Re: closing exims open relay - something to do with the percenthack

2003-07-02 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:09, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi, > > I just did an open relay test on one of my servers and to my surprise > found that it in an open relay. In particular, it accepts emails to the > form of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > where here.com is a local domain within exim. Check th

Re: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-02 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:46:27AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Andrew Miehs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, 27 June, 2003 6:36 PM >Subject: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21 >> I need to compile a 2.4.21 Kernel for Woody. >> Which versio

Re: Anyone running Exim 3.3x + Mysql Virtual users?

2003-07-02 Thread Dominik Schulz
I can recommend the following howto: http://www.tty1.net/virtual_domains_en.html It covers exim 3 as well as exim 4 and worked very well for me. Dustin Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:40:12 -0500: > So, anyone have any good pointers to cookbook/HOWTO type docs about > set

Re: closing exims open relay - something to do with the percenthack

2003-07-02 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:42, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:09, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just did an open relay test on one of my servers and to my surprise > > found that it in an open relay. In particular, it accepts emails to the > > form of > > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Postfix problem on 2.4.21-ac2

2003-07-02 Thread Thijs Welman
Thijs Welman wrote: Hi, I upgraded the kernels on some of my servers running Debian Woody, yesterday to 2.4.21-ac2 (compiled from source), or at least i tried to. Using the 2.4.21 kernel with Alan Cox' ac2-patch, all messages i send through Postfix get corrupted... FYI: The issue was solved in

Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Gene Grimm
What is the best method of testing mail servers to determine if they are susceptible to being exploited as an open relay? We have several mail servers that I want to verify are "secured". Also, I have been having problems with sending mail, specifically to AOL users, through my Zoom Internet accoun

Re: Anyone running Exim 3.3x + Mysql Virtual users?

2003-07-02 Thread Dustin Douglas
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:01:26 +0200 Dominik Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can recommend the following howto: > http://www.tty1.net/virtual_domains_en.html > It covers exim 3 as well as exim 4 and worked very well for me. This page does indeed have some good info, but it's not the kind of "

Re: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Lim
> Make the distro with lots of common eth drivers! Fully agree. Nowadays, many motherboards have built-in ethernet ports. The most common seem to be either the SiS chipset (SIS900) or Intel's one (don't know what model number... but i think eepro or something?) Realtek is the most common PCI one

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Andrew, Am 10:38 2003-06-24 +0200 hat Andrew Miehs geschrieben: > >Hi all, > >does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? > >I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for >backup purposes... Ich am running Woody release 1 with Kernel 2.4.19 and c

Re: IDE Controller for large disk (was: Large Hard Disks and Debian)

2003-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 15:11 2003-06-24 +0200 hat Andrew Miehs geschrieben: > >I dont actually need any raid functionality > >so should I go for the promise? or the 3ware cards? > >Andrew Even if you do not need the Raid funktionality !!! If you like to get performance and a Controler which works all the time E

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Gene Grimm
From: "Jesse Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...Securing a relay configuration is up to you and the MTA that you use. > Different servers offer different options. I would tell you to refer to > your MTA documentation. ... > use dig or nslookup to find out the MX, A, and PTR DNS records of your > ma

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Dan MacNeil
>Does anyone know what the default document >root is for the Debian configuration of suexec? /var/www/ To change the document root of suexec you need to recompile suexec see: http://communitysoftwarelab.org/sys/project.d/suexec.d/install.txt ### On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Anand At

Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Anand Atreya
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 execute CGI and PHP scripts in their public_html folder (or any folder under it) as their own user, not as the user of the w

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Tabe Kooistra
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:28:37PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > From: "Jesse Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ...Securing a relay configuration is up to you and the MTA that you use. > > Different servers offer different options. I would tell you to refer to > > your MTA documentation. ... > > use d

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Jesse Molina
As for where to get a check done, I recommend that you google for "mail relay check". There used to be some better relay checkers out there, but legal issues and other foolishness made them shut down. Securing a relay configuration is up to you and the MTA that you use. Different servers offer

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:12:38AM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > What is the best method of testing mail servers to determine if they are > susceptible to being exploited as an open relay? We have several mail > servers that I want to verify are "secured". Also, I have been having > problems with send

