RFA: libcrypt-hcesha-perl -- Perl extension for one way hash chaining encryption using SHA

[ivan-debian]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the libcrypt-hcesha-perl package.  It is
primarily of interest as a dependancy of the OpenSRS client code for
domain registrations (see Bug#146456).

There are no serious problems with the package, it should be fine for
sarge.  Eventually it could use a Standards-Version update and a uscan
watch file.  A new upstream version is available but the changelog only
lists test changes for Windows.

The package description is:
 This module implements a chaining block cipher using a one way hash.  This
 method of encryption is the same that is used by radius (RFC2138) and is also
 described in Applied Cryptography.
 .
 Two interfaces are provided in the module.  The first is straight block
 encryption/decryption the second does base64 mime encoding/decoding of the
 encrypted/decrypted blocks.
 .
 The idea is the the two sides have a shared secret that supplies one of the
 keys and a randomly generated block of bytes provides the second key.  The
 random key is passed in cleartext between the two sides.
 .
 An example client and server are packaged as modules with this module.  They
 are used in the tests. They can be found in the examples directory.

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apt upgrade

[Ivan Adams]

Hi,
I used script with apt-get upgrade -y on Debian 3.0 Woody in crond.
Everything was ok when one day call me for problem in that linux.
When I enter in console I saw in logs that previous day he was apt-get
upgrade -y
and upgraded squid. The problem was the new version of squid has one
more option in squid.conf, and i have to append the file and done the
job by hand.
My quiestion is how I can avoid that kind of problems when on some
Debian I have that kind of apt scripts.


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Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

[ivan-debian-isp]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:27:56PM -0600, Chris Hoover wrote:
> However, what do most of you use for:
> 
> 1. Webmail

Squirrelmail

> 2. Imap/pop access

Dovecot.  Courier-IMAP is also a popular choice.

Also recommended: your choice of amavis implementations and clamav.

> 3. User management

MySQL or PostgreSQL backend for RADIUS.  For small sites, normal UNIX
accounts for mail/web, for large sites, LDAP.

> 4. Accounting/Finances

Freeside .  Insert standard disclaimer
here.

> 5. Drive usage control (i.e. user only get 10M for mail and 15M for web)

Normal old UNIX quotas.

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Jesus Help Me !

[ivan agus riyanto]

Dear,
Before I want to represent about my life. I'm just change my religion from 
moslem to be christian but right now I'm so afraid because my brother want 
to kill me. I'm outcast from my house and  I don't know where I must go 
because nothing can help me. Now i live in rent house my friend (Rudi) cause 
he can help me but it just for while because they must looking for me 
everytime. If I can go to your country maybe I can save to over there but 
pitiful I don't have anything anymore. Jesus, Where are you? Help me
I'm just crying everytime. Maybe you help me.
JESUS HELP ME !!!
My Name : Ivan Agus R.
Address : Jl. Teratai no.25-27 Yogyakarta, INDONESIA. 55225

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[ANNOUNCE] Freeside 1.4.1, open-source billing for ISPs

[ivan-debian-isp]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of Freeside 1.4.1.

Freeside is an open-source, web-based billing and account administration
package for ISPs, web hosting providers, and other online businesses.

You can download the new version, read the documentation, and play with
a web demo at .

Although Freeside is free software, it is supported commercially with
installation, customization, training and support services.  Please
consider our services and help support the development of the software!

ObDebian: Freeside is not yet packaged (assistance is welcome)
but all dependances are packaged.

Significant changes since 1.4.0:

Major:
- New package price plans to charge for online time or bandwidth based
  on direct query if a FreeRADIUS, ICRADIUS or Radiator radacct table.
  Time online and bandwidth used this billing cycle shown on view
  account screen.
- ACH (electronic check) and phone-bill billing support.
- MySQL 4.1.0 is available with subquery support; updated the install
  documentation, testing is welcome

New reports:
- suspended package browse
- package definition report by # of active customer packages (with links 
  to customer package listing)
- payments report by type and/or date range

Web UI:
- relaxed "first package" restrictions; will find any appropriate
  service with quantity 1
- "Cancel this customer" button to cancel all packages.
- Change package option for easy package changes
- "Unprovision" option for individual accounts
- "unapply payment" option

Exports:
- Suspension and unsuspension hooks added
- Apache
- LDAP
- Added realms/domains to SQL RADIUS export (ICRADIUS, FreeRADIUS,
  Radiator)
- vpopmail commands (shellcommands_withdomain)

