Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
You can try running fsck and badblocks to attempt to fix the errors. But I've never had luck with either of those tools on a drive that was dieing. If the errors remain, there's a 99% probability the drive is bad. At 11:54 PM 7/10/00 -0400, JoeCool wrote: >Hi, > >I'm getting some Input/Output err

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) At 09:59 PM 7/11/00 -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: >Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a >floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. > >WD has this and requires some use

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
WD is bad, they're a bad bad company. Anyone who has a WD drive in their server should take it out and THROW IT AWAY. I don't trust wdc as far as I can decompile it. On any file system. At 10:39 PM 7/11/00 -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > >Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility will

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:27 PM 7/11/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How does one decompile a hard drive? With a hammer? Wdc is a diagnostic program that "fixes" your WD drive. >I could be wrong, but I highly recommend Western Digital EIDE drives. I've had nothing but bad (truly horrible - 100% data loss) exper

Re: ATA 66 and security

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
The default precompiled kernels come with IDE support. At 12:02 PM 7/13/00 +1200, Daniel Free wrote: >Yes debian does, well actualy thats not strictly true. +---+ | -=H E L L - J U S T D O N ' T V O T E F O R G O R E=- |

Re: Re: PROFTPD root login

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
At 09:55 PM 7/12/00 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1ts?= Attila wrote: >Then how could I upload files? Should I create a user with >rights to specific directories? Yes. Ftp'ing as root is a bad bad thing. Create an admin account that has access to ONLY the areas you want to ftp files to. +---

Re: ATA 66 and security

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
At 02:59 AM 7/13/00 +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: >have my hpt366 working with any of the default precompiled kernels >please. I don't understand this sentence. >he was referring to _udma66_ drives and controllers. Um, he wrote: >does Debian or any Linux support ATA-66 disks? If yes, >do I need any

Re: subnet

2000-07-15 Thread Chris Wagner
At 01:44 PM 7/14/00 -0700, Kevin wrote: >When our customers dial-in, and they run winipcfg in 98 it shows that >their subnet is 255.0.0.0. Recently a customer complained that this >was degrading their performance. I've tried some other isps to see >what happens on theirs and its about 50/50 with

Re: how to limit area's users can traverse

2000-07-19 Thread Chris Wagner
Just use group permissions. Put each user in their own group. Take away world access. chmod w-rwx * At 03:11 PM 7/18/00 -0500, John F. Davis wrote: >hello > >How do you limit the area which a user can go with ftp? >i.e, when user ftp's to my server, how do I keep him in >his portion of the file

Re: mkswap error

2000-08-01 Thread Chris Wagner
Blow away the partition and recreate it. If that doesn't work, try to format it as ext2 to see if there is a disk defect. You'll then be able to run fsck. Badblocks might also give you some useful info. At 05:01 PM 8/1/00 -0700, Kevin wrote: > swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 011d1000) >

RE: ip addresses

2000-08-08 Thread Chris Wagner
Interesting. Have you ever had a problem with people spoofing MAC addresses to get IP's? How does your system react if more than one host presents a request for an IP if that MAC has already been assigned an IP? Seems like if they're going to the trouble to give you the MAC address you might as

Re: information question

2000-09-06 Thread Chris Wagner
At 10:51 AM 9/5/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >sites of users that I have on the machine (i.e- ~debian-isp). I was >wondering how they are finding out which users that I have on the machine >and was wondering if I could be running services that pose a security >problem. I only have the followi

Re: ping of death attacks

2000-09-13 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:33 AM 9/13/00 -0600, Nathan wrote: >What ping of death attacks? > >The only ones I have heard of, were fixed with kernel patches seriously >quick after they came out. Maybe he means ping floods? Pings of death usually will crash a box after a few packets hit it. As you said Debian is good

Re: Fck iexplorer and .pac files

2001-03-01 Thread Chris Wagner
They seem to work ok for me in Windows, with IE and Netscape. Haven't tried it under unix. At 09:54 PM 2/27/01 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi there > >The Fck iexplorer do not to work properly with the .pac files for me. > >When the pac file tell the browser to connect directly fo

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-04-03 Thread Chris Wagner
So, what happened to sendmail? How did it earn it's fall from grace? When I got into it, sendmail was it. I've never looked closely at the mail system since. ---==--- ___/``\___ 0100

Re: What means "icmplog: destination unreable" ?

