Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 21:14, Jason Lim wrote: > We know sleeve-bearing fans die pretty quickly and that ball-bearing fans > tend to keep running much better/longer, but do you know approximately how > long we're talking about? Is "long" 3 years, 5 years, or possibly even > longer than that? I'm worki

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread me
Hi all, On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:13:06PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running > hardware. Mostly mechanical parts like Fans, Harddisks. CPUs can normaly run arround 10Years without problems, as far as i know. > Most of u

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Debian User
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 07:32, Rich Puhek wrote: > Jason Lim wrote: > > But how about the motherboards themselves? Is it often for something on > > the motherboard to fail, after 3-4 years continuous operation without > > failure? > > Normally, I'd say no on this point, particularly if the server is >

Re: IMAP / POP... permissions?

2003-02-06 Thread Asher Densmore-Lynn
Jason Lim wrote: I need to teach a mailbox how to implement permissions. Specifically, how to deny a client's deletion commands. Do you mean make it "read-only"? Mostly. But I know that IMAP stores things like lastread locally, and I don't want to interfere with that. So not... completely r

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Jason Lim
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:13, Jason Lim wrote: > > I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running > > hardware. > > I don't recall seeing a computer that had been in service for more than 3 > months fail in any way not associated with movement. Moving parts (fans and > hard d

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Rich Puhek
Jason Lim wrote: But how about the motherboards themselves? Is it often for something on the motherboard to fail, after 3-4 years continuous operation without failure? Normally, I'd say no on this point, particularly if the server is continuously running. This month's issue of IEEE Spectru

Re: PHP using suexec

2003-02-06 Thread Vector
I am running them both and have not yet had performance problems. I stress tested the server before putting it into production and performance was acceptable so I went ahead with it. I don't remember what the metrics were now it's been too long. suexec is particularly handy if you have multiple

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:36, Teun Vink wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:13, Jason Lim wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running > > hardware. > > > > Most of us run servers with very long uptimes (we've got a server here > > with uptime app

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:13, Jason Lim wrote: > I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running > hardware. I don't recall seeing a computer that had been in service for more than 3 months fail in any way not associated with movement. Moving parts (fans and hard drives) die.

Re: Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Teun Vink
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:13, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running > hardware. > > Most of us run servers with very long uptimes (we've got a server here > with uptime approaching 3 years, which is not long compared to some, but > we

Re: woody - bind - hint or forwarders

2003-02-06 Thread Rcca
Use the "forward first " statement Bind will ask the nearest name-servers ( in the "forwarders" statement) to resolve the names. The ISP-s name server may have more resolved requests than your. If the forwarder hasn't the address your server will resolve it. It works well by us for years. R.

Re: IMAP / POP... permissions?

2003-02-06 Thread Jason Lim
> > I need to teach a mailbox how to implement permissions. Specifically, > how to deny a client's deletion commands. > Do you mean make it "read-only"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weakest point of a server?

2003-02-06 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, I was wondering what kind of failures you experience with long-running hardware. Most of us run servers with very long uptimes (we've got a server here with uptime approaching 3 years, which is not long compared to some, but we think it is pretty good!). We're looking at "extending" the

PHP using suexec

2003-02-06 Thread Domainbox, Tim Abenath
Hello list, Has anyone experiences running PHP using suexec? All doku's are telling this should not be use to keep the Performance of the Server up, but is this still true for a today's dual XEON Machine? I need to feed about 1,5 Million hits a day, around 30 hits request .php files. [EMAIL P

Re: Load sharing POP/IMAP/smtp

2003-02-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:28, Lauchlin Wilkinson wrote: > does anyone have any good links/info on how to set up a > loadsharing/redunant mail servers (pop, imap, smtp). At the moment I > have 1 server doing all three jobs but we are soon going to grow out of > this arrangment andI have not had any exp