Misc:
- Web-based CSV customer and charge import
- payby-default config file and ability to hide billing information
- "Future cancellation" aka "package expiration"
- New "FTP upload" invoice event
- svc_acct-alldomains config file enables accounts to select any domain
- signup server now has separate  for state and country (no more
  "AL / US") and respects statedefault and countrydefault
- documentation updates, bugfixes and performance optimizations (works
  with current Mason and PostgreSQL)


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radiusd-freeradius

[ivan-debian-isp]

Can anyone briefly summarize the current state of the radiusd-freeradius
packages?  From what I can tell, the packages were withdrawn for
some combination of immaturity/stability/maintainer interest, but there
was also an issue with the rlm_pgsql module linking with SSL - was that
ever resolved?

I'm probably interested in reviving radiusd-freeradius if I'm not
stepping on anyone's toes.

Or have folks switched to other RADIUS servers?  Is there anything else
that authenticates from and logs to MySQL/PgSQL databases?  using the
same schema or a different schema?

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radiusd-freeradius

[ivan-debian-isp]

Can anyone briefly summarize the current state of the radiusd-freeradius
packages?  From what I can tell, the packages were withdrawn for
some combination of immaturity/stability/maintainer interest, but there
was also an issue with the rlm_pgsql module linking with SSL - was that
ever resolved?

I'm probably interested in reviving radiusd-freeradius if I'm not
stepping on anyone's toes.

Or have folks switched to other RADIUS servers?  Is there anything else
that authenticates from and logs to MySQL/PgSQL databases?  using the
same schema or a different schema?

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Re: downloads too fast, hogging whole modem line

[ivan]

http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:58:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to comp.os.linux.networking as well.
> 
> My downloads are too fast, hogging the whole modem line.  Is there any
> way to slow them down so I can read web pages at the same time?
> 
> In particular, assume the program has no brakes itself, and we must
> some how nice(1) its portion of the bandwidth.
> 
> I posted 'any "nice" for ppp line competition? [Was: how do I slow down 
> noffle?]'
> in comp.protocols.ppp, news.software.readers but they told me to go
> post elsewhere.
> 
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Re: downloads too fast, hogging whole modem line

[ivan]

http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:58:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to comp.os.linux.networking as well.
> 
> My downloads are too fast, hogging the whole modem line.  Is there any
> way to slow them down so I can read web pages at the same time?
> 
> In particular, assume the program has no brakes itself, and we must
> some how nice(1) its portion of the bandwidth.
> 
> I posted 'any "nice" for ppp line competition? [Was: how do I slow down noffle?]'
> in comp.protocols.ppp, news.software.readers but they told me to go
> post elsewhere.
> 
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Re: Admin for E-MAIL users only

[ivan]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 08:57:14PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:44:06PM +1000, KevinL wrote:
> > #include 
> > 
> > The usual complaints regarding MySQL surface on large projects:
> > 
> > 1) No transaction support (fixed with innodb, but up until recently a
> > problem)
> 
> has the intellectual property dispute over that and the mysql trademark
> been sorted out yet?  last i heard, mysql and nusphere were still
> fighting.

You're thinking of Gemini tables, not InnoDB tables.  AFAIK, there has
never been any controversy over InnoDB tables, which were developed by
"Innobase Oy" , not Progress Software / NuSphere. 

> > Craig, I reckon calling MySQL a toy now innodb exists and is fairly
> > stable is a bit harsh - given transactions, it's a capable database.
> > It often still gets _used_ as a toy, but that's not it's fault.  
> 
> it's not harsh at all - unless you count the truth as being harsh.
> 
> it still gets used as a toy because it is a toy.

Your PostgreSQL advocacy would be a lot more effective if you would drop
the trollish attitude.

MySQL is not a toy.  It may be misrepresented as a real RDBMS, but that
doesn't mean it is a toy.  It's an extremely fast data-store with an SQL
interface.  There are useful uses for a fast data-store, for example
(ob-debian-ISP), to hold a RADIUS authentication database.  Think of it as
comparble with LDAP or Berkeley/SleepyCat DB, but with a nice SQL
interface. 

Calling it a "toy" when it isn't is not a whole lot different than the
MySQL folks calling it an RDBMS.  :) 

Of course, for applications that need an real RDBMS, PostgreSQL is a
better choice.

