6.2-6.4 network oddities

2008-12-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
and build a test server to do this again. -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Hosting Server Load

2007-12-28 Thread Martin Hepworth
Very much depends. Load ave is a measure of the number of processes waiting for resource (CPU, Network, disk etc). Ie a rough measure of how 'busy' the server is. I've seem modern kit with load averages of over 30 with no problems with responsiveness at all. It's all down to what the processes

Re: Claws+spamd: No spam is detected

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Hepworth
ah - must read better, thought you said clam ;-) try the claws users email list.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin On Nov 12, 2007 8:15 AM, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-11 Martin Hepworth wrote: HI you need to tell the MTA to pass email through spamassassin/clamav somehow

Re: Claws+spamd: No spam is detected

2007-11-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
HI you need to tell the MTA to pass email through spamassassin/clamav somehow. Depending on what you're MTA is (sendmail/exim/postfix etc) its different. try sendmail spamassassin for example in google.. -- martin On Nov 11, 2007 4:13 PM, Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have

Re: easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
what have you tried and what errors do you get? -- martin On 10/24/07, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am looking around for a really simple way to install CPAN on FreeBSD. I keep running into errors in one variation or another. Anybody have a good page to send me to?

Re: Amanda failing on sendsize

2007-10-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Olivier try the amanda users email group...seems to be someone else having similar problems, or is that that you as well?? -- Martin On 10/17/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am going further with that sendsize error, after recompiling with debug enable, here is the error

Re: Re[2]: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
Top posting is gmail being broken - just like Outleek ;-( as for the whole mailscanner/postfix thing I'm very aware of the issues and the fact no-one who actually works WW with likes him ;-) -- martin On 10/1/07, Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On October 01, 2007 at 01:21AM Martin Hepworth

Re: Re[2]: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
On 10/1/07, Ryan Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Top posting is gmail being broken - just like Outleek ;-( as for the whole mailscanner/postfix thing I'm very aware of the issues and the fact no-one who actually works WW with likes him

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Mailscanner and postfix is perfect combination...no problems with the correct installation type. http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:politics -- Martin On 9/30/07, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:28:23 Derek Ragona

Re: Netatalk

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
Why you need netatalk - you still got some old MacOS 8/9 machines about? -- martin On 9/22/07, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following several different tutorials on the net for getting netatalk working. I've compiled in the neccessary option to the kernel, installed the

Re: Netatalk

2007-09-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
2007, at 16:13, Martin Hepworth wrote: Why you need netatalk - you still got some old MacOS 8/9 machines about? -- no, they are all os x macbook pros. However we sometimes access over the internet using AFP, and this uses encrypted passwords which is safer. Also, afp integrates very

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
Eric why not stick with an MTA you know? -- martin On 8/24/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. TIA for any help! - Eric F

Re: Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Olivier sure I do this - configure sendmail on the mailman machine as per instuctions for the list and 'smartrelay' the mail via mailserver on the web machine. On the mailserver also make sure all the aliases for the list point at the webserver. -- Martin On 8/21/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL

Re: Having bad performance issues

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Pat I'd start by looking at tuning Postgresqllook at the queries that are taking the longest and optimise those. there's stuff alover the web about tuning PGsql On 7/25/07, Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some bad perf issues on a 6.2 server running PostgreSQL 8.2.4. I

Re: bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
HI is the other end auto-negotiating properly? What happens if you force 1000 full at BOTH ends? -- martin On 7/5/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a problem with my bge0 (BCM5750A1 NetXtreme) NIC card which is

Re: bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

2007-07-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
Doing a quick google on BCM5750A1 freebsd looks like theres a few issues with this driver and certain chipsets.. -- martin On 7/5/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Hepworth wrote: HI is the other end auto-negotiating properly? What happens if you force 1000 full

Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob

2007-06-27 Thread Martin Hepworth
HI On 6/27/07, Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to replace my current arrangement for email, and though I have read as much as possible on it, I just want to check if I am on the right lines with what I'm planning. (Is that a legitimate use of this list?) It's the same old

Re: Wierd Network problem

2007-05-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
. Thanks for the reply, Craig Russell --- Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Criag have you tried cables? Could be a duff network cable or even speed mismatch between you and the router/switch. - martin On 5/12/07, Craig Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dell poweredge 6650

Re: Wierd Network problem

2007-05-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Criag have you tried cables? Could be a duff network cable or even speed mismatch between you and the router/switch. - martin On 5/12/07, Craig Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dell poweredge 6650 installed with freebsd 6.1 and on the local router, everything works great (ie, a

Re: Suggestions for an antispam.

