Tracing silent crashes
I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is concerned (the NICs are SMC 9342 using the epic100 driver). It simply stops responding to any network request. I have a clue (difficult to verify because of the remote location) that the machine doesn't actually crash, and that the local console remains accessible; in other words, it may just be a freeze of the networking stack. There doesn't seem to be any correlation to time of day, and sometimes I'll go weeks without this happening, when other times it may be a daily occurrence. The machine is on a UPS, so it's probably not power glitch related. I've swapped NIC units, though not varieties. And, it's been happening for a while, though I run apt-get dist-upgrade fairly regularly, and across kernel versions, so I don't think it's due to any new software change. Upon reboot things return to normal and there's no trace of anything in the logs to indicate what the problem. I guess I have two questions -- does anyone recognize this problem, and is there any way to capture more data that might give me a clue about what's happening. The normal log files don't yield a clue. Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tracing silent crashes
Thanks to all who replied. I was able to take a monitor to the machine and discovered that there was an error in the NTP configuration (I'm using a GPS-disciplined oscillator for the timecode, and was using the kernel PPS interface patches) that was causing some sort of meltdown. I've posted a message with the gory details to the NTP mailing list, so I'll spare you here. But thanks in particular for the hints on network syslog and using a console terminal. I'm going to implement some combination of those to make future problems easier to solve. Thanks, John --On Sunday, January 18, 2004 14:45:38 +0100 Michael Bergbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun Jan 18, 2004 at 08:3302AM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is concerned (the NICs are SMC 9342 using the epic100 driver). It simply stops responding to any network request. I have a clue (difficult to verify because of the remote location) that the machine doesn't actually crash, and that the local console remains accessible; in other words, it may just be a freeze of the networking stack. There doesn't seem to be any correlation to time of day, and sometimes I'll go weeks without this happening, when other times it may be a daily occurrence. The machine is on a UPS, so it's probably not power glitch related. I've swapped NIC units, though not varieties. And, it's been happening for a while, though I run apt-get dist-upgrade fairly regularly, and across kernel versions, so I don't think it's due to any new software change. Upon reboot things return to normal and there's no trace of anything in the logs to indicate what the problem. I guess I have two questions -- does anyone recognize this problem, and is there any way to capture more data that might give me a clue about what's happening. The normal log files don't yield a clue. Any chance to attach a serial console to the machine? Some serial concentrator in the rack where you could get plugged in at least for fixing that bug? Another box of yours in the same rack? So you could setup this box to support serial console and get all the console output (includung kernel oopses and panics) + magic sysrequest via the serial line. -- Michael Bergbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] use your idle CPU cycles - See http://www.distributed.net for details. Visit our mud Geas at geas.franken.de Port -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntpd listening on alias interfaces seems non-trivial
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 12:01:59 +1100 Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is to use NAT to re-map the response on the way out... once again, if anyone gets this working, please post how you did it. I don't know if this is quite you're looking for, but I had no trouble using Linux ipmasqadm portfwd to open port 123 for tcp and udp on my firewall. I'm going from a public IP address to a private namespace and that seems to work (or at least, my friend testing on the outside is able to get time from me). John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tracing silent crashes
I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is concerned (the NICs are SMC 9342 using the epic100 driver). It simply stops responding to any network request. I have a clue (difficult to verify because of the remote location) that the machine doesn't actually crash, and that the local console remains accessible; in other words, it may just be a freeze of the networking stack. There doesn't seem to be any correlation to time of day, and sometimes I'll go weeks without this happening, when other times it may be a daily occurrence. The machine is on a UPS, so it's probably not power glitch related. I've swapped NIC units, though not varieties. And, it's been happening for a while, though I run apt-get dist-upgrade fairly regularly, and across kernel versions, so I don't think it's due to any new software change. Upon reboot things return to normal and there's no trace of anything in the logs to indicate what the problem. I guess I have two questions -- does anyone recognize this problem, and is there any way to capture more data that might give me a clue about what's happening. The normal log files don't yield a clue. Thanks, John
Re: Tracing silent crashes
