Re: Dydns service
On 8-mei-05, at 13:45, Deboo Geek wrote: Anyone knowing of a dydns.org kind of cheap service? I would like to use my own domain yet a cheaper service, because I would need it only for a few minutes everyday and not after that. Uhm, I don't really get your problem. Dyndns.org IS CHEAP, in fact it's free...:-) I have several of their free domains registered and in use for about 1 1/2 year now without a problem. If you're looking for a DNS registrar to have a domain without the fixed extension of dyndns, and have someone host it for you at a cheap rate, you might want to look at http://register.webreseller.net/ They offer most domains for $9.95 dns hosting included. I don't have any experience with them tho. Someone else on this list might however. Groet, Peter Teunissen Linux user nr. 389180 -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version 3.12 GFA/P/IT$ d+(++) s: a C++$>+++$ UB/L+>$ P L++ !E W++ N- o? K? w$>!w !O M+(++) V? PS++ PE- Y+ PGP- t 5? X- !R !tv b++(+++) DI D+ G>++ e++ h--- r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall
On 3-mrt-2007, at 14:52, John Hasler wrote: Jordi writes: To have a good hardware firewall buy a good router-switch or a specific hardware device. To have a good hardware firewall buy a cheap used pc, install Linux on it, and configure it as a router and firewall. -- Or, if you like ease of use (great web based GUI) combined with powerfull functions out of the box, commit adultery and install m0n0wall (based on freebsd). Keeps me happy. I use an old pII with 64MB and 3 3com fast ethernet cards, wan up & download and heavy traffic between lan & DMZ runs flawless with the processor never getting above 30%. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody on 486 problem
On 3-mrt-2007, at 22:16, pobox wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:29:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-22 09:25:14, schrieb Mike McCarty: The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. From my mind (maybe wrong): Z88 was computer made by Sir Clive Sinclair with Z8000 CPU. I do sometimes find it hard to distinguish 0 from 8 too:) Ah, memories. I wrote my first basic program on a sinclair zx81 :-) It played russian roulette, sort of graphical ;-) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics
On 8-mrt-2007, at 2:10, s. keeling wrote: Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone know of a way to deal with spam with embedded graphics? I cannot use greylisting on a home desktop machine. Throw them away. Anyone with a clue can provide a URL instead. Anyone else (ie., your Mother) can be whitelisted. You might also look at spamassassin, it can be hooked up to certain mail clients (kmail AFAIK) or be part of a [fetch}get]mail and procmail setup. It provides several rules checking for inline graphics and, on my setup is quite good at getting rid of image spam. Combined with the imageinfo plugin it gets even better. There's also an fuzzyocr plugin that scans the text in the image, if you have the cpu cycles, you might add that too. If you want to be really evil on any embedded graphic, simply increasing the scores on those rules to above your spam level makes sure no imbedded graphics (even the 'good' ones) will end up in you inbox. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron.d works, but cron.daily doesn't
Hi all, I've got a strange issue with cron. I try to run a simple script that calls tar to backup my wiki. I can run the script using sudo, it runs fine from an entry in cron.d but refuses to run after being dropped into cron.daily. It's owned by root:root and chmodded 755 just like the other entries in cron.daily. Anyone got some insight on what might be causing this strange behavior? Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron.d works, but cron.daily doesn't
On 28-mrt-2007, at 4:27, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: On 3/27/07, Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've got a strange issue with cron. I try to run a simple script that calls tar to backup my wiki. I can run the script using sudo, it runs fine from an entry in cron.d but refuses to run after being dropped into cron.daily. It's owned by root:root and chmodded 755 just like the other entries in cron.daily. Anyone got some insight on what might be causing this strange behavior? Check the run-parts man page to make sure the filename is ok. -- Thanks, that helped, had to remove the .sh extention. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.14-2-386, missing thermal.ko and initrd
On 2-jan-2007, at 11:48, Eddy Parris wrote: Hi everyone and happy new year :) Sometime over the weekend I had a power blip that shut ny debian sarge box down. When i booted it this morning i found this lovely message: Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-386/kernel/ drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such device FATAL: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-386/kernel/ drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): No such device I think the problem is that when i did last update it, it updated the kernel and told me to reboot asap... ...which i probly just forgot about so when it has come back up it has not had an updated ram disk with these new drivers and cant boot. silly of me i know but its happened and i really need to get this back up asap. You could simply select the last kernel version from before the update in grub/lilo during startup. If it's just the kernel upgrade, it should boot fine after that... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sex spam again on the list
On Tue, September 18, 2007 04:39, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Adam Hardy wrote: > >> A few days back I asked whether anyone had heard of a spam IP blacklist >> filter maintained by a community of spam 'reporters' who submit spam >> emails to the server. Each reporter has their own 'effectiveness rating' >> and once enough 'effective people' report the spam, the email was >> scanned >> for the advertising website IP and this went into the filter applied to >> all incoming mail. >> >> Admittedly it wouldn't catch image spam advertising hot stocks, but it >> would certainly take out the others and seems to me to be a better bet >> than dynamic filters. >> >> I think something like this exists already but I haven't been able to >> find >> it on the net. I did find a few other commercial spam filters who now >> spam >> me with their advertising! > > Such a system is implemented by spamcop (www.spamcop.net). Their block > list, > known as SCBL (spamcop blocklist) gives you a list of IP addresses which > are spewing spam on the internet. You can then use it for > blocking/filtering your email by comparing the originating IP address of > the received email against the SCBL. The SCBL is completely automatic in > the sense that the IP addresses are removed/added depending on whether > that > machine is not sending/sending spam. SCBL is available for free for > general > public. > Spamcop is known for it's relative high rate of false positives. That's not bad in itself but renders it useless for simply blocking mail. You'd normally use it for scoring like spamassassin does and then it becomes fairly successful. For directly blocking mail however, you'd be better of using the zen.spamhaus.org combined blocklist wich is very effective and has almost no false positives. I don't know how they do it, but it catches 90% of my spam on it's own. More info can be found on http://www.spamhaus.org -- Groet, Peter Teunissen --- mrwhite:~ oneman$ man woman No manual entry for woman
Re: Sex spam again on the list
On 19-sep-2007, at 21:27, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, On Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 08:36:30 +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: For directly blocking mail however, you'd be better of using the zen.spamhaus.org combined blocklist wich is very effective and has almost no false positives. I don't know how they do it, but it catches 90% of my spam on it's own. More info can be found on http://www.spamhaus.org The proiblem of using RBLs on SMTP-time is that the mail is gone, nevertheless it was UCE or not. This becomes even more problematic, as postfix currently can't weight this information. The implementation of a policy filter we are currently implementing for lists.d.o will do SA like scoring of RBL data and us that information whether to greylist a mail or not. You're obviously right. I was merely responding to filtering personal mail and the (bad) use of spamcop.net to block mail, the subject this thread had swerved to. Risking to loose ham on a _non private_ server however is definitely not a good thing. Groet, Peter Teunissen -- Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. -Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. 1989 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scripting question
On 21-sep-2007, at 15:51, Michael Martinell wrote: Thanks - that was exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need to find a good scripting tutorial. :) Try http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html That's where I learned my scripting basics. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5
On 16-jan-2007, at 15:49, Craig Schneider wrote: Is it a good idea to install debian sarge onto soaftware raid 5? Well, yes. Raid 5 is a good general choice for a general setup and software raid works just fine. Just don't know if your system is to be 'general' or will have more specialized needs, where balance would be more towards RW access (Raid 0) redundancy (LVM over raid 1) etc. Keep in mind tho that linux cannot boot directly from raid 5, you'll need a separate /boot, I've got mine on a small raid 1 partitions on the 4 disks that comprise my raid 5 set. You might also use LVM on you raid patitions, so you can conveniently add more diskspace later. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation
On 25-jan-2007, at 14:48, mohamed regaieg wrote: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Ich wollte Debian sarge installieren, aber meine Festplatte wurde nicht erkennt. ich habe ein sony vaio (VGN FE28H) auf diese seite sind die Technische Daten http://www.vaio.sony-europe.com/view/View.action? section=Products_ITE&productcategory=%2FComputing%2FVAIO+Notebooks% 2FVN+FE+Series&productmodel=%2FComputing%2FVAIO+Notebooks%2FVN+FE +Series%2FVGN- FE28H&productsku=VGNFE28H.G4&site=ite_de_DE&page=ProductTechnicalFeatu res Ich bitte um erklärung, damit ich die Installation fortsetzen kann. MFG mohamed regaieg Mohamed, Du hast deinem Email an die englische Version des debian user litstes gesendet. Es ist Brauch hier nur auf English zu schreiben, da die `meisten hier kein Deutsch lesen koennen. Vielleicht kannst du deine Email senden an der Deutschen liste: http://lists.debian.org/debian- user-german/ Ich werde deine frage uebersetzen, aber um eine Antwort zu bekommen, brauchen wir mehr details, wie: wo halt der Installer an, welche bericht gibt der Installer dir usw.? I'll translate Mohamed's request: "I would like to install Debian Sarge, but my HD isn't recognized. I've got a Sony Vaio (VGN FE28H). On this site are the technical details (of the laptop) [see link above]. Could you please explain this to me, so I can continue the install?" I think you should offer some more detail, Mohamed. Like were does the installer stop, what messages do you get, etc.? Groet, Peter Teunissen -- Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. -Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. 1989
Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router
