Re: courier,cyrus,imap

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Incidentally, does anyone know of a good link that explains > the differences between uw-imap, courier, and cyrus? Their feature pages, and the source. :) [ Their feature pages are quite good; I have ended up with Courier IMAP and recommend it highly. ] - Jeff -- "Can we have a spe

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> This is one thing I had meant to look into. I have disabled procmail on > postfix/maildir sites to this point because by default postfix delivers to > mbox format folders ... I know it supports maildir just need to do the > reading. home_mailbox = Maildir/ Works like a dream. - Jeff --

Postfix / LDAP Packages

2001-06-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
I'm sure this is a common one. :) I've been using the LDAP packages that Wichert kindly made available on ftp.valinux.com, but it seems that the /people/ directory is offline now. Unfortunately, backporting this mess of packages is proving tough... Are there any sets of packages ready to roll fo

Re: web cache

2001-07-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Excuse me my ignorance, but ?can I use a wwwofle, squid, or any of "proxy > programs" like a web cache into my website? > Is a great mistake, or simply, I'm only the great mistake ;) ? Yes, squid in particular has a mode for doing this. Look up http acceleration in the documentation. - Jeff

Re: websites, clusters, and other pets...

2001-07-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> What is the better solution for one cluster (beowulf, etc)? I don't want a > warflame for this eh? ;) The clusters will run Apache and a dynamic site > with php and mysql. By the documentation I'm reading, I think the best > option is Mosix... Have a cluster /web more difficult for administra

Re: FreeSWAN VPN

2001-07-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> The gateways can't ping eachother Please read the documentation -> the gateways will *not* be able to ping each other. FreeS/WAN only routes the traffic to and from each subnet behind the gateway. - Jeff -- Toothpaste is the most important meal of the day. --

Re: Active Directory Vs GNU

2001-07-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is the domain function in Samba the way to provide logon scripts to those > clients? Samba supports Windows NT domains in version 2.2, and this will allow you to set up login scripts, etc. Note that earlier versions only support "pseudo-domains" for Windows 9x clients. - Jeff -- "From

Re: help with site+database

2001-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Slashdot uses mySQL as its database and I don't think that anyone > could plausibly argue that /. isn't an intensive use of a database by a > very busy, and very successful, Web site. It's also a very botched job. The code that slashdot runs - the previous generation of SlashCode - is at be

Re: help with site+database

2001-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I've found varying reviews to be mixed. Just by searching for "postgres > mysql comparison" like you said I found this: > http://phd.pp.ru/Software/SQL/PostgreSQL-vs-MySQL.html Any comparison should take note of PostgreSQL's incredible leaps in speed with version 7.1, and even more features

Re: help with site+database

2001-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I know oracle has "optimistic" locking and "versioning". I **think** > postgres does too? Comments? Postgres has better than row level locking (I'm sure Craig was just simplifying earlier), plus reading and writing are independent. See: http://postgresql.planetmirror.com/devel-corner/doc

Re: rsync and named-xfer

2001-07-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
> i hope this is useful to someone...there was no information at all on > the topic when i searched for it on google yesterday. Craig, that's very cool. I don't have an immediate use as yet, but thank you for publishing your hack to the list for everyone! - Jeff -- "And the beanbag is a

Re: Clustering mail servers - Cyrus or Courier ?

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> However, AFAIK it can be done only with Cyrus with its IMAP Aggregator, or > with qmail-ldap + Courier-IMAP... You ought to check out Scalemail, which is being developed expressly for this purpose. It is a combination of Courier POP/IMAP and postfix. Very powerful combo. - Jeff -- "Fu

Re: Clustering mail servers - Cyrus or Courier ?

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Hmmm, I can see it's in early stage of developement. Yes. :) > Does postfix support ldap nativly ? Absolutely! - Jeff -- Is Murphy's Law constitutional? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Clustering mail servers - Cyrus or Courier ?