Thanks to all who replied. I was able to take a monitor to the machine and discovered that there was an error in the NTP configuration (I'm using a GPS-disciplined oscillator for the timecode, and was using the kernel PPS interface patches) that was causing some sort of meltdown. I've posted a message with the gory details to the NTP mailing list, so I'll spare you here. But thanks in particular for the hints on network syslog and using a console terminal. I'm going to implement some combination of those to make future problems easier to solve. Thanks, John --On Sunday, January 18, 2004 14:45:38 +0100 Michael Bergbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun Jan 18, 2004 at 08:3302AM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is concerned (the NICs are SMC 9342 using the epic100 driver). It simply stops responding to any network request. I have a clue (difficult to verify because of the remote location) that the machine doesn't actually crash, and that the local console remains accessible; in other words, it may just be a freeze of the networking stack. There doesn't seem to be any correlation to time of day, and sometimes I'll go weeks without this happening, when other times it may be a daily occurrence. The machine is on a UPS, so it's probably not power glitch related. I've swapped NIC units, though not varieties. And, it's been happening for a while, though I run apt-get dist-upgrade fairly regularly, and across kernel versions, so I don't think it's due to any new software change. Upon reboot things return to normal and there's no trace of anything in the logs to indicate what the problem. I guess I have two questions -- does anyone recognize this problem, and is there any way to capture more data that might give me a clue about what's happening. The normal log files don't yield a clue. Any chance to attach a serial console to the machine? Some serial concentrator in the rack where you could get plugged in at least for fixing that bug? Another box of yours in the same rack? So you could setup this box to support serial console and get all the console output (includung kernel oopses and panics) + magic sysrequest via the serial line. -- Michael Bergbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] use your idle CPU cycles - See http://www.distributed.net for details. Visit our mud Geas at geas.franken.de Port -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntpd listening on alias interfaces seems non-trivial
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 12:01:59 +1100 Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is to use NAT to re-map the response on the way out... once again, if anyone gets this working, please post how you did it. I don't know if this is quite you're looking for, but I had no trouble using Linux ipmasqadm portfwd to open port 123 for tcp and udp on my firewall. I'm going from a public IP address to a private namespace and that seems to work (or at least, my friend testing on the outside is able to get time from me). John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Analyzing exim logfiles
I'm trying to do some analysis of my exim logfiles and my spam logs (using Spamassassin) and I'm confused by what exim logs when. I run spamassassin site-wide through an exim transport. I have a site-wide exim filter set up to look for the added X-spamassassin headers, and depending on the spam score either dump the message to the bitbucket, or into a folder for further review. The filter also writes a line to a logfile indicating the date, time, spam score, sender, and recipients. I've written a perl script to parse that file and it tells me, for example, that there were 3208 spams caught last week, with each address in the $recipients variable counting as one message (i.e., if the spam was sent in a single SMTP transaction to three addresses at my domain, my script counts it as three spams). I'm trying to figure out what percentage of my incoming mail that is. If I run eximstats against the corresponding mainlog, or count the number of lines with = or =, it shows much smaller numbers -- 1776 incoming, and 1854 delivered. Even assuming that much spam is sent to multiple addresses, 1776 in versus 3200 spams + some number of valid messages doesn't seem to line up. What I'm wondering is what defines an incoming message and what defines a delivered message with respect to multiple addressees, and how messages caught by the spamassassin transport are logged versus those actually delivered. My goal is to know that X messages were received for Y total recipients, to compare with the Q spams sent to R total recipients. (By the way, I need to count as delivered both those messages for my local domain and those that are aliased either to mailing lists or to external domains. And, I want to exclude local system-generated messages, but I can handle that separately.) Any help in figuring out how to match up these stats would be appreciated. Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Analyzing exim logfiles
I'm trying to do some analysis of my exim logfiles and my spam logs (using Spamassassin) and I'm confused by what exim logs when. I run spamassassin site-wide through an exim transport. I have a site-wide exim filter set up to look for the added X-spamassassin headers, and depending on the spam score either dump the message to the bitbucket, or into a folder for further review. The filter also writes a line to a logfile indicating the date, time, spam score, sender, and recipients. I've written a perl script to parse that file and it tells me, for example, that there were 3208 spams caught last week, with each address in the $recipients variable counting as one message (i.e., if the spam was sent in a single SMTP transaction to three addresses at my domain, my script counts it as three spams). I'm trying to figure out what percentage of my incoming mail that is. If I run eximstats against the corresponding mainlog, or count the number of lines with = or =, it shows much smaller numbers -- 1776 incoming, and 1854 delivered. Even assuming that much spam is sent to multiple addresses, 1776 in versus 3200 spams + some number of valid messages doesn't seem to line up. What I'm wondering is what defines an incoming message and what defines a delivered message with respect to multiple addressees, and how messages caught by the spamassassin transport are logged versus those actually delivered. My goal is to know that X messages were received for Y total recipients, to compare with the Q spams sent to R total recipients. (By the way, I need to count as delivered both those messages for my local domain and those that are aliased either to mailing lists or to external domains. And, I want to exclude local system-generated messages, but I can handle that separately.) Any help in figuring out how to match up these stats would be appreciated. Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple blog software for Debian?
