re: LDAP in an ISP

2002-07-23 Thread Phil
etc Phil >Does anyone run an LDAP back end within an ISP ? Im looking to rebuild > the ISP and use ldap with some sort of radius configuration. Has anyone > got any sort of expeirence with this? Basically im just wanting to know > what to use, livingston/cistron ? and is LDAP really w

re: LDAP in an ISP

2002-07-23 Thread Phil
etc Phil >Does anyone run an LDAP back end within an ISP ? Im looking to rebuild > the ISP and use ldap with some sort of radius configuration. Has anyone > got any sort of expeirence with this? Basically im just wanting to know > what to use, livingston/cistron ? and is LDAP really w

More Postfix and SASL excitement

2003-03-27 Thread Phil
I've been trying, like many others, it seems, to get postfix, tls, and sasl to play nice. TLS was easy, but sasl is turning out not to be. I've tried lots with pwcheck_method: pam in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf, and gotten nowhere, so I thought I'd give saslauthd a try. My smtpd.conf now looks

More Postfix and SASL excitement

2003-03-28 Thread Phil
I've been trying, like many others, it seems, to get postfix, tls, and sasl to play nice. TLS was easy, but sasl is turning out not to be. I've tried lots with pwcheck_method: pam in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf, and gotten nowhere, so I thought I'd give saslauthd a try. My smtpd.conf now looks

Postfix and SASL

2003-05-07 Thread phil
I'm having some trouble getting Postfix SMTP auth working. I'm using unstable postfix and postfix-tls on testing, with unstable libsasl2 and libsasl2-modules. Whenever I try to send a message from my mail client (KMail) on another box, I get this in /var/log/mail.log: May 6 23:54:38 rama p

Re: restricted ftp (binded to a private net only)

2000-03-31 Thread Phil Pennock
ty Package (size) stable 100%xinetd 2.2.1-8.1 (87.7k) replacement for inetd with many enhancements Such enhancements including, eg, ability to bind to a specific interface on a machine. And the xinetd.conf syntax is signicantly cleaner than traditional inetd.conf (IMHO).

Re: Quote of the day...

2000-04-03 Thread Phil Pennock
x things without getting out of bed and without having noisy computers in my bedroom. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Phil Pennock
ely. Note the backslashes - you can omit them if you make sure to type those three lines as one. HTH -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: Perl/C programmers, help pls

2000-04-03 Thread Phil Pennock
Typing away merrily, Phil Pennock produced the immortal words: > shell_prompt$ perl -i.old \ > -e 's{http://209.155.163.97/}{http://www.pexchange.com/}g' \ > $(find THOSE_DIRECTORIES -name \*.cgi -print) Need more coffee. Hopefully it's obvious that THOSE_DIRECTORIES

Re: Email confirmation...

2000-04-05 Thread Phil Pennock
e numbers - many regard it as an invasion of privacy. mutt(1) can support use of DSN, but it's not enabled by default. See also RFC 1894. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: System clock

2000-04-07 Thread Phil Pennock
manual-page. I've never tried this, so can't comment. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: How do I add a second IP range to a network?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
my head trying to > work that one out. BCP 20. Which is currently RFC 2317. Titled "Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation". Follow that, and most things should work, with the caveats stated therein about older BIND servers. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We

Re: Strange message in logs

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
. Matching forward and reverse DNS is a Good Thing(tm). -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: tracing a PERL cgi script

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
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Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
s some responsibility for changing their scripts appropriately. All this IMnsHO. HAND. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
r version. Predicting the future is tricky. Being defensive in the way that you set things up can help you bypass some of the uncertainty. Defensive SysAdmin-ing as opposed to Defensive Programming. :^) -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
on of perl. Forcing perl to be entirely static is apparently not as straight-forward as it should be; I don't know, though, as a couple of colleagues handled this) -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use o

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
another go at phasing out perl4 on the servers ... -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
tly ends that discussion - I'm already trying to juggle too many things at work. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering of a country through the use of force. We believe in world peace through extortionate license fees." -Bluemeat

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
ter) Relying on timely response from customers from customers does not scale. Searching for a magic bullet is naive. Trying to design things right first time isn't perfect, but it makes life easier in the long run, at the expense of more work at start-up time. -- HTML email - just say no --&

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
ide a here-document, or whatever). There are some other smaller gotchas as well, but I don't remember them off the top of my head as the vast majority of problems arise from the above scenario. -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquering

Re: it's safe to run a web hosting server with the unstable distributions ?

2000-04-10 Thread Phil Pennock
t's the module interface which sucks[2], and the inability to make a chain of system dependencies, so you can't say "if BigRouter goes down, just report that, and not the 300 LittleServices behind it". [2] Mostly nocollib.pl which is unclean and leaks memory and I don

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Phil Pennock
ance) and let the external program invoke gpg to perform the checks. Then change the ``dropdirectory/$MATCH'' to, eg, ``| my_strip_gpg_and_store "$MATCH"''. man procmailrc(1). -- HTML email - just say no --> Phil Pennock "We've got a patent on the conquer