2007-04-29 Thread Martin Hepworth
spamassassin - ask on the spamassassin users email list for howto's etc. -- Martin On 4/27/07, FreeBSD User Giacomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would want a suggestion for an antispam for my email. I use getmail-procmail-mutt in order to receive the mail. Thanks. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Grant I'd look at your SA setup, make sure you're running v 3.1.8 abd have saupdate-ed recently. Also make sure you're running the URI-RBLs, dcc and razor2. Third party rules from www.rulesemporium.com are a must are as is the the imageinfo plugin. You could always ask on the spamassassin

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-04 Thread Martin Hepworth
There's some specific plugins that can help with this - see the spamassassin site - ImageInfo is one. Also make sure you're running the URI-RBL tests and the SARE and other rulesets from www.rulesemporium.com. best place to ask is the spamassassin list ! -- martin On 4/2/07, Angelin Lalev

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-27 Thread Martin Hepworth
Amanda works well on MacOSX and FreeBSD. virtual tapes, encrypted backup and (just as important) easy to restore! -- Martin On 1/26/07, Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini,

Re: RAID Performance Questions

2007-01-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Milo if you hunt around you should see papers/articles where it shows foe RAID 5 you need at least 5 drives before you any dramatic performance gains..(sun old Sun articles from around 1998 where they do the math as well). not sure about RAID 10, but again I *think* you need at least 3 drives

Re: How to configure switching between network interfaces?

2006-12-31 Thread Martin Hepworth
Myself, I'd get a couple of small fiber/ethernet convertors and then connect everything to a small ethernet switch. A bit more money, but simpler and I like simple. -- Martin On 12/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to configure switching between network interfaces? I

Re: MailScanner Ports problems

2006-11-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
There was talk about this on the Mailscanner list a while ago. I use the tar.gz to install MailScanner direct (on 4.11), but then I do alot of beta testing and JPK can lag behind in getting releases out. Ask on the main MailScanner list as JPK hangs about there sometime,, -- Martin On

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Brian the SARE Stock rules (and others) from www.rulesemporium.com are equally good at catching this stuff, and a lot lot lighter on CPU cycles. -- Martin On 11/13/06, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since there

Re: Slow Internet connection using FreeBSD

2006-11-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
Could be DNS problems - have you turned off IPv6 so DNS doens't use that first?? -- Martin On 11/7/06, Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I dual boot FreeBSD and Slackware. Connecting to the internet with Slackware is blazing yet with FBSD its slower than a snail. I have no

Re: system crontab

2006-10-28 Thread Martin Hepworth
This will happen regularly anyway. If you want to shorten this time, look in the exim /usr/local/etc/exim/configure file for how to shorten/change timeout delays then you won't need to do this. -- martin On 10/27/06, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to daily run

Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup

2006-10-18 Thread Martin Hepworth
Have a look at how Cambridge University (UK) have setup their email. Does alot of this sort of stuff and they've got lots of docs online as to how they did it.. -- Martin On 10/18/06, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to setup a high-availability setup for mail/web setup I was

Re: Application run on SCO Openserver but not freeBSD.

2006-10-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jim I presume you've got the linux subsystem installed??? ahh Interactive Unix, I remember it well.. -- Martin On 10/2/06, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/06, Jim Borland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an application which I run on SCO Openserver and I was hoping

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-04 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi Well I know this is a bit OT, but amanda can do spit 'dump's over multilple tapes/dvds/whatever. That way you also have an index of what's on what media etc. -- Martin On 9/4/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to

Re: FreeBSD router

2006-09-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
Depends on what through-put you need, are you good at compiling custom kernels with the extra stuff removed, How good are you at *IOS*?? Do you need a firewall with that router o just straight routing. Does the router need RIP, BGP etc... Perfectly possible, but depending on your

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
Richard have a look on the email list archives for the nice rc script. Thats the MailScanner list not here... Also try asking the same question on the MailScanner list... -- Martin On 8/24/06, rithy4u- CEO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not yet. I want both of them to start automaticly at boot

Re: Two Dell PE1850s keep locking up...