--On Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:13:45 -0700 Nate Campi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ my query about blog software snipped ] blosxom is in sarge/sid, and is really really simple. You can copy the CGI that runs it onto your woody systems without trouble. The downside I've found with using it for simple logs (daily network status stuff at my work) is that it uses mtime on the blog entry file for the date it displays for the entry. This means you can't go back and edit older entries and keep them as entries for the original date (at least not without timestamp trickery). Hi Nate -- Thanks for the tip. Interestingly, my search yesterday on blog in the Debian package descriptions didn't turn that up. In the meantime, I found both Moveable Type and Greymatter as non-Debian options. Moveable Type seemed overly complicated, and the installation instructions were pretty unclear. Greymatter was pretty simple to install and seems to do what I need, so I got that running this morning. While Moveable Type has a fairly limited license (non-commercial use only), Greymatter is under a free license so it should be possible to make a Debian package of it; not sure why no one has so far... Thanks for the tip. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simple blog software for Debian?
Has any blog software (for a server, not using somebody else's system) been packaged up for Debian? If not, can anyone recommend a simple system for use with Apache? I just want to do a simple on-line log and don't need anything fancy -- just something that's a bit easier than writing raw HTML. Thanks for any suggestions. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge CD-ROM installation
That's what I think I'll end up doing. Thanks! John --On Saturday, June 21, 2003 14:28:05 +0200 Stefan Neufeind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Jun 2003 at 14:25, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I just downloaded an ISO image of Sarge disk 1 (a June 1 snapshot) and when booting it acts differently than any Debian CD I've used before. I'm at a loss as to how to install the system with it. After the kernel boots, it comes up with a very simple text menu with five choices: 1) choose language ; 2) detect keyboard; 3) detect CDROM; 4) Load installer modules; and 5) Verify CD contents. I step through the first three choices OK, but when you get to choice 4 you are presented with a list of about 38 modules and given no information about which ones might be necessary. I've tried selecting various combinations (including all 38) but always get various errors about modules not being found. Has anyone here tried installing a sarge ISO? If so, can you help me get past this and into the main installlation program? Had problemens installing Sarge directy under VMWare some time ago. Then I decided to install Woody and upgrade to Sarge afterwards ... works fine. Maybe a good way for you? The Sarge installation tool doesn't seem that rock-solid as the Woody one. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge CD-ROM installation
That's what I think I'll end up doing. Thanks! John --On Saturday, June 21, 2003 14:28:05 +0200 Stefan Neufeind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Jun 2003 at 14:25, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I just downloaded an ISO image of Sarge disk 1 (a June 1 snapshot) and when booting it acts differently than any Debian CD I've used before. I'm at a loss as to how to install the system with it. After the kernel boots, it comes up with a very simple text menu with five choices: 1) choose language ; 2) detect keyboard; 3) detect CDROM; 4) Load installer modules; and 5) Verify CD contents. I step through the first three choices OK, but when you get to choice 4 you are presented with a list of about 38 modules and given no information about which ones might be necessary. I've tried selecting various combinations (including all 38) but always get various errors about modules not being found. Has anyone here tried installing a sarge ISO? If so, can you help me get past this and into the main installlation program? Had problemens installing Sarge directy under VMWare some time ago. Then I decided to install Woody and upgrade to Sarge afterwards ... works fine. Maybe a good way for you? The Sarge installation tool doesn't seem that rock-solid as the Woody one. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sarge CD-ROM installation
Hi -- I just downloaded an ISO image of Sarge disk 1 (a June 1 snapshot) and when booting it acts differently than any Debian CD I've used before. I'm at a loss as to how to install the system with it. After the kernel boots, it comes up with a very simple text menu with five choices: 1) choose language ; 2) detect keyboard; 3) detect CDROM; 4) Load installer modules; and 5) Verify CD contents. I step through the first three choices OK, but when you get to choice 4 you are presented with a list of about 38 modules and given no information about which ones might be necessary. I've tried selecting various combinations (including all 38) but always get various errors about modules not being found. Has anyone here tried installing a sarge ISO? If so, can you help me get past this and into the main installlation program? Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sarge CD-ROM installation