2001-04-09 Thread Chris Wagner
Marc, flames to /dev/nul please. At 12:25 PM 4/9/01 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >195.179.172.30 looks like a backbone router of ISION Internet in >Hamburg, as you could have found out yourself by doing a reverse DNS >lookup. That router is trying to tell you that a packet your machine >has sent out w

Re: Advice needed : transproxy

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:56 PM 4/5/01 +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: >I don't think transproxy will handle such a load quite well, but you >can try and find out :) You might want to try a hardware based balancer. Something like Local Director. ---==--- ___/``\___ 0100

Re: Advice needed : transproxy

2001-04-13 Thread Chris Wagner
Another way to accomplish that would be a Cisco router set to trunking. Evenly dividing the traffic flow to two servers. At 10:15 PM 4/11/01 -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: >At 04:56 PM 4/5/01 +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: >>I don't think transproxy will handle such a load quite

Re: how to block everything from an entire /24

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Wagner
The better way is to block it at the router. Once you figure it out, blocking subnets is trivial and much more resource effective than having your firewall do it. Read your router's documention about ACL's, access control lists. At 08:37 AM 4/16/01 -0400, Peter Billson wrote: > You need to *qu

Re: DNS master and NOTIFY

2001-04-24 Thread Chris Wagner
But why does that occur? At 12:27 PM 4/24/01 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:43:42AM -0400, Haim Dimermanas wrote: >> >> > My problem is the following : the master sends NOTIFY request to the >> > slaves for that zone every 8 seconds (sometimes 10 sec, sometimes 4 >> > sec)

Re: fckng null sender with Exim

2001-04-30 Thread Chris Wagner
At 06:48 PM 4/30/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ok. I'm the original poster and what i want is: > >Mails with a NULL sender with an invalid recipient get bounced to the >email address of any Header that happen to exists. > >And if the recipient doesn't exists and there is no way to bounce then

Re: routing routable IPs over non-routable IPs

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Wagner
At 07:27 AM 5/21/01 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >On Mon, 21 May 2001 13:46:14 +1000, Jeremy Lunn writes: >>I know this isn't Debian specific. But I'm just wondering if it's fine >>to route routable IP addresses over non-routable IP addresess. > >Yes, although many would consider it bad practice (

Re: routing routable IPs over non-routable IPs

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Wagner
At 08:00 AM 5/22/01 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >On Tue, 22 May 2001 01:26:56 EDT, Chris Wagner writes: >>We should probably clarify "non-routable" by saying "non-publicly routable". > >Well, we could also say RFC1918, couldn´t we ;-? LOL >- DNS,

Re: routing routable IPs over non-routable IPs

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Wagner
far as I can see there's more than enough left for decades to come. At 09:28 PM 6/1/01 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >On Tue, 22 May 2001 08:00:01 +0200, Robert Waldner ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Tue, 22 May 2001 01:26:56 EDT, Chris Wagner writes: >>>We should pr

Re: Ping - what the hell ?

2001-06-03 Thread Chris Wagner
I'm sorry, but ROFLMAO!!! At 05:18 PM 6/3/01 +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: > > >On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > >> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:41:54PM +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: >> > Anyway, my problem seems to be hardware: >> > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /proc/misc >> > Se

AT&T public router

2001-06-27 Thread Chris Wagner
A while back, AT&T had a publicly accessible router for doing route lookups and stuff like that. It supposedly knew about the whole world. The special thing about this router was that you didn't need a user name or password to log on with. It just gave you the IOS prompt. I haven't been on this

Re: AT&T public router

2001-06-28 Thread Chris Wagner
Revisiting traceroute.org, I see that they have a whole list of route servers. :) At 01:09 PM 6/27/01 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: >Here's a machine that used to provide such a service, not sure if it >still does: > >route-views.oregon-ix.net ---==--- ___/``\___

Re: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-01 Thread Chris Wagner
My first choice is also what the other Chris said, use a large LART on the offending [computer|user]. You can use smart switches to base the ip on pre-authorized MAC addresses. That way you are effectivly shaping based on MAC address. But in true hacker form, even that can be overcome. Some (mo