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Re: Admin for E-MAIL users only

[ivan]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 08:57:14PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:44:06PM +1000, KevinL wrote:
> > #include 
> > 
> > The usual complaints regarding MySQL surface on large projects:
> > 
> > 1) No transaction support (fixed with innodb, but up until recently a
> > problem)
> 
> has the intellectual property dispute over that and the mysql trademark
> been sorted out yet?  last i heard, mysql and nusphere were still
> fighting.

You're thinking of Gemini tables, not InnoDB tables.  AFAIK, there has
never been any controversy over InnoDB tables, which were developed by
"Innobase Oy" , not Progress Software / NuSphere. 

> > Craig, I reckon calling MySQL a toy now innodb exists and is fairly
> > stable is a bit harsh - given transactions, it's a capable database.
> > It often still gets _used_ as a toy, but that's not it's fault.  
> 
> it's not harsh at all - unless you count the truth as being harsh.
> 
> it still gets used as a toy because it is a toy.

Your PostgreSQL advocacy would be a lot more effective if you would drop
the trollish attitude.

MySQL is not a toy.  It may be misrepresented as a real RDBMS, but that
doesn't mean it is a toy.  It's an extremely fast data-store with an SQL
interface.  There are useful uses for a fast data-store, for example
(ob-debian-ISP), to hold a RADIUS authentication database.  Think of it as
comparble with LDAP or Berkeley/SleepyCat DB, but with a nice SQL
interface. 

Calling it a "toy" when it isn't is not a whole lot different than the
MySQL folks calling it an RDBMS.  :) 

Of course, for applications that need an real RDBMS, PostgreSQL is a
better choice.

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Freeside 1.4.0beta1, open-source billing for ISPs

[ivan]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:53:59PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ivan Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.04.1405 +0200]:
> > ObDebian: Although Freeside is not yet packaged, the dependancies are
> > available in unstable and woody.
> 
> i'll package it if you wish.

Very much so, yes.  There's a woefully incomplete and out-of-date debian/
directory in the distibution - the only thing of note is debian/control,
which had my preliminary thoughts on how to separate the distribution into
different target packages. 

I also sent a message to the debian-perl list recently regarding
"ready-to-use" packaging of mod_perl applications; you can dig it out of
the archives or I'd be happy to send it.

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[ANNOUNCE] Freeside 1.4.0beta1, open-source billing for ISPs

[Ivan Kohler]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the first beta release of Freeside 1.4.0.
Freeside is a web-based, open-source billing and account administration
package for ISPs, web hosts, and similar businesses.

You can see a web demo, read the documentation, and download the new beta
at .

ObDebian: Although Freeside is not yet packaged, the dependancies are
available in unstable and woody.


Major new features in 1.4.0 include:

- Billing engine has been rewritten and now has support for easily added
  "price plans".  Included price plans include anniversary billing,
  1st-of-the-month billing (pro-rated and subscription), free for N days,
  commissions for referrals and per-minute/per-hour charges.

- Customer-to-customer referrals, tracking and commissions.

- Configurable invoice events triggered for delinquent customers can
  re-send invoices, suspend accounts, charge late fees, and so on.

- Export and provisioning system has been rewritten.  New provisioning
  methods can now be "plugged-in" for any service type.  Included exports
  include BSD and Linux password files, configurable shell commands,
  RADIUS (both text and SQL, including groups), BIND configuration files,
  Cyrus, vpopmail, and many others.

- Complete set of history tables tracking all changes to the database.

- Job queue with display and retry for provisioning tasks.

- UI overhaul - easier to navigate and use.  Quick package order and
  one-time charges.  Separate billing and service contact information.
  Customer comments.

- Performance optimizations.

- Financials have been rewritten.  Apply payments and credits against
  specific invoices (in whole or in part), or have the system apply
  automatically.

- Texas tax.

- Improved documentation and easier install.


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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Freeside 1.4.0beta1, open-source billing for ISPs

[ivan]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:53:59PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ivan Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.07.04.1405 +0200]:
> > ObDebian: Although Freeside is not yet packaged, the dependancies are
> > available in unstable and woody.
> 
> i'll package it if you wish.

Very much so, yes.  There's a woefully incomplete and out-of-date debian/
directory in the distibution - the only thing of note is debian/control,
which had my preliminary thoughts on how to separate the distribution into
different target packages. 

