DHCP and Pt-Pt DSL links?

2004-09-06 Thread Neale Banks
Hi all, In running up a new DSL connection today, I came across an "interesting" situation w.r.t. DHCP and point-to-point links. The planned implementation is to have the Netgear DG632 ADSL modem do the PPPoA but pass (by DHCP) the single fixed-IP address to the Linux box on the ethernet (this is

spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Neale Banks
Hi all, As part of a project I'm involved in, we need to deploy a new server (ia32, FWIW: running Debian "sarge") to run a MySQL database (SME-sized, moderate complexity but not particularly large) + Java Application. I figure that upgradability probably isn't a big issue here, as the obvious pat

spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-24 Thread Neale Banks
Hi all, As part of a project I'm involved in, we need to deploy a new server (ia32, FWIW: running Debian "sarge") to run a MySQL database (SME-sized, moderate complexity but not particularly large) + Java Application. I figure that upgradability probably isn't a big issue here, as the obvious pat

building 2.4.21 with make-kpkg (woody)

2003-07-14 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, I've got a copule of woody systems and am trying to build a stock(i.e. from kernel.org) 2.4.21 kernel for one of them on the other (both are currently running 2.2 - but that shouldn't matter, right?). No matter what I try, I always get "cramfs: wrong magic" and a panic when it's unable to mo

building 2.4.21 with make-kpkg (woody)

2003-07-14 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, I've got a copule of woody systems and am trying to build a stock(i.e. from kernel.org) 2.4.21 kernel for one of them on the other (both are currently running 2.2 - but that shouldn't matter, right?). No matter what I try, I always get "cramfs: wrong magic" and a panic when it's unable to mo

sympa/pg/debian install woes

2003-06-03 Thread Neale Banks
I'm trying to install Sympa on a Debian(woody) machine but not getting far :-( I've tracked it down to this line in install-pg-db, which is called from the postinst script: # Get a sysid my $usesysid = $dbh->do("SELECT MAX(usesysid) + 1 FROM pg_shadow"); That always returns 1 (and a subsequent

sympa/pg/debian install woes

2003-06-02 Thread Neale Banks
I'm trying to install Sympa on a Debian(woody) machine but not getting far :-( I've tracked it down to this line in install-pg-db, which is called from the postinst script: # Get a sysid my $usesysid = $dbh->do("SELECT MAX(usesysid) + 1 FROM pg_shadow"); That always returns 1 (and a subsequent

Re: testing postfix' maps_rbl config?

2003-05-19 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > Hope this helps, > > Cheers, > Mark > > > maps_rbl_domains = sbl.spamhaus.org, > > > Quote from spamhaus.org (from their faq): > Once you have set up your mail server to use sbl.spamhaus.org, you can test > to see if the SBL blocking is working by s

testing postfix' maps_rbl config?

2003-05-19 Thread Neale Banks
I've set up postfix on a Woody machine as a low-volume server (like it's getting *really* low volume). All appears well except the amount of mail slipping through the maps_rbl config, which is pretty draconian - like this: # # OK, we are being pretty aggresive here maps_rbl_domains = proxies

building IRRd on woody?

2001-08-05 Thread Neale Banks
Yes, I will RTFM ;-) Meanwhile, does anyone have any experiences with building and/or running IRRd (the one at http://www.ird.net ) on woody? Thanks, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
Thank you Craing and Ilya - I now see where I was approaching this from the wrong direction. The overall framework I'm trying to get happening is to use a supplementary group for the users and files to be maintained outside /etc/postfix and some "simple" glue-scripts to move the modified files in

RCS and perms (WAS: Re: non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super)

2001-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
Hi Craig, On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: [...] > the 660 permissions on the /etc/radius/radius.users file allow the admin > group to edit it and check it in to RCS. Could you elaborate on this please? I started by ading a group "mailadm", the theory being that all the relevant files

Re: non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
Thank you Craing and Ilya - I now see where I was approaching this from the wrong direction. The overall framework I'm trying to get happening is to use a supplementary group for the users and files to be maintained outside /etc/postfix and some "simple" glue-scripts to move the modified files i

RCS and perms (WAS: Re: non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super)