Hi -- I just downloaded an ISO image of Sarge disk 1 (a June 1 snapshot) and when booting it acts differently than any Debian CD I've used before. I'm at a loss as to how to install the system with it. After the kernel boots, it comes up with a very simple text menu with five choices: 1) choose language ; 2) detect keyboard; 3) detect CDROM; 4) Load installer modules; and 5) Verify CD contents. I step through the first three choices OK, but when you get to choice 4 you are presented with a list of about 38 modules and given no information about which ones might be necessary. I've tried selecting various combinations (including all 38) but always get various errors about modules not being found. Has anyone here tried installing a sarge ISO? If so, can you help me get past this and into the main installlation program? Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: synchronous interface card suggestions
I'm working with what the radios support -- which is synchronous RS-422. These are some surplus radios that have quite a bit more range than 802.11b (though they're not nearly as fast). They are 5 watt output, full duplex narrowband radios that were spec'd for paths of up to 30 miles. We need the range and reliability more than the speed... Thanks anyway. John --On Monday, June 16, 2003 14:40:31 +0200 Jean-Francois Dive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you really want serial type and sychronous ? If not, a standard wifi 802.11b is effective and supported by linux, but i suppose you already knows that. On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 07:57:44PM -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Hi -- I'm trying to implement a wireless point-to-point link using a pair of radios that have a synchronous RS-422 interface. The radios operate at 128kbps and provide clock signals, etc. Can anyone suggest a source for such a card -- preferably inexpensive as this is a personal project -- that has Linux support? Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Jean-Francois Dive -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such thing as randomness. Only order of infinite complexity. - Marquis de LaPlace - deterministic Principles - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: synchronous interface card suggestions
It's licensed equipment currently in the 950MHz range that we are converting to operate in the US amateur band between 902-928MHz. We're licensed hams and plan to use the radios for digital voice and data links between remote sites. John --On Monday, June 16, 2003 16:28:20 +0200 Nicolas Bougues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:56:47AM -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm working with what the radios support -- which is synchronous RS-422. These are some surplus radios that have quite a bit more range than 802.11b (though they're not nearly as fast). They are 5 watt output, full duplex narrowband radios that were spec'd for paths of up to 30 miles. We need the range and reliability more than the speed... Err, excuse my curiosity, but what kind of radios are these ? I mean, is it some-licensed-stuff-you-have-good-reasons-to-use, or is it a hack, or is it plain illegal ? 5W looks rather powerful for unlicensed spectrum... -- Nicolas Bougues -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: synchronous interface card suggestions
It's licensed equipment currently in the 950MHz range that we are converting to operate in the US amateur band between 902-928MHz. We're licensed hams and plan to use the radios for digital voice and data links between remote sites. John --On Monday, June 16, 2003 16:28:20 +0200 Nicolas Bougues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:56:47AM -0400, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I'm working with what the radios support -- which is synchronous RS-422. These are some surplus radios that have quite a bit more range than 802.11b (though they're not nearly as fast). They are 5 watt output, full duplex narrowband radios that were spec'd for paths of up to 30 miles. We need the range and reliability more than the speed... Err, excuse my curiosity, but what kind of radios are these ? I mean, is it some-licensed-stuff-you-have-good-reasons-to-use, or is it a hack, or is it plain illegal ? 5W looks rather powerful for unlicensed spectrum... -- Nicolas Bougues -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
synchronous interface card suggestions
Hi -- I'm trying to implement a wireless point-to-point link using a pair of radios that have a synchronous RS-422 interface. The radios operate at 128kbps and provide clock signals, etc. Can anyone suggest a source for such a card -- preferably inexpensive as this is a personal project -- that has Linux support? Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
synchronous interface card suggestions
Hi -- I'm trying to implement a wireless point-to-point link using a pair of radios that have a synchronous RS-422 interface. The radios operate at 128kbps and provide clock signals, etc. Can anyone suggest a source for such a card -- preferably inexpensive as this is a personal project -- that has Linux support? Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Looking for plotting program to replace gnuplot
