Re: Building two servers

2004-08-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
John Summerfield wrote: NO NO NO NO "Certified to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" does not mean it depends on RHEL. Ja, I know :) It tells you that chances to run Linux on that hardware are pretty good, but you can´t be sure. For example, I´ve seen a SCSI raid controller supporting Red Hat a

Re: Broadcom 5788 - Network Driver

2004-08-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
Werner Otto wrote: trying to find a driver for this network card: Broadcom 5788 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet. The kernel seems to pic it up as an maybe there: ftp://ftp.tyan.com/drivers_linux/Broadcom57xxSeriesNIC/ GH -- for i in "*.txt"; do mail -s $i hwilmer < $i; done su: $i: ambiguous redirect

Re: Building two servers

2004-08-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
Jacob S. wrote: get 3ware S-ATAs in RAID 3 or 5. There´s no point in using SCSI on them, or at least I don´t get it. Right. I didn't mean to suggest the RAID had to be SCSI (I can't find SCSI in my original post... maybe I'm missing something). It just came to my to mind that SCSI could be used, s

Re: Building two servers

2004-08-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
John Summerfield wrote: As you never know exactly what hardware you´ll get from those vendors, I do see chances for trouble with hardware supported only with other distributions than Debian. Arguably, many of those changes are to provide better compatibility with the hardware. Also, quite a few

Re: Building two servers

2004-08-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
John Cuson wrote: hans- you might also want to check out the forums at www.2cpu.com. a community of smp enthusiasts. THX, I´ll check that out :) GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building two servers

2004-08-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
Jacob S. wrote: help you too much there. I can tell you that your cpu won't be the bottleneck for 40 samba users, though. You need to make sure you're using Raid 0 or 5. Hm, we´ve a 3ware IDE RAID controller running in our mail server with two HDs in RAID-1, and the disks seem pretty fast. New ser

Re: Building two servers

2004-08-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
John Summerfield wrote: Which kind of processors can you recommend, AMD (Opteron?) or some Intel? _I_ would go for Opteron. If you are interested in a mainstream vendor, IBM, Sun and even HP have Opteron systems, and all support Linux. THX, so I´ll find out more about the Opteron first. The probl

Building two servers

2004-08-09 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! Unfortunately, I´m a bit lost on what hardware to use to build two servers. Both servers should run Debian, and I´m trying to find out about compatibility issues before buying any hardware. One of the servers will be used as a fileserver running SAMBA as a PDC. A single CPU system might be

simple LDP accounting

2003-10-29 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, how can I do some simple accounting with lpd? A number of clients is connected to our print-server via Samba to print to printers on the network. No printer filters are being used, files are just passed through. It would suffice to have the number of bytes counted that are sent to each pri

Re: need help getting ipchains goin'

2003-09-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
coco the talking chimp wrote: ok so I just found the /boot/config-2.2.20-compaq. It´s much easier to get a recent kernel (like 2.4.21), configure, compile and install it to set up a firewall. The options needed for that can be specified when setting up the new kernel (with make menuconfig). The

Re: Is there a problem with kernel 2.4.20 and internet connections?

2003-09-11 Thread Hans Wilmer
B. L. Jilek wrote: works. Dig works. Internal connections (HTTP, FTP, SSH) work. Outside connections using Browsers, ftp or anything else like AIM will not connect. I booted into 2.4.19 temporarily and I could connect. 2.4.20 will Right now I'm recompiling the kernel and have changed a few set

lprm never terminates

2003-09-10 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, I´ve set up a print server that provides printing services to clients via lpd and SAMBA. The server prints to remote printers on the LAN, most of them connected via Intel Netport print managers, while some of the printers have their own built-in print manager. This works very nice so far,

Re: Best approach for SAMBA server with ACLs?

2003-09-03 Thread Hans Wilmer
Mark Roach wrote: more information about the current state of development? google? ... gives many results concerning ACLs, ext3 and such, but I wasn´t successful in finding what I was looking for. It´s a difficult topic to da a search on ... I have been using ext3 + acls with good results on a

Best approach for SAMBA server with ACLs?