Re: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-06 Thread Chris Wagner
One possible way to defeat this would be to use those metal "security chains" that they use to keep people from carrying off computers. Use a very short one, about 2" long. Affix one side to the computer case, and the other to the ethernet cable. Now, even this can be overcome if the crafty hack

Re: Power down

2001-07-07 Thread Chris Wagner
That is a function of the bios. Some support it, some don't. Either your bios's don't support it (my suspicion) or shutdown isn't sending the signal. 'man shutdown' might have some useful insight. I'ld also call the motherboard manufacturer to make sure they support self power off. Also check t

Re: rogue Chinese crawler

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Wagner
The best way would be to block it at your router with an access list. Blocking it at the box is ok too but that takes a little bit of your resources. And you have to do it on each box on your network you want protected. The router block will protect your entire network in one fell swoop and cost

Re: LinkWalker

2001-12-23 Thread Chris Wagner
You should be able to tell if it cares about robots.txt by looking in the logs to see if it's downloading /robots.txt. If it is then something like: User-agent: LinkWalker Disallow: / will keep it off your site. If it doesn't, then iptables will keep it away. Robots info: http://www.global-posit

Re: LinkWalker

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Wagner
Bwahahaha!! Man, that is low. Advertising to sysadmins through the access logs Sheesh. But now that you mention 7-24, I think I recognize that. I think they are a spam marketing outfit. At 02:31 PM 1/7/02 -0800, Nathan Strom wrote: >Personally, I think this is a rogue organization -- there

Re: netscape o cosa ?

2002-01-08 Thread Chris Wagner
Purtroppo nè Netscape nè lo IE è molto stabile. Opera è Mozilla sono altri quei unici di che sappia. Potete spegnere sempre appena il Javascript. :) Forse il vostro sistema e instabile. At 07:37 PM 1/8/02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >cosa usate voi per navigare in internet senza problemi ? (

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Wagner
Well, the rationale behind this is as you touched on, preventing spoofed address attacks. A paranoid lookup essentially verifies that the connecting system is a known legit host. In effect you're using your DNS system as another level of authentication. Say somebody wants to covertly log on or a

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Wagner
At 10:01 PM 1/10/02 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: >Congratulations ... you just set up your DNS incorrectly. Every PTR >entry should resolve to a _unique_ name, and that name should resolve >to a _unique_ IP. That doesn't mean you can't have additional A >records doing load balancing. To give a

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:22 AM 1/11/02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >a bogus IP won't even make it past OSI layer 4 on debian... rp_filter... There are ways of doing it such that the box has NO WAY of knowing that the traffic is spoofed. Granted, that is hard to do. Even paranoid lookups can be overcome. But it'

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Chris Wagner
At 06:01 AM 1/11/02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >okay, why libwrap then? Once the network is compromised, it makes no difference what's on the box. If done properly, the compromised network is indistinguishable from the uncompromised network. That box is totally on it's own. :) >/29, although

Re: Users deleting public_html and log causing Apache to fail startup

2002-07-04 Thread Chris Wagner
You can make 3 predefined directories for each customer that they can't delete. One htdocs, logs, and "stuff" or something, for them to put all the non web accessible stuff in. Another thing you can do is create a wrapper script for the Apache startup that checks for the existence of all the esse

Re: Extended find an replace SOS

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Wagner
Like do you want to replace something in the html files, or alter their names systematically somehow... At 02:33 PM 7/10/02 +0200, Craig wrote: >Hi Guys > >I need to do an extended find and replace for a few >.htm files spanning a couple of subdirectories to >change some things. > >Anyone have a q

Re: call me

2002-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
The "nomail" option was mentioned. I'm not familiar with that, could someone explain how to use it? I assume it means that you are still a member of the list but you are not in the redistibution list. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- 0100 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: call me

2002-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
I never got a password when I signed up, which was years upon years ago. And what is the URL? Are we even running mailman?? At 07:34 AM 7/12/02 -0400, Joe Block wrote: >Go to the administration web page, enter your email address and the >password you got sent when you joined the list, and you c

Re: Weird stuff

2002-07-29 Thread Chris Wagner
Occasionally subscriber bounce messages get reflected back to the entire list. At 06:46 PM 7/25/02 -0400, Jeremy May wrote: >i got this when mailing debian-testing@lists.debian.org > > > > >No such user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede

Re:

2002-08-02 Thread Chris Wagner
I think I hear the need for a mySQL enabled mailbox system/mail reader. ;-) At 01:27 AM 8/3/02 +0100, Phillip Baker wrote: >Yes, but having a long wait when opening your folder a couple of times a >year >because you've been away on vacation is another thing entirely to willingly >subjecting yours

Re: mysql admin user problem

2003-07-01 Thread Chris Wagner
Actually this is a very common problem. Either mysql doesn't know about a user called "debian-sys-maint" or it doesn't have localhost permission. Mysql has it's own user db independant of the system. You'll need to go into mysql command prompt as root and do a GRANT to create debian-sys-maint and

Re: Anyone willing to relay for me for a price?

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Wagner
But does a PTR record exist? The double reverse lookup should succeed so long as there is a valid A <-> PTR pair. Regardless of whether it was launched into from another A or CNAME or IP. Unless I'm way off base here, it goes presented name -> IP lookup -> PTR lookup -> IP lookup. If the two IP

Re: Anyone willing to relay for me for a price?

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Wagner
Ah yes, that's right I remember now. This is exactly the kind of situation as to why you shouldn't use CNAME's for MX names or for any official machine name for that matter. CNAME's are just for human convenience, a host should never try to pass itself off by one. Screws up the double reverse lo

Re: mysql admin user problem

2003-07-10 Thread Chris Wagner
I can tell you why the purge worked. It destroyed your corrupted MySQL user database. :) At 04:42 PM 7/08/03 -0600, David Wilk wrote: >Howdy all, just wanted to say what worked. Dominik's suggestion to >'purge' the mysql packages with apt-get did the trick. One final >reinstall had everything w

RE: ISP is just too fascist

2003-08-18 Thread Chris Wagner
At 01:34 PM 8/18/03 +0200, Petrisor Marian wrote: >So I have to setup a proxy on my PC that I will go through rather than going directly through my ISP's proxy? > >I mean the net will be like: > >PC - MYProxy - ISP's Proxy - Internet ? Yeah. But I don't think I fully understand how this serpentin

Re: mysql problem

2003-08-21 Thread Chris Wagner
You just can't connect or the daemon doesn't run at all? Is the process running? What does the access/error log say? Did you create a mysql user with network privledges? -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede males" 0100 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

test 123

2003-12-04 Thread Chris Wagner
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Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Wagner
Do you mean that you want to send a backup (i.e. tarball) to the remote storage or do you mean that you want to keep a live synchronized copy (rsync) on the remote storage? The former is easier and will probably give u everything u want. I don't really see any need for an rsync unless you want so

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Wagner
I can tell you some stuff about that right now. CGI.pm is just a quick and dirty module that will save on some typing in your perl script. Emphasis on some. If you're doing anything more than basic html tags it quickly becomes not worth it anymore. Writing tag attributes takes up more time and

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Wagner
Heheh, nah no flamewar. Everything you said was strictly speaking true. But at this stage style sheets are like giving a random person off the street a loaded gun. Style sheets can be used to great effect but just be sure u truly know what ur doing. And do testing testing testing. A good regimi

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Wagner
Ah, "together". Well there's nothing that I know of that would cause a problem simply by virtue of them being used together. CGI.pm is nothing more than html shorthand so that can't really interfere with anything else, unless there's some bug that spits out bad code. They're pretty much self con

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Wagner
Speaking of templates have you considered PHP? I would consider that the ultimate template system and the ultimate customization vehicle. Instead of relying on unreliable client side interpretation of style sheets and javascript you have a controllable environment on the server side. Think about

Re: Jesus Help Me !

2004-01-11 Thread Chris Wagner
While flaming off topic posts is appropriate, flaming religion is not. By posting ur own rant u are now guilty of the same off topic violation as the original poster. It is clear from the tone of your post that you've been chomping at the bit for a while to write such a religion based rant. You

Re: yahoo problems

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Wagner
At 12:37 AM 2/5/04 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:43, "brinderpurwaha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on the chat room whenever i try to access mine or someone else profiles i >> get a screen saying this user is not avaible on this url. this is always >> occuring on every occ

Re: Fwd: Inconsistency in bonnie++ results for repeated runs

2004-02-05 Thread Chris Wagner
Can you tell some more about the hard drive/ controller/ driver setup? My first guess is a driver or cacheing issue. What is the commonality between the 1-way and 2-way systems? Do you have a host that u've *not* seen this on. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- ".