Hi -- Sorry that this is slightly off-topic, but I thought someone here might be able to help. I've been using gnuplot to format some fairly simple graphs, but its combination of totally obscure documentation and apparent output limitations are driving me up the wall. (Today's example: I want to plot some noisy data with a smoothing curve. I finally figured out how to put both plots on the same screen, but there's apparently no way to tell the program to use different colors for the two lines, at least using the png output tool.) Can anyone suggest a program that does what gnuplot does, but with a bit more polish? Thanks, John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spam Assassin
I'm using Spamassassin, interfaced with exim to filter before delivery to local users. It works really well -- it catches 40-50% of incoming mail (for about 7 users total) as spam, with a false-positive rate of way less than 1%. I've seen a slight increase lately in spams that slip through, but typically my inbox gets three or four a day, which still isn't too bad. I dump all the suspected spam into a separate mailbox, which I check every couple of days by scanning the combination of subject line and sender. When I do that check, I may find one or two messages out of several hundred that I forward on as likely real email. John --On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:59 PM +0200 Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellows Wanted to get the general impression of how well Spam Assassin works in eliminating Spam and if there are any other packages we should be looking into. ..Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org
network watchdog hardware/software
I'm using a business class cable modem setup with Roadrunner. Actually, it works pretty well and the reliability is OK. However, when it goes down, the tech support line's first answer is always to reset the router (a Cisco br905). Amazingly and annoyingly enough, that usually works. The problem is that it's not always easy to do a power cycle because there's not always someone where the router is. I think I need a software watchdog that pings several external sites every five minutes or so, and if all the pings fail twice in a row (or some other metric), twiddles a control line on a serial or parallel port that can drive an external relay to cycle power to the router. I'm sure I can hack all that together, but before I do, I wonder if (a) someone's already done the software daemon, and (b) whether there exists a reasonably-priced box that provides a switched AC outlet based on a control signal. Thanks, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: webmail for debian
I've been using Silkymail from http://www.cyrusoft.com/silkymail. It's a modified version of IMP that has a very smooth user interface (it's very similar to the Mulberry email client, which I also use and like very much). Installation is either a (relative) breeze or a nightmare. It's a breeze if you're installing on an otherwise barren machine because the tarball includes about six different packages -- apache, SSL, uw-imap, imp, and gawd-knows-what-else -- which it installs under its own directory tree. The nightmare comes in if you already have some of those tools installed in other places on your system. But it can be made to work. The version I'm running right now is 1.1.x. 1.2 is out, and I was told several weeks ago that 1.3 is imminent, but there's no sign of it at the web site yet. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Friday, February 08, 2002 3:57 PM +0200 Craigsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try horde / imp ..Craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: webmail for debian does anybody know some webmail system for debian? Thanks Josep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: webmail for debian
I've been using Silkymail from http://www.cyrusoft.com/silkymail. It's a modified version of IMP that has a very smooth user interface (it's very similar to the Mulberry email client, which I also use and like very much). Installation is either a (relative) breeze or a nightmare. It's a breeze if you're installing on an otherwise barren machine because the tarball includes about six different packages -- apache, SSL, uw-imap, imp, and gawd-knows-what-else -- which it installs under its own directory tree. The nightmare comes in if you already have some of those tools installed in other places on your system. But it can be made to work. The version I'm running right now is 1.1.x. 1.2 is out, and I was told several weeks ago that 1.3 is imminent, but there's no sign of it at the web site yet. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Friday, February 08, 2002 3:57 PM +0200 Craigsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try horde / imp ..Craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:52 PM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: webmail for debian does anybody know some webmail system for debian? Thanks Josep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org
Re: 3ware and Debian?
