Re: Resource consumption.

Hi Chris, I think you might be overlooking the value of the 'nice' shell builtin - try: Indeed. Thanks. Regards Rudi.

Re: Resource consumption.

Hi Chris, I think you might be overlooking the value of the 'nice' shell builtin - try: Indeed. Thanks. Regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resource consumption.

imit CPU consumption with 'ulimit' or something ?? Cheers Rudi.

Re: Resource consumption.

e logs and limit CPU consumption with 'ulimit' or something ?? Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resource consumption.

che\/access_tmp\///'` site=`echo $site | sed 's/-access_log//'` if [ -e /etc/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf ]; then webalizer -D /var/log/webazolver/dns_cache.db -c \ /etc/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf; WEB_PID=$!; wait $WEB_PID; fi done Cheers Rudi.

Re: Resource consumption.

/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf ]; > then > webalizer -D /var/log/webazolver/dns_cache.db -c \ > /etc/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf; > fi > done > Cheers Rudi.

Re: Resource consumption.

che\/access_tmp\///'` site=`echo $site | sed 's/-access_log//'` if [ -e /etc/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf ]; then webalizer -D /var/log/webazolver/dns_cache.db -c \ /etc/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf; WEB_PID=$!; wait $WEB_PID; fi done Cheers Rudi. -- T

Resource consumption.

r to check if one instance to Webalizer is already running then sleep and try again. Any suggestions. I have about 20 virtual sites on this box and 400 on another. Many thanks Regards Rudi.

Re: Resource consumption.

/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf ]; > then > webalizer -D /var/log/webazolver/dns_cache.db -c \ > /etc/webalizer/$site.webalizer.conf; > fi > done > Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Resource consumption.

r to check if one instance to Webalizer is already running then sleep and try again. Any suggestions. I have about 20 virtual sites on this box and 400 on another. Many thanks Regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH access restrictions

sment. When I've done that I'll list the options again. Cheers Rudi.

Re: SSH access restrictions

sment. When I've done that I'll list the options again. Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH access restrictions

SSH access. So I think c) may be the go. If I had local users I guess a) or b) with a) having stronger security. Regards Rudi.

Re: SSH access restrictions

twoflower:~$ cd .. woockie_at_twoflower:/home$ [end quote] It's disappointing if it's that easy. Still if they do get out and misbehave you could catch them with monitoring. For stronger restrictions PAM chroot and http://www.grsecurity.org is a class option. Cheers Rudi.

Re: SSH access restrictions

SSH access. So I think c) may be the go. If I had local users I guess a) or b) with a) having stronger security. Regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH access restrictions

a determined hacker could get around this, but it > discourages most abusers. We can only try. If they do get out I still try and catch 'em with Firewall rules, hashed log files, Tripwire, Snort packet sniffing/logging. Plus those trusty back ups come in handy sometimes :-) Many thanks, Best regards Rudi.

Re: SSH access restrictions

twoflower:~$ cd .. woockie_at_twoflower:/home$ [end quote] It's disappointing if it's that easy. Still if they do get out and misbehave you could catch them with monitoring. For stronger restrictions PAM chroot and http://www.grsecurity.org is a class option. Cheers Rudi. -- To UNS

Re: SSH access restrictions

a determined hacker could get around this, but it > discourages most abusers. We can only try. If they do get out I still try and catch 'em with Firewall rules, hashed log files, Tripwire, Snort packet sniffing/logging. Plus those trusty back ups come in handy sometimes :-) Many th

Re: SSH access restrictions

all. It would not be possible to come this far on my own without this list's assistance/advice. Best regards Rudi. Marc Schiffbauer wrote: * Rudi Starcevic schrieb am 19.10.03 um 04:30 Uhr: Thanks Marc, Thanks also to Russel. I did it with pam_chroot which is really nice Great

Re: SSH access restrictions

all. It would not be possible to come this far on my own without this list's assistance/advice. Best regards Rudi. Marc Schiffbauer wrote: * Rudi Starcevic schrieb am 19.10.03 um 04:30 Uhr: Thanks Marc, Thanks also to Russel. I did it with pam_chroot which is really nice Great

Re: SSH access restrictions

Hi Jason, Let us all know if this works for you, as I (and I think quite a few ppl that run ISPs) would be interested to know if this actually works or not For sure. Will be spending more time on this latter today and will report my success/failures/questions. Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: SSH access restrictions

m still reading the readme but it has successfully put a pam_chroot.so in the /lib/security dir. and libpam-chroot in /usr/share/doc. Finger's crossed it'll work just fine. To be thorough I'll head over to http://www.apt-get.org now. Cheers Rudi. > > Hi, > > > > J

