Courier-mta documentation/HOWTOs?

2002-08-14 Thread Vasil Kolev
Hi, I've searched this list (i remember something like this popped up some(or a lot of)time ago) , and I haven't found something on $subject. I just need some pointers, where to find some docs how to setup it, what's it's performance,etc. (i'm using courier-imap and it's really good, but courier-

Re: disable md5 passwords

2002-04-25 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Andrew Kaplan wrote: > How do I disable md5 passwords on my debain box. Also is there a way to > convert DES passwords to MD5 Quickest way - rgrep -i md5 /etc/ , and fix where needed. There is no way to convert those passwords from the one algorithm to the other. -- To

Re: ipop3d not moving mail from /var/spool/mail to mbox

2002-02-16 Thread Vasil Kolev
That's something to check, and ... does some one know why exactly did that happen ( the transition from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail), and why the upgrade scripts didn't handle that ... I had some very funny problems... One ovf them being the lack of email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] account :) On Sun,

Re: ipop3d not moving mail from /var/spool/mail to mbox

2002-02-16 Thread Vasil Kolev
That's something to check, and ... does some one know why exactly did that happen ( the transition from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail), and why the upgrade scripts didn't handle that ... I had some very funny problems... One ovf them being the lack of email for abuse@domain account :) On Sun, 17 F

Re: Tutorial DNS

2002-01-18 Thread Vasil Kolev
There is a great book - "DNS and BIND" , published by O'Reily , you can find it at amazon.com , or whatever site you prefer. On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Julio Cesar Torres wrote: > I need a tutorial of DNS or Bind, can some one help me? > > Thanks > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ulimit for mysql and www-data

2001-12-26 Thread Vasil Kolev
I had the same problem (with apache) , and found that the best way is to add ulimit -n 32000 ulimit -u 2048 at the begining of /etc/init.d/apache And I think that is the best way to do it. sometning like /etc/rc.boot/ulimit_optimize possibly won't work, because limits are inherited through fork(

Re: ulimit for mysql and www-data

2001-12-26 Thread Vasil Kolev
I had the same problem (with apache) , and found that the best way is to add ulimit -n 32000 ulimit -u 2048 at the begining of /etc/init.d/apache And I think that is the best way to do it. sometning like /etc/rc.boot/ulimit_optimize possibly won't work, because limits are inherited through fork

Re: do_try_to_free_pages failed

2001-10-02 Thread Vasil Kolev
Upgrade to 2.2.19 , that should fix the problem. It's a bug in the releases between 2.2.14 and 2.2.19, afaik. On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Gene Grimm wrote: > I keep receiving the following error messages on my server console and in > the log files. Can anyone direct me to where on my system I need to ch

Re: Ethernet Card recommendation

2001-08-31 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Frank Louwers wrote: > If you decide to go a little bit cheaper than the 3COM/Intel cards, > then DON'T go for dlink. They used to make great medium-cheap cards > with a lifetime warranty, but I've had nothing but problems with their > 100Mbit cards! > > If you decide to sa

Re: Ethernet Card recommendation

2001-08-31 Thread Vasil Kolev
I recommend 3com 3c905B or 3c905C cards - they work wonderful for me. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Jordi S . Bunster wrote: > > I've finally convinced my boss to buy new PCI Ethernet Cards. Can > someone give me a hint on what should I buy for using with a 2.2 > kernel? I need two simultaneous cards, th

Re: user privileges with php (like with suexec)

2001-06-11 Thread Vasil Kolev
>From all the discussions here, ot looks like that the only way to use php with suexec is to use it as parser for cgi programs. The webserver himself cannot change UID, because it's running under some normal user ( who will be that crazy to run it as root? ). The only way I see, is some mechanism

Re: user privileges with php (like with suexec)

2001-06-11 Thread Vasil Kolev
>From all the discussions here, ot looks like that the only way to use php with suexec is to use it as parser for cgi programs. The webserver himself cannot change UID, because it's running under some normal user ( who will be that crazy to run it as root? ). The only way I see, is some mechanism

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-13 Thread Vasil Kolev
On 12 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other > ideas? > > Not really a idea, but I usually solve such things with strace e.g. strace -f -p (of the daemon or inetd, if it runs from there), and look where does it block ... I

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-13 Thread Vasil Kolev
On 12 Mar 2001, David Bishop wrote: > To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other > ideas? > > Not really a idea, but I usually solve such things with strace e.g. strace -f -p (of the daemon or inetd, if it runs from there), and look where does it block ...