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> LMTP would be the best if talking about Cyrus). > It should support LDAP database. Postfix supports both of these. It is an *awesome* MTA. - Jeff -- I must be getting old... Buying toothpaste with gel in it is no longer an Absolute Necessity.

Re: Apache/PHP

2001-08-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I think the next step will probably be my own distro, like LFS > (http://www.inuxfromscratch.org/). I guess we should end the thread with a laugh, then. - Jeff -- Australians don't dislike Americans, we just dislike the sight, sound and thought of them.

Re: Apache/PHP

2001-08-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> This is managable. You just have to keep one root shell open while trying > a second login, if you can't login again in another session then you still > have the first session open to fix things. Also have busybox-static (or > something similar) installed to fix problems with shared librarie

Re: Webalizer

2001-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Ah -- OK. Thanks for clueing me in -- I hadn't realised. deb http://solutionsfirst.com.au/debian stable sol1 > Is the difference worth it? (I.e. what can't-possibly-do-without > goodies am I going to get that will persuade me to roll my own before > >= v2.01 makes it into testing?) I reck

Re: Apache

2001-10-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is there a module or package that lets apache run > asp files ? It varies depending on whether you are talking about the ASP platform (which there are proprietary packages for Apache migration purposes) or just using VBScript, which there are faux-interpreters and some converters. It's impor

Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Anything that can be done by getty, mgetty, radius-client, etc can be done > better by Portslave. Is portslave appropriate for a smaller system, say with only three dial-in ports? mgetty is not exactly the most polite software to administer, and there are lots of times I'd like a simple, eas

FreeRADIUS, starting ISP learning curve

2001-10-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, So, I'm beginning the ISP learning curve. I have to get my head around RADIUS, and I've been looking at FreeRADIUS given Russell's recommendation. I'll be interfacing with a couple of PM3s. Where's a good place to read up on this from a beginner's perspective? The documentation is refere

Re: Project 2000 on Debian (under Wine) ?

2001-10-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I am looking for a Linux based tool that is designed to help manage a > variety of projects. This tool needs to be able to schedule and track > tasks MrProject from CodeFactory (codefactory.se) is kicking arse at the moment; perhaps you could pitch in and help out? > and interface with Outlo

Re: Project 2000 on Debian (under Wine) ?

2001-10-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There is a Company at > http://www.bynari.net/Products/TradeServer/trade_server.html that has > info on using Outlook with Linux. I have never used it but it looks > interesting. Bynari are (trying to avoid libel suits and things like that)... very silly. - Jeff --

RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> RAID-5 is another issue though. But then you have to consider that Linux > software RAID kills the performance of most hardware RAID controllers. Run > an Athlon 800 with two IDE drives in RAID-1 and expect 2-4 times the > performance for bulk IO that an entry level Mylex RAID controller

Re: RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There's a number of guides that tell you about hdparm and what DMA is, but if > you already know that stuff then there's little good documentation. "Oh bum." :) > Then on the rare occasions that I do meet people who know this stuff > reasonably well they seem to spend all their time trying

Re: Mail server

2001-11-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I'm going to be setting up a mail server (Exim + uwimapd + IMP webmail) > that will serve about 300-500 users. > > There will not be a major amount of traffic being put through it and was > wondering if anyone had any cost effective hardware recommendations for > CPU/RAM/HD space? You can

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a number of differe

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:09:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a > > number of different machines, perhaps even on different networks if the > > topology allows for the performance requirements. &

Re: Mail

2001-11-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does anyone have the slightest clue how to host mail for multiple domains > such that every domain has a unique namespace? Thinking about the matter, > I realized I don't quite know how to accomplish this. Postfix virtual domains operate like this by default, however you can make it operate l

Re: vmailmgr issue

2001-09-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I hate admining email... no wonder I've never had to do this before. found in headers: X-Motto: Fuck you, I'm smart! X-Saying: Could not connect to database Might want to revise your motto. :) - Jeff -- make: *** No rule to make target `whoopee'. Stop. -- To

Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in > line! Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's big > enough for Portslave. > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficul

Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > I like tanks! ;) Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some way. Cool. I've never really looked at it, as I've always thought, "oh no, that's for like, *lots* of modems." :) > I

Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > > > > > I like tanks! ;) > > > > Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > > Why? The latest version is only an 80K deb! It's small, resource friendly, > fast, etc. I meant the tank. ;) > Well the latest version of Portslave (the one that is to

Re: portslave for potato

2001-10-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... Oh cool! I will test it for you! :) Thanks heaps Russell, - Jeff -- "Anyway - I need somethi

Re: User mode linux...

2001-10-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does anyone try the User Mode Linux to do virtual hosting? Is the UML > enought secure for this? In the web page said that virtual hosting is posible > but he doesn't know of anyone who's doing this... When I described doing this as "batshit insane" at linux.conf.au earlier this year,

Re: how to customize mbox format in postfix?

2001-12-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> They have various kinds of reasons. Some are reasonable, some not. > If they just insisit on mbox format and ask for imap service with mbox > support. Is there any compatible method to take? What are the reasons? It's not a worthwhile thing to change if it's not entirely necessary. You have

Re: sf-debian

2001-12-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Warning: LDAP: Unable to bind to server: Invalid DN syntax in > /usr/lib/sourceforge/www/include/ldap.php on line 50 > > * The distinguished name of the search base: dc=dev.uprint.web Should be: dc=dev,dc=uprint,dc=web - Jeff -- We're passe with class, eh?

FreeRADIUS issues

2001-12-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, Having some troubles with freeradius as packaged in woody. I'm doing a very quick auth migration for a PM3, taking usernames and crypted passwords from an old Qube, and putting them ni various files for service authentication. FreeRADIUS is not cooperating. ;) Here's an example of what

Re: FreeRADIUS issues

2001-12-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auth-Type := Crypt-Local, Password == "6IVIw" > > garry Auth-Type := Crypt-Local, Password == "6IVIw" > > I haven't tried FreeRADIUS, so I may be talking nonsense, but > that password does not look crypted. It should look something > like this: X.SldLTDxGIGU or a

Re: LinkWalker

2001-12-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > Why don't you just update your robots.txt to explicitly specify which > > files you don't or do, allow spiders access to. If it's a rule-obiding > > spider, that will be the end of it. > > I wasn't aware that there was any format to robots.txt, I thought that the > mere presense of such a

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> What do you think would be the best way to duplicate a HD to another > (similar sized) HD? dd, using a large buffer size for reasonable performance - Jeff -- "Linux continues to have almost as much soul as James Brown." - Forrest Cook, LWN

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I've just done some tests on that with 33G partitions of 46G IDE drives. > The drives are on different IDE buses, and the CPU is an Athlon 800. > > So it seems to me that page size is probably a good buffer size to use. Cool! Nothing like Real Proper Testing to prove a point. ;) I'm surpris

LVM [Was: Best way to duplicate HDs]

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> LVM. Create a snapshot of the LV and then use dd to copy it. > > LVM solves this, but adds it's own set of problems. Russell, do you know of a good (reasonably practical *and* theoretical) intro to LVM? It's just seemed overly complicated when I've looked at it in the past. Any pointers ap

Re: LVM [Was: Best way to duplicate HDs]

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Any pointers appreciated. Never mind, the LVM HOWTO is making sense. Must be this hour of the morning, or the hangover or... - Jeff -- http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: LVM [Was: Best way to duplicate HDs]

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Never mind, the LVM HOWTO is making sense. Must be this hour of the morning, > or the hangover or... I hope there are more hackers working on LVM than just Sistina. Another GFS snatcheroo would suck. [ Go to www.opengfs.org for the Free GFS. :) ] - Jeff -- "Can we have a special TELSABU