2006-08-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
Can you do anything else that hits the machine with high disk I/O? If this an SMP enabled kernel? If so does the same thing occur if you use a non-smp enabled kernel? -- Martin On 8/19/06, Jason Lixfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please forgive the verbosity of this note) I have two

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hmm I wonder what the advantages of this over softupdates are. Never really saw the need for the google summer of code project etc for this when we have softupdates But I guess I must be missing something -- martin On 8/9/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
Well ext3 can have problems too - I've had numerous problems with that, and had to revert back to ext2 to get the filesystem to mount. XFS is much better. And I've had no problems with UFS/softupdates on FreeBSD, but YMMV as they say. But yes, when ZFS gets ported to FreeBSD we will all very

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
On 8/8/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling file system as I would use it on every box. snip Softupdates are the FreeBSD equivalent. From my point of view they perform better than a traditional journaling FS

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-06 Thread Martin Hepworth
OK I stand corrected... softupdates reduces the possibility of having to fsck a filesystem ;-) -- Martin On 8/5/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/08/06, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. On 8/3/06, N. Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Lutz Rabing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, is someone still working on the bigdisk project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays

Re: Mail system Suggestions

2006-07-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
On a side note, I found Outlook 2003 really shoddy/poor at working with IMAP based systems, esp when you have lots of rules to run and lots of emails to download first thing in the morning. eg would easily 10 minutes to synchonise, whereas thunderbird takes about 10 seconds! So from now I say

Re: Backup sollutions

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
Another vote for amanda - no gui, the the command line is easy. -- Martin On 6/23/06, Andreas Wideroe Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a free (ports?) backup sollutions for FreeBSD servers. I would like to have something similare to IBM's Tivoli where you install a client

Re: HELP! Filesystem EMPTY after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.1

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Sven ok so no backup beforehand then... Have you tried moving the drive to a 4.11 system and mounting the partition from there, and then backing-up the data! Might be some way of forcing UFS1 over UFS2 on the mount command, but I don't see any mention of this in the man page (which still says

Re: RAID online capacity expansion

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Josh You'll need to use vinum as a volume manager first. Wouldn't recommend it at all on a mounted filesystem, this can give you alsorts of worries. I'd think about why you need to grow the volume, esp as any expansion of a RAID set will normally result in poor performance, unless you backup

Re: MailScanner Issues

2006-06-03 Thread Martin Hepworth
Robert ASk on the mailScanner email list. there are people there who run sendmail FreeBSd MailScanner and will be able to tell you the rc.conf settings. -- martin On 5/28/06, Robert Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done a bit more digging. It seems that my sendmail_in.pid and

Re: colors in messages

2006-05-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
What sort of messages??? you can use vt terminal encoding to make things change colour/flash, or for email, use html and if the MUA copes with HTML you'll get colours. -- martin On 5/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to introduce color into my messages,

Re: Advice on RAID?

2006-05-12 Thread Martin Hepworth
Depends on how write heavy the filesystem will be, if it's write heavy then you may find a RAID 5 with 3 disks sucks (esp for a database). On 5/11/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked into and tried FreeBSD 6.0 Vinum and GEOM RAID in our PIII SCSI 80-pin server with

Re: Clamav Install failed

2006-05-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bryan have you tried downloading the source file from www.clamav.net and compiling from source Remember 6.1 is still a release candiate... -- martin On 5/1/06, Bryan Curl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clamav'make install clean' from the ports collection failed with the following output.

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-05-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
I use Clamav on my mail gateway (along with Sophos) and it works very well, quite a few times catching new virus outbreaks quicker than Sophos. (All wrapped up with MailScanner which also calls SpamAssassin for me). BUT email/http isn't the only way to infect a windows PC so you really to have

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-26 Thread Martin Hepworth
Richard just set the forwarders to another nameserver in the named.conf and that's it.. this will speed up SA massively. -- martin On 4/25/06, Richard Collyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-26 Thread Martin Hepworth
on Postgress, use this, you'll get more out of the app this way than spending money chucking hardware at it. -- martin On 4/25/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:28:50 +0100 Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill if the database is CPU dependant I'd look

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill if the database is CPU dependant I'd look at tuning the queries/indexes and that stuff...it really shouldn't be CPU bound. -- martin On 4/24/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:03:59 +0100 Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill depends