On 29-jan-2007, at 21:57, Kristian Lampen wrote: Hi, I plan to set up a home network, a little bit more than a DSL- router-box with the PC's connected to it. I could do so, but for reasons of fun (hobby), the learning aspect and be in touch with future technologies, I want to do it more flexible and controllable. This is my plan: [WiFi Access Point] | | PC3 PC2PC1 LAPTOP || | | | [--- Switch] | | NIC 1 | [Debian Router] | | NIC 2 | [DSL-Modem] | | outside(WAN) All network interfaces should be Gigabit-interfaces. So, my questions are: 1. Is this network setup realisable? as others have writte already; yes. to make things simpler, make sure you bridge the dsl-modem; they tend to come routed. 2. Is it correct to place the WiFi Access Point connected to the switch, or better directly to the Debian Router? Best would be to have another NIC on the router for the WAP (or use a PCI WLAN card), so you can have stricter rules in the FW for wireless clients. For instance, allow only certain (DHCP per mac address assigned) IP's to access the LAN from the WLAN and let others only access the WAN. WLAN in inherently less secure than wired networking, so it'd be nice to keep them separated. 3. I want to have the possibility to see the whole network traffic with the router. Not only the traffic from the PC's through the router to the outside world. How can I manage this? Do I have to buy a switch with the port-mirroring feature? If so, how do I have to connect it to the Router? I've read something about using an old non-switching hub attached to your network and an old cpu, running snort. This way you should be able to sniff all traffic. Dunno much more about it tho, never tried it myself. 4. Does someone have examples for Switches I could use? AFAIK, just plain vanilla switches should do, unless you'd want to fiddle with vlan... HTH, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router
On 30-jan-2007, at 16:40, Kristian Lampen wrote: celejar schrieb: On 29-jan-2007, at 21:57, Kristian Lampen wrote: [snip] > 3. I want to have the possibility to see the whole network traffic > with > the router. Not only the traffic from the PC's through the router > to the > outside world. How can I manage this? Do I have to buy a switch > with the > port-mirroring feature? If so, how do I have to connect it to the > Router? I've read something about using an old non-switching hub attached to your network and an old cpu, running snort. This way you should be able to sniff all traffic. Dunno much more about it tho, never tried it myself. Although I have never used one, AFAIK that is exactly what a hub does; it sends all traffic out all ports. Just be aware that this will greatly increase traffic across all the segments, and may cause collisions. That's why switches have more or less replaced hubs. Another problem is that using a hub will give all connected clients the possibility to sniff the traffic. That is not what I want. Hubs are available in different Onlineshops till now. Just for the record, I was originally referring to a setup like in: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6985 This guy has a very nice setup where one machine sniffs all traffic with a non-switching hub and a handmade 'read only' network cable. Nice! Should do this myself someday... 8-) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router
On 30-jan-2007, at 12:08, Kristian Lampen wrote: Peter Teunissen schrieb: 2. Is it correct to place the WiFi Access Point connected to the switch, or better directly to the Debian Router? Best would be to have another NIC on the router for the WAP (or use a PCI WLAN card), so you can have stricter rules in the FW for wireless clients. For instance, allow only certain (DHCP per mac address assigned) IP's to access the LAN from the WLAN and let others only access the WAN. WLAN in inherently less secure than wired networking, so it'd be nice to keep them separated. 2. If I would use a switch with VLAN capabilities, it should be secure to plug it to the switch directly. Is that correct? Depends, there are some minor issues with vlan security. Seems that if you follow good practices and use quality hardware, it should be safe: http://wiki.m0n0.ch/wikka.php?wakka=VLAN Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian-User] Xen
On 17-feb-2007, at 8:07, Admin wrote: BTW if anyone (I've seen a few Xen emails like the one where the AMD package disappeared only to be replaced by a 686 based Xen package that crashed) would like to set up a Debian Xen thread maybe we could help one another as it seems that this virtualization thing does not interest most people. But I think it's the future for computing. Just a small comment. I think a lot of readers on this list think Xen is fascinating, but don't have the time, technical abillity etc. to dive into it at this stage. Early adopters like you are needed to clear the path. I will certainly be following the thead, gathering courage to use Xen somewhere in the future. Keep up the good work, and don't be discouraged by the extreme ratio of lurker vs contributors ;-) Just my 2 cents. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes
On 17-feb-2007, at 14:52, Jan Sneep wrote: How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes doesn't run on ME. I have to re-boot my machine after they're done because some iTunes service just grinds my processor down to a walk through molasses. It would be great if they could use their own machine to load up their iPods, however looking at the iTunes site I don't see a Linux version available for download. I figure there must be at least a few of you that have an iPod and have figured out how to load up tunes with your Debian OS? Any suggestions / recommendations / warnings would be appreciated. It was recently announced that code weaver's crossover linux [1] supports iTunes for windows. Since it is based on wine, you might give wine a try too. [1] http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/ Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install locations when not using .deb
Hi All, I'm trying to install CloverETL [1], a java based ETL tool. It's not in the repository, and they don't provide a rpm or deb installer, only the java apps etc. in a zip file or the java source. That's fine with me, but I'd like to follow debian's guidelines on the FSH. I think I'm on the right track but would like to check two things: - should I use /usr/* etc. for this or is that reserved for .deb installs and should I use /usr/local/* instead? - assuming I use /usr/*, then after reading the Debian FSH guidlines in the debian-policy package and looking at other installs, I thought of installing in like this: /usr/bin/ => shellscript for setting env var and starting the CloverETL engine itself /usr/lib/ => the CloverETL engine itself the _contents_ of the lib folder that came with de engine the plugin folder /usr/share/doc/cloveretl/ the documentation the example files Does that look right? - I'm not sure about where to put the javadoc stuff. Should it go into /usr/doc/cloveretl/ also or somewhere else? I hope someone with some DIY install experience can fill me out on this. [1] www.cloveretl.org -- Thanx, Peter Teunissen -- Never argue with idiots, they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install locations when not using .deb
On 17-feb-2007, at 20:13, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:52:34PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: - should I use /usr/* etc. for this or is that reserved for .deb installs and should I use /usr/local/* instead? The risk you run in using /usr is that future .debs could trample your program. If you use /usr/local or /opt, then there is no risk of that, since official Debian packages are not allowed to touch those areas. OK, that's the answer I needed. /usr/local/ it will be then. Thanx The best thing would probably be to turn it into a proper Debian package. Yep, was thinking of that. But that will take time and knowledge I currently don't have. I'm prepairing myself for bashing my head into debian's free java stuff, need to get that working with cloveretl... Once it runs, maybe I'll look into making a .deb. gosh, their's so much still to learn ;-) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: domain wide spam email address
On 10-feb-2008, at 3:08, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use exim and spamassassin. All my spam processing gets done as user spamassassin, so I thought I could just process all mails sent to spamassassin as spam with a procmail rule like # # Record it as spam :0 fw | /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam but then I realised how do I get it to ignore the senders address (because it will be one of my addresses and I don't when then blacklisted ?) in stead of using a mailaddress, I simply created a shared folder, so users can drag spam into it to have it processed. You'd probably need something like uwimap of cyrus to do that however. Since you don't mention a MDA, I guess you use something like maildir and I don't know how you're supposed to make shared mail folders then. Others may be of more help there. HTH, Peter -- There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?
Hi all, I'v got my mp3 collection on my lan server, streamed on my home network using mt-daapd. Now I'd like to make it accessible when I'm at work. I'll use libapache2-mod-musicindex on my DMZ server to stream the files, but need a way to make the files available to my DMZ server to do so. I thougth that simply making an nfs export read only from the lan to my dmz through a pinhole in my firewall should work, but I'm concerned that nfs wouldn't be safe. If the export would be r/o, what would be the risk of such a setup? I don't mind some intruder to get access to my mp3's but it would be less pleasant if I risk the safety of my lan server any further then that. If there are risks, how could they be resolved? Are there other ways to make the files available on my dmz other than nfs. (I don't have the diskspace to keep a complete copy of all the files on the dmz, so something involving rsync is out of the question). Groet, Peter Teunissen -- There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?
On Mon, March 3, 2008 06:56, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: >> Are there other ways to make the files available on my dmz other than >> nfs. > > (sorry for the double answer) > > perhaps a minimal and secure (or at lest much less complex and so safer > than the portmap/nfsd deamons) web server on the machine hawing the > files, plus a reverse proxy web server on the machine in the dmz (or a > direct port forwarding on the router/firewall). I was thinking of using the reverse proxy setup. Port forwarding feels like a bad idea, you'd be putting you lan on the web. I don't regard webservers as very secure. That's why we put them on a dmz in the first place. The reverse proxy would be another barrier between wan and lan, just like the nfs export would be. But, I'd think that a reverse proxy still would make the lan webserver accessible to script exploits etc. Webservers are allways being probed for weaknesses once they're on the net. When my lan webserver would be compromised, the attacker would gain immediate access to my lan. If the same would happen to my dmz webserver, it would only give access to the lan data on the export. The export itself would be yet another barrier before complete access to the lan. I don't have any knowledge on the complexity of nfs compared to apache2, both seem like complicated software to me. How would portmapper/nfs be more vulnerable then apache2? -- Groet, Peter Teunissen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?