Re: Fwd: Inconsistency in bonnie++ results for repeated runs

2004-02-10 Thread Chris Wagner
Hmm, that's a sticky widget. Have you tried any other HD benchmarks and gotten similar results? I think we need that to narrow it down to either a Bonnie or hardware issue. It could be that some of ur disks are preparing to die. I have seen that before, a disk that's getting flaky will do stran

Re: Jesus Help Me !

2004-03-24 Thread Chris Wagner
Well I'ld call that divine sanction for Debian if there ever was one! We should put that one on the flyer! At 06:57 PM 3/24/04 +1100, Tarragon Allen wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:36 pm, Comcast Mail wrote: >> well... I am confused...I typed "Jesus help me live" & got a website.. >> I only

list spam (Re: You can start saving now)

2004-05-10 Thread Chris Wagner
I have to concur that we finally have to make this a restricted access list. It's not that big a deal for a newb to have to sign up to ask their question. However, remember that will do no good for the virus spam that can come from subscribed people's accounts. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTE

Re: You can start saving now

2004-05-24 Thread Chris Wagner
14MB per session? I haven't admined email for a while so I may be out of touch, but it seems like that server should be able to process gigantic volumes of mail. Not just "a lot" or even "really a lot". What mail setup is it running? Throttling connections is the right way to go though. Spoolin

Re: reject non-enlish email body messages

2004-05-30 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:56 PM 5/29/04 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's plans to do so. We've been stopped from doing this as >we'd need a different configuration file on spamassassin for every >list, and that represents a lot of duplicated work. I don't think looking at a language header will do any

Re: spam from an auto-responder

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Wagner
An auto-responder has no way of knowing who or what emailed it. How can u blame him for some spammer emailing it using ur address as a source? It seems like the only recourse is to try to find out who or what was using ur address and blow that person off the net. At 02:52 PM 6/16/04 +1000, [EMAI

Re: spam from an auto-responder

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Wagner
The only thing I will grant is that it should only respond once to each email address. Responding repeatedly to the same person is useless and potentially annoying. With all due respect Russell should've suggested that from the get go instead of the bland "quit" message. ;) At 11:58 PM 6/15/04

Re: Problems with a perl script for postfix

2004-06-17 Thread Chris Wagner
That indicates an unquoted string, apparently on line 184. That buglet has apparently been fixed; or u can look in the file urself and fix the quotes. At 06:10 PM 6/17/04 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?q?Carlos=20L.M.?= wrote: >Bareword "DB_AUTO_COMMIT" not allowed while "strict >subs" in use at /usr/sbin/p

Re: IDS

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Wagner
The only problem with tripwire is that u have to set up the snapshot file on write protected media to have true security. If somebody hacks ur box they can just reupdate tripwire themselves and u'll be none the wiser. This can be an administrative hassle to update the snapshot and move it to some

Re: IDS

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Wagner
At 06:55 PM 8/9/04 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: >Tripwire bills itself as a defensive tool, but if tripwire alerts are >going off, it's FAR too late. Better to keep untrusted people out in >the first place. Most people spend the majority of their security >efforts on that first. Yes. Tripwire et

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-06 Thread Chris Wagner
At 03:35 PM 9/6/04 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: >For writing, RAID5 tends to be noticeably slower than RAID1, especially for >writes smaller than stripe size, because a write actually is a >read-recompute-write cycle. If ur looking for a fast RAID product that's reasonabl

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-07 Thread Chris Wagner
At 08:07 PM 9/7/04 +0800, Jason Lim wrote: >> "Currently only supports Windows XP, 2000, & 2003 >I'm guessing since it is completely OS transparent it should work... not >that I have used it. > >I have been wondering about the merits of using OS-transparent RAID >solutions as that would allow eas

Re: What stripe size for mail server?