2003-09-02 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, I´m trying to figure out what the best approach may be to set up a SAMBA server with Woody that provides ACLs so that access rights could be specified in detail. In an announcement of the 2.6.x kernels, I´ve read that these kernels will come readily with ACL support for ext3fs. Does anyone

Do we always have to reboot after installing a security update tomake sure that the update is actually used rather than just installed? (Re:keeping partitions mounted read-only)

2003-08-28 Thread Hans Wilmer
Shaun Crossley wrote: The problem with lsof is that a large number of files on /usr is listed, and I can?t tell which of them need to be closed and which can stay open. I have always understood that *any* open files would prevent a partition from being unmounted, and I assume the same is true

Re: keeping partitions mounted read-only

2003-08-21 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! Thank you for your hints! I´ve already been trying to figure which files prevent the partition from being remounted with lsof. The problem with lsof is that a large number of files on /usr is listed, and I can´t tell which of them need to be closed and which can stay open. Is there any way

keeping partitions mounted read-only

2003-08-20 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! Usually, I´m keeping partitions that can be mounted read-only, mounted that way. Especially the /usr partition is mounted ro. To install security-updates (or new packages), I remount /usr by issueing a ´mount /usr -o remount,rw´ so that the new software can be installed. After installation

Re: DNS: configure bind9 to resolve only a certain IP-range

2003-06-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Noah Meyerhans wrote: Basically, you don't want to set up a zone for 67.158.193.in-addr.arpa in named.conf, but rather for something like 64-71.67.158.193.in-addr.arpa. Googling for "bind classless in-addr.arpa" and related strings will likely answer your questions. If not, asking for help in com

Re: DNS: configure bind9 to resolve only a certain IP-range

2003-06-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: Having that zone, it seems to override anything that´s between 193.158.67.0 and 193.158.67.255. This is what one would expect --- but it´s not what I need. What I need is a way to restrict the above zone to *only* the IPs listed in the zone file, i. e. to the range of

Re: DNS: configure bind9 to resolve only a certain IP-range

2003-06-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: I guess I am not following what you are up to. How have you installed BIND, from apt or from source? It´s been installed from apt, using dselect, so it´s the standard debian package. When I configure a nameserver, I usually allow it to do "caching" nameserving. In th

Re: DNS: configure bind9 to resolve only a certain IP-range

2003-06-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: how can I configure bind9 so that it would (reverse-)resolve a certain range of IP-addresses only within a zone? >> I´ve been browsing through some documentations, but I couldn´t find any option or something like that to tell bind that it is responsible for a designated

DNS: configure bind9 to resolve only a certain IP-range

2003-06-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, how can I configure bind9 so that it would (reverse-)resolve a certain range of IP-addresses only within a zone? We´ve got a consecutive range of IPs for our permanent internet-connection (a.b.c.64 to a.b.c.71), and I want our nameserver to resolve those addresses from its local zone files

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-24 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, THX for your suggestions! > delete libnullplugin.so in the mozilla plugin ROTFL, this produces just another popup: "Mozilla cannot find the Plugin Downloader Plugin ..." Mozilla should have some protection against plugins built-in, as it has for blocking images and scripts opening window

getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbish --- it only wastes bandwidth and supposedly provides no information at all ... Unfortun

Re: Swap capslock-control in console?

2003-02-07 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:07:46PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Is there a tool that can load that same ~/.Xmodmap on the console or > > convert the file for use with loadkeys, so that I have the same > > keyboard layout on X11 and on the console? It's not so nice always > > having to edit two

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-07 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:48:00PM -0800, nate wrote: > > result in plain text authentication, which is not exactly > > secure. > > use IMAPS then.(IMAP over ssl). sslwrap can provide this functionality > to any IMAP server. I personally prefer plain text auth, makes things > simplier, but of cou

Re: partitioning hard drive & /usr is already 96% full

2003-02-07 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:39:58AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition > > > so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future? > > > > Make it 2 GB as a minimum; that you'll need more than 4 GB is unlikely > > for quite some

Re: partitioning hard drive & /usr is already 96% full

2003-02-06 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:41:55AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > Question for the list: > What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition > so it does not completetly fill up and cause problems in the future? Make it 2 GB as a minimum; that you'll need more than 4 GB is unlikely for quite some t

