RE: performance of new machine + old hdd

2002-11-14 Thread Jones, Steven
one word, dumb Your going to rely on an old slow worn out drive to hold your OS. get a hardware raid card and mirror the 2 x 60 gig drives, use 500 meg for the OS and 1 gig for /var. regards thing -Original Message- From: Hereward Cooper [mailto:coops@;zadok.org.uk] Sent: Friday, 15 No

RE: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-24 Thread Jones, Steven
u can get hot swap ide promise do one (hot swap ide), dunno how good it is mind. Thing 8><-- I currently work with an ISP that has mostly IDE on the servers doing miscellaneous stuff, all SCSI RAID5 on the servers such as database, NFS and network monitoring. I just like being able to

RE: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-27 Thread Jones, Steven
cond hand scsi setup for the same dosh. Steven -Original Message- From: Thomas Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:10 To: Jones, Steven Cc: 'John'; Scott; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE Hep On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:57:33A

RE: SCSI or IDE

2002-11-27 Thread Jones, Steven
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 1:35 To: Jones, Steven; 'Thomas Kirk' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:30, Jones, Steven wrote: > http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=93&familyId >= 7 > > i w

RE: Hardware IDE RAID-1 controller recommandation

2002-12-02 Thread Jones, Steven
lol, all over the place does not incl NZ. Choice is very limited here in NZ, Id like a 3ware but its try and get someone in the US to sell & send it to me at a sane price (international shipping hence no warrantee) or get it from OZ at a horrendious price with again no warrantee. A 4 port 3ware u

RE: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

2003-03-26 Thread Jones, Steven
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/26/234241.shtml?tid=103&tid=172 Thing -Original Message- From: Mark Constable [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 4:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net? On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:09 am, Christi

RE: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jones, Steven
In my case all Asian email is spam, or at least 99.99% of it, Im more than happy to block out large netblocks, indeed that is what I do via the access file for sendmail. It would be good to improve my system to be more selective using rbl's, but an access list under sendmail seems to be the simple

RE: performance of new machine + old hdd

2002-11-14 Thread Jones, Steven
one word, dumb Your going to rely on an old slow worn out drive to hold your OS. get a hardware raid card and mirror the 2 x 60 gig drives, use 500 meg for the OS and 1 gig for /var. regards thing -Original Message- From: Hereward Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 Novem

RE: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

2003-03-26 Thread Jones, Steven
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/26/234241.shtml?tid=103&tid=172 Thing -Original Message- From: Mark Constable [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 4:05 To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net? On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:09 a

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-02 Thread Jones, Steven
Start at /var as 1 gig, this should prove adequate for most things. I assume /var/www will be your document root? think of space towards this unless your putting the domains into /home/ Is there lots of mail? 3 gig is probably a fair start for /var/spool/mail I am not aware /var/lib changes much

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-02 Thread Jones, Steven
I would strongly disagree, partitioning is very important. Logging should be separated out so that a full /var wont stop logging in. I would also setup a separate /usr and /home, and depending on what was going on a /opt as well. S -Original Message- From: junkyjunk.com [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Jones, Steven
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 7:22 To: Jones, Steven Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning a Web Server On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:20, Jones, Steven wrote: > I would strongly disagree, partitioning is very important. Logging should > be separated out so that a full /var won

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Jones, Steven
better to assume the worst and plan accordingly. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 11:12 To: Jones, Steven Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Partitioning a Web Server On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:00, Jones, Steven wrote

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Jones, Steven
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:29, Jones, Steven wrote: > umcompaq dl320s for 1 wont do it. Look at some bioses, i would be Compaq is history. OK, HP whatever, the dl320 is a current model, it doesnt have the capability to boot anything but 0x80 without a floppy. > pleased if you could point

RE: dial on demand and masquerade

2003-06-06 Thread Jones, Steven
yes, I did the same thing, includes iptables firewall, dial on demand, squid and DNS. http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/dialup.htm Steven -Original Message- From: Marciu Liviu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 6 June 2003 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dial on demand and m

RE: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Jones, Steven
Compaq do not support Debian, what binaries Compaq have released are rpms. Indeed for the older kit the only rpms are for 6.2 and have not been updated, so thier support is shocking, Dell seem better. I dont have problems running Debian on Compaq hardware raid (3200s) and while the machine should b

RE: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat

2003-06-17 Thread Jones, Steven
I too have this problem with my work, they want Red Hat only, its "policy". The fact that my ex-boss was highly impressed with the apt-get update procedure didn't seem to impress the team leader. I don't think Oracle is supported on "standard" Red hat, only the AS one, so he's up for a nice fat f

RE: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat

2003-06-17 Thread Jones, Steven
Sap is moving to mysql, so I cant see any advantage in using SAP. regards Thing -Original Message- From: David Lawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat While we're sort of

RE: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jones, Steven
Ive not done 250gig and serial ata yet, however I plan to shortly, would appreciate feedback, though I suspect it will be straightforward. I will probably mirror over 2 disks, on a server so ata seems the way to go, it will replace my old scsi raid array. Steven -Original Message- From:

RE: Bill Gates' ludicrous ideas to "block spam"

2003-06-30 Thread Jones, Steven
8><=== I think Gates' second idea is more of a joke. He wants to require mail senders to "offer cash" to the recipient. The recipient would get the cash if they chose to open a message from an unknown sender. Potential customers would have to pay to send an inquiry to a company asking

RE: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?