Bind "Inappropriate ioctl for device" error

2003-07-02 Thread David Clarke
I'm getting the following errors in my logs: Jul 3 12:03:46 dns named-xfer[1200]: can't make tmpfile (slave/genericdomain.com.ChB1Ca): Inappropriate ioctl for device Bind (8.3.3-2.0woody) has write access to the directory (I've deliberately broken it to check and it spews a different error mess

running two database on the same box

2003-07-02 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I just wanted to check if there were any problems running mysql and postgresql together in a production environment. I tried googling with no luck. Any pointers appreciated. Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solu

Re: running two database on the same box

2003-07-02 Thread Rudi Starcevic
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. Shri Shri

Re: running two database on the same box

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Lim
Never done it, but as long as they don't run on the same ports and open the same files, you should be fine. - Original Message - From: "Shri Shrikumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 03 July, 2003 5:09 AM Subject: running two database on the same box --

Telefonica y modem usb comtrend con protocolo pppoe y ip dinamica

2003-07-02 Thread Cheito
Alguien por favor me puede ayudar a configurarlo en Debian. soy nuevo y sigo con win porque no puedo poner debian con internet y lo necesito. Me interesa mucho vuestra comunidad y sobre todo el nucleo hurd. Gracias por contestarme. un saludo un debianero de málaga

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > >Does anyone know what the default document > >root is for the Debian configuration of suexec? > > /var/www/ > > To change the document root of suexec you need to recompile suexec see: > > http://communitysoftwarelab.org/sys/project.d/suexec.d/install.txt If only this could be in a configur

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Dan MacNeil
> If only this could be in a configuration file.. What is worse is that every time there is a security patch for apache, we break our hand compiled suexec On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jason Lim wrote: > > > > > > >Does anyone know what the default document > > >root is for the Debian configu

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Dan MacNeil
We use the shbang... On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Anand Atreya wrote: > Any recommendations on how to do this with PHP - without needing the > #!/bin/sh > echo DEFANGED.0 > exit > #!/usr/bin/php at the top and without using PHP Safe mode - which is a lame > workaround...? > > -- Anand > > - Original

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Teun Vink
- Original Message - From: "Gene Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:12 PM Subject: Open Relay Testing > What is the best method of testing mail servers to determine if they are > susceptible to being exploited as an open relay? We have se

Re: closing exims open relay - something to do with the percent hack

2003-07-02 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:09, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi, > > I just did an open relay test on one of my servers and to my surprise > found that it in an open relay. In particular, it accepts emails to the > form of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > where here.com is a local domain within exim. Check th

Re: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-02 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:46:27AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Andrew Miehs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Friday, 27 June, 2003 6:36 PM >Subject: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21 >> I need to compile a 2.4.21 Kernel for Woody. >> Which version of GCC should I u

Re: Anyone running Exim 3.3x + Mysql Virtual users?

2003-07-02 Thread Dominik Schulz
I can recommend the following howto: http://www.tty1.net/virtual_domains_en.html It covers exim 3 as well as exim 4 and worked very well for me. Dustin Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:40:12 -0500: > So, anyone have any good pointers to cookbook/HOWTO type docs about > set

Re: closing exims open relay - something to do with the percent hack

2003-07-02 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:42, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:09, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just did an open relay test on one of my servers and to my surprise > > found that it in an open relay. In particular, it accepts emails to the > > form of > > > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Postfix problem on 2.4.21-ac2

2003-07-02 Thread Thijs Welman
Thijs Welman wrote: Hi, I upgraded the kernels on some of my servers running Debian Woody, yesterday to 2.4.21-ac2 (compiled from source), or at least i tried to. Using the 2.4.21 kernel with Alan Cox' ac2-patch, all messages i send through Postfix get corrupted... FYI: The issue was solved in 2

Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Gene Grimm
What is the best method of testing mail servers to determine if they are susceptible to being exploited as an open relay? We have several mail servers that I want to verify are "secured". Also, I have been having problems with sending mail, specifically to AOL users, through my Zoom Internet accoun

Re: Anyone running Exim 3.3x + Mysql Virtual users?