2004-11-10 Thread Chris Wagner
I would say that RAID 5 is probably overkill for a mail queue. Unless ur mail queue is running hundreds of gigabytes and overloading a single disk, a normal single hard drive is sufficient. Based on ur graph it looks like ur queue is under half a gig. If you want redundancy for the mail queue the

Re: What stripe size for mail server?

2004-11-11 Thread Chris Wagner
Ah, ok that changes everything. "mailboxes" ;) At 12:30 AM 11/11/04 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: >> If u still need RAID 5 then I would make the stripe size equal to >> average file size / number of data disks up to no more than 32KB stripe. > >Since avg file size would be something around 2500

Re: What stripe size for mail server?

2004-11-11 Thread Chris Wagner
Oh yeah ur right. :) The file system itself is written in the stripes and stripe boundaries don't have to correspond to cluster boundaries although I think this would be advantageous. 1 cluster -> 1 stripe would be the optimum speed configuration I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: access controll in MySQL

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Wagner
No, that would be fine, as long as u had an index for the commonly accessed columns. You would need millions of rows to see a performance hit even on a slow system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Accessing windows share throught http

2004-12-26 Thread Chris Wagner
You can also do it by mounting the share with samba as part of the regular file system. Then it's just another directory under the document root (or alias). If u ask me this is safer than using smbwebclient because I wouldn't trust giving random people free reign into the NT environment. As an a

Re: Accessing windows share throught http

2004-12-27 Thread Chris Wagner
Sure it's feasible, I've done it. Actually these are all good reasons *to* do it this way. U retain more control over who can see what. Call me paranoid. Not knocking smbwebclient, this is just more locked-down. At 09:50 AM 12/27/04 +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: >This is not feasible for th

Re: Multi-homing small ISP

2000-02-26 Thread Chris Wagner
At 12:44 PM 2/26/00 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: >You don't have to have your own IP space from ARIN to have another ISP >route your /24. BGP handles this fine. Just negotiate with the second I know that can be done but what is the minimum block size ISP's will route? I've heard of some nationals no

Re: SPAM

2000-03-01 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:00 AM 3/1/00 -0800, Sis wrote: > Maybe i'm being really naive. Maybe my estimate of the size of the >project is crazy? Maybe this is more of an invasion of privacy then i can >think of? Any thoughts on this? Heh, not nearly as big as the [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing or the RC5 cracking progra

Re: Mudslicking to counter SPAM (was TARPIT)

2000-03-02 Thread Chris Wagner
At 01:44 PM 3/2/00 +0100, Michael Koehne wrote: > The most drastic method is "mudslicking" providers of foreign countries. > IMHO mudslicking is the most effective method to counter SPAM. This something you do NOT want to be on the wrong side of. IMHO spam is not a serious enough offense to war

Re: Tarpit SPAM trap

2000-03-02 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:08 AM 3/2/00 +0200, I. Forbes wrote: >To give you an idea of the scope of the problem we have received >about eleven thousand bounces with the same forged address over >the last month. All of the Spam was launced from AOL, and relayed >using a whole list of open relays - many in Eastern E

Re: logging of pop connections

2000-03-07 Thread Chris Wagner
At 08:14 PM 3/6/00 -0800, t s a d i wrote: > Mar 7 12:00:52 bangus in.qpopper[994]: connect from 208.232.225.113 >someone help me on what should i do so that i will know what was the >username of that someone who connectec to the pop3 service ? The popper program you use decides what to write t

Re: login prompt problem for windows users.

2000-03-07 Thread Chris Wagner
Do you have AUTOPPP enabled for mgetty? At 11:13 PM 3/5/00 -0500, Chuck Peters wrote: +---+ |-=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| |

Re: InterNIC Name Server is a slave server

2000-03-07 Thread Chris Wagner
At 02:20 AM 3/7/00 -0800, t s a d i wrote: >is, is it OK if the DNS server registered on InterNic as authoricative >is not a master but just a slave w/c depends on its data from an >external/different DNS server ? As long as the servers listed by InterNIC give out correct DNS info, it shouldn't ma

Re: login prompt problem for windows users.

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Wagner
Ahh, the wonderful mgetty/ppp/pam interoperability issue revisted. Unfortunately, the only way to get these programs to work together is through some kludging and hacking. Trial and error. Good luck. Hopefully in soon to be released versions they will work properly out of the box. Does anybody k

Re: Strange Network Problem (TTL?)

