Re: MySQL Max connections?

2004-12-07 Thread Ward Willats
Can anyone tell me if this is the correct way to increase the max number of connections, or how to do it if it's not? I would try to test it myself, but it is a bit hard to do on a busy server and when I would need a huge number of connections. Back in the olden-days (1999) on Solaris boxes, a comp

Re: pop before smtp relay

2004-06-17 Thread Ward Willats
In the past I have used "exact"[0] to allow "pop-before-relay" access, and it has worked well. I'm getting ready to move my mail server and I was looking and it appears that "exact" is not packaged for Debian I've run "exact" with Debian/Exim -- and even contributed a little code to support cu

Re: pop before smtp relay

2004-06-17 Thread Ward Willats
In the past I have used "exact"[0] to allow "pop-before-relay" access, and it has worked well. I'm getting ready to move my mail server and I was looking and it appears that "exact" is not packaged for Debian I've run "exact" with Debian/Exim -- and even contributed a little code to support cu

Re: spam from an auto-responder

2004-06-16 Thread Ward Willats
How can u blame him for some spammer emailing it using ur address as a source? He is the responsible party for mail originated from the pduck.com domain. The minute his auto-responder fired off incorrectly, he became a spammer. When he ignored requests to stop, he became a _willful_ spammer. This

Re: spam from an auto-responder

2004-06-16 Thread Ward Willats
Could someone please help educate this person. You mean the "From:" header could be forged?! Dear Lord NO! Russell, say it ain't so! I personally like giving forwarding pointers in the 550 text. People can read it, but machines ignore it. (Though I hear Exchange suppresses multi-line 550 text,

Re: spam from an auto-responder

2004-06-15 Thread Ward Willats
How can u blame him for some spammer emailing it using ur address as a source? He is the responsible party for mail originated from the pduck.com domain. The minute his auto-responder fired off incorrectly, he became a spammer. When he ignored requests to stop, he became a _willful_ spammer. This

Re: spam from an auto-responder

2004-06-15 Thread Ward Willats
Could someone please help educate this person. You mean the "From:" header could be forged?! Dear Lord NO! Russell, say it ain't so! I personally like giving forwarding pointers in the 550 text. People can read it, but machines ignore it. (Though I hear Exchange suppresses multi-line 550 text,

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Ward Willats
At 5:20 PM +1100 1/23/04, Craig Sanders wrote: debian isn't the only linux distribution to have a base system. SLS had one. Slackware had (still has?) one. MCC (if anyone can remember it) had one. these are all dating back to 1993 or 1994, so it's not exactly a new concept in the linux world. Ah

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Ward Willats
At 5:20 PM +1100 1/23/04, Craig Sanders wrote: debian isn't the only linux distribution to have a base system. SLS had one. Slackware had (still has?) one. MCC (if anyone can remember it) had one. these are all dating back to 1993 or 1994, so it's not exactly a new concept in the linux world. A

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-22 Thread Ward Willats
At 2:14 PM +1100 1/23/04, Craig Sanders wrote: e.g. his long-winded page on the "base system", makes it seem as if a base system is something magically distinct that only freebsd has. Linux distributions have had "base systems" since the early days and, just like *BSD, "base system" means that it

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-22 Thread Ward Willats
At 2:14 PM +1100 1/23/04, Craig Sanders wrote: e.g. his long-winded page on the "base system", makes it seem as if a base system is something magically distinct that only freebsd has. Linux distributions have had "base systems" since the early days and, just like *BSD, "base system" means that i

Logrotate weekly prerotate everyday?

2002-08-03 Thread Ward Willats
Hello Folks: I call a local script from... /etc/logrotate.d/apache ...in Debian 3.0 to run Analog reports. It is supposed to run once a week, but it runs every day: /var/log/apache/*.log { weekly missingok rotate 52 compress delaycompress

Re: exim question

2002-02-21 Thread Ward Willats
Pete: In your alias file, as your last rule, put *: username Does that really work for you? I had trouble with it because with a line like this, the alias file can never fail. Exim would qualify "username" and run it through again, it would also run any aliases generated by other rules in the fil

Re: exim question

2002-02-21 Thread Ward Willats
Pete: >In your alias file, as your last rule, put > >*: username > Does that really work for you? I had trouble with it because with a line like this, the alias file can never fail. Exim would qualify "username" and run it through again, it would also run any aliases generated by other rules i

Re: exim question

2002-02-20 Thread Ward Willats
At 6:30 PM -0600 2/20/02, Bernie Berg wrote: im running potato with the unstable packages. How do I get exim to spit all mail that there isn't a user defined for to a certain mail box? so "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" goes to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 1. An alias file: system_aliases: driver = al

Re: exim question

2002-02-20 Thread Ward Willats
At 6:30 PM -0600 2/20/02, Bernie Berg wrote: >im running potato with the unstable packages. How do I get exim to >spit all mail that there isn't a user defined for to a certain mail >box? so "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" goes to >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 1. An alias file: system_aliases: driver