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

2004-06-16 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

2004-06-18 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

tcp connection

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Wagner
Hola. What is the official name of the type of connection that the common network protocols use? It lives somewhere above the tcp layer and below the app layer but is so obscure that I can't find it. e.g. Telnet, ftp, http, etc. all establish an x type connection and then transmit their da

Re: tcp connection

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Wagner
At 10:48 PM 6/16/00 -0500, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: >Sockets? Butyou would definitely have seen this more than a couple of >times. No, not sockets, sockets are way down on the stack. This is the protocol that says what the octets mean and do. It's the common thread among all the high level protoco

Re: tcp connection

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Wagner
At 12:24 AM 6/17/00 -0500, Kain wrote: >What I think you're thinking of is just IP. You probably haven't been seeing Definately not IP, IP just gets your packets there and back. >Now, if you actually mean "what octets mean and do", those are actually defined higher than TCP, and are laid out

Re: tcp connection

2000-06-18 Thread Chris Wagner
At 12:50 AM 6/19/00 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: >It is called TCP - Transmission Control Protocol. RFC793. I'm starting to conclude that it's just called a "tcp connection". But I'm still reading through the RFC... It was written in 1983 and for whatever reason it seems to use the term socket

Re: tcp connection

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Wagner
At 02:25 PM 6/20/00 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: >They don't use NVT. The TELNET protocol is not running on (for example) a >web server. Yeah but the NVT settings have to be negotiated for each side to talk to each other. If I telnet to an Apache webserver on port 80, my telnet is going to negot

Re: pop3 server,

2000-06-27 Thread Chris Wagner
I'ld recommend Cucipop due to it's security record. That's what I use. Just don't look at the source code. :) At 10:03 PM 6/26/00 +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: >Hello, >which packaged with debian pop3d would you people recommend? > which one do you use? +--

Re: IDE or SCSI ??

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Wagner
Ok, ok, I'm late as hell but I had to reply. :) You don't need SCSI unless you're doing something fancy or insane. Giving Apache more RAM is *vastly* better than giving it SCSI. The RAM lets you cache everything so the hard disk becomes not very important for I/O. Max out your motherboard's RA

Re: List managers

2000-07-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 10:47 AM 7/5/00 +0200, Javier Castillo wrote: > which list manager do you recommend me?, easy to admin, fast, and of >course, gnu :)) Who says you can only use GNU software? Don't limit yourself to GNU, use any software that has a "free" license you find acceptable. +-

Re: commercial offerings anyone

2000-07-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 08:45 PM 7/5/00 -0400, Allen Ahoffman wrote: >1. Terminal server for connecting one box to many serial devices such as > routers, switches, other terminal servers for serial connectivity >when network is down. The Comtrol Rocketport board is very nice. You can put up to 128 serial port

Re: apache question

2000-07-06 Thread Chris Wagner
Sounds like the 2nd NIC isn't fully turned on. Is everything the way it should be in ifconfig? Have you tried binding any other daemons to the 2nd NIC? I also think you'll need ip based vhosts in Apache to make it listen to a 2nd NIC. The second NIC should be on a different subnet, otherwise h

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 er

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 us

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 wil

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) expe

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 an

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 fil

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 follow

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: exim relay

2001-01-06 Thread Chris Wagner
It sounds like it is trying to talk to the outside world over port 26, which ain't gonna happen. If you are prevented from making port 25 connections to the outside world by your ISP, then you will need some box out there to listen on port 26 to get your mail and then forward it on to where ever

Re: default route

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Wagner
At 06:36 PM 1/12/01 -0500, Peter Billson wrote: >Can you add routes to a Windoze box?!!? ;-) Amazingly, you can! Get on one and type "route print". +---+ | -=Close election, huh.=- | +—

Re: AOL type signup

2001-01-25 Thread Chris Wagner
You would have to do a good chunk of programming to pull something like that off. You would have to create a "new user" account whose shell would be the main program. That program would decide if the "AOL" crap was valid or not and then proceed to make a new user account. You can put any loggin

Re: bridge + transproxy

2001-01-30 Thread Chris Wagner
I don't think that would work. To make the squid box pick up the requests without the users having to set anything you'ld have to put ipchains or something on it to redirect the traffic. If the box died, the link between the router and the hub would be broken and nothing would get through. One

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 f

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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

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

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 *q

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 the

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