SCSI messages

2003-02-06 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, dmesg prints out, amongst others, a number of messages like that, as I just discover: sym53c1010-33-0-<0,0>: ordered tag forced. This seems to concern /dev/sda, which is an IBM DCAS-34330. What does the system want to tell me with these messages? Is there some problem with command queuein

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-06 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:34:16PM -0800, nate wrote: > > What's the better way to go when building a new server? Should I start > > with 2.x or stay at 1.5? > > If it were me, I would use 1.5. See my other posts with the maintainer > of the cyrus 2 packages for debian for why. It really depends

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-05 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:37:38PM -0800, nate wrote: > > Ok, all this sounds good. Cyrus may be the more solid solution at > > least. But some questions come up with it: > > as a cyrus user on debian for 2 years now I can say that cyrus 1.5 > is a ROCK solid mail server. Extremely fast, reliable

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-05 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, maybe we should switch to the info-cyrus mailing list, as this is cyrus-specific. I'm subscribed to that list, so you can post followups to there if you like. On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:19:05PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > delete folders. My first impression is that cyrus i

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:36:26AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > This is incorrect. Cyrus storage method is basically maildir with an > index database for performance. If the index database gets > corrupted, it can be completely rebuilt from the messages in the > mail directory, using the cyrus ad

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:36:26AM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Cyrus seems to be good for performance, but it is using its own format > > to store the mail. That would make it impossible to recover particular > > mailboxes from backups, and if something goes wrong, you're more or > > less left

Re: imapd hanging connections?

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:07:27AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > On my debian unstable system I have: > ii uw-imapd 2002b.debian-5 remote mail folder access server > ii uw-imapd-ssl 2002b.debian-5 Dummy upgrade package for uw-imapd better use the imap part of courier Be aware that c

Re: Swap capslock-control in console?

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:36:48PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Johan Kullstam wrote: > > > > I have swap-caps-ctrl in X, why shouldn't I want it in console too? > > But alas, so many computer users are going through life not knowing > the convenience of having the control key in its easily re

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:16:48PM +, Pigeon wrote: > get this working, and in the meantime I still want it to copy data > from one serial port to the other so I can continue to dial out as > normal from the main box. There's an NFS option in the kernel config that allows to directly export d

Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:24:07PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > >Did you try several CDs created with the new burner, or only one? > > I tried several CDs, and a few variations of the cdrecord options. > Nothing changed the > symptoms. hmm Sorry, I've no good idea on that ... Maybe it helps t

mozilla imap client

2003-02-04 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, the IMAP client that comes with the mozilla browser is nice to use. But it has the peculiar habit to leave deleted messages in the folders until the user manually 'compacts' his folders (or a particular folder). This is not exactly nice, as the number of messages in the folders will endlessly

Re: X whacking monitor

2003-02-03 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:42:36PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > from the console (after _any_ amount of time), the screen is blank, and > after a second or two, the monitor loses its signal from the PC (it's This could be related to DPMS. It may help to disable the DPMS option in /etc/X11/XF86Co

Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

2003-02-03 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:20:21PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > Please. Even foolish suggestions might be helpful here. Did you try several CDs created with the new burner, or only one? In case your CD has an error, you might very well be able to read it with the old burner because it is a slow

Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?

2003-02-03 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:23:15PM +1100, Russell wrote: > >and IDE is crap. > > Is this scsi over ide atapi thing just as valid for read-only CD drives? yes My old 4speed SCSI is about as fast as 16speed IDE drives are, and it doesn't block the system when used. Try, for exapmle, to run some

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-02 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 05:32:38PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >1.) performance: > > That's because all webmail clients are incredibly stupid. Because > HTTP is stateless, they connect to the IMAP server every time you > click on something. And every time the IMAP server has to open th

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-02 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:07:41PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > I'm not sure about exim with maildir. I'm not a great fan of exim > for anything more than simple configurations, but that is only > personal preference and a bit of hacking of qmail code. Well, exim natively supports maildir; you ju

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-02 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:08:18PM +0100, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Currently I'm trying to figure out what software to use best to set up > an IMAP server for the company I'm working at. I'll be using Debian > Woody for the server, and the following requirements and

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2003-02-02 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, nobody on that? - Forwarded message from Hans Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi! >From time to time, in unregular intervals, squid seems to be unable to access remote http servers. I can try to reload a page, but at best the page is loaded partly, but mott not at all.