On Mon, March 3, 2008 21:00, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Wouldn't a chrooted ftp server do the same thing? > > ftp is a intrinsecally more complex protocol than http (see the problems > for firewalls with active/passive ftp... > > Moreover, the security history of ftp daemons is worse than the security > history of http daemons (and it is possibly even worse than the security > history of portmap/nfsd) > Neither ftp not minimalistic http would work in this case. Ftp is to unsafe and minimal http wouldn't be sufficient for the streaming scripts / mods. I think rsync would be the only viable option. I'll go shopping for some diskspace... Thanks for all the replies. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 & Sarge compatibility
Hi All, I'm checking component compatibility of a second hand server I'd like to buy. I've found some issues though on several forums concerning the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 RAID card. In some older posts I found issues with kernel 2.4 and 2.6. where the kernel's driver only sees the RAID set as separate disks, not as one logical volume. Does anyone have recent experience with this card in combination with Sarge? If Sarge doesn't support the card by default, does anyone have found reliable solutions? There are drivers for Suse 9.1 and Red Hat 8/9 and source code on the Promise site. Does anyone have experience using any of those? Since I've got no experience with either RAID or compiling, I'd welcome it if someone would like to share his experiences with the Promise sourcecode. Any pointers to good recent info welcome. TIA Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble booting raid1
Hi All, I'm trying to make Debian boot from a set of 4 disks using RAID1 for / boot and RAID5 for /root. All goes wel until after reboot, then the bootable media is no longer seen by the machine. I'm using: - Asus P4P800 mobo - Promise Fasttrack S150 SX4 fakeraid controller - 4 80GB SATA disks - Debian Sarge with 2.6 kernel the fakeraid card is *not* configured with a raidset as I's expect that to conflict with Linux softwareraid. It's simply used as a 4 port SATA controller. Based on several howto's I do the following: 1. start installer with expert26 2. when I reach the partitioner I choose manual partitioning: a. format each disk b. partion _each_ disk for use by raid: 1 partition509,9 MB bootable 1 partition 79,5 GB c. RAID setup: RAID1 with 4 509,9 MB partitions RAID5 with 4 79,5 GB partitions d. partition RAID RAID1 set as ext3 /boot RAID5 set as lvm e. LVM setup: Volume group vg00 logical volume root 236.4 GB logical volume swap 2.1 GB f. partition lvm volumes: lv root as ext3 /root lv swap as swap After this my RAID/LVM setup looks like this: LVM VG vg00, LV root - 236.4 GB #1 236.4 GB ext3/ LVM VG vg00, LV swap - 2.1 GB #1 2.1 GB swapswap RAID1 device #0 - 509.8 MB Software RAID device #1 509,8 MB ext3/boot RAID5 device #1 - 238.5 GB Software RAID device #1 238,8 GB lvm SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 80.0 GB ATA WDC WD800JD-60JR #1 primary 509.9 MB Bootable raid #2 primary 79.5 GB raid SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 80.0 GB ATA WDC WD800JD-60JR #1 primary 509.9 MB Bootable raid #2 primary 79.5 GB raid SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sdc) - 80.0 GB ATA WDC WD800JD-60JR #1 primary 509.9 MB Bootable raid #2 primary 79.5 GB raid SCSI4 (0,0,0) (sdd) - 80.0 GB ATA WDC WD800JD-60JR #1 primary 509.9 MB Bootable raid #2 primary 79.5 GB raid 3. Continue installer: a. base install etc b. install grub on boot master record Then after reboot, the machine doesn't see the bootable media and asks for reboot or inserting of bootable media It seems the Promise Fastrack doesn't work without a raid setup of it's own, it doesn't present itself to the system as having usable media. So I then tried configuring the fakeraid card with a RAID5 set. after reboot GRUB loads: GRUB Loading stage 1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... and then it seems to hang with no disk activity... Setting up the Promise fasttrack with RAID10, it just hangs with a blinking cursor. Trying LILO in stead of GRUB didn't succeed either. What am I missing here? I've read through a lot of info (including several recent posts on this list on RAID issues) but could not find anything that could shed some light on this problem. Any help welcome. TIA Peter Teunissen -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Function of 101sage1 kernel image
Hi, I've moved my sarge machine from generic 686 kernel to smp to take advantage of hyperthreading. After installing the new kernels I wanted to remove unused non smp ones. Then I noticed there's a kernel image that has 101sarge1 as versionnumber. What is this image meant for and can it be safely removed? TIA Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing new kernel
On 11-jun-2006, at 20:19, Joris Huizer wrote: Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If it's not a simple apt-get install, is there a suitable HOWTO? It's a simple apt-get install, and, at least when using lilo, you'll probably need to add a few lines in the /etc/lilo.conf file, followed by running /sbin/lilo -- if no changes are needed to the confige, you'll have to run /sbin/lilo too I don't know what needs to change when using GRUB. Installed a new kernel just the other day using GRUB. GRUB is simply taken care of by the installer script. After the install you reboot and GRUB presents you with a list of all the installed kernels, including the newly installed. After you've checked that your new kernel works fine, you could just deinstall the older ones if needed using apt or aptitude. I've noticed that there are special kernel images that have a sort of serialnumber like 101sarge1 that probably cause the most recent kernels to be installed by depending on them within apt. I don't know if they can also safely be removed. Someone else may comment on that. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing new kernel
On Mon, June 12, 2006 16:20, Sam Rosenfeld said: > > > >> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Loke Berne wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:13 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: >> > > I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this >> > > kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If >> so, is >> > > there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? > >> > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6- would do the trick and should >> > pose no threat to your data > > > I tried to install a new kernel with: "apt-get install > kernel-image-2.6-i686" but it does not replace my old kernel (2.4.27), > even after a cold start. (I've not had any problem installing any (other) > application.) After the restart, what did GRUB present you with? Normally the new kernel would be selectable in the GRUB menu. If it doesn't show up, try editing the GRUB configuration by hand. It's quite simple to add an extra kernel to the menu in de conf. -- Groet, Peter Teunissen -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SATA]Which controller?
On 13-jul-2006, at 18:05, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, JB MORLA wrote: Hi, My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/ hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 hard disks to do some Oracle labs, but I think I need to slot in a controller. Could someone give me indications on a controller (brand, model) that would be recognized at boot time by Debian? Jay Bee The Long and Winding Road The Promise (old one) SATA TX2 Plus is recgonized at boot time by Sarge. Has 2 SATA 1.5GBps ports and 1 ATA port. It seems Promise cards are well supported. I use the Promise Fasttrack 150 SX4 card. It's a 4 port SATA card with fake raid support (software raid from the card's bios) The card is automagically detected by the installer and the appropriate driver is loaded. With dmraid it is supposed to be possible to use the fakeraid part, but I've set the card to 4x JBOD and setup the drives with linux' software raid. Info on dmraid: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto HTH Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netatalk: uams_dhx_pam.so missing?
Hi All, I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but why is the authentication method uams_dhx_pam.so missing from /usr/lib/netatalk? Has this something to do with the gpl incompatability with openssl or should the file simply be copied from another (undocumented) location? I'd really hate to have to use unofficial packages to get proper authentication and get rid of the annoying clear password warnings in OSX. TIA Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup
On 21-jul-2006, at 10:42, Jan Dinger wrote: Hallo, Ich möchte ein backup machen: 1/woche Fullbackup 6/woche inkrementel Habe es bis jetzt immer via Script gelöst (selber geschrieben), das wollte ich aber diesmal nicht machen und bin auch der Suche nach einem geeignetem Backupprogramm, ich habe nur erfahrungen mit ArcServ, kenne jedoch andere Programme auch, kann mir jemand eins empfehlen, wo gute Erfahrungen damit gemacht wurden? Das Backup muss 100% zuverlässig sein. mfg Jan You could try - bacula (mainly tape backup either local machine or networked clients) http://www.bacula.org/ - mono/mindi (either tape, DVD or image files for doing bare metal restores for local machine only) http://www.mondorescue.org/ - pcbackup (automatic client server backup, even laptops, no local backups to filesystem) http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html Peter
Re: Which backup package?
On 22-apr-2008, at 1:17, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I'm in a similar situation and I'm very happy with my initial results using rdiff-backup. It's simple and efficient if you'll be making backups to disk. It can do push as well as pull backups and do ssh if needed. I'm setting it up to do daily incremental backups and will do complete backups form the 'current' rdiffbackup directory to tape. It might even work with rsync.net, haven't had the time to test that yet though. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
keeping tar quiet in script
Hi all, I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding > /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? Tnx, Peter -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience.
Re: keeping tar quiet in script
On 31-mrt-2007, at 21:56, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: On 3/31/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding > /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? a "> /dev/null" redirects stdout to /dev/null, but stderr is left untouched. a "&> /dev/null" redirects both stdout and stderr to /dev/null. Yep, that did the trick A google search for [redirection bash] brings you here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html Will look at this, looks better than the howto I used until now. Tnx, Peter
a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?
Hi All, I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4, but only found intro's in the other direction :-) I'm sure others on this list have had the same challenge, can someone give me some pointers to a quick online introduction? I'm looking for stuff like how yum and up2date compare to aptitude, how to safely install downloaded rpm's without interfering with yum's updates, if there are equivalents of repositories like backports etc.. Thx, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?
On 12-apr-2007, at 1:05, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4, but only found intro's in the other direction :-) I'm sure others on this list have had the same challenge But this is debian. Why not ask RH for a transistion guide? One doesn't ask Microsoft for help transitioning to Debian. I am sure that he really meant the other way, "a RHEL User's introduction to Debian (and its far superior tools and ways)" I hope. I really hope. But since he is is using RH, I am afraid not. I'm a happy Debian user and will not move to RH. But. As I wrote in my question, I'm _forced_ to use RHEL4 at my job. Since more debianites will have been in this situation, I think it's not inappropriate to ask on this list for pointers to a RH intro for Debian users... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?
On 12-apr-2007, at 3:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: Hi All, I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working on a BI project for Oxfam. But, I'm forced to use Redhat EL4 and need to get up and running in a short time. I've been looking for a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4, but only found intro's in the other direction :-) I'm sure others on this list have had the same challenge, can someone give me some pointers to a quick online introduction? I'm looking for stuff like how yum and up2date compare to aptitude, how to safely install downloaded rpm's without interfering with yum's updates, if there are equivalents of repositories like backports etc.. I would start by installing CentOS (in a Qemu instance or a Xen domU) and poke around. Yep, first thing I did... friday off, long weekend to immerse myself in RH :-) Peter
Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?
