Re: tracking down i/o sucking process

2003-11-03 Thread Kris Deugau
Dan MacNeil wrote: > I can hear the discs on the server going wild, I run: > > sar -d 2 120 > > ...and disc utilization is indeed higher than normal. How do I find > what process is driving up the i/o load? Not sure about I/O load specifically... but try lsof and see what processes have which f

Re: /etc/lilo.conf and system.map mismatches -- my syntax ?

2003-12-04 Thread Kris Deugau
> An unidentified someone repsonded to the original question: > > Try putting the map=... Line in the specific to kernel section. Theodore Knab wrote: [snip] I think what the response at the top refers to is removing this line: > map=/boot/map and placing separate map= lines in *EACH* of the ima

How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Deugau
I'm currently working on replacing a few RedHat 7.3 boxen with Debian systems- Debian primarily because it's what head office is using. Due to some of the software in Debian stable being really *badly* outdated (ie, SpamAssassin), and some just plain missing (ClamAV, MIMEDefang, and an assortment

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Angus D Madden wrote: > Assuming you have a working cpan cofniguration, you can use > dh-make-perl. > > dh-make-perl --cpan module Ah! Excellent. (Actually, you need to do dh-make-perl --build --cpan {module} to get a .deb out of it.) > I have used this before and it just worked. ymmv. Loo

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Dan MacNeil wrote: > For you a (maybe painful) alternative to going to unstable is to > discard your older Bayes and automatic whitelist files. *shudder* And suffer a ~20% (or more) decrease in spam filter efficiency as seen by the people paying for the service? No thanks. :/ There's about a y

Re: managing quotas on Ext3 FS

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Robert Cates wrote: > I'm hoping to get some insight on how to setup and manage account > quotas with Debian 3.0 in an ISP environment. > I have a Debian 3.0 server running, with ext3 file systems, and as I > understand it the quota (3.04-1) package does not or cannot fully > work with ext3 file sy

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Michael Wood wrote: > Should have replied to one of your earlier messages, but I've deleted > them... .pag and .dir are not Berkeley DB 1, they're from dbm (or > ndbm or something.) In other words, not DB_File. I don't recall the reasoning exactly, but SA as of v2.6x REQUIRES DB_File vs any of t

Re: Sendmail & access restrictions

2004-03-24 Thread Kris Deugau
Stephen Gran wrote: > I think I'm being dense, but I can't figure out how to do something > like the following in /etc/mail/access: > > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: OK # front-end machine 1 > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxy: OK # front-end machine 2 OK. You'll want to add localhost and 127.0.0.1: localhost.localdomain R

Re: Outlook and Qmail

2004-04-06 Thread Kris Deugau
Anil Gupte wrote: > I am having a problem with one of my customers who is using Outlook > 2000 SP-3 to connect to our Qmail server. When downloading messages > from his POP account, Outlook will hang. It is most likely a > corrupted message, since he can delete the messages using a webmail > inte

Re: How to prevent being a 'bouncer' of evil mail?

2004-06-25 Thread Kris Deugau
Yves Junqueira wrote: > In one of my implementations, I have a gateway that filters messages, > removing most spam and viruses, than redirect them to the appropriate > servers. Thus, I do not have a record of user accounts for those > domains. What usually happens is that I get messages for > "[EMA

Re: How to prevent being a 'bouncer' of evil mail?

2004-06-25 Thread Kris Deugau
Yves Junqueira wrote: > That would be a possible sollution, yes. I'll research further (see > below). The point is this is not just my case. Most BIG mail > providers seem to have a gateway mailer in the front that is not > aware of mail accounts. Do they bounce every fake message? If their front-

Re: How to prevent being a 'bouncer' of evil mail?

2004-06-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Yves Junqueira wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:21:20 -0400, Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I've been lucky enough to only work with *nix mail servers except > > for that one Novell system- and it had some advantages I've yet to > > see in any

Re: nat ipchains on debian woody

2004-06-29 Thread Kris Deugau
Francisco Castillo wrote: > I'm novice on debian, i have decided recently to change from redhat > or mandrake (fatal experiencie in two years), so excuse my ignorance. Having recently gone through a similar change, I may be able to help a little more. > First i dont know how to do this step "The

Re: nat ipchains on debian woody

2004-07-02 Thread Kris Deugau
Francisco Castillo wrote: > But my problem now is another different. When I installed my woody i > put a floppy disk bootting system in order to load my debian woody > kernel (this is a large history because i have 2 hard disk on this > machine and I cant start debian in a classic lilo) Why not?

