Re: redundancy via DNS

2001-06-20 Thread Marcel Hicking
Maybe the Linux Open Router project could be helpfull. It is in a very early stage but AFAIK it aims at similar tasks. http://www.open-router.org/about.html Cheers, Marcel On 17 Jun 2001, at 14:50, :yegon wrote: > we have several servers colocated with several ISP's > i am trying to sort out so

off site assistance

2001-06-20 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hi: I am blind and work in a small data center. Since I can't read screens I need to get sighted people to read for me. I know what I'm doing on the systems but need readers to tell me whats happening. I'm looking for suggested hardware to allow me to easily in realtime send the screen images from

Re: off site assistance

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin J. Menard, Jr.
Hey Allen, Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 8:27:53 AM, you wrote: AA> I need at least 640.b480 but would like 1024x768 resolution and 30fps. AA> 4 or 5 fps would do really for this application. AA> remember this has to be usable for only one screen but that screen gets AA> connected to many systems d

Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread Craig
Hi ladies and fellas Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text file, that debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. Thanks Craig winmail.dat

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread Teun Vink
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Craig wrote: > Hi ladies and fellas > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text file, > that > debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > Thanks > Craig > dpkg --get-selections > file dpkg --set-selections < file should do th

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread David Bishop
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 07:10, Teun Vink wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Craig wrote: > > Hi ladies and fellas > > > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text > > file, that > > debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > > > Thanks > > Craig > > dpkg -

PB compiling php-4.0.5 whith-mysql on a debian box

2001-06-20 Thread alexis bory
hi, I have found messages of others having the same problem but not a good answer... my config : Debian potato apache-perl mysql 3.23.33 (binaries) I have this at php-4.0.5 configure : ./configure \ --with-apx=/usr/sbin/apx \ --with-config-file-path=/etc/apache \ --enable-versioning \ --with-

SASL + MD5

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin J. Menard, Jr.
Hey guys, Ok. This is driving me nuts. I created a new deb for the latest Postfix snapshot, with SASL support. No matter how hard I try (download non-us source, fooled around with debian/rules file, etc. etc.), I cannot get CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 to show up in the list of avail

Qmail - huge performance increase

2001-06-20 Thread Jason Lim
Hi, Anyone that has followed this list knows I've been trying to boost Qmail's outgoing mail performance greatly. Just thought I'd let everyone know that increasing the number in the "conf-split" drastically improves performance. One of the problems I was having earlier was that the customer's

Re: redundancy via DNS

2001-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Won't work unless your TTL is set extremely low, and even then other DNS admins can override that on their servers and cache the "down" site. Remember, not everyone comes back to you for an authoritative answer for every lookup. Using DNS for load-balancing is NOT a good idea, ever. Or RARELY i

Re: off site assistance

2001-06-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:27:53AM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Hi: > I am blind and work in a small data center. > Since I can't read screens I need to get sighted people to read for me. > I know what I'm doing on the systems but need readers to tell me whats > happening. > I'm looking for sugg

Re: Finding the Bottleneck

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:59:50PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > I have also thought about that... but if you have a look at Qmail's > website (http://www.qmail.org) then you'll see that a number of > extremely large mail companies (hotmail for one) uses qmail for... get > this... outgoing mail. They

Re: Qmail - huge performance increase

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:45:23AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > SO... by increasing conf-split to 97 (from the default of 20 > something afaik), each directory ends up only having a hundred or so > files. Doing "ls" now is far speedier. > > I couldn't find any documentation anywhere stating this, so

Re: redundancy via DNS

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:49:24AM +0200, Marcel Hicking wrote: > Maybe the Linux Open Router project could be helpfull. It is in a very > early stage but AFAIK it aims at similar tasks. > > http://www.open-router.org/about.html linux virtual server (LVS) is a good linux-based load-balancer (laye

bandwidth

2001-06-20 Thread vijaya
hi all, How is bandwith allocated to differnet users/cable modems connectd to the CMTS.I mean is some configuration files used to do this or is it the work of a DHCP server or is it done manually   Everyword would be appreciated!   Regards, vijaya