2003-08-04 Thread Jones, Steven
Some ideas we threw rounf the office, page size increase? 4 meg pages? turn off virtual memory? Isnt this a little light on CPU's if your considering 16 Gig of ram? (yes I know its cheap) regards Thing -Original Message- From: Kourosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 5 Augus

RE: two ethernet ports on one PCI NIC?

2003-10-09 Thread Jones, Steven
Think you will have to go to a 4 port NIC, Im not aware of a 2 port one, I know of 2 made but I have not tried either, one is a dlink unit (the other intel or 3com?)and Ive used the single port version so the chipset works, but not if 4 are seen by Debian (you can send me one to try if you want )

RE: SEARCH attack

2004-06-07 Thread Jones, Steven
8>< Really this kind of stuff, whilst annoying and irritating in many ways, is just background noise on todays internet. Patch your boxes, and ignore exploit attempts that affect other platforms. Steve 8>< I have to agree, a handful of years ago when I started on line I

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-02 Thread Jones, Steven
Start at /var as 1 gig, this should prove adequate for most things. I assume /var/www will be your document root? think of space towards this unless your putting the domains into /home/ Is there lots of mail? 3 gig is probably a fair start for /var/spool/mail I am not aware /var/lib changes much

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-02 Thread Jones, Steven
I would strongly disagree, partitioning is very important. Logging should be separated out so that a full /var wont stop logging in. I would also setup a separate /usr and /home, and depending on what was going on a /opt as well. S -Original Message- From: junkyjunk.com [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Jones, Steven
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 7:22 To: Jones, Steven Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Partitioning a Web Server On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:20, Jones, Steven wrote: > I would strongly disagree, partitioning is very important. Logging should > be separated out so that a ful

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Jones, Steven
better to assume the worst and plan accordingly. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 11:12 To: Jones, Steven Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Partitioning a Web Server On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:00, Jones, Steven

RE: Partitioning a Web Server

2003-04-03 Thread Jones, Steven
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:29, Jones, Steven wrote: > umcompaq dl320s for 1 wont do it. Look at some bioses, i would be Compaq is history. OK, HP whatever, the dl320 is a current model, it doesnt have the capability to boot anything but 0x80 without a floppy. > pleased if you could point

RE: order enquiry

2003-04-16 Thread Jones, Steven
seems to be a growing cottage industry, they are even exporting it now! Thing -Original Message- From: Maarten van der Hoef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2003 9:26 a.m. To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: order enquiry On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 03:57:39AM

RE: Migrating to a Compaq Proliant DL360G3

2003-05-27 Thread Jones, Steven
Compaq do not support Debian, what binaries Compaq have released are rpms. Indeed for the older kit the only rpms are for 6.2 and have not been updated, so thier support is shocking, Dell seem better. I dont have problems running Debian on Compaq hardware raid (3200s) and while the machine should b

RE: dial on demand and masquerade

2003-06-05 Thread Jones, Steven
yes, I did the same thing, includes iptables firewall, dial on demand, squid and DNS. http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/dialup.htm Steven -Original Message- From: Marciu Liviu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 6 June 2003 9:30 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: dial on de

RE: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat

2003-06-17 Thread Jones, Steven
I too have this problem with my work, they want Red Hat only, its "policy". The fact that my ex-boss was highly impressed with the apt-get update procedure didn't seem to impress the team leader. I don't think Oracle is supported on "standard" Red hat, only the AS one, so he's up for a nice fat f

RE: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat

2003-06-17 Thread Jones, Steven
Sap is moving to mysql, so I cant see any advantage in using SAP. regards Thing -Original Message- From: David Lawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:51 PM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat While we'

RE: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Jones, Steven
Ive not done 250gig and serial ata yet, however I plan to shortly, would appreciate feedback, though I suspect it will be straightforward. I will probably mirror over 2 disks, on a server so ata seems the way to go, it will replace my old scsi raid array. Steven -Original Message- From:

RE: Bill Gates' ludicrous ideas to "block spam"

2003-06-30 Thread Jones, Steven
8><=== I think Gates' second idea is more of a joke. He wants to require mail senders to "offer cash" to the recipient. The recipient would get the cash if they chose to open a message from an unknown sender. Potential customers would have to pay to send an inquiry to a company asking

RE: SEARCH attack

2004-06-07 Thread Jones, Steven
8>< Really this kind of stuff, whilst annoying and irritating in many ways, is just background noise on todays internet. Patch your boxes, and ignore exploit attempts that affect other platforms. Steve 8>< I have to agree, a handful of years ago when I started on line I