Re: exim smarthost

2001-02-25 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Maurice Verhagen wrote: > Hello, > > I tried it last week without success, so I try it again. > > I want to set up some sort of smtp forwarding with exim. > > this is the idea: exim as SMTP router for incoming and outgoing mail (to > the internet). exim also as router to

Re: exim smarthost

2001-02-25 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Maurice Verhagen wrote: > Hello, > > I tried it last week without success, so I try it again. > > I want to set up some sort of smtp forwarding with exim. > > this is the idea: exim as SMTP router for incoming and outgoing mail (to > the internet). exim also as router to

Re: satellite connections

2001-02-11 Thread Vasil Kolev
On 11 Feb 2001, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > Hi debianistas. > > Does anybody here use satellite to connect to the internet? If so, > would anybody be willing to share his experiences with the various > providers? > I have experience with only one satelite provider - Europe OnLine, and, IMO, they

Re: satellite connections

2001-02-11 Thread Vasil Kolev
On 11 Feb 2001, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > Hi debianistas. > > Does anybody here use satellite to connect to the internet? If so, > would anybody be willing to share his experiences with the various > providers? > I have experience with only one satelite provider - Europe OnLine, and, IMO, the

Re: Network problem on Proliant w/Debian

2001-02-02 Thread Vasil Kolev
I had a lot of problems with eepro100 cards, and wouldn't recommend it to anybody using linuxas Andrey Savochkin (the current maintainer of the driver) said once , " I'm working on the next generation workaround" And , yes, under 2.4 it refuses to work. My advice is - get 3com 3C905B

Re: Network problem on Proliant w/Debian

2001-02-02 Thread Vasil Kolev
I had a lot of problems with eepro100 cards, and wouldn't recommend it to anybody using linuxas Andrey Savochkin (the current maintainer of the driver) said once , " I'm working on the next generation workaround" And , yes, under 2.4 it refuses to work. My advice is - get 3com 3C905

Re: FTP-based Debian install

2001-01-22 Thread Vasil Kolev
I installed debian just from the 2 floppies on my alpha machine (digital alpha server/400,old but good). The only thing needed is to use boot floppy with kernel which has driver for the NIC...(or, pppd, if you will be installing through ppp link :) ). It worked perfect here On Mon, 22 Jan 200

Re: Hello.

2000-10-07 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > > > And, computers are easier to communicate with :) ( I sometimes hate humans > you see, I told you that already :) > That's interesting... May be that guy is just collecting info about us,and writing something like 'all people using computer

Re: Hello.

2000-10-07 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Joshua Abbott wrote: > Hello, > Could someone please indulge me and give me 5 reasons why they would like to go into >computers for a job (or why they did)? http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html :) That should be enough And, computers are easier to communicate with :) (

Re: strange msgs

2000-09-25 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Mon, 25 Sep 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Hi: > with kernel 2.2.14 and varying hardware I have seen messages on boot like > this: > neighbor table overflow > neighbor table overflow > > and when trying to manually configure the ethernet interface which is > using eepro100 module > no buffer s

Re: strange msgs

2000-09-25 Thread Vasil Kolev
On Mon, 25 Sep 100, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Hi: > with kernel 2.2.14 and varying hardware I have seen messages on boot like > this: > neighbor table overflow > neighbor table overflow > > and when trying to manually configure the ethernet interface which is > using eepro100 module > no buffer