I'm running a 3ware board with 4x60GB Quantum drives in Raid 10, with ReiserFS installed on top. Works like a charm. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:07 AM +0800 Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone here run any 3ware IDE RAID cards here, and Debian as well? Do you know if 3ware's Web-based RAID Control program works in Debian? Thanks. Sincerely, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3ware and Debian?
I'll be honest... I haven't had to control it! It starts at boot time and just keeps running. I know I should do some monitoring, but haven't gotten that configured yet. John --On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:29 AM +0800 Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Ackermann N8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:04 PM Subject: Re: 3ware and Debian? I'm running a 3ware board with 4x60GB Quantum drives in Raid 10, with ReiserFS installed on top. Works like a charm. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do you control the RAID array once it is running? Do the 3ware utilities (binary only) work in Debian okay? John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3ware and Debian?
I'm running a 3ware board with 4x60GB Quantum drives in Raid 10, with ReiserFS installed on top. Works like a charm. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:07 AM +0800 Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone here run any 3ware IDE RAID cards here, and Debian as well? Do you know if 3ware's Web-based RAID Control program works in Debian? Thanks. Sincerely, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org
Re: 3ware and Debian?
I'll be honest... I haven't had to control it! It starts at boot time and just keeps running. I know I should do some monitoring, but haven't gotten that configured yet. John --On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:29 AM +0800 Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Ackermann N8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:04 PM Subject: Re: 3ware and Debian? I'm running a 3ware board with 4x60GB Quantum drives in Raid 10, with ReiserFS installed on top. Works like a charm. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do you control the RAID array once it is running? Do the 3ware utilities (binary only) work in Debian okay? John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org
Simple web log analysis for multiple sites?
Hi -- I'm looking for a program that will analyze the logs across the multiple virtual sites that I run and provide summary-level info (e.g., number of hits/bytes per site per day, with monthly summaries, etc). I'm currently using a slightly hacked version of webstat with some shell scripts that cat the various logfiles together, add an identifying tag, sort the result, and feed it into the analyzer, but that really generates more info than I need for top-level summary purposes and doesn't provide easy per-site statistics. Thanks for any suggestions. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple web log analysis for multiple sites?
--On Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:39 AM -0600 Alejandro Borges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En jue, 2001-11-15 a 07:19, John Ackermann N8UR escribió: Hi -- I'm looking for a program that will analyze the logs across the multiple virtual sites that I run and provide summary-level info (e.g., number of hits/bytes per site per day, with monthly summaries, etc). I'm currently using a slightly hacked version of webstat with some shell scripts that cat the various logfiles together, add an identifying tag, sort the result, and feed it into the analyzer, but that really generates more info than I need for top-level summary purposes and doesn't provide easy per-site statistics. Log for each virtual host, then instance webalizer for each different log its that easy. Alex Step One Group I'm not familiar with webalizer, but what I want is a single report that lists summaries for all the virtual sites, not a separate report for each site. Can webalizer do that? John John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simple web log analysis for multiple sites?
Hi -- I'm looking for a program that will analyze the logs across the multiple virtual sites that I run and provide summary-level info (e.g., number of hits/bytes per site per day, with monthly summaries, etc). I'm currently using a slightly hacked version of webstat with some shell scripts that cat the various logfiles together, add an identifying tag, sort the result, and feed it into the analyzer, but that really generates more info than I need for top-level summary purposes and doesn't provide easy per-site statistics. Thanks for any suggestions. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org
Re: Simple web log analysis for multiple sites?