Building an IMAP server

2003-02-01 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! Currently I'm trying to figure out what software to use best to set up an IMAP server for the company I'm working at. I'll be using Debian Woody for the server, and the following requirements and suppositions are given: + about 60--100 users + Mail must be saved on the server, not on the cl

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-27 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:05:22PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > This would make a negative number of memory usage shortly after > > starting the X server :) > > Doh! Wouldn't that be cool though :) ja :) Start many X Servers to get unlimited amounts of memory for free! > > > That doesn't mea

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-26 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:18:46PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and > > 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long, but never found out. > > Well, after digging through the kernel sources (such fun!), I think I > figured that out. "cach

Re: Filesystem error?

2003-01-25 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:45:46PM +, Paladin wrote: > > exotic tests that take a couple of hours to get to. I cut back > > the cpu/memory speed in the BIOS and mine now runs solidly, but > > In the mean while, I ran memtest86 over night and it doesn't show > any error report! I ran all th

Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3

2003-01-25 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:59:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it > for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3. Though it's not required to fsck an FS after creating a journal with tune2fs -j, it is a good idea to do it on

Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3

2003-01-25 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Manuel Ifland wrote: > 4) Deactivate all further checks as they are no longer needed: >tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hda2 There are circumstances where a check is performed on ext3fs partitions after a crash. Imho it would be very unwise to turn off those ch

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-25 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:27:08AM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > Hope this interests somebody besides myself ;) Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long, but never found out. What wonders me it the memory usage of Xfree86. It seems

Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3

2003-01-25 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:08:50AM +, Dave Selby wrote: > touch /forcefsck > Can anyone shed light ?? See man shutdown: The -F flag means Force fsck'. This only creates an advisory file /forcefsck which can be tested by the system when it comes up again. The

squid: idnsCheckQueue: ID 5: giving up after 1 tries and 4295.4 seconds

2003-01-24 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi! >From time to time, in unregular intervals, squid seems to be unable to access remote http servers. I can try to reload a page, but at best the page is loaded partly, but mott not at all. When this happens, there's a message in syslog: squid[26681]: idnsCheckQueue: ID 5: giving up after 1 t

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. Maybe the memory is used for the disk cache/cache buffers --- free and top can display that. Afair, it's possib

amavis finds virus though there is none

2003-01-19 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, it seems that I've managed to successfully install amavis (amavisd-snapshot-20020300) on my mailserver, using f-prot as virus-scanner :) But in the first testmail with an attachment I've sent, amavis reported to have found a virus. The attachment was the file amavisd-new-20021227-p2.tar.gz, a

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-17 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:01:28PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Users don't need to exist. In case exim understands the command line to pipe the mail to as usernames, the mail cannot be delivered to those users if they do not exist. > There's a setting in /etc/exim/exim.conf that tells it

Re: exim and pipe aliases?

2003-01-16 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:05:38PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm trying to create and alias as such: > > robert-pager: | /usr/local/bin/Pager.pl 6787586413 Quoting the right part of the alias should help: robert-pager: "| /usr/local/bin/Pager.pl 6787586413" Please, as I'm not abso

Re: Problems trying to install MythTV

2003-01-16 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:21:11PM -0500, stan wrote: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > mythtv: Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.92-0.0) but it is not installable > Depends: libxmltv-perl but it is not going to be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages > > What ca

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-26 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:02:29AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:15:36PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: > > Well, better solutions are appreciated :) I've been looking for > > providers of mailhosting yesterday evening because things would be > > eas

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-23 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:48:41AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > > Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail > > qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net > > as remote SMTP server > > The remote SMTP server accepts mail only when envelope-sender > > and

MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-21 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up my MTAs. The situation is as follows: Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net as remote SMTP server The remote SMTP server accepts mail only when envelope-sender

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2000-11-22 Thread Hans Wilmer
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upgrading to XFree86 4.0.1

2000-11-20 Thread Hans Wilmer
Hi, how can I upgrade the XFree86 3.3.6 that comes with the Debian 2.2 distribution to XFree86 4.0.1? Which packages would I have to download? Do I need a 2.4.x kernel to get DRI working with my Matrox G400? Is there maybe a FAQ available that deals with this issue? Thanks in advance for any help