I also sent a message to the debian-perl list recently regarding
"ready-to-use" packaging of mod_perl applications; you can dig it out of
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[ANNOUNCE] Freeside 1.4.0beta1, open-source billing for ISPs

[Ivan Kohler]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the first beta release of Freeside 1.4.0.
Freeside is a web-based, open-source billing and account administration
package for ISPs, web hosts, and similar businesses.

You can see a web demo, read the documentation, and download the new beta
at .

ObDebian: Although Freeside is not yet packaged, the dependancies are
available in unstable and woody.


Major new features in 1.4.0 include:

- Billing engine has been rewritten and now has support for easily added
  "price plans".  Included price plans include anniversary billing,
  1st-of-the-month billing (pro-rated and subscription), free for N days,
  commissions for referrals and per-minute/per-hour charges.

- Customer-to-customer referrals, tracking and commissions.

- Configurable invoice events triggered for delinquent customers can
  re-send invoices, suspend accounts, charge late fees, and so on.

- Export and provisioning system has been rewritten.  New provisioning
  methods can now be "plugged-in" for any service type.  Included exports
  include BSD and Linux password files, configurable shell commands,
  RADIUS (both text and SQL, including groups), BIND configuration files,
  Cyrus, vpopmail, and many others.

- Complete set of history tables tracking all changes to the database.

- Job queue with display and retry for provisioning tasks.

- UI overhaul - easier to navigate and use.  Quick package order and
  one-time charges.  Separate billing and service contact information.
  Customer comments.

- Performance optimizations.

- Financials have been rewritten.  Apply payments and credits against
  specific invoices (in whole or in part), or have the system apply
  automatically.

- Texas tax.

- Improved documentation and easier install.


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Re: ISP administratoin program

[ivan]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:13:00PM -0600, Alex Borges wrote:
> Freeside! Freeside!!
> http://www.sisd.com/freeside/
> 
> Not that i use it or anything, but it looks like a nice starting point
> to an ISP that wants to build his own stuff

As an added bonus, the author is also a Debian developer...

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Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

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Re: [OT] IT Support/Ticket tracking application

[ivan]

I hacked on RT (what eventually became version 2.0.x) on behalf of
mail-abuse.org some time ago, and I now use it for my own projects.
Highly recommended.

Alas, the 2.0 version (light-years ahead of the old 1.x version) is not
pacakged, but all of the dependancies should be in woody by now.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:45:05PM -0600, Michael Merritt wrote:
> I'm looking for a support/ticket tracking application.  Here are two I've 
> found:
> 
> Double Choco Latte:  http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
> RT (Request Tracker):  http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/
> 
> I've started to set up RT, but it is a royal pain, and I don't know enough 
> about the required Apache modules to get it working.  I'm about to start 
> working with DCL to see if it will do what I need it to.
> 
> However, I thought I would pose the question to the list to see if anyone 
> here is running a support ticket tracking application for a helpdesk/ISP type 
> scenario, and if so, what are you using?  I know this may be off-topic, other 
> than the fact that it will run on a Debian server.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
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> 
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> 
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Re: [OT] IT Support/Ticket tracking application

[ivan]

I hacked on RT (what eventually became version 2.0.x) on behalf of
mail-abuse.org some time ago, and I now use it for my own projects.
Highly recommended.

Alas, the 2.0 version (light-years ahead of the old 1.x version) is not
pacakged, but all of the dependancies should be in woody by now.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:45:05PM -0600, Michael Merritt wrote:
> I'm looking for a support/ticket tracking application.  Here are two I've 
> found:
> 
> Double Choco Latte:  http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
> RT (Request Tracker):  http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/
> 
> I've started to set up RT, but it is a royal pain, and I don't know enough 
> about the required Apache modules to get it working.  I'm about to start 
> working with DCL to see if it will do what I need it to.
> 
> However, I thought I would pose the question to the list to see if anyone 
> here is running a support ticket tracking application for a helpdesk/ISP type 
> scenario, and if so, what are you using?  I know this may be off-topic, other 
> than the fact that it will run on a Debian server.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
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> 
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Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

[Ivan Jager]

Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > What do you think of having a mini distribution that limits the number of
> > packages allowed?
> 
> Why not just call it "debian-core". Then you can have "debian-gnome",
> "debian-kde", "debian-xfree" etc. Each of these can be implemented as
> seperate distro's with their own releases, using Packages files pointing
> into the pool.