On 12-apr-2007, at 8:47, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:29:51AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I'm a happy Debian user and will not move to RH. But. As I wrote in my question, I'm _forced_ to use RHEL4 at my job. Since more debianites will have been in this situation, I think it's not inappropriate to ask on this list for pointers to a RH intro for Debian users... Red Hat EL 4 is business-like: if you want to run big Oracle data bases or similar, it's what your bosses want. It appeals well to the sort of business regards Linux as very new, that needs someone to blame and is willing to pay support costs "in case". The sort of people that deal with HP in preference because "well, DEC were such a good company" :) That's its focus. That's what this world has evolved into; everything is worth what you paid for it. There will be a moment when someone realizes that he didn't pay for his wife and start to doubt if her love for him is genuine. :-/ It's not very workmanlike in the sense of the ideal tools to develop on: whenever I install or use RHEL, my first response is "where _is_ everything?" - apps. that I'd normally apt-get just aren't available. Yeah, mysql 4.x is stale... RHEL 4 is still tied to Red Hat Network - yum is still "unofficial" at that stage IIRC. This has all changed in RHEL5, of course :) I find this rpm / yum / up2date stuff confusing. Do I ruin my system by mixing them? Is yum vs up2date somewhat like aptitude vs apt-get? There are no backports repositories, though you may get effective backports shoved onto your system by updates. Most people I know say "Oh, I had to download that from Freshmeat/freshRPMs" Mmmh, and then I think, where's alien, so I can be sure my rpm's don't collide with yum & up2date's stuff? But maybe I'm to debian minded, wanting stuff to be neatly organised... But I'll take such pure RH questions to another list. Thanx Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for mac-to-linux backup recommendations - OT
On 1-mei-2007, at 17:09, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I have a Mac on my desk at home, and I'm looking for a way to back it up to one of the Linux servers I have sitting in a data center. Any suggestions as to what software is out there to make this as simple and automated as possible? (Obviously rsync is an option, but that doesn't quite get to the point of being able to recover a bootable disk image. Right now, I clone my hard drive to a 2nd local drive - I'm sort of wondering if there's a way to generate a remote image that would be net bootable for recovery purposes). Thanks much, Miles Hi, I think that backup software should be as simple as possible, to make sure that in case of an emergency getting back on track is a no brainer. That's why I don't use nice strong network software like pcbackup or backula for backing up my Mac, but a simple solution: SuperDuper! (exclamation mark is part of the name). It is a simple client app that can be scheduled to launch, mount a network drive and backup to an imagefile. In case of disaster, booting from a cd, launching SuperDuper! and restoring the image is all that's needed and easy to do. I use it in combination with the Netatalk AFP server on Debian. Personally I wouldn't do this over an internet connection since performance would be less than exceptable. I'd use a local fileserver and from there make an overnight copy with a simple script to the remote machine. It can also backup to a connecter drive if needed. Nice extra is that it's capable of creating a sandbox copy on the bootdisk, so you can play with you system and in case something doesn't turn out the way you like it, you can simply rewind to the former state. Elas it's not FOSS, but cheap: $27.95 http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html HTH Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4
> Hi, > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there > is a way of having that on Debian too: > > < snip > > > > > 3) Under FreeBSD, you get every morning a security output email, that > shows all particular events that happened the day before. It looks like: > < snip > > > Is there that on Debian too? > A very useful replacement would be logcheck. Peter
Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me
On 25-sep-2006, at 22:31, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:14:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have found what is going on: The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose with Outlook all the user sees is the image, which is clearly spam, but the user doesn't see what the spam filter sees, so, it seems, no amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin? Reject anything with a .gif or .png attachment? Yeah, would like to do that. But how can one achieve this with either postfix, spamassassin or cyrus/sieve? I thought sieve couldn't check attachment names or type. btw, these images are pretty nifty. They are multi gifs; the first one is (almost) empty to stop ocr reading the real message. In the text gif part there are little lines, probably to stop ocr or image fingerprinting. I must say, these guys aren't dump... :-( Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me
On 25-sep-2006, at 22:55, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/06 15:14, Paul E Condon wrote: Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have found what is going on: The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose with Outlook all the user sees is the image, which is clearly spam, but the user doesn't see what the spam filter sees, so, it seems, no amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin? They are specifically designed to get around SA's traditional filtering process. Using sa-learn to train the Bayesian filter, along with the regular filters, helps a lot. I've been NOT feeding them to sa-learn, since I thought they would mess up spamassassins bayesian filter. If it trains itself on random non-spam words, couldn't it make the bayesian filter less effective or even start generating more false positives? Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me
> Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 09/25/06 16:13, Peter Teunissen wrote: >> >>> On 25-sep-2006, at 22:55, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> On 09/25/06 15:14, Paul E Condon wrote: >>>> >>>>> Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that >>>>> contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as >>>>> a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have >>>>> found what is going on: >>>>> >>>>> The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png >>>>> or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, >>>>> but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use >>>>> mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose >>>>> with Outlook all the user sees is the image, which is clearly spam, >>>>> but the user doesn't see what the spam filter sees, so, it seems, no >>>>> amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are >>>>> there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin? >>>>> >>>> They are specifically designed to get around SA's traditional >>>> filtering process. Using sa-learn to train the Bayesian filter, >>>> along with the regular filters, helps a lot. >>>> >>>> >>> I've been NOT feeding them to sa-learn, since I thought they would mess >>> up spamassassins bayesian filter. If it trains itself on random >>> non-spam >>> words, couldn't it make the bayesian filter less effective or even >>> start >>> generating more false positives? >>> >> >> You'd think, wouldn't you. However, I've had no issues with false >> positives, even after setting the threshold down to 4.2. >> >> - -- >> Ron Johnson, Jr. >> Jefferson LA USA >> >> Is "common sense" really valid? >> For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that >> whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins >> are mud people. >> However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iD8DBQFFGHK0S9HxQb37XmcRAt9OAJ9Aot0XyOJ8wPVtFaYqcP/OArLDsACfcF3R >> sdMe7JFeBe1+Qgz40YwLNh8= >> =83zz >> -END PGP SIGNATURE- >> >> >> > There is the fuzzyocr plugin for spamassassin. It may be what you are > looking for. > > looks promising, but it involves installing stuff from either backports or testing. I'm a little reluctant to do so on my server. If I feel lucky, I might just give it a try. Anyone with some real life experiences? Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
site wide spamassassin doesn't do bayes...
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting spamassassin to do site wide bayes. I've
got it trained with sufficient ham and spam and when I try it with
spamassassin -D < testmessage as root, it works fine. When I run it
as user filter it fails. It tries to create userprefs and it can't
access the bayes db and whitelist:
output
mrblue:#su filter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$spamassassin -D < testmsg
debug: using "/dev/null/.spamassassin" for user state dir
debug: mkdir /dev/null/.spamassassin failed: mkdir /dev/null: File
exists at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1453
File exists
Cannot write to /dev/null/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Not a directory
Failed to create default user preference file /dev/null/.spamassassin/
user_prefs
debug: using "/dev/null/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user prefs file
debug: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB R/O: /var/spool/
spamassassin/bayes_toks
debug: Score set 1 chosen.
debug: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB R/O: /var/spool/
spamassassin/bayes_toks
debug: open of AWL file failed: lock: 27966 cannot create tmp
lockfile /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.mrblue.27966
for /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied
debug: auto-learning failed: lock: 27966 cannot create tmp lockfile /
var/spool/spamassassin/bayes.lock.mrblue.27966 for /var/spool/
spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied
end output
I'm running spamc as user filter invoked by postfix on Debian Sarge.
In /etc/postfix/master.cf:
spamassassin
unix - n n - - pipe
user=filter argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f $
{sender} ${recipient}
In /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/README.Debian it reads:
Configuring spamd
-
If you intend to use Bayes sitewide, you will need to create a
world-writable and world-readable directory. /var/spool/spamassassin
is recommended as an FHS-compliant path. You will then need to add the
following lines to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf:
bayes_path/var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
bayes_file_mode 0666
If you intend to run spamd as a non-root user, you will need to ensure
the pidfile to which spamd writes its PID is writable by that
user. The best way to do this is to create a directory
/var/run/spamassassin with appropriate permissions which will hold
this file.
So I added the settings to local.cf and added the world readable &
writable directory:
mrblue:/# ls -lh /var/spool/ | grep spam
drw-rw-rw- 2 root root 4.0K 2006-09-26 20:07 spamassassin
mrblue:/# ls -lh /var/spool/spamassassin/
total 4.6M
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 12K 2006-09-26 20:07 auto-whitelist
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5.1K 2006-09-26 20:07 bayes_journal
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 632K 2006-09-26 20:07 bayes_seen
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5.2M 2006-09-26 20:07 bayes_toks
Am I missing something? And should I look into this PID file issue
mentioned in the readme? filter does seem to run.
TIA
Peter
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Re: Problems installing BRUB with RAID5
On 30-sep-2006, at 22:26, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le samedi 30 septembre 2006 22:17, Chris Willard a écrit : Hi All, I have a pc with 3x40GB IDE drives. I have 2 RAID 5 devices setup- /dev/md0 = 3 x 38GB as / /dev/md1 = 3 x 2GB as SWAP Debian base installs OK but when I get to the Grub installation I get a "Fatal Error" message. I am telling Grub to install on /dev/md0 but it won't install. Grub must be installed on a real disk. Grub 2 as just receive a patch allowing RAID and LVM support. For now, you must install grub on your drives (1, 2 or even the 3 making md0). The root filesystem can be /dev/md0. You could also make a small RAID 1 set consisting of 3 100MB partions and set them up as /boot. Then turn the rest into a RAID 5 set, and partition it (preferably with LVM) into /swap and /root. Then grub will install on all three RAID1 partitions and if one disk fails, it will simply start from the other RAID 1 disks. Peter
Re: [OT] Thank you for your email.