2001-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
Hi Craig, On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: [...] > the 660 permissions on the /etc/radius/radius.users file allow the admin > group to edit it and check it in to RCS. Could you elaborate on this please? I started by ading a group "mailadm", the theory being that all the relevant files

non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-06-29 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, With particular relevance to potato... I see that by default the files in /etc/postfix are owner: group root:root. This obviously doesn't lend itself to the contents thereof being admin'ed by admins who don't otherwise enjoy the total freedom of the system (nor is it best for thos

non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-06-28 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, With particular relevance to potato... I see that by default the files in /etc/postfix are owner: group root:root. This obviously doesn't lend itself to the contents thereof being admin'ed by admins who don't otherwise enjoy the total freedom of the system (nor is it best for tho

Debian source: GRE-patched traceroute_1.4a12

2001-03-22 Thread Neale Banks
/pptp-traceroute.patch.gz It was hacked into the Debian package traceroute_1.4a12-3 by Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IMPORTANT: Please do not worry Herbert Xu (maintainer of the official Debian traceroute package) about this hacked package. Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Debian source: GRE-patched traceroute_1.4a12

2001-03-22 Thread Neale Banks
/pptp-traceroute.patch.gz It was hacked into the Debian package traceroute_1.4a12-3 by Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IMPORTANT: Please do not worry Herbert Xu (maintainer of the official Debian traceroute package) about this hacked package. Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: make machine

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > I need to make some serious changes to my kernels, on various servers at > my location, I have everything from > 486's up to 1.2Gig boxes, so rather than compiling on the cpu and > RAM-challenged boxes, I'd like to make kernels > on one of my more power

Re: making own dep packages

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Grischa Schuering wrote: > we customized a new apache-ssl deb package, by adding a module called > zmod to it. We need this module here in Germany for statistical > analysis. > Now every time a new apache-ssl version (or security fix) is available > our package is overwritten

Re: make machine

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > I need to make some serious changes to my kernels, on various servers at > my location, I have everything from > 486's up to 1.2Gig boxes, so rather than compiling on the cpu and > RAM-challenged boxes, I'd like to make kernels > on one of my more powe

Re: making own dep packages

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Grischa Schuering wrote: > we customized a new apache-ssl deb package, by adding a module called > zmod to it. We need this module here in Germany for statistical > analysis. > Now every time a new apache-ssl version (or security fix) is available > our package is overwritten

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:29, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > > Then starts the slippery slope... the libldap2 in unstable depends on > > libsasl7, which in its turn recommends libsasl-modules (the only > > consolation here is that li

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 forslink)

2001-03-13 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:29, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > > Then starts the slippery slope... the libldap2 in unstable depends on > > libsasl7, which in its turn recommends libsasl-modules (the only > > consolation here is that li

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-08 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: [...] > > Any suggestions other than building all of those for potato (and no, I > > don't want to upgrade yet). > > I have .deb's of the latest LDAP stuff for Potato. I didn't build them > though. Hopefully we can establish some sort of official reposi

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 forslink)

2001-03-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: [...] > > Any suggestions other than building all of those for potato (and no, I > > don't want to upgrade yet). > > I have .deb's of the latest LDAP stuff for Potato. I didn't build them > though. Hopefully we can establish some sort of official repos

latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: [...] > I think that we need some separate projects for maintaining outdated > distributions of Debian. There's no way I'll touch slink but I have a great > need for potato to be usable with the latest stuff. Inded, as well as (unsuccessfully) attemptin

latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: [...] > I think that we need some separate projects for maintaining outdated > distributions of Debian. There's no way I'll touch slink but I have a great > need for potato to be usable with the latest stuff. Inded, as well as (unsuccessfully) attempti

Re: Route annoncement on web

2000-12-06 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: > Does anybody know a web site where I can see route announcement ? I > want to see from outside if my routes are announced correctly or not. There's a pretty good list at http://neptune.dti.ad.jp/ HTH, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: IDE RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Áts Attila wrote: > have any of you ever heard of or used a RAID controller > that is capable of "RAIDing" with IDE disks? Is there > suuport for a card like this in Linux? A couple of years ago, I saw a hardware RAID controller which presented to the host SCSI as

