Hula debs

Created on a debian testing machine, should work on most installs since it doesn't really rely on much. Feel free to e-mail me with any problems with these packages; in particular, don't bug debian and/or the hula project.

Distros these debs work on

I use Debian testing and Ubuntu hoary for development and testing, so these should always work. They have worked on Ubuntu warty, and should work on Debian stable.

Things to know:

If you are an Ubuntu user: please note that there are different Hula debs available in Ubuntu Universe: they are packaged quite differently to these, and you may want to use them. These packages are often more up-to-date, though, and if you choose to use these please make sure that you haven't accidentally installed the Ubuntu debs alongside: it shouldn't be possible, but could happen.

• this won't run hulasetup for you; you need to do that before you start it up.
• doing a /etc/init.d/hula stop may take a while to stop hula properly. pgrep hula shouldn't find any pids when it has stopped - make sure it stops before restarting.
• you will need to setup some allowed hosts/networks before it will accept mail for sending, or use SMTP Auth to authenticate yourself.

Please read /usr/share/doc/hula/README.Debian if you have trouble, that always contains up-to-date instructions. The package changelog may also be of interest to those upgrading.

Getting Hula

You can now setup apt to automatically retrieve new versions of hula for you, by placing the following in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.eurobob.eclipse.co.uk/hula debs/

Or, you can download the deb file directly from here. If you would like to make your own packages, you can use my debian directory to do it. It works in a clean svn checkout, but please don't use this unless you do know what you're doing.

Common Problems

• Logging in: default username is admin, default password is hula. So many people miss this :)
• it doesn't start. Have you run hulasetup?
• it doesn't shut down. Use the initscript, but give it a good amount of time. It can take a while.
• can't send mail out:
  1. have you added your machine/local network to the list of hosts allowed for relay? (It's under 'UBE Relaying' in the SMTP agent). Is it written correctly? (You have to say 1.2.3.0-1.2.3.255, not 1.2.3/24)
  2. Check your syslog - is it getting stuck in a particular queue?
  3. is hulasmtp running? Run hulamanager directly; is there a message about hulasmtp shutting down? Does something else have port 25?
  4. People experience problems with this generally, come see #hula on irc.freenode.net.