I was thinking something similar to this would be cool, just I wouldn't
like to have to add a lot of lines in my sources.list.

Maybe something like tasks with versions could be used. Packages from
other tasks (or the task itself) could depend on a certain version of
another task instead of depending on many packages within that task.

Tasks that are not yet released could be called unstable, testing, and
stablish (maybe somthing better). Unstable would have new untested
packages. Testing would have packages that passed some automated tests.
Stablish would have packages that were in testing and didn't have any
important bug reports within a certain amount of time. Maybe there could
be one more for alplha and beta versions of packages.

If all works well, unstable should have the lastes packages and be a
little stable, testing should be a little less stable than Red Hat,
stablish should be a little more stable than Red Hat, and stable should
be as stable as it's always been, but more up to date. :)

> This paritions the dependancies, making it all easier to manage, speeding
> the release cycle and potentialy allowing people to mix-n-match stable-core
> with unstable-gnome if they wish.

Yup. :)

P.S. I think we need a better name than stablish... Maybe call that
"stable" and the current stable "rockstable"??? Also maybe they souldn't
be called tasks but something new. I'm not good at making up names.

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Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"

[Ivan Jager]

Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > What do you think of having a mini distribution that limits the number of
> > packages allowed?
> 
> Why not just call it "debian-core". Then you can have "debian-gnome",
> "debian-kde", "debian-xfree" etc. Each of these can be implemented as
> seperate distro's with their own releases, using Packages files pointing
> into the pool.

I was thinking something similar to this would be cool, just I wouldn't
like to have to add a lot of lines in my sources.list.

Maybe something like tasks with versions could be used. Packages from
other tasks (or the task itself) could depend on a certain version of
another task instead of depending on many packages within that task.

Tasks that are not yet released could be called unstable, testing, and
stablish (maybe somthing better). Unstable would have new untested
packages. Testing would have packages that passed some automated tests.
Stablish would have packages that were in testing and didn't have any
important bug reports within a certain amount of time. Maybe there could
be one more for alplha and beta versions of packages.

If all works well, unstable should have the lastes packages and be a
little stable, testing should be a little less stable than Red Hat,
stablish should be a little more stable than Red Hat, and stable should
be as stable as it's always been, but more up to date. :)

> This paritions the dependancies, making it all easier to manage, speeding
> the release cycle and potentialy allowing people to mix-n-match stable-core
> with unstable-gnome if they wish.

Yup. :)

P.S. I think we need a better name than stablish... Maybe call that
"stable" and the current stable "rockstable"??? Also maybe they souldn't
be called tasks but something new. I'm not good at making up names.

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Re: Are partition tables device independant?

[Ivan Jager]

Christian Hammers wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Does anybody know if I can safely move a dd-dump from a whole disk to
> another including the partition table? Or is the internal representation
> using CHS information instead of just block numbers?

If you are only going to use Linux, Yes. If you are going to use some
other OS, then you will need to fix the partition table. Linux works
fine with a (slightly) broken partition table. :)

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Re: Forwd mail

[Ivan Jager]

Pedro Braga wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> is there a way to the MX server redirect the SMTP connection to another
> domain without receving the mail?
> 
> What I want is to serve a domain (domain.com) and when a box trying
> to relay mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my server it would get a response
> like: "ok I serve thar domain and the user exists, but deliver the mail
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> 
> I understand that if I use the ".forward" in the user account I
> would get the same effect except that the mail would be sent to my
> server and then my server would forward to the 2nd address -- spends
> bandwith!!!
> 
> I think SMTP does't support that but.. just in case!

I don't know if you can do that without modifying some code. What we are
doing is using port forwarding to forward port 25 to a host on our
internal network, but that forwards all traffic to port 25 of that IP
address, not just mail for a certain domain, and it also doesn't
translate usernames.

Anyways, even if you do forward it like that, you won't save any
bandwidth, only a little disk space maybe.

¿Why can't you just change the MX to point to the other server?

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Re: Forwd mail

[Ivan Jager]

Pedro Braga wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> is there a way to the MX server redirect the SMTP connection to another
> domain without receving the mail?
> 
> What I want is to serve a domain (domain.com) and when a box trying
> to relay mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my server it would get a response
> like: "ok I serve thar domain and the user exists, but deliver the mail
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> 
> I understand that if I use the ".forward" in the user account I
> would get the same effect except that the mail would be sent to my
> server and then my server would forward to the 2nd address -- spends
> bandwith!!!
> 
> I think SMTP does't support that but.. just in case!