2003-07-02 Thread Dustin Douglas
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:01:26 +0200 Dominik Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can recommend the following howto: > http://www.tty1.net/virtual_domains_en.html > It covers exim 3 as well as exim 4 and worked very well for me. This page does indeed have some good info, but it's not the kind of "

Re: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Lim
> Make the distro with lots of common eth drivers! Fully agree. Nowadays, many motherboards have built-in ethernet ports. The most common seem to be either the SiS chipset (SIS900) or Intel's one (don't know what model number... but i think eepro or something?) Realtek is the most common PCI one

Re: IDE Controller for large disk (was: Large Hard Disks and Debian)

2003-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 15:11 2003-06-24 +0200 hat Andrew Miehs geschrieben: > >I dont actually need any raid functionality > >so should I go for the promise? or the 3ware cards? > >Andrew Even if you do not need the Raid funktionality !!! If you like to get performance and a Controler which works all the time E

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Andrew, Am 10:38 2003-06-24 +0200 hat Andrew Miehs geschrieben: > >Hi all, > >does anyone have any experience with large IDE disks on Debian? > >I was interested in buy a couple of Western Digital 250GB Disks for >backup purposes... Ich am running Woody release 1 with Kernel 2.4.19 and c

Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Anand Atreya
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 execute CGI and PHP scripts in their public_html folder (or any folder under it) as their own user, not as the user of the w

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Gene Grimm
From: "Jesse Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...Securing a relay configuration is up to you and the MTA that you use. > Different servers offer different options. I would tell you to refer to > your MTA documentation. ... > use dig or nslookup to find out the MX, A, and PTR DNS records of your > ma

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Dan MacNeil
>Does anyone know what the default document >root is for the Debian configuration of suexec? /var/www/ To change the document root of suexec you need to recompile suexec see: http://communitysoftwarelab.org/sys/project.d/suexec.d/install.txt ### On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Anand At

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Tabe Kooistra
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:28:37PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > From: "Jesse Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ...Securing a relay configuration is up to you and the MTA that you use. > > Different servers offer different options. I would tell you to refer to > > your MTA documentation. ... > > use d

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread Jesse Molina
As for where to get a check done, I recommend that you google for "mail relay check". There used to be some better relay checkers out there, but legal issues and other foolishness made them shut down. Securing a relay configuration is up to you and the MTA that you use. Different servers offer

Re: Open Relay Testing

2003-07-02 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:12:38AM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > What is the best method of testing mail servers to determine if they are > susceptible to being exploited as an open relay? We have several mail > servers that I want to verify are "secured". Also, I have been having > problems with send

Bind "Inappropriate ioctl for device" error

2003-07-02 Thread David Clarke
I'm getting the following errors in my logs: Jul 3 12:03:46 dns named-xfer[1200]: can't make tmpfile (slave/genericdomain.com.ChB1Ca): Inappropriate ioctl for device Bind (8.3.3-2.0woody) has write access to the directory (I've deliberately broken it to check and it spews a different error mess

running two database on the same box

2003-07-02 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I just wanted to check if there were any problems running mysql and postgresql together in a production environment. I tried googling with no luck. Any pointers appreciated. Shri -- Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solu

Re: running two database on the same box

2003-07-02 Thread Rudi Starcevic
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. Shri Shrikum

Re: running two database on the same box

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Lim
Never done it, but as long as they don't run on the same ports and open the same files, you should be fine. - Original Message - From: "Shri Shrikumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, 03 July, 2003 5:09 AM Subject: running two database on the same box

Telefonica y modem usb comtrend con protocolo pppoe y ip dinamica

2003-07-02 Thread Cheito
Alguien por favor me puede ayudar a configurarlo en Debian. soy nuevo y sigo con win porque no puedo poner debian con internet y lo necesito. Me interesa mucho vuestra comunidad y sobre todo el nucleo hurd. Gracias por contestarme. un saludo un debianero de málaga

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > >Does anyone know what the default document > >root is for the Debian configuration of suexec? > > /var/www/ > > To change the document root of suexec you need to recompile suexec see: > > http://communitysoftwarelab.org/sys/project.d/suexec.d/install.txt If only this could be in a configur

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Dan MacNeil
> If only this could be in a configuration file.. What is worse is that every time there is a security patch for apache, we break our hand compiled suexec On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jason Lim wrote: > > > > > > >Does anyone know what the default document > > >root is for the Debian configu

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Dan MacNeil
We use the shbang... On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Anand Atreya wrote: > Any recommendations on how to do this with PHP - without needing the > #!/bin/sh > echo DEFANGED.0 > exit > #!/usr/bin/php at the top and without using PHP Safe mode - which is a lame > workaround...? > > -- Anand > > - Original