Re: IDE RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Áts Attila wrote: > have any of you ever heard of or used a RAID controller > that is capable of "RAIDing" with IDE disks? Is there > suuport for a card like this in Linux? A couple of years ago, I saw a hardware RAID controller which presented to the host SCSI a

potato and Smart Array 221 in Compaq DL380

2000-08-03 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, A Compaq DL380 system has been built, ready for installation of Debian (i.e. potato). However, this system has a Smart Array 221 controller with two 9GB SCSI drives - the controller is setup for RAID-1 giving me a single virtual drive of almost 9GB. No performance cautions here, g

potato and Smart Array 221 in Compaq DL380

2000-08-03 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, A Compaq DL380 system has been built, ready for installation of Debian (i.e. potato). However, this system has a Smart Array 221 controller with two 9GB SCSI drives - the controller is setup for RAID-1 giving me a single virtual drive of almost 9GB. No performance cautions here,

Re: apache question

2000-07-07 Thread Neale Banks
[...] > > I also think you'll need ip based vhosts in Apache to make it listen to a > 2nd NIC. > > can I ask for some help on this ? i need apache to listen to both NICs No, you shouldn't need ip-based vhosts (which are inherently a Bad Thing, but that's another thread). Looking at http://www.

Re: apache question

2000-07-07 Thread Neale Banks
[...] > > I also think you'll need ip based vhosts in Apache to make it listen to a > 2nd NIC. > > can I ask for some help on this ? i need apache to listen to both NICs No, you shouldn't need ip-based vhosts (which are inherently a Bad Thing, but that's another thread). Looking at http://www

Re: Recommendations for Squid proxy hardware

2000-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, ridgey wrote: > What would you recommend for Squid proxy hardware, for a machine thats > running transparent and has approximately up to 80 dialups pumping requests > through it? > > Current machine has a drive setup of: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted

Re: Recommendations for Squid proxy hardware

2000-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, ridgey wrote: > What would you recommend for Squid proxy hardware, for a machine thats > running transparent and has approximately up to 80 dialups pumping requests > through it? > > Current machine has a drive setup of: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounte

Re: whois *server*?

2000-06-01 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Andrei D. Caraman wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:18:01AM +1000, Neale Banks wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > > > A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part > > of Debian or even just source code - did I miss

whois *server*?

2000-05-28 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something? Anyone got a pointer to this? Similarly, any pointers to relevant HOWTO/FAQ/etc docs? Thanks, Neale.

Re: postfix: "timeout after DATA from unknown"

2000-05-01 Thread Neale Banks
Answering my own question again... On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > The main queston: should I be concerned about the "timeout after DATA" > messages? Turned out to be a path-MTU-discovery problem. See: http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix99

postfix: "timeout after DATA from unknown"

2000-04-28 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings, I've run up a new box with potato and using postfix for smtp relay. All looks well, however in mail.log there are many entries like: Apr 28 23:35:33 foo postfix/smtpd[1617]: connect from unknown[209.35.126.76] Apr 28 23:35:34 foo postfix/smtpd[1617]: 48751B8014: client=unknown[209.35

running without portmapper, inetd

2000-04-26 Thread Neale Banks
Does anyone have any experience with hacking Debian's scripts to get a system happily running networking without portmapper, or even without inetd? Any issues to be wary of in this area? The motivations: * portmapper: I can't see what need I have for it - therefore it just becomes a security li

Re: potato on Compaq 1600?

2000-04-26 Thread Neale Banks
Thanks to all who responded - potato appears to be happily running on this box now :-) No special arrangements were required - we just ran the automagic setup software and selected "other" for the o/s. regarding: > Now I have a specific query: the onboard ethernet is identified in > /proc/pci as

Re: Making Debian Recognize 256 Meg of Ram

2000-04-06 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: > LOL! Oh, like trying to write to a non-existent memory location? :) Exactly ;-) First a cute quote: ---8<--- When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that cou

Re: Making Debian Recognize 256 Meg of Ram

2000-04-05 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Wilson Tuma wrote: > Would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to make my machine recognize > 256Meg of RAM. > > When I added the ram and did top and did see only 64Meg. Any reasonably recent kernel (even 2.0.3x) _should_ be able to recognise this without specific assistan

Ethernet card recommendations?

2000-04-05 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, Any recommendations on a *reliable* ethernet card to spec for a Debian (potato) box to be deployed as a dedicated mail exchanger? Not thinking so much of the fastest, as something that will reliably pump data. 10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a "seriou

Debian-justifying reasons?

2000-03-27 Thread Neale Banks
Greeetings all, I need to come up with some reasons/whatever to justify continuing to use Debian - but this needs to be in suit-friendly terms ;-) One of Debian's key strengths is obviously its packaging system, and the consequent low cost of administration. Anyone got any pointers to articles/w