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> For example, http://www.arcoide.com/ . To quote the function we're looking > at " the DupliDisk2 automatically switches to the remaining drive and > alerts the user that a drive has failed. Then, depending on the model, the > user can hot-swap out the failed drive and re-mirror in the backgrou

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Except that I've pointed out already that we're specifically NOT looking > at a live RAID solution. This is a backup drive that is suppose to be > synced every 12 hours or 24 hours. Sorry, but I don't see any benefit to having maximum 12 hour old data when you could have 0. The hardware solut

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > It's called RAID-1. > > I dunno... whenever I think of "RAID" I always think of live mirrors that > operate constantly That's what they do post-sync. > and not a "once in a while" mirror operation just to > perform a backup (when talking about RAID-1). Am I mistaken in this > thinking? T

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Sigh... and I was hoping for a simple solution like cp /mnt/disk1/* > /mnt/disk2/ :-/ This is the point at which we have one of those "Brady Bunch Moments", when everyone stands around chuckling at what they've learned, and the credits roll. - Jeff -- "And that's what it sounds like i

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I am sorry I could be kind of off-topic. But I want to know how to > cross-site rsync without authentication, say ssh auth.,? That's the best way. > I've read some doc. using ssh-keygen to generate key pairs, appending the > public keys to ~/.ssh/authorized_hosts on another host to prevent s

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> OK. My problem is, if I use rsync+ssh with blank passphrase among servers > to automate rsync+ssh backup procedure without password prompt, then the > cracker will not need to send any password as well as passphrase when ssh > login onto another server, right? No, password and rsa/dsa authent

Re: long email names

2002-01-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I have a customer who wants to host his own email server, and he wants > to have long email addresses, like .@domain.com , > and map it to a local name that is less than 8 chars. This is a sensible request... > What is the best email server to do this kind of mapping? But this is just emo

Re: Best way to duplicate HDs--talk more about rsync+ssh system

2002-01-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > 3) Add this to authorized_keys for the above account, specifying the > > command that logins with this key are allowed to run. See command="" in > > sshd(1). > > I can't find the document about this section, can you show me > some reference or examples? Many thanks. man sshd, down the bott

Re: user traffic accounting

2002-01-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> anyway, this is wicked, and i immediately want to give a virtual machine > to every single one of my users. Nice idea, but it's not going to work. Perhaps with some real love and affection from someone who purely wanted to achieve this (and wasn't primarily interested in using it as a debuggi

Re: Antiviral checking for small server using postfx

2002-03-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I'd like to do antiviral filtering but budget is low. Any > recommendations? postfix + amavis + nod32 (www.nod32.com). Happens to be the best, too. - Jeff -- There's no horse higher, no mailing list taunt lower, no developer base wider. Rock My Software in the Bosom o

Re: RAID starter

2002-03-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Russel, would you recommend software RAID with a production system? Have > you tried it? Curious. I would, and have. - Jeff -- He's not an idiot. The doctor said so. -- T

Re: postfix problem

2002-03-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Mar 24 22:29:08 lyta postfix/master[21216]: warning: process >/usr/lib/postfix/cleanup pid 21253 killed by signal 6 > Mar 24 22:29:08 lyta postfix/master[21216]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup: bad >command startup -- throttling > > Any suggestions? Sounds like what happens if master.cf

Re: Email header parser?