Re: redundancy via DNS

2001-06-20 Thread Marcel Hicking
Maybe the Linux Open Router project could be helpfull. It is in a very early stage but AFAIK it aims at similar tasks. http://www.open-router.org/about.html Cheers, Marcel On 17 Jun 2001, at 14:50, :yegon wrote: > we have several servers colocated with several ISP's > i am trying to sort out som

off site assistance

2001-06-20 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hi: I am blind and work in a small data center. Since I can't read screens I need to get sighted people to read for me. I know what I'm doing on the systems but need readers to tell me whats happening. I'm looking for suggested hardware to allow me to easily in realtime send the screen images from

Re: off site assistance

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin J. Menard, Jr.
Hey Allen, Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 8:27:53 AM, you wrote: AA> I need at least 640.b480 but would like 1024x768 resolution and 30fps. AA> 4 or 5 fps would do really for this application. AA> remember this has to be usable for only one screen but that screen gets AA> connected to many systems du

Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread Craig
Hi ladies and fellas Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text file, that debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. Thanks Craig <>

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread Teun Vink
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Craig wrote: > Hi ladies and fellas > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text file, > that > debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > Thanks > Craig > dpkg --get-selections > file dpkg --set-selections < file should do the

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread David Bishop
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 07:10, Teun Vink wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Craig wrote: > > Hi ladies and fellas > > > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text > > file, that > > debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > > > Thanks > > Craig > > dpkg --

PB compiling php-4.0.5 whith-mysql on a debian box

2001-06-20 Thread alexis bory
hi, I have found messages of others having the same problem but not a good answer... my config : Debian potato apache-perl mysql 3.23.33 (binaries) I have this at php-4.0.5 configure : ./configure \ --with-apx=/usr/sbin/apx \ --with-config-file-path=/etc/apache \ --enable-versioning \ --with-m

SASL + MD5

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin J. Menard, Jr.
Hey guys, Ok. This is driving me nuts. I created a new deb for the latest Postfix snapshot, with SASL support. No matter how hard I try (download non-us source, fooled around with debian/rules file, etc. etc.), I cannot get CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 to show up in the list of availa

Qmail - huge performance increase

2001-06-20 Thread Jason Lim
Hi, Anyone that has followed this list knows I've been trying to boost Qmail's outgoing mail performance greatly. Just thought I'd let everyone know that increasing the number in the "conf-split" drastically improves performance. One of the problems I was having earlier was that the customer's s

Re: redundancy via DNS

2001-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Won't work unless your TTL is set extremely low, and even then other DNS admins can override that on their servers and cache the "down" site. Remember, not everyone comes back to you for an authoritative answer for every lookup. Using DNS for load-balancing is NOT a good idea, ever. Or RARELY is

Re: off site assistance

2001-06-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:27:53AM -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: > Hi: > I am blind and work in a small data center. > Since I can't read screens I need to get sighted people to read for me. > I know what I'm doing on the systems but need readers to tell me whats > happening. > I'm looking for sugge

Re: Finding the Bottleneck

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:59:50PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > I have also thought about that... but if you have a look at Qmail's > website (http://www.qmail.org) then you'll see that a number of > extremely large mail companies (hotmail for one) uses qmail for... get > this... outgoing mail. They c

Re: Qmail - huge performance increase

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:45:23AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > SO... by increasing conf-split to 97 (from the default of 20 > something afaik), each directory ends up only having a hundred or so > files. Doing "ls" now is far speedier. > > I couldn't find any documentation anywhere stating this, so I

Re: redundancy via DNS

2001-06-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:49:24AM +0200, Marcel Hicking wrote: > Maybe the Linux Open Router project could be helpfull. It is in a very > early stage but AFAIK it aims at similar tasks. > > http://www.open-router.org/about.html linux virtual server (LVS) is a good linux-based load-balancer (layer