Re: ML server recomendation

2000-09-10 Thread vasil
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mad Wizard wrote: > > I need a mailing list server for maximum of three mailing > lists. Doesn't have to have fancy options and GUI. Actually, I'm only able > to admin it twice a month and I'll have to find co-admin, so the server > ought to be as simple in administra

Re: ML server recomendation

2000-09-10 Thread vasil
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mad Wizard wrote: > > I need a mailing list server for maximum of three mailing > lists. Doesn't have to have fancy options and GUI. Actually, I'm only able > to admin it twice a month and I'll have to find co-admin, so the server > ought to be as simple in administr

Re: traffic shaping

2000-09-05 Thread vasil
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Kevin wrote: > > Is anyone using the kernel shaping support or something similar like > rshaper for traffic shaping? What works best? I need to be able to > limit bw on an ip basis and I need to be able to range from like a > full t1 to 256k. > If you're using 2.2

Re: traffic shaping

2000-09-05 Thread vasil
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Kevin wrote: > > Is anyone using the kernel shaping support or something similar like > rshaper for traffic shaping? What works best? I need to be able to > limit bw on an ip basis and I need to be able to range from like a > full t1 to 256k. > If you're using 2.

Re: PROFTPD root login

2000-07-12 Thread vasil
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Áts Attila wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed PROFTPD with factory settings. > Connecting with CuteFTP I cannot logon as root. > What is the reason and the solution? > Security. FTP is easy sniffable. And why the heck do you need ftp as root? scp could nicely

Re: PROFTPD root login

2000-07-12 Thread vasil
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Áts Attila wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed PROFTPD with factory settings. > Connecting with CuteFTP I cannot logon as root. > What is the reason and the solution? > Security. FTP is easy sniffable. And why the heck do you need ftp as root? scp could nicely

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-10 Thread vasil
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, JoeCool wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog > on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and > what I should do? > > Is the harddrive bad? Or do I just need to run fsck ? The harddrive'

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-10 Thread vasil
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, JoeCool wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog > on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and > what I should do? > > Is the harddrive bad? Or do I just need to run fsck ? The harddrive

Re: Virtual Domain Solution

2000-07-07 Thread vasil
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our system is build around mysql and an ncurses interface. It's really > just selecting account records and passing arguments to perl scripts. > The front office can register domains, add users, change passwords, > install mailmaps and so forth.

Re: Radius - problem

2000-07-07 Thread vasil
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Helber wrote: > how do reset (kill) a zombie user autenticated by radiusd?? > Radius says that a user is active, and it is not loged in but his connection > is set as used. > > radzap . see the help

Re: Virtual Domain Solution

2000-07-07 Thread vasil
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our system is build around mysql and an ncurses interface. It's really > just selecting account records and passing arguments to perl scripts. > The front office can register domains, add users, change passwords, > install mailmaps and so forth.

Re: Radius - problem

2000-07-07 Thread vasil
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Helber wrote: > how do reset (kill) a zombie user autenticated by radiusd?? > Radius says that a user is active, and it is not loged in but his connection is set >as used. > > radzap . see the help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Bandwidth Limit/Control

2000-06-22 Thread vasil
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, KoML wrote: > Does Anyone know of a tool for limiting or controling bandwidth on a > network. I have heard there are software out there that will do > - IP traffic bandwidth shaping/limiting daemon > > Anyone hear of this or anyother software like this. > > My objective i

Re: Bandwidth Limit/Control

2000-06-22 Thread vasil
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, KoML wrote: > Does Anyone know of a tool for limiting or controling bandwidth on a > network. I have heard there are software out there that will do > - IP traffic bandwidth shaping/limiting daemon > > Anyone hear of this or anyother software like this. > > My objective

Re: Ethernet card recommendations?

2000-04-05 Thread vasil
I've tried EtherExpress (under kernel 2.2.x) and 3c905B, and with the current krenel drivers bot were working bad under high machine load.Then I switched to the driver from 3com and I haven't got a problem ever since. The biggest problem are the drivers - If you find good one, almost any card wil