Re: nat ipchains on debian woody

2004-07-08 Thread Kris Deugau
Francisco Castillo wrote: > Then i do a apt-get install kernel-image-2.18.14-686, and this > installations works fine. Then it puts me a entry on the lilo in > order to load the new kernel (the old kernel is a 2.2 original woody, > it has a 686 ) but the problem for me now is that when i reboot the

Re: Outlook and Qmail

2004-07-23 Thread Kris Deugau
Craig Sanders wrote: > the problem is that outlook is broken. it's broken in many ways but > this specific problem is due to the fact that outlook locks up when > downloading "large" messages. it doesn't have to be an attachment, > if the message is too large, then outlook will hang. i don't re

Re: tracking down i/o sucking process

2003-11-03 Thread Kris Deugau
Dan MacNeil wrote: > I can hear the discs on the server going wild, I run: > > sar -d 2 120 > > ...and disc utilization is indeed higher than normal. How do I find > what process is driving up the i/o load? Not sure about I/O load specifically... but try lsof and see what processes have which f

Re: /etc/lilo.conf and system.map mismatches -- my syntax ?

2003-12-04 Thread Kris Deugau
> An unidentified someone repsonded to the original question: > > Try putting the map=... Line in the specific to kernel section. Theodore Knab wrote: [snip] I think what the response at the top refers to is removing this line: > map=/boot/map and placing separate map= lines in *EACH* of the ima

How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-06 Thread Kris Deugau
I'm currently working on replacing a few RedHat 7.3 boxen with Debian systems- Debian primarily because it's what head office is using. Due to some of the software in Debian stable being really *badly* outdated (ie, SpamAssassin), and some just plain missing (ClamAV, MIMEDefang, and an assortment

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Angus D Madden wrote: > Assuming you have a working cpan cofniguration, you can use > dh-make-perl. > > dh-make-perl --cpan module Ah! Excellent. (Actually, you need to do dh-make-perl --build --cpan {module} to get a .deb out of it.) > I have used this before and it just worked. ymmv. Loo

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Dan MacNeil wrote: > For you a (maybe painful) alternative to going to unstable is to > discard your older Bayes and automatic whitelist files. *shudder* And suffer a ~20% (or more) decrease in spam filter efficiency as seen by the people paying for the service? No thanks. :/ There's about a y

Re: managing quotas on Ext3 FS

2004-02-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Robert Cates wrote: > I'm hoping to get some insight on how to setup and manage account > quotas with Debian 3.0 in an ISP environment. > I have a Debian 3.0 server running, with ext3 file systems, and as I > understand it the quota (3.04-1) package does not or cannot fully > work with ext3 file sy

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Michael Wood wrote: > Should have replied to one of your earlier messages, but I've deleted > them... .pag and .dir are not Berkeley DB 1, they're from dbm (or > ndbm or something.) In other words, not DB_File. I don't recall the reasoning exactly, but SA as of v2.6x REQUIRES DB_File vs any of t

Re: Sendmail & access restrictions

2004-03-24 Thread Kris Deugau
Stephen Gran wrote: > I think I'm being dense, but I can't figure out how to do something > like the following in /etc/mail/access: > > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: OK # front-end machine 1 > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxy: OK # front-end machine 2 OK. You'll want to add localhost and 127.0.0.1: localhost.localdomain R

Re: Outlook and Qmail

2004-04-06 Thread Kris Deugau
Anil Gupte wrote: > I am having a problem with one of my customers who is using Outlook > 2000 SP-3 to connect to our Qmail server. When downloading messages > from his POP account, Outlook will hang. It is most likely a > corrupted message, since he can delete the messages using a webmail > inte

Re: How to prevent being a 'bouncer' of evil mail?

2004-06-25 Thread Kris Deugau
Yves Junqueira wrote: > In one of my implementations, I have a gateway that filters messages, > removing most spam and viruses, than redirect them to the appropriate > servers. Thus, I do not have a record of user accounts for those > domains. What usually happens is that I get messages for > "[EMA

Re: How to prevent being a 'bouncer' of evil mail?

2004-06-25 Thread Kris Deugau
Yves Junqueira wrote: > That would be a possible sollution, yes. I'll research further (see > below). The point is this is not just my case. Most BIG mail > providers seem to have a gateway mailer in the front that is not > aware of mail accounts. Do they bounce every fake message? If their front-

Re: How to prevent being a 'bouncer' of evil mail?

2004-06-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Yves Junqueira wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:21:20 -0400, Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I've been lucky enough to only work with *nix mail servers except > > for that one Novell system- and it had some advantages I've yet to > > see in any

Re: nat ipchains on debian woody

2004-06-29 Thread Kris Deugau
Francisco Castillo wrote: > I'm novice on debian, i have decided recently to change from redhat > or mandrake (fatal experiencie in two years), so excuse my ignorance. Having recently gone through a similar change, I may be able to help a little more. > First i dont know how to do this step "The

Re: nat ipchains on debian woody

2004-07-02 Thread Kris Deugau
Francisco Castillo wrote: > But my problem now is another different. When I installed my woody i > put a floppy disk bootting system in order to load my debian woody > kernel (this is a large history because i have 2 hard disk on this > machine and I cant start debian in a classic lilo) Why not?

Re: nat ipchains on debian woody

2004-07-08 Thread Kris Deugau
Francisco Castillo wrote: > Then i do a apt-get install kernel-image-2.18.14-686, and this > installations works fine. Then it puts me a entry on the lilo in > order to load the new kernel (the old kernel is a 2.2 original woody, > it has a 686 ) but the problem for me now is that when i reboot the