I don't know if you can do that without modifying some code. What we are
doing is using port forwarding to forward port 25 to a host on our
internal network, but that forwards all traffic to port 25 of that IP
address, not just mail for a certain domain, and it also doesn't
translate usernames.

Anyways, even if you do forward it like that, you won't save any
bandwidth, only a little disk space maybe.

¿Why can't you just change the MX to point to the other server?

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Re: accounting program for ISP/webhosting

[ivan]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 07:18:07PM -0700, Duane Powers wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> I'm wondering what the debian faithful are using for customer records, 
> billing software and the like.  I've found freeside, does anyone know 
> anything of it?

I hear the author's a deb developer.  :)

> Suggestions, experiences and urls welcome.

All of the dependencies are in unstable.

For stable (2.2 aka "potato"), I maintain an apt-able repository at: 

deb http://cleanwhisker.420.am/pub/debian-unoff stable main

which includes packages for:
  libarray-printcols-perl libbusiness-creditcard-perl libdata-showtable-perl
  libdbix-dbschema-perl libfreezethaw-perl libnet-scp-perl libnet-ssh-perl
  libnet-whois-perl libstring-approx-perl libterm-query-perl

The other dependencies are already in potato.

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Re: Accounting software

[ivan]

For accounting software try SQL-Ledger: http://www.sql-ledger.com/

There's a few POS system; my impression so is that most are either
targeted to a specific business (I believe there's a mature one that does
pizza), very simple or not yet stable.  The opos list is a good place for
information - http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/opos-list/

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:17:49PM +0200, Craig wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Does anyone know of accounting software that can run on Linux,
> with Point of Sale capabilities ?>
> 
> ..Craig
> 
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Re: accounting program for ISP/webhosting

[ivan]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 07:18:07PM -0700, Duane Powers wrote:
> Hey list,
> 
> I'm wondering what the debian faithful are using for customer records, 
> billing software and the like.  I've found freeside, does anyone know 
> anything of it?

I hear the author's a deb developer.  :)

> Suggestions, experiences and urls welcome.

All of the dependencies are in unstable.

For stable (2.2 aka "potato"), I maintain an apt-able repository at: 

deb http://cleanwhisker.420.am/pub/debian-unoff stable main

which includes packages for:
  libarray-printcols-perl libbusiness-creditcard-perl libdata-showtable-perl
  libdbix-dbschema-perl libfreezethaw-perl libnet-scp-perl libnet-ssh-perl
  libnet-whois-perl libstring-approx-perl libterm-query-perl

The other dependencies are already in potato.

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Re: Accounting software

[ivan]

For accounting software try SQL-Ledger: http://www.sql-ledger.com/

There's a few POS system; my impression so is that most are either
targeted to a specific business (I believe there's a mature one that does
pizza), very simple or not yet stable.  The opos list is a good place for
information - http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/opos-list/

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:17:49PM +0200, Craig wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Does anyone know of accounting software that can run on Linux,
> with Point of Sale capabilities ?>
> 
> ..Craig
> 
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ANNOUNCE: Freeside 1.3.1

[ivan]

I'm happy to announce the release of Freeside 1.3.1.

Freeside is an open-source billing and account administration package for
ISPs.

You can download the new version, read the documentation, and play with a
web demo at .

This is also a request-for-assitance from a more experienced Debian
developer for assistance packaging the software.  I've packaged some
simple programs, but the amount of integration a central billing database
has with other systems is making packing difficult.

All of the dependencies are already packaged and in woody.  For potato, I
maintain an apt-able repository of the necessary Perl modules: 

deb http://cleanwhisker.420.am/pub/debian-unoff stable main

1.3.1 is a bugfix release which fixes all currently known problems with
1.3.0.  If the 1.3.0 verison gave you problems, give this version a try.

New features of the 1.3.x series include:

- Database transactions
- Web aging reports
- Export of BIND and Apache configuration files.
- Session monitor to track and limit usage on a time
  (hourly/"minutely") basis.  This can be used, with RADIUS, to keep track
  of NAS ports, and can also be used to implement hotel- or cafe- type
  access, where the user must sign in on a webpage before being granted
  access to the network.  In conjunction with the session server, prepaid
  cards can now be for an amount of time rather than money.

