't have another
+invoice to flow into (yet.. or possibly not) is still an open one. The
+legacy system Freeside replaced long ago had a separate place for this
+(payments waiting for an invoice) for each customer, and it gave our
+bookeeper fits.
+
+
+option to relax username uniqueness in favor of username+domain or mail/shell
+vs. radius to ease import for isp's with namespace problems or who buy others.
+
+do i have to store anything for radius realms besides regular radius attributes
+(which are handled fine now)?
+
+warn or complain or something when invoice_from is empty (and we use it)
+
+Right now Freeside uses the `freq' field of a package definition as a
+number of months. The specific section of code you're looking for is in
+FS::cust_main::bill:
+
+ #change this bit to use Date::Manip?
+ #$sdate=$cust_pkg->bill || time;
+ #$sdate=$cust_pkg->bill || $time;
+ $sdate = $cust_pkg->bill || $cust_pkg->setup || $time;
+ my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) =
+ (localtime($sdate) )[0,1,2,3,4,5];
+ $mon += $part_pkg->getfield('freq');
+ until ( $mon < 12 ) { $mon -= 12; $year++; }
+ $cust_pkg->setfield('bill',
+ timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year));
+ $cust_pkg_mod_flag = 1;
+
+..and when I went poking for this, looks like it tells us just what needs
+to be done! Hehehe...
+
+Date::Manip can handle cool things like "+ 1 month" (actually the current
+case of /^(\d+)$/ would have to be added as a special case of "+ $1
+month") and "+ 30 days" (what you need) and even "+ 5 business days" !
+
+
+On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:38:16PM +0000, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
+> I can't quite seem to figure out how this exporting works. From what I
+> understand, when you run svc_acct.export, it rewrites the /etc/passwd,
+> /etc/shadow, etc. files. Is this only for initial setups with the
+> export hooks being in the pm's?
+
+You can use both, or just one method. The configuration files control
+this. One of the things in the TODO is to take out the last few things
+that aren't customizable wrt this and put them in config files.
+
+http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/user-mgmt.html
+
+Term::Query doesn't install out of the box from CPAN. Fix it (and get it
+submitted upstream!), or remove requirement from bin/svc_acct.import and
+bin/svc_acct_sm.import and take it out of the install instructions.
+
+use this cool link to explain the Freeside API
+ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/easy_objects.html
+
Multiple tax rates by geographic region (county, state, and county) are
supported; just choose View/Edit tax rates from the main menu.
try to fix that soon; in the meantime you can add the invoicing email
address afterwords.
-Postgres `money' time sucks rocks anyway. I'll probably just require 6.5
-and use the numeric types, which *finally* work right.
-On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Mr. Poet wrote:
-> Software error:
-> Error creating cust_bill record: ERROR: parser:
-> attribute 'charged' is of type 'money' but expression
-> is of type 'float8' You will need to rewrite or cast
-> the expression ! Check updated but unbilled packages
-> for customer1
-.
-Postgres `money' time sucks rocks anyway. I'll probably just require 6.5
-and use the numeric types, which *finally* work right (well, according to
-the web site, anyway).
-.
+(workaround for postgres before 6.5) (unlikely to ever be implemented)
In the mean-time, this could probably be fixed with the reverse of
the kludge in FS::Record::new. This removes `$' and `,' from money fields
coming out of the database. Something which fixed up the data so Postgres
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