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill depends on the application itself, but more RAM and the disk layout (RAID) will be more important than the CPU. Also depends on how write-heavy the apps are... -- martin On 4/24/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to make some hardware recommendations, I'm hoping

Re: WAP webmail

2006-04-18 Thread Martin Hepworth
We use squirelmail to a treo 650 over GSM which works well.. but then treo has a nice big screen so you gotta watch that.. -- Martin On 4/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Any sugestion for a webmail solution that works with mobile devices (Cellphones, PDAs,

Gmail and FreeBSD

2006-04-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Well I'm glad it's not just me - I even tried subscribing again and I haven't got the activation request. So I'd say for reason gmail is bouncing the emails, as the freeBSD lists seem to have unsubcribed me.. Other email seems to be coming in fine.. -- Martin

Re: running a program on startup

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Hepworth
Logon but a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d and copy an existing on to get the syntax. -- martin On 3/27/06, Logan McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, ive been looking around on how to run a program when FreeBSD starts, vncserver the command I need to be run is:

Re: Java and tomcat

2006-03-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi there's an excellant 'how to' here... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/ -- Martin On 3/22/06, Aguiar Magalhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I´d like to install java (virtual machine) and tomcat on the freebsd 6.0.. Are they full compatible ?? Are

Re: Availability of a journaling file system

2006-03-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi in freebsd this is called softupdates and can be enables using tunefs (see the man page). If not quite journaling as it does things slightly differently, but achieves many of the same effects, like reduced fsck time on boot. -- martin On 3/22/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monitoring e-mails by TCP

2006-03-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) can this amongst it's anti-virus/spam/etc protection capabilities. -- martin On 3/18/06, Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm very newbie on freeBSD. I have already installed the Firewall(ipfw) + NAT, Squid + Sarg and

Re: Spamd keeps falling over

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Derrick try asking on users@spamassassin.apache.org, theres a few other people seeing something similar wuth Perl 5.8.8 -- Martin On 3/11/06, Derrick MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had spamd die about 3 times in the last couple days, this is what I saw in the logs this morning:

Re: WinSCP mega-slowness

2006-02-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hate to do a me too, but I gotta agree. I did the same file transfer using cygwin's scp and winscp and cygwin was about 10x faster. On 2/20/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For about a year I have noticed that whenever my Windows boxes talk to my Unix boxes, they communicate at

Re: Kaspersky AND FreeBSD

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
For anti-spam, Spamassassin works well for me, and I use Sophos and ClamAV for trapping the viruses. This is all wrapped together with MailScanner which does filename/type checks etc etc as well and does the job nicely. Even does the job with Postfix as the MTA. -- Martin On 2/7/06, Thiago

Re: Mail filtering at server

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi I'd agree with the learning curve for SA. it's not huge, but there is one. as for time spend on admin, for me a few minutes per day making sure there's no new handy handy rules to add by lurking on the sa-users list. I use RulesDuJour to get most of my non-included rules to update

Re: BSD vs Linux Threads

2005-12-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
On 12/9/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [resequenced] On Friday, 2 December 2005 at 22:27:51 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:36 PM, Cody Holland wrote: Well in the past it was stated that on a MySQL server installed using Linux

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
Well I use amanda. It's DB doesn't need an external one like bacula so restores can be less troublesome. BUT it can't span tapes if a backup is larger than a tape It can use a virtual tape setup so it you have a nice big disk(array) you can backup to that. I'd say try amanda, if things

Re: PowerEdge 2850 AMD64 panics

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi this is 'known' issue with the 5.x versions, it kernel panics under high file I/O. I've had this myself while testing a new email server. I've no idea if 6.0 fixes this issue, but it can't any worse to probably worth a go to upgrade to the 6.0 release. -- Martin On 12/7/05, [EMAIL

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
That's quite alot of messages to shift - you don;'t mention message size either. BUT you'll local caches of any URI-RBLs you want to use. A local DCC server. I'd ask on the spamassassin users list, but you prob looking at multiple machines just for the scanning never mind the local zone files

Re: SQUID + antivirus content filter

2005-11-18 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi There's this project http://freshmeat.net/projects/dgvirus/ but its not exactly active. -- Martin On 11/18/05, Vladimir Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello *, I would like to secure network against themselves with proxy and antivirus solution. My prerequisities are: SQUID,