2002-04-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Do you know of any better shell tools for extracting from, cc, subject etc. > from the headers than procmail/formail? How about Python and its RFC822 modules? - Jeff -- "But in the software world, that's daily business." - Kent Beck "That's pissing money away and leaving

Re: how to upgrade dozens of debian servers

2002-11-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I have some debian servers and hav a pain when these is security > upgrade package available, for I have to check and upgrade them one by > one, making sure they are in safe status. > > I wonder how the administrator manage dozens or even hundreds of debian > servers in this case? Any tool or

IMAP/POP3 + Maildir

2001-02-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, I'm using the unstable courier-imap packages recompiled on potato as my IMAP server, but I'm getting more and more requests for POP3. Supposedly there's POP3 support in version 1.3.4, but (and this surprised me greatly) it isn't in unstable yet. What can people recommend as a POP3 server

Re: IMAP/POP3 + Maildir

2001-02-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
> qmail :) I didn't think I'd have to specify DFSG. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://lazarus.aphid.net/ -- "The ability to procrastinate is what separates us from the machines." - Chris Gregory, Desktop Magazine

Re: IMAP/POP3 + Maildir

2001-02-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I use courier-imap and courier-pop from Stefan Hornburg's brand new > packages that I backported to potato. I could make my potato .debs > available (for use at your own risk) and even give a working > configuration, if you are interested. That would be great -> where are the news debs? Still

Re: compile vs. apt-get (dpkg)

2001-02-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I undestand, that I loose all apt functionality, when starting to > compile my own source. > What way is the best to deal with a situation like this ??? apt-get source apache (you must have deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/aources.list) Then you can modify the build rules, diffs, etc., and buil

Re: IMAP/POP3 + Maildir

2001-03-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> As far as I know, Stefan just recently uploaded them to unstable and > is now on vacation. I found the packages on > http://incoming.debian.org/. Sources are there too. Revisiting this thread. :) Seems the binary packages are in, but the source packages are not... Or is this just me being uno

Re: IMAP/POP3 + Maildir

2001-03-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> apt-get source courier should do the trick with a properly configured apt. > > I will try to package 0.32 later today. Ah, thanks very much! Much confusion over the odd versioning. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://lazarus.aphid.net/ -- "It's only iro

Re: mailing list software

2001-03-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
> i'm confronted with setting up a mailing list with about 20-30k > subscribers. i find mailman very useful, > but i want to remove the password option. is there a patch available? You can set up a script to remove users without requiring a password very easily. Just interface with the command l

Re: Compiling courier on potato

2001-03-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I was looking at the unstable debian package for Courier, > courier_0.31.1-2.dsc. > > What chances are there to get this to compile on potato, or should I > just stick with the source distribution? Funny, I've been trying the same thing. :) I have emailed the maintainer about my problem too

Re: Remote shutdown ... of Win95

2001-03-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Any ideas how can I shutdown Windows95 remotely from Linux ? Does a really strong ping flood help? - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://lazarus.aphid.net/ -- She said she loved my mind, though by most accounts I had already

Re: Firewall and remote access?

2001-03-20 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Is it possible to have a secure way to access a computer behind a firewall > remotely? ssh, an ssh tunnel, vpns, etc. are secure ways of accessing machines behind firewalls. > Or would this destroy the whole point of the firewall? What's the point of a firewall? :) A firewall is there to

Re: Funny Logs

2001-03-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> However I wonder what the motivation is. Has somebody come up with a scam > for using the open proxy to up the "hit count" on banners adds hosted on > his pages? Mwahahaa. Nice one. I'm sure people advertaising on the net are looking for any way possible to get click-throughs. ;) > If so who

Re: VirtualHosts

2001-04-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Listen 192.55.34.5:80 > NameVirtualHost 192.55.34.5:80 > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/xyz > ServerName www.xyz.net > NameVirtualHost means that you're defining the virtual hosts by name. Change the VirtualHost line to read: And make sure you use: ServerName xyz.net ServerAlias www.xyz.net

Re: Auto 10/100Mb Negotiation falling back to 10 on 100 network

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> These are cheap REALTEK 1039? 3039? Can't remember exactly. The ending is > 39... i know that for sure (because i also know they have 19, 29, and 39 > afaik). > > I still haven't been able to solve. I've upgraded to the latest of every > package related to networking, to no avail. Cheap and d

