Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:19:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.05.0740 +0200]: > > This is illegal. And in any case, it's not official. > > Correction, this is not illegal, but only if you install a package > that violates the FHS[1] big

Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-05 Thread Jason Lim
Just thought I'd add a bit more info... from dmesg: Linux version 2.4.22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease )) #8 SMP Thu Aug 28 14:44:13 HKT 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00

SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-05 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, Just wondering... I've got a 2.4Ghz Hyperthreading (100% it is the hyperthreading model), and the BIOS sees it. I then compiled the kernel... the usual, except added the SMP support setting "Symmetric multi-processing support". Nothing else was changed. Compiled it, liloed it... it's run

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-05 Thread Rich Puhek
Russell Coker wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:25, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by debian ? My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. Would this be a good choic

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Sproul
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:19, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > cyrus huh? in that case: is cyrus-popd a drop-in replacement for UW-pop > (ipopd) on debian? > I seem to remember it is not. You are correct. Cyrus uses a completely different method for storing mail, so you cannot just install its POP daemo

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:31, Guus Houtzager wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:18, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:08, Eric Sproul wrote: > > > > > Yes, I know we could set a larger minimum interval for POP, but the > > > political implications of generating tech support calls

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Guus Houtzager
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:18, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:08, Eric Sproul wrote: > > > Yes, I know we could set a larger minimum interval for POP, but the > > political implications of generating tech support calls about "why can't > > I POP my mail?" prevent it. Don't get m

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Sproul
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:18, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:08, Eric Sproul wrote: > > > Yes, I know we could set a larger minimum interval for POP, but the > > political implications of generating tech support calls about "why can't > > I POP my mail?" prevent it. Don't get m

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 16:08, Eric Sproul wrote: > Yes, I know we could set a larger minimum interval for POP, but the > political implications of generating tech support calls about "why can't > I POP my mail?" prevent it. Don't get me started on THAT. 8^o sorry to butt in, but HOW could you se

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Sproul
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:14, Russell Coker wrote: > I was under the impression that Sendmail also queues everything to disk. How > does it's queue operate then? While the message is coming in, Sendmail buffers the message to memory, optionally piping the DATA portion to a socket (for milter scan

RE: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Thomas Lamy
martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2003.09.04.1447 +0200]: > > Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be > > interested in elaboration, if there is something technically > > inferior about exim or postfix to qmail or sendmail? Or > > po

Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 05 September 2003 13:45, Nico Meijer wrote: > - wietse venema is [...] d) dutch Taking into account that .nl is one of the major sources of spam right now (through a2000.nl and plant.nl), I'm not sure if this counts for or against using postfix. -- vbi (Happy postfix user) (Since ex

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.05.0740 +0200]: > This is illegal. And in any case, it's not official. Correction, this is not illegal, but only if you install a package that violates the FHS[1] big time. I don't see the merits in qmail to account for this compromise. 1

Does TESTING have security updates?

2003-09-05 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently we talked about using stable/testing/unstable on servers. Some people said unstable was stable enough, some people said stable was updated enough, but everybody said testing was not an option because it has not security updates. Accidentall

Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-05 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Martin, > - ralf hildebrandt uses postfix (he's the guru, next to wietse. - ralf hildebrandt and patrick koetter (the other guru) are coming out with a book on postfix (http://www.nostarch.com/postfix.htm) - wietse venema (postfix's author) is a) capable b) generally a nice person, or so i've

RE: raid controller & debian

2003-09-05 Thread Boehn, Gunnar von
Hi all, >>My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. >>Has someone experience with this controller and debian ? >We have 20+ Escalade 7500-8 cards and they work fairly well. [..]and many other usefull hints[..] I happy to know that the 3ware will work. :-) Thanks a lot to all