Re: MailScanner / SMTP Auth

2005-11-17 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi looks like you found it then... -- Martin On 11/15/05, Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Martin I checked the archive but didn't found the thread. Which target words should I ckeck in the archive? Am Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:45:15PM + Martin Hepworth schrieb: Martin

Re: MailScanner / SMTP Auth

2005-11-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
Martin there's been a thread on this in the MailScanner email list over the last couple of days - check it out... -- Martin On 11/14/05, Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Until now I run sendmail, mailscanner and cyrus-imapd without any problems. Now I want to update sendmail

Re: Antivir for mail server

2005-11-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi I use Clam-AV and Sophos at work on the email gateway (a MailScanner implementation). -- Martin On 11/7/05, Fatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doubting about to install CLAM or DR.WEB antivir in the mail server. What do you advise to me? thnkx.

Re: SPAM Filter

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
Thomas MailScanner calling spamassassin and clam-av (alternative and more flexible to amavis-new) -- martin On 11/1/05, Thomas Linton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing an old laptop with freeBSD 5.4. It's going to be my mail server (postfix) and a simple ftp Server. I need some

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! We plan to set up a backup server. While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a network mount -- there are many details which are

Re: FileSystem Full error in FreeBSD 5.4-Release even if the partition is not full

2005-10-26 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi Deepak check the inodes as others have suggested. the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming is should be empty (or nearly). This is just the work area for MS and should have much in there at all apart from the batches it's working right now.. MIght be worth check with me a JPK etc on the MS

Re: QLogic QLA2310F and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
HI I thinks you'll find this listed on the HCL notes.. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html -- Martin On 10/22/05, herrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I plan to run a critical application on FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 using separate RAID system connected with Fiber Channel.

Wierd ACPI errors on boot and possible TCP/IP performance isssues as a result.

2005-10-17 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi all FreeBSD 5,4-p8 on a Celeron 600.. I'll see litterally serveral thousand of these errors when I boot. ACPI-0239: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._CRS] (Node 0xc196bb00), AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.PCI0._CRS] (Node 0xc196bb00),

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
If you've got money then Cyclades or Perle console servers are the way to go... --- Martin On 10/16/05, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes this

Re: Porting from LInux to FreeBSD

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
On 9/8/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to migrate my mail servers from Fedora core 3 to FreeBSD 5.4, due to performance issue. Had few questions. 1)Which is the suitable filesystem ie UFS2, Ext2 etc... for mailing server. I used raiserfs in linux. Which File

Re: Network Interface 'overload' in 4.11

2005-08-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Therere's things you cvan do with reasonable low end managed switches for bandwidth thottling etc. BTW I fing symantec 'no the best' and prefer Sophos (theres a nice free trial version you can download). I'd also run some of the anti-spyware programs on the boxes (you'll need to run more than one)

Re: Spam Assassin Reject

2005-07-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
How aout asking this on the spamassassin users email list? -- Martin On 7/12/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed Spam Assassin and MIMEDefang with Sendmail however I would like Spam Assassin to tell sendmail to Reject Spam on the connection. Instead of accepting the spam

Re: SA rules_dujour

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi May I suggest you as this on the sa-users list. You'll get specific help for you config -- Martin On 7/7/05, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have installed Spamassassin and rules_dujour I have NOT changed any settings , it is a vanilla install no config files

Re: Mailscanner PC requirements

2005-06-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi might need more RAM, esp is you plan to use Spamassassin with the MS setup. My old system (cel 500 512MB RAM) would top out around 14,000 messages per day of around 25kb average size. But I was also running MailWatch and the associaed mysql DB on the box as well and lots of extra SA rules.. As

Re: amavis

2005-05-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
Trey asking on the amavis email list On 5/19/05, Charles Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran cvsup. Installed clamav, amavisd-new, and spam assassin. I changed my sendmail configuration file to allow amavisd-milter. When I restart sendmail and try to send a test email the email goes

Re: Which mail server is the best for me?

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
I'd suggest exim, -- martin On Apr 2, 2005 10:09 AM, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to setup a mail server but am a little confused about whether to use sendmail, qmail, postfix or whatever. Basically my web server is a simple one to be used for personal use with maybe

Re: freebsd 4.x remote server instable...