Enjoy!

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ANNOUNCE: Freeside 1.3.1

[ivan]

I'm happy to announce the release of Freeside 1.3.1.

Freeside is an open-source billing and account administration package for
ISPs.

You can download the new version, read the documentation, and play with a
web demo at .

This is also a request-for-assitance from a more experienced Debian
developer for assistance packaging the software.  I've packaged some
simple programs, but the amount of integration a central billing database
has with other systems is making packing difficult.

All of the dependencies are already packaged and in woody.  For potato, I
maintain an apt-able repository of the necessary Perl modules: 

deb http://cleanwhisker.420.am/pub/debian-unoff stable main

1.3.1 is a bugfix release which fixes all currently known problems with
1.3.0.  If the 1.3.0 verison gave you problems, give this version a try.

New features of the 1.3.x series include:

- Database transactions
- Web aging reports
- Export of BIND and Apache configuration files.
- Session monitor to track and limit usage on a time
  (hourly/"minutely") basis.  This can be used, with RADIUS, to keep track
  of NAS ports, and can also be used to implement hotel- or cafe- type
  access, where the user must sign in on a webpage before being granted
  access to the network.  In conjunction with the session server, prepaid
  cards can now be for an amount of time rather than money.

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Re: ANNOUNCE: Freeside 1.3.0 released

[ivan]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:52:12PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, ivan wrote:
> 
> > I'm happy to announce the release of Freeside 1.3.0.
> 
> debian-isp is for "[d]iscussion about issues and problems specific to
> Internet Service Providers (ISPs for short) that use Debian." (This is a
> little vague.)

ObDebian: I develop on Debian and am a Debian developer.  I'd very much
like to upload Freeside packages for 2.3 soon.  I'm sorry if the rather
generic announcment was a put-off.  I'm specifically interested in
packaging the software for Debian and it's turning out to be a rather
large and hairy problem due to the number of different systems the
"central billing database" interacts with.  Help would be most welcome. 

In the meantime, I've packaged up the missing perl library dependencies
and uploaded them to unstable (this was a couple weeks ago, so they should
be on all the mirrors by now).

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ANNOUNCE: Freeside 1.3.0 released

[ivan]

I'm happy to announce the release of Freeside 1.3.0.

There aren't .debs just yet, but I'm working on them.

Freeside is an open-source billing and account administration package for 
ISPs.

You can download the new version, read the documentation, and play with a
web demo at .

New features include:

- Database transactions
- Web aging reports
- Export of BIND and Apache configuration files.
- Session monitor to track and limit usage on a time
  (hourly/"minutely") basis.  This can be used, with RADIUS, to keep track
  of NAS ports, and can also be used to implement hotel- or cafe- type 
  access, where the user must sign in on a webpage before being granted  
  access to the network.  In conjunction with the session server, prepaid
  cards can now be for an amount of time rather than money.

Enjoy!

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Re: ANNOUNCE: Freeside 1.3.0 released

[ivan]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:52:12PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, ivan wrote:
> 
> > I'm happy to announce the release of Freeside 1.3.0.
> 
> debian-isp is for "[d]iscussion about issues and problems specific to
> Internet Service Providers (ISPs for short) that use Debian." (This is a
> little vague.)

ObDebian: I develop on Debian and am a Debian developer.  I'd very much
like to upload Freeside packages for 2.3 soon.  I'm sorry if the rather
generic announcment was a put-off.  I'm specifically interested in
packaging the software for Debian and it's turning out to be a rather
large and hairy problem due to the number of different systems the
"central billing database" interacts with.  Help would be most welcome. 

In the meantime, I've packaged up the missing perl library dependencies
and uploaded them to unstable (this was a couple weeks ago, so they should
be on all the mirrors by now).

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ANNOUNCE: Freeside 1.3.0 released

[ivan]

I'm happy to announce the release of Freeside 1.3.0.

There aren't .debs just yet, but I'm working on them.

Freeside is an open-source billing and account administration package for 
ISPs.

You can download the new version, read the documentation, and play with a
web demo at .

New features include:

- Database transactions
- Web aging reports
- Export of BIND and Apache configuration files.
- Session monitor to track and limit usage on a time
  (hourly/"minutely") basis.  This can be used, with RADIUS, to keep track
  of NAS ports, and can also be used to implement hotel- or cafe- type 
  access, where the user must sign in on a webpage before being granted  
  access to the network.  In conjunction with the session server, prepaid
  cards can now be for an amount of time rather than money.