On 1-okt-2006, at 22:34, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol: rickvida Errr, your welcomed? Errr, should read: "Err, you're Welcomed?" No, it should read 'turn of your freakin' autoreply'. Imagine you're one of his [future] customers, and you send him a request. Then you get this thank you note. Now don't you get that instantanious warm fuzzy feeling he's going to take good care of you? No, you don't since the guy's to freakin' lazy to read and reply to his mail in time. And we're not even his customers. Sorry, had to get this out of my system. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPC versie Debian 3.1
On 8-okt-2006, at 22:38, Cees en Ilnaat wrote: PPC versie Debian 3.1 Heeft iemand inmiddels de nodige ervaring met de installatie en de werking van Debian 3.1 op een Apple powerbook G4 (titanium)? Ik ben betrekkelijk nieuw in Linux land maar heb inmiddels mindere ervaringen met Ubuntu 6.06 en Yellow dog 4.1 wat betreft WiFi en mijn netwerkprinter HP 3600. Wellicht is de nieuwste Debian versie voor mij DE oplossing. Translation: "Does anyone have some experience with the installation and use of Debian 3.1 on an Apple Powerbook G4 (titanium)? I'm relatively new to Linux but have had some bad experiences with Ubuntu 6.06 and Yellow Dow 4.1 as far as Wifi and my network printer HP 3600 is concerned." Cees, Wifi on the Mac (Airport) is only recently been reverse engineered. You might search the archives of this list on that topic. I'm not sure how mature the driver is at the moment but it certainly isn't part of Debian 3.1 or Ubuntu. I'm not sure if it will be part of the upcoming Debian 4.0 release although it's supposed to be part of the 2.6.17 kernel which is part of Debian 4.0 AFAIK. It's worth looking into first, or you might be disappointed. Others on this list might he able to fill you in on it's status. Some info on this drive can be found at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ HTH Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent spam increase
> Hi all, > > I'm experiencing a significant increase of spam. The messages mostly > contain a few words and a number as subject and a senseless html body > (randomly arranged words) as well as a GIF attachment. > > Spamassassin fails to recognise the spam (~4.8 points of needed 5.0). I > guess I'll be getting problems with receiving desired mail if I feed > these mails in manually into SA. > > Does anyone have more information about this incident? Some useful URLs > for example? > This subject comes up frequently lately. On the spamassassin list some had good experience with simply feeding it to sa-learn. Most seem to solve the problem by using fuzzyocr [1], you'll have to install it manually however since it's not part of the sarge release [2]. TIA Peter [1] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin [2] http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/image_spam.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-site backup
On 14-okt-2006, at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reviewing/planning for new offsite backup media and am wondering what people are using now. Previous discussions I found on lists.debian.org are a few years old. Remote offsite (e.g. on another computer at another site) is not an option for me. I've been happy using 100 MB Zip disks; I can store everything except CD-iso images on one or two and put it in the bank's safety-deposit box. However, it has meant that I've had to burn to CD collections of documents that I would preferr to keep online. Then I end up with a separate directory which is NOT backed-up to keep them online for viewing. My drives are over 10 years old and the media is close to it. Time to migrate. I can use small CD-R but they only hold 175 MB. Full-size CDs don't fit in the bank's box. My new computer (Athlon-based) will have two 80 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives in a raid1 configuration to handle drive failure. I'm looking for removable media to handle both data-failure and platform failure (or local disaster). At this point, I'm specifying a backup-set size of 10 GB although if the media I choose is cheap enough, I would like to backup CD ISO images to protect that data from CD scratches or other failure. Physical size: A Zip jewel case is 4-1/8" and fits the bank, a CD jewel case is 4-3/4" and doesn't. Minimum number of backup sets, 3: one in the drive, one on the shelf, and one in the bank. I'm looking at media at this point, not procedure. I don't have a requirement to see what a file looked like months ago. Also, this is in addition to online backups (in /var/local/backup). I want physical robustness. CDs are prone to scratch and I understand that for all they're 'burned' with a laser there is some dye involved in the process and they can fade in bright light or heat. Able to withstand a 1 m drop would be good, e.g. after its removed from its case and before it gets into the drive. 10 year shelf life seems to be a common criteria for backup/archive media. I think that tape is overkill for only three sets of media; the drive and SCSI card are too expensive. There are Iomega removeables called Rev. I don't know what real-world reliability and longevety is like. Quantum has a removable thing called GoVault that is basically a ruggedized cartridge with a laptop-drive inside. I don't know what real-world reliability and logevety is like. There are generic ruggedized drive caddies but I understand they're not hot-swappable and I don't want to have to shutdown to change media. At the small-end there's USB sticks but I don't know what the shelf- life really is (other than Kingston's 5 year warranty). Size-wise, this would work as a floppy-replacement for the must-always-be-able-to-read stuff (i.e. immediatly readable from any computer, linux or not, msdos fs with plain-text, e.g. critical email). Interface options I have now are eSATA, USB, Firewire. Anything else needs a card too; add it to the cost of the drive. Given the choice, I would prefer external instead of internal. In case of a disaster-in-progress (e.g. house fire), can grab the drive and go; or if something catestrophic happens to the computer, the drive may survive. All else being equal, I would prefer cheaper to expensive on a per-set basis. E.g. tape is probably chepest on a per GB basis (or is that per TB) while USB stick is most expensive, but for 2 GB, USB is probably cheapest per set. What is you wisdom on this in-between area (more than a CD, less than LTO or DLT)? Thank, Doug Tutty. I'm a very happy user of an older external HP Surestore 40GB DAT drive. They're fast, cheap and when I was looking (about a year ago) there were easy to find second hand. I bought mine including a fast adaptec scsi card for about $50 on a dutch site similar to ebay. So: it's external, cheap drive & card and the media is cheap too. Seems to me exactly what you're looking for... My 2 cents, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Resend Your Message to DRCNet [OT]
On 14-okt-2006, at 17:49, DRCNet wrote: Dear friend: You have e-mailed an address at DRCNet that is not currently in use. Please try one of the following instead: * For list subscription help, or administrative matters, contact Ali Cooper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * For membership matters (e.g. donations, premium gifts, stickers, etc.), contact Scott Morgan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To reach Drug War Chronicle editor Phil Smith, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * DRCNet executive director David Borden can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * DRCNet associate director David Guard can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * The Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * The John W. Perry Fund can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope to hear from you! Please visit our web site at http:// stopthedrugwar.org for the latest news in drug policy and the reform movement and to learn more about DRCNet. I never realized Dogberts Ruling Class was pushing drug legalization! Let the induhviduals have their drugs, as long as it turns them into efficient working drones... :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Resend Your Message to DRCNet [OT]
On 14-okt-2006, at 22:25, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 15:01, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 14-okt-2006, at 17:49, DRCNet wrote: Dear friend: [snip] I never realized Dogberts Ruling Class was pushing drug legalization! Let the induhviduals have their drugs, as long as it turns them into efficient working drones... :-) Alert, alert! There's an induhvidual lurking in our midst pretending to be a member of the D*N*RC. Quick, get the torches and pitchforks!!. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. I stand corrected, bow my head in shame and will unsubscibe from the DNRC Although I doubt a true member of the DNRC would use a _working class_ item like a pitchfork to defend his position instead of his wit and mind ;-) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Resend Your Message to DRCNet [OT]
On 15-okt-2006, at 3:49, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 15:37, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 14-okt-2006, at 22:25, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 15:01, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 14-okt-2006, at 17:49, DRCNet wrote: Dear friend: [snip] I never realized Dogberts Ruling Class was pushing drug legalization! Let the induhviduals have their drugs, as long as it turns them into efficient working drones... :-) Alert, alert! There's an induhvidual lurking in our midst pretending to be a member of the D*N*RC. Quick, get the torches and pitchforks!!. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. I stand corrected, bow my head in shame and will unsubscibe from the DNRC Although I doubt a true member of the DNRC would use a _working class_ item like a pitchfork to defend his position instead of his wit and mind ;-) Working class? There's something *wrong* with needing to work for a living? Now that you mention it, it _is_ strange that we tend to call only the class of people working with their hands 'working'. As if working by using your mind would be a sort of laziness. But to answer your question; yes, there's something wrong with having to work for a living. The man that invented 'work' should be shot, even if that means digging up the sucker. Personally I love money. I love it to be on my bankaccount so I can spent it and have others to do my bidding. Not having to work for money, means you can spent you life doing usefull stuff, things that make sense to you in stead of you boss. But you may freely prefer to have it any other way. ;-) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to identify the local socket: Transport endpoint is not connected
Hi all, Since this morning I suddenly get the following error in my log: oct 20 08:47:47 localhost pure-ftpd: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ERROR] Unable to identify the local socket: Transport endpoint is not connected These log entries appear at fixed intervals: at 2,3,47 and 48 minutes past the hour. I didn't change anything to my server this morning. So I'm wondering what it could be. I tried: 1. restarting pure-ftpd, but since it is started from inetd that obviously didn't help. :-) 2. I found that I can make a ftp connection to the server, ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] works just fine and I'm getting the standard welcom text. But once I enter a ls, the connection hangs. 3. I googled for the error message, but found only some unrelated or unanswered archived mails. 4. looked into the cron files, because of the regular interval, but didn't see anyting strange I run the standard pure-ftpd package on sarge 3.1 from inetd. Port 21 is closed on my firewall Does anyone know what: - this error message means - where I should look for the cause - what could cause them to be in the log at such regular intervals? TIA Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent spam increase
On 26-okt-2006, at 18:31, Tim Post wrote: Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a Bayesian filter delete most of my e-mail. Same thing. Some as simple as many uuencoded images, some all text with enough of it to throw off the filters, some a mix .. but all of it is getting through. I delete them by hand, to prevent messing up my other filter which is working reasonably well to filter out the "you have won a lottery". It appears that I win ten or twenty lotteries in the Netherlands or the UK every week, even though I don't enter. Strict reverse dns checking basically guarantees you'll never get email from a domain hosted on a shared server (typical web host setup). I've been looking into the possibility of trying to "read" those images similar to how robot myspace bots read turing numbers... but wonder about the practicality of such an endeavor. I noticed the text in the images usually isn't 'disgu1zEd' as it would be in plain text. Such a method would help cut down on many types of spam. Not my field of expertise though.. anyone care to comment or know of anything available now that does this? If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Simply add these rules to your setup using sa-update & the openprotect channel (see http://saupdates.openprotect.com/). It doesn't take the cpu cost of the fuzzyocr plugin. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent spam increase
On 27-okt-2006, at 12:03, George Borisov wrote: Peter Teunissen wrote: If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Simply add these rules to your setup using sa-update & the openprotect channel (see http://saupdates.openprotect.com/). It doesn't take the cpu cost of the fuzzyocr plugin. Unfortunately they are not quite good enough to get rid the new image spam. :-( The SARE rules in combination with a tuned Bayes database get most of these, but a fair few still slip through. Yep, I'm so used to bayes, I simply assumed OP would be using it. Silly of me. OTH, I just looked at some of my recent image spam and when I substract the bayes score from the final score, most of it would still be tagged as spam (I use a threshold of 5). I'm also getting fluctuating bayes scores; to prevent bayes poisoning, I even feed them to sa-learn with --forget. I can imagine however that if you're an isp like service, you'd leave out bayes and have a fairly high threshold to prevent false positives, you'd have to increase the scores on the image spam related SARE rules. they don't seem to hit ham so I'd think that would be safe. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Debian Support PERC & PERC 3 RAID?