Re: SSH access restrictions

Hi, Just a quick question on libpam-chroot. This package is not availalbe in 'stable'. I've only ever used 'stable'. It should be OK to grab this package from 'testing' and use it hey ? Thanks again Regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SSH access restrictions

ust like to prevent these people from snooping around. I want to allow users to be able to SSH in and use things like Postgresql, mysql and cron but not read /etc/passwd or /etc/mail/virtusertable etc. etc. Many thanks. Best regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

SSH access restrictions

whats going out , for example /etc/passwd, except using SSH because it's encrypted. To my knowledge so far I cannot prevent an SSH user from reading system files. Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automated solutions for a small ISP

both Daemon's and Cron jobs to listen/check for new config data. I like this method and plan to stick with it. Regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-based hosting needed

Hi, You could check out http://www.aktiom.net Haven't used 'em yet but have plans to very soon. Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

Martin, Very good. More food for thought and consideration. Thanks Regards Rudi. 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 th

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

or me: Sendmail or Postfix. I think I'm going to sleep on this one. Again many thanks for your valuable time. Cheers Rudi. > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:43, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry to bother you all with this repeat question. > > I

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

nly. Also every Guru I've met in person uses Sendmail. Not that means much but I do admire those Guru's. Thanks al again. It's lookin' like Sendmail for me .. Cheers Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

( small world hey ! ) I'll probably be sticking with Sendmail. But for sure even though I've not had problems, touch wood, Security is the only reason I look elsewhere than Sendmail. Many thanks for your time .. Regards Rudi.

Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

towards sticking with Sendmail but something inside wants to know more about Qmail. If you *had* to pick one of these two which would it be ? Many thanks Best regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Servers with X.

e host/server box so I can at least use 'xhost'. I set this machine up more than 18 months ago with as minimal a set up as I could at that time. Just a base install with C compilers so I could compile PostgreSQL no X stuff whatsoever. Thanks. Kind regards Rudi. Thomas Lamy wrote: Jeff

Re: Servers with X.

Thanks Jeff, Yeah I though of X forwarding with SSH but I was under the wrong impression I needed an X server on both machines. Thanks for clearing that up .. Cheers Rudi. Jeff Waugh wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:28, Rudi Starcevic wrote: Is it bad practise to use X on your

Servers with X.

is GUI app. monitors server load and running queries etc. I'll need to install X in order to use it - which I'm not sure is such a good idea. It's a bummer it's not an ncurses job instead of X. Any thoughts ? Thanks Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: running two database on the same box

Hi, We have PG and Mysql in production on 2 boxes - no problems. In fact, please forgive me it's not my fault, we have all this on one production box : Postgresql, Mysql, Bind, Sendmail, Perl, PHP, Apache, Coldfusion and Java. Been running smoothly for more than 2 years. Cheers Rudi.

Re: running two database on the same box

Hi, We have PG and Mysql in production on 2 boxes - no problems. In fact, please forgive me it's not my fault, we have all this on one production box : Postgresql, Mysql, Bind, Sendmail, Perl, PHP, Apache, Coldfusion and Java. Been running smoothly for more than 2 years. Cheers Rudi.

Re: CGI and PHP Scripts

Anand, Maybe try looking at setting PHP to 'safe mode' Cheers Rudi. Anand Atreya wrote: Hi,       I have just recently begun using Debian and am in the process of migrating a FreeBSD 4.4 server over to it.  This server had many different users and allowed them to e

Re: CGI and PHP Scripts

Anand, Maybe try looking at setting PHP to 'safe mode' Cheers Rudi. Anand Atreya wrote: Hi,       I have just recently begun using Debian and am in the process of migrating a FreeBSD 4.4 server over to it.  This server had many different users and allowed them to e

Re: HTTP execute

Excellent .. Thanks. Regards Rudi. Achim Schmidt wrote: try this: lynx --source http://my_url/my.php > /dev/null - Achim Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 02.55 schrieb Rudi Starcevic: Hi, I'd like to exeute a php script on Apache via a cron job. All I want to do is execute

HTTP execute

Hi, I'd like to exeute a php script on Apache via a cron job. All I want to do is execute the file not download it. So far I've tried wget and lynx without the results I'd like. Wget downloads the file and the lynx commnad opens up lynx in a terminal. Any tips ? Thank you kindly Best regards Rudi.

