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
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
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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
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
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 :)
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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From: 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
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