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Wagner
What precisely is the TTL when it comes to pings? And what do you mean by "open DNS"? At 01:24 AM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote: >I think you're right that it is their end. The TTL is very low, so they >probably screwed up something. I did some pinging as well. Glad that >they left their

Re: Strange Network Problem (TTL?)

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Wagner
At 08:33 PM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote: >Ping will show you the TTL of the returning icmp packet. I can't tell you >exactly what the TTL does on the iron where the ping packet will bounce. So each host implements it's own time-to-live for it's ICMP packets? I take it that's the maximum

Re: Strange Network Problem (TTL?)

2000-03-09 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:41 PM 3/9/00 +0100, Paul van Empelen wrote: >Time to live has nothing to do with time, although the name suggests it. >It is a hop count. You start at e.g. 255. On the next hop the IP packet >will have a ttl of 254 and so on. So it's really a max hops limit. How did it get a name like TTL??

Re: ssi on apache & virtual hosting

2000-03-10 Thread Chris Wagner
At 08:52 PM 3/10/00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Directory /home/mydavao.com/www/cgi-bin/ >AllowOverride None >Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks > I believe that should start off as . Don't remember if the dir should be inside or outside the <>'s. You should also make the

Re: mysql admin user problem

2003-07-01 Thread Chris Wagner
Actually this is a very common problem. Either mysql doesn't know about a user called "debian-sys-maint" or it doesn't have localhost permission. Mysql has it's own user db independant of the system. You'll need to go into mysql command prompt as root and do a GRANT to create debian-sys-maint and

Re: Anyone willing to relay for me for a price?

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Wagner
But does a PTR record exist? The double reverse lookup should succeed so long as there is a valid A <-> PTR pair. Regardless of whether it was launched into from another A or CNAME or IP. Unless I'm way off base here, it goes presented name -> IP lookup -> PTR lookup -> IP lookup. If the two IP

Re: Anyone willing to relay for me for a price?

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Wagner
Ah yes, that's right I remember now. This is exactly the kind of situation as to why you shouldn't use CNAME's for MX names or for any official machine name for that matter. CNAME's are just for human convenience, a host should never try to pass itself off by one. Screws up the double reverse lo

Re: mysql admin user problem

2003-07-10 Thread Chris Wagner
I can tell you why the purge worked. It destroyed your corrupted MySQL user database. :) At 04:42 PM 7/08/03 -0600, David Wilk wrote: >Howdy all, just wanted to say what worked. Dominik's suggestion to >'purge' the mysql packages with apt-get did the trick. One final >reinstall had everything w

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2003-12-04 Thread Chris Wagner
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Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-06 Thread Chris Wagner
Do you mean that you want to send a backup (i.e. tarball) to the remote storage or do you mean that you want to keep a live synchronized copy (rsync) on the remote storage? The former is easier and will probably give u everything u want. I don't really see any need for an rsync unless you want so

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Wagner
I can tell you some stuff about that right now. CGI.pm is just a quick and dirty module that will save on some typing in your perl script. Emphasis on some. If you're doing anything more than basic html tags it quickly becomes not worth it anymore. Writing tag attributes takes up more time and

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Wagner
Heheh, nah no flamewar. Everything you said was strictly speaking true. But at this stage style sheets are like giving a random person off the street a loaded gun. Style sheets can be used to great effect but just be sure u truly know what ur doing. And do testing testing testing. A good regimi

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Wagner
Ah, "together". Well there's nothing that I know of that would cause a problem simply by virtue of them being used together. CGI.pm is nothing more than html shorthand so that can't really interfere with anything else, unless there's some bug that spits out bad code. They're pretty much self con

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Wagner
Speaking of templates have you considered PHP? I would consider that the ultimate template system and the ultimate customization vehicle. Instead of relying on unreliable client side interpretation of style sheets and javascript you have a controllable environment on the server side. Think about

Re: Jesus Help Me !

2004-01-11 Thread Chris Wagner
While flaming off topic posts is appropriate, flaming religion is not. By posting ur own rant u are now guilty of the same off topic violation as the original poster. It is clear from the tone of your post that you've been chomping at the bit for a while to write such a religion based rant. You

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