Re: HTTP execute

Excellent .. Thanks. Regards Rudi. Achim Schmidt wrote: try this: lynx --source http://my_url/my.php > /dev/null - Achim Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 02.55 schrieb Rudi Starcevic: Hi, I'd like to exeute a php script on Apache via a cron job. All I want to do is execute

HTTP execute

ly Best regards Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Max. File Size

Achim, Thanks for your reply, How can I see the maximum file size allowed ? I'd like to know what's the largest file I can create and/or if I can increase/decrease this size. Thanking you .. Best Regards Rudi. Achim Schmidt wrote: Hi, this means your system can handle a

Max. File Size

Hi, cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 8192 Is that how I can see what the current max file size is for my system ? If so is that saying ? 8192 what ? Thanks Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Remove Large File

. I can't access the file whatsoever. Even the file size doesn't appear for me. Any idea's on how I can delete this file ? Thanks Rudi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Max. File Size

Achim, Thanks for your reply, How can I see the maximum file size allowed ? I'd like to know what's the largest file I can create and/or if I can increase/decrease this size. Thanking you .. Best Regards Rudi. Achim Schmidt wrote: Hi, this means your system can handle a

Max. File Size

Hi, cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 8192 Is that how I can see what the current max file size is for my system ? If so is that saying ? 8192 what ? Thanks Rudi.

Remove Large File

7;t access the file whatsoever. Even the file size doesn't appear for me. Any idea's on how I can delete this file ? Thanks Rudi.

Simple Firewall

ptop - pretty simple. Below you will see 4 sets of rules. Do you think there satisfactory ? I use eth0 on the LAN and ppp0 for web access. I have my rules based on the device used instead of IP and use the 'state' argument quiet freely. Thank you kindly - I very much appreciate your wor

Simple Firewall

one laptop - pretty simple. Below you will see 4 sets of rules. Do you think there satisfactory ? I use eth0 on the LAN and ppp0 for web access. I have my rules based on the device used instead of IP and use the 'state' argument quiet freely. Thank you kindly - I very much appreciate your wor

Apache to rewrite or not ..

send these request to another page, like a friendly page which tell's the hacker where to go ;-) Is this my only option ? Maybe it's best to do nothing and not risk upsetting / provoking the hacker to try even harder to get in. Should I mod_rewite or do nothing ? Thanks Kind regards Rudi.

Apache to rewrite or not ..

send these request to another page, like a friendly page which tell's the hacker where to go ;-) Is this my only option ? Maybe it's best to do nothing and not risk upsetting / provoking the hacker to try even harder to get in. Should I mod_rewite or do nothing ? Thanks Kind regards Rudi.

Re: mod_log_sql? also missing: mod_throttle

Jeremy, I tried "apt-cache search thorttle" and got nothing try throttle instead of thorttle Cheers Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:07:23AM +0100, Peter Holm wrote: ... also missing: mod_throttle... don?t you isp-guys use these essential modules? ok, mod_throttle found,

Re: mod_log_sql? also missing: mod_throttle

Jeremy, I tried "apt-cache search thorttle" and got nothing try throttle instead of thorttle Cheers Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:07:23AM +0100, Peter Holm wrote: ... also missing: mod_throttle... don?t you isp-guys use these essential modules? ok, mod_throttle f

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

;s go over their quota the bytes are added up and added onto the users accounts. We've written these scripts in Perl but in future I plan on using PHP as a scripting language to do this. Hope this helps. Regards Rudi. Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, When installing servers in a colocated e

Re: File too large ??

ht (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Thanks kindly Best Regards Rudi. Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Rudi Starcevic wrote:

File too large ??

Hi, After doing a database backup ( postgresql :: pg_dump ) on a database I'm unable to access the file. My command is simply 'mv' :: mv camper.dump20020116 camper_bak/ The error I get is :: mv: camper.dump20020116: Value too large for defined data type Strange. It seems to be saying the file

Re: How to control the php stand-alone process

h' to see other commands available to you. Select 'shift a' to sort by age or 'u' or sort by user. Hope this helps Regards Rudi. - Original Message - From: "Patrick Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 20

Re: webmail for debian

Hi, We are very happy using openwebmail Cheers. Rudi. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 1:09 AM Subject: Re: webmail for debian > Hi, > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > does an

Re: webmail for debian

Hi, We are very happy using openwebmail Cheers. Rudi. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 1:09 AM Subject: Re: webmail for debian > Hi, > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Apache with htpasswd without htaccess

Hope this helps Rudi. - Original Message - From: "Piotr Roszatycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rudi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:24 AM Subject: Re: Apache with htpasswd without htaccess > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Rudi

Re: Apache with htpasswd without htaccess

Hi Piotr, What you want to do is all in the documentation. I can make a suggestion but you'll need to read the specs.for all the answers. Here's the doc link : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html It's a littlte quick and rough but .. Instead of using and .htaccess file set a dir

Re: Apache with htpasswd without htaccess

ough. Hope this helps Rudi. - Original Message - From: "Piotr Roszatycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rudi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:24 AM Subject: Re: Apache with htpasswd without htacc

Re: Apache with htpasswd without htaccess

Hi Piotr, What you want to do is all in the documentation. I can make a suggestion but you'll need to read the specs.for all the answers. Here's the doc link : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html It's a littlte quick and rough but .. Instead of using and .htaccess file set a di