On 28-okt-2006, at 23:01, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:02:11PM +, Charles E. Boston wrote: Hi there, Here's my dilemma. I own an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 that is is very good operating condition and it still takes care of my needs. I would like to install a Linux OS on it to dual boot with Windows Server 2003. The Windows OS is installed The drives are partitioned and waiting for the my Linux OS of choice. I have tried Ubuntu 6.06 LTS but it does not recognize my RAID configuration. It will not proceed past the stage where it scans the drives for available space. From what I have been told it seems that support for PERC 2 & PERC 3 RAID is not included in the 2.6 Linux kernel. So, I am on the hunt for a server distro that will work with my old hardware. Could that be Debian or are there others that I should consider? Thanks! I have been told that most 'hardware' raid as found on motherboards is really bios-configured windows software raid and that for raid under linux to use the kernel software raid or a dedicated hardware raid card. Please confirm that to install linux you __need__ linux to recognize your existing raid setup? If so, why? If you have two disks with partitions free ready for linux, in addition to windows on its own partitions, why can't you go ahead and install debian setting up raid as you go? However, if you need the linux system to access your windows-raid partitions then it may be quite the trick. I hope someone with some experience with this issue can help. Doug. I faced a similar problem some time ago with a promise fakeraid card. In the end I decided to use linux software RAID, but in my research came across a site discussing the use of the fakeraid card directly under Ubuntu using dmraid. It should be easy to translate it to debian. Not sure dmraid supports your card though. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?
> I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is an > "sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without requiring > that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an equivalent > script that will work with sarge? > > I realise that there is Rules Du Jour, but I'd like to use something > that's vaguely "official" on a work box. > You could upgrade to the version of spamassassin in debian volatile-sloppy, that version has sa-update. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-volatile/ Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid
On Wed, October 1, 2008 03:39, John Merchant wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I'm having trouble installing Etchy on a fakeraid/BIOS raid array, the > installer doesn't seem to detect the array but instead it detects the > separate SATA drives. > At the moment your best bet would be to set the fakeraid card to JBOD and simply use linux software raid. Most proven method. There's experimental support however in Lenny for installing on fakeraid using the dmraid driver. You start the lenny installer with 'install dmraid=true' There's some info on: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid I haven't tried it myself though, I simply use the JBOD / software raid option. -- Groet, Peter Teunissen --- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PII fast enough for firewall
On 3-dec-2007, at 7:25, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/07 22:22, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400 MHz box with 64 MB of RAM. When I do a speed test from my box behind my IPCOP firewall, I get about 10K Mbs up/down. If I move the connection to one of the Buffalo router LAN connections, I get the advertised 15K Mbs up/down speed. So routing traffic thru the IPCOP firewall slows things down quite a bit. Is this to be expected? It is if IPCOP puts a load on the CPU or starts swapping memory. Does it? I was thinking of changing the firewall to a debian box running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/ router to not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. FWIW, you could try m0n0wall instead, it runs fine on my FW with 64MB & 450mhz PII. I get 10MB/sec throughput without full load on the cpu. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)
On 11-jan-2008, at 19:03, johnny wrote: Hi, in my flat there are 1 router, 1 range extender, 2 vista, 1 XP and my 2 linux ubuntu (one of which is mail/samba/nfs/etc server, is monitored via mrtg and contains a lot of music/movies). All, wireless. The problem: when I listen to music or watch movies from my laptop (my flatmates idem) the results are not so good... many freezes... The graphs say it is clearly not bandwith fault. Reading around: "It is well known that the medium access control (MAC) layer is the main bottleneck for the IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs." There are scientific publications around but seems the problem is not solved. 1. Do you know something, please? 2. With the new N technology, the problem is solved? [I doubt but I should test...] I use 802.11n (Apple Airport Extreme) and get good uninterrupted 10 MB/s thoughput. Still, when watching a movie I get a few interrupts. However, that seems to be related to the fileserver and not so much the wireless. I recently switched from an old 4x80MB raid5 set to a single 320MB disk (both with netatalk) and noticed a great improvement from to much interrupts to endure to allmost none. Still I generally copy the file over before playing. FWIW, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)
On 11-jan-2008, at 22:57, johnny wrote: For example, Peter, with N, you say is better, but may I ask you the architecture of your network? (fast: only you or...) Because of your question and the level of the discussion, I did some more testing. My original remark was just based on small observations after installing a new LAN server. You can forget my remarks about fileserving. It turned out in my case to be the combination of netatalk and routing that caused the difference. On a side note, I discovered a difference between players. When looking at the traffic graphs of Quicktime Player and VLC on Mac OSX (I'm not a pure debianite :-) I found that quicktime reads it's data at a steady rate but VLC in small bursts. That may be the reason I'm seeing a lot more interrupts when using VLC and be the cause of differences between other players too. My architecture is like pictured below. But I don't think it'll add much. Johnny, if you like me to do some testing with 802.11n, just let me know and I'll see what I can do. | DSL Bridge | |LAN Server ||| |Debian Etch | | |File / mp3 |-LAN-|WAN || | __ | ___ --|Switch|--LAN--| Router/Firewall |-- DMZ--|Switch| | DMZ Server | ___ | |__| | _| |__|--| Debian Etch | |Desktop | | | | Web / mail | ||-LAN-| __| |_| | 802.11n | |Wlan Bridge| ___ |__.| |Laptop | . |802.11n|..WLAN.. |___| . . __ _ . |Roku Player| . |802.11g|..WLAN.. |___| . . ___. |Laptop | . |802.11g|..WLAN.. |___| Groet, Peter Teunissen -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)
On 14-jan-2008, at 10:33, johnny wrote: - Only one doubt: in a wireless network, if the router and the nics are N except one G card, I'd expect the last one drag all back (my usual idea about CSMA/CD signal-caching collisions: MAC level saturation), am I right? That's right. I'm by no means a network expert, but every wireless bridge/router manual will tell you that they are backwards compatible, but at the price of speed. When one of the 802.11g devices is active on my network, speed goes down somewhat. Little test: Copying a 1GB file from lan server to laptop en back over 802.11n b/g compatibility mode, 2.4ghz., **only n-devices active** and using netatalk I get allmost 10MB/S average throughput Copying a 1GB file from lan server to laptop en back over 802.11n in b/g compatibility mode, 2.4ghz., **with one other g-device active** and using netatalk I get about 7MB/S average throughput. That's less than pure n, but still much better than a g-only network. So the network doesn't completely switch to g-mode. If it has to do with MAC level saturation I really don't know. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)
On Wed, January 16, 2008 10:20, johnny wrote: > >> Copying a 1GB file... >> ... **only n-devices active** >> ... 10MB/S average throughput >> >> Copying a 1GB file... >> ... **with one other g-device active** >> ... 7MB/S average throughput. > > I dunno, I copy movies server <-> laptop for a considerable test time > and mrtg says I stay about 8/9Mbps. > I would say that 1. N doesn't add so great values 2. I need more > exaustive tests ;) > Thanks > Well, an 802.11g network has max throughput of 54Mb/s = 6.75 MB/s It normally has an average throughput of 19Mb/s = 2.4MB/s So, either you are getting very slow MegaBITS per second or your test shows bad MegaBYTE readings :-) -- Groet, Peter Teunissen --- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)
On Thu, January 17, 2008 10:30, johnny wrote: > I can assure you that I can't get more than max 10Mbps (standard 8/9). > Maybe depends upon a range extender I have in my location: I read that > this kind of thing takes the global throughput to half, is it true? > I have no experience with wifi range extenders but it seems to me it should really just 'resend' the signal. If the extender is a 802.11g device, I'd expect it to produce the same throughput as the original source. I can imagine there might be some problems with both devices using the same channel. But that's just an uneducated guess. -- Groet, Peter Teunissen --- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux
On Fri, January 25, 2008 10:41, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I am looking for a nice and > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to > "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and > look at some passwords that I have forgotten. Take a look at pwsafe. CLI and easy to use. There was a nice review of it recently on Debian Package of the Day: http://debaday.debian.net/2008/01/06/pwsafe-a-cross-platform-tool-for-password-management/ Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using LTSP on a Debian server with Raspberry PI thin clients
You might try the berry terminal site: www.berryterminal.com Haven’t tried it, but is looks like a thin client for LSTP that boots from a SD card. Peter On 17 mrt. 2014, at 18:06, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > To simplify things I was thinking about running a couple of RPI thin clients > off my debian server? I would be using either powerline networking or > wireless. I think I'll need to install a special bootloader on the RPI as > they can't boot using PXE. > > I was wondering if anyone had actually implemented a system like this, and if > it was responsive enough to be useful? Are there any other considerations I > might need to think about? > > All the best, > James >
Re: Rar for debian wheezy
On 23 mei 2014, at 12:39, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > > please tell me how can i install rar (only). > > Thanks, > It’s in the non-free repo: https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/rar Simply add non-free to your /etc/apt/source.list: 'deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy non-free’ … and install rar. Done. HTH > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Vi, 23 mai 14, 13:10:36, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i some how installed a rar binary which is working in my old system now i > >> can not back track how i installed it.i want that to install in my Debian > >> wheezy desktop as i am receving many rar files. and unrar is not good > >> enough for me. > > > > See if 'unar' (not a typo) helps. > > Thanks for that tip, Andrei! I just installed and tested it. While > unrar does work, I'm happier to use something from 'main' than from > 'non-free' :) > > ChrisA > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAPTjJmrP0=fr8bmahgbe01ynvw+-r1za1yv+mtpnvzzje9j...@mail.gmail.com > >
Re: Debian and OSS vs vSphere
