From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 12 16:51:58 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 0091516A4DE for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:51:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4546443D45 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:51:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k7CGpj3g009510 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:51:46 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7CGpjFA042797 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:51:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k7CGpjYE042796 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:51:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:51:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060812165145.GA42789@gothmog.pc> References: <44DE013C.4050702@netfence.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44DE013C.4050702@netfence.it> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.821, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.58, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: OT: new documents notification and approval 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: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:51:58 -0000 On 2006-08-12 18:26, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > I apologize for the OT, but I really wouldn't know where to ask and, > afterall, server side will be FreeBSD. > > A customer of mine has the need to notify all users when a certain type > of new document is written and ask them to sign they have read it. > Right now everything is on plain old paper, with someone running after > everyone personally, but obviously they'd like to move to the electronic > way. > > Right now the best (but surely not the only one) solution I've thought > of is be the following: > _ that same person can write to a SMB share on my server and will put > new documents there; > _ some program in NETLOGON.CMD will check for new entries, pop up a > window with the link and the "Accept" button; acceptance means something > will be written somewhere (possibly on that same share or another, or > connecting to a web script); > _ some PHP web page will collect the result and display who has accepted > and who must be sollicited. Nah! That's a hack and an ugly one too. Just get a full document management system, instead of reimplementing a square wheel in PHP and being happy that it didn't come up with more edges :-)