Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Phil Pennock
ance) and let the external program invoke gpg to perform the checks. Then change the ``dropdirectory/$MATCH'' to, eg, ``| my_strip_gpg_and_store "$MATCH"''. man procmailrc(1). -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquer

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
t's the module interface which sucks[2], and the inability to make a chain of system dependencies, so you can't say "if BigRouter goes down, just report that, and not the 300 LittleServices behind it". [2] Mostly nocollib.pl which is unclean and leaks memory and I don

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
ide a here-document, or whatever). There are some other smaller gotchas as well, but I don't remember them off the top of my head as the vast majority of problems arise from the above scenario. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
ter) Relying on timely response from customers from customers does not scale. Searching for a magic bullet is naive. Trying to design things right first time isn't perfect, but it makes life easier in the long run, at the expense of more work at start-up time. -- HTML email - just say no --&

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
tly ends that discussion - I'm already trying to juggle too many things at work. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
another go at phasing out perl4 on the servers ... -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
on of perl. Forcing perl to be entirely static is apparently not as straight-forward as it should be; I don't know, though, as a couple of colleagues handled this) -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use o

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
r version. Predicting the future is tricky. Being defensive in the way that you set things up can help you bypass some of the uncertainty. Defensive SysAdmin-ing as opposed to Defensive Programming. :^) -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
s some responsibility for changing their scripts appropriately. All this IMnsHO. HAND. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: tracing a PERL cgi script

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
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Re: Strange message in logs

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
. Matching forward and reverse DNS is a Good Thing(tm). -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: How do I add a second IP range to a network?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
my head trying to > work that one out. BCP 20. Which is currently RFC 2317. Titled "Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation". Follow that, and most things should work, with the caveats stated therein about older BIND servers. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We

Re: System clock

2000-04-07 Thread Phil Pennock
manual-page. I've never tried this, so can't comment. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: Email confirmation...

2000-04-05 Thread Phil Pennock
e numbers - many regard it as an invasion of privacy. mutt(1) can support use of DSN, but it's not enabled by default. See also RFC 1894. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Phil Pennock
Typing away merrily, Phil Pennock produced the immortal words: > shell_prompt$ perl -i.old \ > -e 's{http://209.155.163.97/}{http://www.pexchange.com/}g' \ > $(find THOSE_DIRECTORIES -name \*.cgi -print) Need more coffee. Hopefully it's obvious that THOSE_DIRECTORIES

Re: Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Phil Pennock
ely. Note the backslashes - you can omit them if you make sure to type those three lines as one. HTH -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: Quote of the day...

2000-04-03 Thread Phil Pennock
x things without getting out of bed and without having noisy computers in my bedroom. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: restricted ftp (binded to a private net only)

2000-03-31 Thread Phil Pennock
ty Package (size) stable 100%xinetd 2.2.1-8.1 (87.7k) replacement for inetd with many enhancements Such enhancements including, eg, ability to bind to a specific interface on a machine. And the xinetd.conf syntax is signicantly cleaner than traditional inetd.conf (IMHO).