--On Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:39 AM -0600 Alejandro Borges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En jue, 2001-11-15 a 07:19, John Ackermann N8UR escribió: Hi -- I'm looking for a program that will analyze the logs across the multiple virtual sites that I run and provide summary-level info (e.g., number of hits/bytes per site per day, with monthly summaries, etc). I'm currently using a slightly hacked version of webstat with some shell scripts that cat the various logfiles together, add an identifying tag, sort the result, and feed it into the analyzer, but that really generates more info than I need for top-level summary purposes and doesn't provide easy per-site statistics. Log for each virtual host, then instance webalizer for each different log its that easy. Alex Step One Group I'm not familiar with webalizer, but what I want is a single report that lists summaries for all the virtual sites, not a separate report for each site. Can webalizer do that? John John AckermannN8UR [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.febo.com President, TAPR[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.tapr.org
Re: webmail
--On Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:04 AM +0200 Przemyslaw Wegrzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: I want to recommend you IMP. You can set IMAP server on firewall and IMP/Horde. I've been playing with SilkyMail (http://www.cyrusoft.com/silkymail), which is an enhanced version of IMP. It's under the GPL, but Cyrusoft are offering commercial support packages for it. I'm very impressed, and (under the right circumstances, which mine weren't) it's a snap to build as all the tools (apache, php, etc.) are included in the tarball and a single make command builds the whole environment. Then you untar the php files into the htdocs directory, run a config script, and you're in business. I can't answer on how attachments are processed on receive/send. I have tried looking at Word documents using wvHtml and it seems to work OK, but I don't know what kind of load it puts on the server. By the way -- wvHtml handles more formats than the old mswordview, but still spits out quite a few error messages, and fails on some documents. It's still a whole lot better than nothing, though. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: webmail
--On Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:24 PM +0400 Peter Novodvorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Theo! Theodore Alexandrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would you advice some standart stuff for webmail server installing? Some users need to read post outside our net and using Win-clients with telnet (deny at firewall) and IE only. And all other solutions are appreciated. I want to recommend you IMP. You can set IMAP server on firewall and IMP/Horde. I've been playing with SilkyMail (http://www.cyrusoft.com/silkymail), which is an enhanced version of IMP. It's under the GPL, but Cyrusoft are offering commercial support packages for it. I'm very impressed, and (under the right circumstances, which mine weren't) it's a snap to build as all the tools (apache, php, etc.) are included in the tarball and a single make command builds the whole environment. Then you untar the php files into the htdocs directory, run a config script, and you're in business. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making dhcpd provide hostname to clients
I'm having trouble getting dhcpd to provide a hostname to clients when granting leases. I've set the "get-lease-hostnames" directive to true, and it appears that dhcpd does a DNS lookup on its range at startup (at least, when I had some addresses in the range that didn't have DNS entries, it complained). But when the client (dhcpcd with the "-HD" switches set) obtains a lease, it logs a "server did not provide hostname" error (or something like that; unfortunately I'm going from memory) and the hostname field in the dhcpcd info file remains empty. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcpd providing hostname to clients from dns?
I've added "get-lease-hostnames" to the dhcpd config file, but at the client, dhcpcd running with the "-HD" flags reports "hostName option is missing in DHCP server response", and the system ends up using the default hostname specified in /etc/hostname at startup. There aren't any error messages reported when dhcpd starts up, and it looks like it's doing DNS lookups for the assigned range (when I had addresses in the range that didn't have DNS entries, it complained about that). I must be missing something in the configuration. What do I need to do to have the client take on the hostname that matches the IP address assigned by dhcpd? Thanks, John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web interface for mail reading?
I'd like to set up something along the lines of the "mail2web" site for my users that would allow them to read and send messages via their POP account using a web interface. The web and mail servers reside on the same machine, if that makes it any easier. Anyone know of a package that will provide that kind of functionality? Thanks, John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Ackermann N8UR Dayton, Ohio, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.febo.com -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3a mQBtAzgI9hgAAAEDAMiMQDZTVVuVIS0AscJ0Wy63oK4+Q5xvtxbX/ZoG1qCOuYDI Fph4/RqL9vVEItWBy6ISk+zbkATzPgy84nrI7+GBtld4F9DoHWARQXjC1I8cFZjY TSe16ffqO/ba1ukLnQAFEbQlSm9obiBSLiBBY2tlcm1hbm4gTjhVUiA8anJhQGZl Ym8uY29tPokAdQMFEDgI9hjqO/ba1ukLnQEBtYIC/AxJ2RqT0/9TqY8JGEkPx2sw +W5Z6Tu4UI654t9diGdCcIEPjOG1qUvwH2Xop0Yj9QGoM4NnHIw6qUSN5VH7hHKA bGnpuTxinuW/gKaI3bt2MC8QZZq0gy2de26907lE2A== =UHWl -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