2005-03-15 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi could be PSU or CPU fan problems. I'd check those two first..yes I know it's a pain, but maybe the local people could crack open the case and see if the CPU fan is OK (going round well and not noisy). --- Martin On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:41:55 +0100, Christian Tischler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone running Trend Micro IWSS in linux-compat mode?

2005-02-28 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi there's a dan's guardian plugin that uses MailScanner's AV handling to provide the anti-virus side of things. Of course the solution is NOT to use IE as the default browser in windows ;-) -- martin On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:20:17 +0100, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List,

Re: Error installing softwares on FreeBSD system

2005-01-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
HI I think you will need to make cvsup first from the ports directory, Then use cvsup to get the latest version of ports tree. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html for more details.. -- Martin On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:06:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: SA, Bayes, and You (erm, Me)

2005-01-12 Thread Martin Hepworth
From tha man pages..settings in local.cf bayes_auto_learn ( 0 | 1 ) (default: 1) bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam n.nn (default: 0.1) bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam n.nn (default: 12.0) Now this assumes that you have write access to the bayes DB files and directory. When you editted the

Re: netatalk, NFS, OS X and backup

2005-01-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
have you looked at amanda? Uses it's daemons to transfer the data, and you can select where to comress (on client or server). works well when used with hfstar on MacOS X ... restores are normally done by the admin and currently its a cli...no plans AFAIK to make this a gui. --- Martin On Fri,

Re: Which opengroupware port to install

2005-01-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill I managed to compile OGo from source.(FreeBSD 5.2.1)...search for my work email address on the Ogo-users ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It's a cpmplete mind melt as you keep having to go back to things you've done and re-make thembut it is possible. -- MRIN On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:40:01 -0500,

Re: Need A Help

2005-01-04 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi 5.0 is a very old version of FreeBSD. may I suggest you try 5.3. Looking at the hardware support page for 5.3 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET) you should be Ok with the bge driver. -- Martin On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:02:20 +0400, Nazim Aliyev [EMAIL

Re: SpamAssassin-Milter accuracy...

2005-01-03 Thread Martin Hepworth
Eric you'll prob need to retrain the bayes filters ( or a good starter at www.fsl.com/support). also alot of rules from the www.rulesemporium.com/rules.html can be useful. Might want to look at some of the RBL.s and esp the URI rbl provided by surbl.org and built into SA3.x Could ask on the

Re: courier-imap installation

2005-01-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
If you did from the ports tree then they'll be an rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (or look in the pkg_mesg file in the directory to see exactly where it it... -- Martin On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:57:34 -0600, artware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I'm a n00b to FreeBSD, and I'm trying

Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2005-01-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
That was operator error...and desktop systems not servers... On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:38 +0300, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark wrote: That's something :-) I only built a separate FreeBSD file-server because I have to run Windows on my PC and I can't trust M$ software with 700Gb+ of

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
I did it on a 5.2.1 machine and loaded Exim from the ports tree. That gives full instructions on what to turn off/on in the rc.conf and a little rc script to start exim at boot. What's not working? -- Martin On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:47:15 -0800, comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just a

Re: VIM

2004-12-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
you need to get into insert mode first - press 'i' the basic functions of vim are the same as 'vi' so you might want to get a starter guid for that.. -- Martin On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:56:18 -0500, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed a VIM editor. When I create a new file

Re: web calendar recommendation

2004-12-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Palm integration works fine for me with Evolution... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:06:08 -0500, Steel City Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the palm support is going to be the kicker. i don't know of anything other than act and outlook that palm connects too. take that out of the mix and ximian

Re: web calendar recommendation

2004-12-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Evolution is open source... -- martin On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:08:48 -0800, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:39:17 -0700, Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract) wrote I believe Ximian's Evolution would work well for that. It's in the ports and I've heard that it

Re: web calendar recommendation

2004-12-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Noah it's in the ports tree - /usr/ports/mail/evolution -- Martin On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:57:35 -0800, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:22:11 +, Martin Hepworth wrote Evolution is open source... cool Martin, can you possibly send me a download link

Re:

2004-12-17 Thread Martin Hepworth
). There's some documentation on the mailScanner site about setting this all up as an email gateway and the MailScanner IRC and email lists are very friendly. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: Hello, FreeBSD gurus

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