Re: transparent proxy

2001-04-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> but i haven't seen a package that installs squid as a > transparent proxy? am i missing something? i would be happy if somebody > could give me some help. thank ya. There is no package, just "configuration files". :) Check the transproxy howto from the LDP. - Jeff -- You'll see what I mea

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a sort of > "LDAP authentication howto for Debian?" The LDP has a perfectly good set of documents already; there's no need to duplicate the good work already done by them. A Debian-specific section may be of use, however there's nothing all that diffe

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
> the biggest case imho is understanding LDAP, LDIF and the permissions in > the database.. then it's just a matter of adding the correct objectclass > and filling in the blanks.. Indeed - best place to learn about this is in the book, "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services" by How

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> The most important problem, I believe, is that using LDAP means > understanding many differents things and how they fit together. These > things are often documented properly (setting a LDAP server...) but > separately (setting LDAP clients is in a completely different place) and > you cannot g

Re: An LDAP authentication howto for Debian?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > > XML.. *runningaway* SGML as it turns out. Does that make it un-buzzwordy enough? ;) > Now let's not duplicate work. Pascal Pucci only needs to translate his > document from french to English instead of writing it. So, perhaps wait > until this is done, and the extent his documentation in

Re: courier,cyrus,imap

2001-05-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Incidentally, does anyone know of a good link that explains > the differences between uw-imap, courier, and cyrus? Their feature pages, and the source. :) [ Their feature pages are quite good; I have ended up with Courier IMAP and recommend it highly. ] - Jeff -- "Can we have a spec

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> This is one thing I had meant to look into. I have disabled procmail on > postfix/maildir sites to this point because by default postfix delivers to > mbox format folders ... I know it supports maildir just need to do the > reading. home_mailbox = Maildir/ Works like a dream. - Jeff --

Postfix / LDAP Packages

2001-06-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
I'm sure this is a common one. :) I've been using the LDAP packages that Wichert kindly made available on ftp.valinux.com, but it seems that the /people/ directory is offline now. Unfortunately, backporting this mess of packages is proving tough... Are there any sets of packages ready to roll for

Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There's nothing stopping you from running Portslave with a single dial-in > line! Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > If your dial-in setup is serious enough to use a RADIUS server then it's big > enough for Portslave. > > Setting up the RADIUS server is likely to be the most difficult

Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > I like tanks! ;) Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > Sure. AFAIK every RADIUS server in the Unix world supports PAM in some way. Cool. I've never really looked at it, as I've always thought, "oh no, that's for like, *lots* of modems." :) > I r

Re: Smaller dial-in systems [was: portslave]

2001-10-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > > > Is that like sending in the tanks? :) > > > > > > I like tanks! ;) > > > > Not on my phoneline, thank you. ;) > > Why? The latest version is only an 80K deb! It's small, resource friendly, > fast, etc. I meant the tank. ;) > Well the latest version of Portslave (the one that is too

Re: portslave for potato

2001-10-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I have put a copy of the latest portslave compiled for potato online at > http://www.coker.com.au/portslave/ . I don't have a potato system to test it > though... Also it is a new version... Oh cool! I will test it for you! :) Thanks heaps Russell, - Jeff -- "Anyway - I need somethin

Re: User mode linux...

2001-10-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does anyone try the User Mode Linux to do virtual hosting? Is the UML > enought secure for this? In the web page said that virtual hosting is posible > but he doesn't know of anyone who's doing this... When I described doing this as "batshit insane" at linux.conf.au earlier this year,

FreeRADIUS, starting ISP learning curve

2001-10-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, So, I'm beginning the ISP learning curve. I have to get my head around RADIUS, and I've been looking at FreeRADIUS given Russell's recommendation. I'll be interfacing with a couple of PM3s. Where's a good place to read up on this from a beginner's perspective? The documentation is referen

Re: Project 2000 on Debian (under Wine) ?