On 28 feb. 2012, at 16:15, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Davide Mirtillo wrote: > >> I was also wondering if any of you had opinions regarding Proxmox. >> >> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page >> >> It seems like a solid solution and it also looks it's gonna be something >> that works out of the box by just installing it, which is kinda what i >> was hoping for - yes, i know, i'm lazy :) > > Hi Davide. I was just about to send a reply to your other email suggesting > you try Proxmox :) > > It offers OpenVZ and KVM so allows you to enjoy using Linux containers or > fully virtualised systems. > > I've used OpenVZ a lot over the years and trialed Proxmox a while back and > was quite impressed. I'd like to add my own positive experience with proxmox in a small environment. Having experience with openvz on my private servers, I quickly gravitated towards promox when looking for something supporting containers, virtual machines and sporting a GUI even my windows minded fellow team members could understand ;-). I use it to run a server that supports our development team. It uses containers for java web apps (confluence and Jira) and network services like DNS and dhcp and virtual machines running windows to do software upgrade tests, evaluate software and supply remote users or team members running linux on their laptops with RDP sessions to the unavoidable set of windows dev apps. I can happily run ±5 containers and ±5 window VM's on a quad core server with 16GB. The GUI is quite intuitive and provides enough functionality. Deploying a new VM or container is a breeze. It should also support live migration between hardware nodes, although i didn't test this. Backups are easy to setup either to directly connected storage of something like NFS. Best of all, it's debian beneath the GUI, so on the cli, if needed, you'll feel right at home. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db4880d-c803-44a5-a585-6f0e5472f...@onemanifest.net
Re: [OT] wireless router/switch suddenly hang
On Thu, November 26, 2009 07:05, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > What could cause such device to stop working (in general)? I also cannot > ping the device eventhough its LED indicates it to be working. > FWIW, I had my zyxel router lock up in a similar way. After looking in it's log it turned out that more than 5 concurrent uploads was to much for it and it's wan port locked up. Solved it by bridging the router and using a separate router. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze
On 22 mei 2010, at 20:09, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions > according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, > etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of packages over > time. Today when I installed KDevelop (actually the only KDE program until > now) Debian complained about low disk space on /usr. Currently, there is > around 200Mb on the partition and I'm not intending to install more software > at this time. But what should I do if I needed more space? This is not much > space and fills up so quickly. > Assuming you used up all you available physical disk space, you'll need to shrink one of you lv's and grow the lv for /usr. To do this, you should read the man pages for lvm and the tool to resize & check your filesystem of choice. Assuming you have ext3 as filesystem, the apps mentioned below (e2fsck & resize2fs) should do. The procedure will be something like below, but this is not a howto, read man pages first. You could F***up you filesystem when doing things wrong!: - boot from CD (SystemRescueCD, some live cd ..) - activate you lv's: # vgscan # vgchange -a -y # vgmknodes - shrink a lv (e.g. resize /home to 2GB) # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg01-home # resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/vg01-home 1.9G # lvreduce --size 2G /dev/vg01/home # resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg01-home - grow a lv (e.g. resize /usr with 500MB) # lvextend --size +500M /dev/vg01/usr # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vg01-usr # resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg01-usr HTH, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/796714af-77b1-4420-90a0-e85eaf104...@onemanifest.net
Re: Now lost boot dir
On 26 aug 2010, at 20:39, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > All of the data (except for the boot dir which was not in LVM) should be > perfectly intact. > I need a live CD which supports LVM (Knoppix 5.* does not) which will mount > these volumes. > From there, I can either copy off needed data to another disk or chroot, > reinstall some kernel images and set up lilo or grub and be up and running. > > That live CD is the key. Which one? I use SystemRescueCd to assemble lvm. Works for me. I do 'vgscan' to find the available vg's, then 'vgchange -a y ' to activate the VG and finally 'vgmknodes' and I'm ready to manipulate my LV's. HTH Peter [1] http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c0a47423-cb51-4158-bfed-e8ff45929...@onemanifest.net
Booting Proliant 800
Hi All,I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but fails after the initial bootloader sequence.I've tried booting without any result:- sarge installer CD- Sarge bootfloppy- HP Smartstart 5.50It simply ignores the floppy or CD and start booting from disk.Even the setup utility (F10) results in a message: 'System partition utilities not available on this system'I've googled but couldn't find info on how to setup this system to boot a Linux installer.Does anyone have information on onstalling Debian on this system or pointers to good info?Groet, Peter Teunissen -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience.
Re: Booting Proliant 800
On 23-dec-2005, at 22:58, Raquel Rice wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:49 +0100 Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but fails after the initial bootloader sequence. I've tried booting without any result: - sarge installer CD - Sarge bootfloppy - HP Smartstart 5.50 It simply ignores the floppy or CD and start booting from disk. Even the setup utility (F10) results in a message: 'System partition utilities not available on this system' I've googled but couldn't find info on how to setup this system to boot a Linux installer. Does anyone have information on onstalling Debian on this system or pointers to good info? Have you changed the bios so it will boot from the floppy or the CD? That's what I'd like to do. But as far as I could learn from the HP site is that this can either be done from the smartstart CD (doesn't boot) of by pushing F9 (don't get this option during boot) or F10 (get error message above) Does anyone know of another manner to access the bios? TIA, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Proliant 800 - SOLVED
On 24-dec-2005, at 17:43, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 23-dec-2005, at 22:58, Raquel Rice wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:49 +0100 Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but fails after the initial bootloader sequence. I've tried booting without any result: - sarge installer CD - Sarge bootfloppy - HP Smartstart 5.50 It simply ignores the floppy or CD and start booting from disk. Even the setup utility (F10) results in a message: 'System partition utilities not available on this system' I've googled but couldn't find info on how to setup this system to boot a Linux installer. Does anyone have information on onstalling Debian on this system or pointers to good info? Have you changed the bios so it will boot from the floppy or the CD? That's what I'd like to do. But as far as I could learn from the HP site is that this can either be done from the smartstart CD (doesn't boot) of by pushing F9 (don't get this option during boot) or F10 (get error message above) Does anyone know of another manner to access the bios? In the end the solution was quite simple. Since the bios had been setup to boot from disk as primary choice and couldn't be accessed in any way, I simply removed the scsi disks and voila, it booted the HP Smartstart CD. I could then do a system erase and setup the system for manual Linux install. It's installed now and performs much faster then I expected! Thanks to all who responded! Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sieve client
On 20-jan-2006, at 16:33, Josep Serrano wrote: Hello Do you know of a good sieve client app for cyrus? I know Kmail has some short sieve functionality (vacation message). Here I am thinking of a more complex filtering / alerts / etc. Thanks, Josep SERRANO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Squirrelmail webmail server has a sieve plugin that let's you create elaborate filter / alert etc. rules graphically. You'd get access to your sieve scripts from anywhere and a webmailserver as an added bonus ;-) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sieve client
On 23-jan-2006, at 11:28, Josep Serrano wrote: Hello I am writting you from Squireelmail :-) You don't read 100% pure email with full headers??? X-D So, where can I find or how do I enable this plugin please ? Thanks, Josep SERRANO. Look on the squirrelmail site under plugins / filters: http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=73 I use the old stable branch, but looking at the new features in the devel branch that might be interesting to... good luck Peter Squirrelmail webmail server has a sieve plugin that let's you create elaborate filter / alert etc. rules graphically. You'd get access to your sieve scripts from anywhere and a webmailserver as an added bonus ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto package squirrelmail plugins the Debian way (Was Re: Sieve client)
On 24-jan-2006, at 15:24, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hello Josep, To install any plugin you have to download the tarball and detar the package into your squirrelmail plugins directory. Eventually for each particular plugin some configuration file might be edited. I guess new updates of squirrelmail will break the plugins installed manually. My question now is how I could package the plugins the Debian way? Can we generalize a method for evey plugin or perhaps setup a package with all plugins? PD. I included the mantained of squirrelmail package in CC since he can bring some enlightment. Sure. We thought about this issue before, but did not yet arrive at a satisfying conclusion. At one point, some of the more popular plugins were packaged separately (each in a package), but this was rejected by the FTP-Master due to "archive bloat". So this path is out. Another option would be to group plugins into larger (source or binary?) packages, for example a selection of addressbook plugins. These would all be installed and the admin can select which to enable. This has some disadvantages aswell: you install things you don't need, you need to group sources from different upstream authors into one source package. .. I feel this would be the best option. Security updates are important since all of this will be exposed to the net. Size doesn't matter, even if you'd install all known plugins it would use only a small amount of diskspace. Most of all, as Josep mentioned, this way the plugins would be upgradable too when moving to a new debian release. If the user would like to free up diskspace, deleting some plugins is a trivial task, but would apt be able to notice the deletions and act appropiately when upgrading? A third option is some way to make local packages of squirrelmail plugins, a la java-package. This provides the benefit of installing them the "right" way, but also just that: it doesn't yield (security) updates, debian-tweaks or integration. If you have ideas on this subject, or would like to help out on this, we're glad to hear from you. I acknowledge that there's currently no good solution, and input from others is more than welcome. Thijs (I'm not subscribed to debian-user) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto package squirrelmail plugins the Debian way (Was Re: Sieve client)
On 25-jan-2006, at 21:37, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:26:39PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: .. I feel this would be the best option. Security updates are important since all of this will be exposed to the net. Size doesn't matter, even if you'd install all known plugins it would use only a small amount of diskspace. Most of all, as Josep mentioned, this way the plugins would be upgradable too when moving to a new debian release. If the user would like to free up diskspace, deleting some plugins is a trivial task, but would apt be able to notice the deletions and act appropiately when upgrading? Depends on what you think is appropriate: apt (or rather, dpkg) will simply restore the deleted files on upgrade (it cannot know which ones were deleted intentionally). I guess dpkg's behavior is something users should be able to live with, since the plugins are small in size. I think it comes down to selecting a set of good, actively maintained plugins, without to many duplicates in function. Maybe some grouping on use like general interface & mail functionality enhancements (like extra buttons, sievegui), groupware/calander and security/admin. As plugins are only exposed when enabled by the admin in some way via a config option in /etc/squirrelmail, I too feel this would be the best solution if we were to package the plugins ourselves. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac
On 6-mrt-2006, at 20:13, petereasthope wrote: I've just read ten recent messages about support for boot floppies and conclude that I should not expect them to work soon. Currently, is there any way to install Debian on an oldworld Mac, other than by CD? You could use bootx to start an installer kernel copied from the net install cd to a harddrive with OS9 on it. It's somewhere in the debian install documentation... If I recall correctly, the docs refer to old installer files though, some weeks ago someone mailed the correct installer filenames in this list, should be in the archive. If you keep the OS9 & bootx install intact while installing debian (on a separate partition or disk) it can be very convenient if you need to do a reinstall in the future. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i want spam
On 19-mrt-2006, at 1:17, Sara Baker wrote:i want spam!!! please send me as much spam as possible You've com to the right place, many posters can at least supply you with some nice spam from uol.com.br! But maybe you could amuse us some more by elaborating of the intended use of our precious spam collections? :-)(sorry, couldn't resist :-)Peter
run cyrreconstruct -m as user cyrus
Hi all,I've messed up my cyrus mailbox file and need to run cyrreconstruct -m to attempt repair. cyrreconstruct needs to be run as user cyrus however, but I cannot su to cyrus, even after adding an password to user cyrus with usermod -p. I've delved into rute, googled but nothing gives me a good direction. What do I need to do to be able to run cyrreconstruct as user cyrus? TIA, Peter Teunissen Linux user nr. 389180 -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version 3.12 GFA/P/IT$ d+(++) s: a C++$>+++$ UB/L+>$ P L++ !E W++ N- o? K? w$>!w !O M+(++) V? PS++ PE- Y+ PGP- t 5? X- !R !tv b++(+++) DI D+ G>++ e++ h--- r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
postfix, cyrus and squirrelmail
Hi All, I've setup postfix, cyrus an squirrelmail. All seems to be well, but I can't get postfix to deliver to my cyrus accounts. I've read through several how-to's, readme's etc. but can't figure out how to do this correctly. I've setup the virtual mailbox for "someuser", created an entry in de sasldb and created a mailbox in cyrus. I can login to the mailbox using squirrelmail, see and create folders but not receive anything. I guessed the problem lies in the combination of the lookup value in the virtual mailbox file of postfix and the sasl user and cyrus mailbox. The docs aren't very clear on this.. I've tried the following: 1. virtual mailbox resolves to someuser///@onemanifest.net with sasldb entry for someuser and cyrus mailbox for user.someuser -> I can login, and see mailboxes but no mail is delivered. Postfix doesn't return an error however when trying to send mail to this account. 2. virtual mailbox resolves to someuser with sasldb entry for someuser and cyrus mailbox for user.someuser Groet, Peter Teunissen Linux user nr. 389180 -- Never argue with idiots; they'll drag you down to their own level and beat you on experience. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version 3.12 GFA/P/IT$ d+(++) s: a C++$>+++$ UB/L+>$ P L++ !E W++ N- o? K? w$>!w !O M+(++) V? PS++ PE- Y+ PGP- t 5? X- !R !tv b++(+++) DI D+ G>++ e++ h--- r+++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: POP & SMTP
On 25-sep-2005, at 2:09, Robert Wolfe wrote: - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: POP & SMTP Date: 24/09/05 21:05 Use apt-get to install the servers. Read some good tutorials on their configuration to get them functional. Then find out how to harden them. Doing this will give you some good experience in learning linux. I did my research on mail server software to use and their features and my final solution was a Postfix/qpopper solution which works very, very well here. Again, as stated in the quoted message, RESEARCH is your best friend for something like this. I to started my first mailserver experiment with postfix & qpopper and if I remember well, simply apt-getting or aptituting both and answering the install scripts questions will get you a simple system user and plain login based mail server. Simply start from there but as mentioned above, harden your server with save logins etc. and don't stop a qpopper, look into imap and webmail. Believe me, it's fun. to get you going, some sources of information: to check if you've accidently opened up your smtp server to the world of spammers as an open relay: http://www.abuse.net/relay.html Start reading info in /usr/share/doc/postfix /usr/share/doc/qpopper etc... A site discribing setting up a nice & safe advanced setup with postfix / cyrus (pop,imap much more capable then qpopper) / squirrelmail (webmail) / spamassassin / sievefilters: http://wiki.ev-15.com/debian:mail_system HTH, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deny unwanted threads
On 30-okt-2005, at 5:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good time. There are so many threads in this list , and it is great of course , but some of them are not interesting for me . So , i'm just in writing some scripts for mailfilter and mutt to delete them on pop3-server before downloading .And i have some questions: 1)first:maybe somebody has done this? 2)As i understand there is some limitations to this idea: a)in ideal ,mailfilter must understand the rules with double conditions ,e.g.: DENY=(^From bounce-debian-user.*)&&(^Subject.*unwanted thread) . But now it can't. b)second solution:list-server must put list-name in subject header, like mplayer-users list do:'Subject: [MPlayer-users] seeking in a video file'.I asked for this feature [EMAIL PROTECTED] several times with no answer . c)last solution : while mailfilter don't support double rules and listmaster don't agree to change the 'subject' header in the mails - we are to use separate mail accounts for such lists and separate mailfilter's conf-files . The question is : maybe i'm wrong somewhere ?(It is not pleasant to do the useless job.) Oh,yes, mailfilter doesn't support national charsets , so this is working only for subjects in latin-based languages. :( I don't know about milter, but Sieve scripts can do exactly what you want: match a particular sender AND match key words or a regexp in the subjectline. just my 2 cents... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation
On 31-okt-2005, at 17:09, [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to start learning Linux usage. He emailed to know which book is good for learning Linux. I haven't ever used a beginner's book to learn the basics so I don't know which one to recommend. Does anyone have some experience in this regards? Are there books for learning linux worth recommending? Also it would be perfect if the sale of each copy contributed to the OSS community. He wants a "user oriented" book rather than one focusing on administration. Also I think it should be a general one rather than for a specific distribution. I'm not sure how to to be a 'user' without knowing how to 'administrate' your own machine. :-) He might want to look into RUTE. It might be more then he asked for but it is a complete introduction to linux, and distribution indepedent. It's not an explanation of how to use the Gnome/KDE GUI tho... http://linux.2038bug.com/rute-home.html Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailserver absolute noob question
On 2-nov-2005, at 21:37, Thomas wrote: Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos on the net but they seemed way too complicated. The howtos i saw included spamfilters, anitivr software and page after page of config file hacking. What i am really looking for is a simple mailserver that i can install by apt-get something and then configure by a gui/web interface (if necessary at all). Then connect to it with my thunderbird and lets go. So far, exim4 was installed on my sarge by default, although i dont know what that means. If i startup mutt with any user, it says 'no mailbox'. This didnt ever disturb me, but now i should think of what that means... Thanks for hints, Thomas I wrote the following howto: http://ithacafreesoftware.org/Members/mitch/notebook/debian/ mailserver It includes a very basic setup of Postfix (SMTP), Dovecot (pop and Imap), and Squirrelmail (Web e-mail). Good luck. Hi Mitch, your howto was helpful, still there is a problem left. I can receive mail from the internet. I can send and receive mail from and to local users. I can NOT send mail to other hosts on the internet. Here my /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h myhostname = ares.dyndns.biz mydomain = dyndns.biz alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, ares.dyndns.biz #relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all net_interfaces = all I do login as local [EMAIL PROTECTED] via imap. If i want to send mail to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar i get the message from the email client: "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied. Please verify that your email ddress is correct in your Mail preferences and try again.". Well, of course, the email address in my preferences is [EMAIL PROTECTED] which should be correct. What is problem here? Does the mailserver @gmx refuse my mail because the domain is dyndns.biz, which is not to be trusted? Is there a problem with my config? I dont know. You should add settings to /etc/postfix/main.conf for allowing mail relaying. This should be done with care to avoid turning your server into a spam spawning zombie. The simplest way is simply allowing senders on your subnet: mynetworks_style = subnet Or you could take an even safer route and define the exact range of allowed IP's. This is allready in your conf, just add more IP's something like this: mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24 More info can be found at: http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#relay_from By the way i dint understand step 4 in the Howto: 4. Add a valid root alias to /etc/postfix/aliases There is no /etc/postfix/aliases on my sarge nor do i know what a valid root alias is. Well, i dont think this is the problem why i cant send out email, is it? create a textfile /etc/postfix/aliases and put one line in it: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] save, and issue the command newaliases as root. HTH, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetching mail from M$ Exchange using rpc over https
Hi, My employer is moving it's mailservices tot M$ Exchange 2003. Now all external access has to go throug rpc over https. I'd like to use something similar to fetchmail to fetch my mail from the exchange server and and feed it to my own mailserver. Fetchmail doesn't seem to support rpc over https however. Googling didn't turn up anything useful either. Has anyone accomplished such a setup or any pointers to good info? TIA Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux
On 28-nov-2005, at 19:02, H.S. wrote: Hi, I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I think a consumer grade one) through which they connect their lan computers to the internet in some way. For quite a while he had been complaining about viruses and spyware in this computers. So I suggested he install Firefox and Thunderbird and train users not to use IE or Outlook, run spyware and antivirus and educate users NOT to click on any random links. So far so good. But he still has problems about controlling his network traffic and internet security. So now I have convinced him to install Debian (or some other flavor of Linux) on a machine and make it a jpowerful and fully configurable router. That is the story. Now, I personally have a firewall script (iptables) set up on my computer. But my friend is not Linux literate at all is not going to be confortable with bash scripting and vi editor and iptables in the first go. Is there a GUI firewall application for Linux that can be installed on router computers to deal with with various applications: web browsing, email, databases: oracle & siebel, or other Windows stuff? I am also thinking about suggesting he use spam assassin to block spam coming in or going out. But I haven't touched this subject yet. My eventual aim is to make him install Ubuntu on a computer or two and let him see how well that performs (though he has some applications in his company that run on Windows only - need IE). ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will be OT^2 but what the heck... I'd advise you to mention m0n0wall. It's not linux but FreeBSD based and sports a very good graphical webinterface, is well documented, under active development and has an active userlist. It's features are close to $ 10k+ Cisco appliances. The great part I think is that it looks nice and selfexplanatory (as far as firewalling can ever be selfexplanatory :-) even to a windo$e user but still doesn't hide any of the advanced parts of firewalling as most other graphic software firewalls do. You can learn firewalling step by step without being to overwhelmed by the dark side of the CLI or abstract features. Besides, to a windoze user Unix & Linux all look alike. http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