2001-10-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I am looking for a Linux based tool that is designed to help manage a > variety of projects. This tool needs to be able to schedule and track > tasks MrProject from CodeFactory (codefactory.se) is kicking arse at the moment; perhaps you could pitch in and help out? > and interface with Outloo

Re: Project 2000 on Debian (under Wine) ?

2001-10-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There is a Company at > http://www.bynari.net/Products/TradeServer/trade_server.html that has > info on using Outlook with Linux. I have never used it but it looks > interesting. Bynari are (trying to avoid libel suits and things like that)... very silly. - Jeff --

RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> RAID-5 is another issue though. But then you have to consider that Linux > software RAID kills the performance of most hardware RAID controllers. Run > an Athlon 800 with two IDE drives in RAID-1 and expect 2-4 times the > performance for bulk IO that an entry level Mylex RAID controller w

Re: RAID & Hard disk performance

2001-11-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There's a number of guides that tell you about hdparm and what DMA is, but if > you already know that stuff then there's little good documentation. "Oh bum." :) > Then on the rare occasions that I do meet people who know this stuff > reasonably well they seem to spend all their time trying

Re: Mail server

2001-11-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I'm going to be setting up a mail server (Exim + uwimapd + IMP webmail) > that will serve about 300-500 users. > > There will not be a major amount of traffic being put through it and was > wondering if anyone had any cost effective hardware recommendations for > CPU/RAM/HD space? You can r

Re: customizing debian apache

2001-11-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Has anyone managed to customize (as in "use your own Layout on") an > apache build from .deb source? I can't stand the debian Layout and want > to customize it (or even use an existing layout that comes with apache). > The problem is that all of the build scripts and whatnot assume you use > t

Re: customizing debian apache

2001-11-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Look in the the debian dir of the src deb. The rules, post*, pre*, and > apacheconfig files are all hardcoded to assuming the Debian Layout. You haven't mentioned what's wrong, or requires customisation... > That's all fine and good, but it restricts customization. I'm not sure > how foobar

Re: Journaling FS for Production Systems

2001-11-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Are there many xfs users our there? Is the development active? > If not is it because the xfs is stable, or has the xfs initiative > lost momentum? My home machine: :r! mount | grep hd /dev/hda2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hdc2 on /var type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hdc3 on /h

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a number of differen

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:09:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a > > number of different machines, perhaps even on different networks if the > > topology allows for the performance requirements. &

Re: stable vs testing

2001-11-11 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Anyway, thats our take on it... and its never failed us so far. Takes > quite a bit of effort though... so watch out. Just to chime in, we use stable only, with quite a few backports. [1] Often enough there's a package I'd really like - right now it's a fresh postfix - but I find greater stabi

Re: Mail

2001-11-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does anyone have the slightest clue how to host mail for multiple domains > such that every domain has a unique namespace? Thinking about the matter, > I realized I don't quite know how to accomplish this. Postfix virtual domains operate like this by default, however you can make it operate li

Re: sf-debian

2001-12-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Warning: LDAP: Unable to bind to server: Invalid DN syntax in > /usr/lib/sourceforge/www/include/ldap.php on line 50 > > * The distinguished name of the search base: dc=dev.uprint.web Should be: dc=dev,dc=uprint,dc=web - Jeff -- We're passe with class, eh?

Re: how to customize mbox format in postfix?

2001-12-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
> They have various kinds of reasons. Some are reasonable, some not. > If they just insisit on mbox format and ask for imap service with mbox > support. Is there any compatible method to take? What are the reasons? It's not a worthwhile thing to change if it's not entirely necessary. You have a

FreeRADIUS issues

2001-12-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, Having some troubles with freeradius as packaged in woody. I'm doing a very quick auth migration for a PM3, taking usernames and crypted passwords from an old Qube, and putting them ni various files for service authentication. FreeRADIUS is not cooperating. ;) Here's an example of what I

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