Enjoy!

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Re: Dial-on-demand only works once for a client of the linux-PC

[Kasatenko Ivan Alex.]

>
> A reboot of the linux router gives the windows98-pc again exactly one
> possible activation of the dial-on-demand function on it.
>

Just try to restart PPPD. It dies, supposingly. Maybe, you should put it into 
inittab with "nodetach" option, it's up to you.

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Re: resource limits

[Kasatenko Ivan Alex.]

Hello Jeremy,

Friday, November 03, 2000, 3:09:35 AM, you wrote:

JCR> What is an easy way to find out how much of certain resources I am using?

JCR> In particular, how can I easily find out the following in use by the shell
JCR> and the processes started by it?

JCR> - the total size of all process's data segments
JCR> - total resident memory size
JCR> - the number of file descriptors I have in use (open files)
JCR> - the total stack size I have in use
JCR> - total CPU time in seconds
JCR> - total number of processes (per this session)
JCR> - total amount of virtual memory used by the shell

JCR> Does the "maximum resident set size" limit for all processes or just one
JCR> process? If for all, then how can I easily find out?

JCR> What does "pipe size" mean? How can I know how much I am using?

JCR> How do sh/bash ulimits or csh limits correlate with
JCR> /etc/security/limits.conf, /etc/limits, /etc/login.defs (ULIMIT) or
JCR> BSD-type login.conf session resource limits settings?

JCR> Does anyone have any answers to any of these questions?

JCR> Thanks

JCR>   Jeremy C. Reed
JCR>   http://www.reedmedia.net/
JCR>   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/


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Try the following kernel patch:
http://www.asp-linux.com/
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Roaming users with Postfix

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi all!

I have recently put together a debian potato postfix package with
the SMTP AUTH patch.  The options permit_our_users and
permit_smtp_authenticated work OK, i.e. users can authenticate with
their logion and password.  However, postfix keeps denying relaying (?)
to other domains from non-local (random) IPs.

So, how could I configure postfix to allow relaying for any
domain from any IP when the user has AUTHenticated?

Thanx in advance!

Ivan
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Roaming users with Postfix

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi all!

I have recently put together a debian potato postfix package with
the SMTP AUTH patch.  The options permit_our_users and
permit_smtp_authenticated work OK, i.e. users can authenticate with
their logion and password.  However, postfix keeps denying relaying (?)
to other domains from non-local (random) IPs.

So, how could I configure postfix to allow relaying for any
domain from any IP when the user has AUTHenticated?

Thanx in advance!

Ivan
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Disallowing SITE CHMOD in ProFTPD

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi all!

I'd like to know if someone has managed to forbid SITE CHMOD
execution for certain users in potato's ProFTPD.  My particular
situation is a group of users (with chroot() jail) which should
not be able to issue "chmod ..." command to the server.  I've tried
 with DenyGroup and it doesn't work.
It does however with commands such as RETR, DELE and so forth.
Package version is 1.2.0pre10-2 (hey, from our "stabilized" potato).

    Thanks for the help.

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Disallowing SITE CHMOD in ProFTPD

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi all!

I'd like to know if someone has managed to forbid SITE CHMOD
execution for certain users in potato's ProFTPD.  My particular
situation is a group of users (with chroot() jail) which should
not be able to issue "chmod ..." command to the server.  I've tried
 with DenyGroup and it doesn't work.
It does however with commands such as RETR, DELE and so forth.
Package version is 1.2.0pre10-2 (hey, from our "stabilized" potato).

    Thanks for the help.

Ivan
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POP + Maildir not at HOME

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi all,

We are trying to set up a Debian mail server running potato.  We
are planning to use Postfix as an MTA and Maildir as the mail storing
format.  The server should be able to handle POP requests for the users
to read their mail (we are an ISP that provides PPP connections).

However, we would like to separate home directories from mail
directories so we can stablish different quotas and/or filesystems,
such as ReiserFS.

So I have a pair of questions:

- Can Postfix be configured to store mails in maildir format in a
  dirtectory other than the user's home?
- What POP server could I use that supported Maildir?  I've heard
  of the POP server provided with Qmail.  And, if the maildir affair
  would not be possible, which POP server would you recommend
  anyway?

Well, thanks a lot in advance, and keep on dpkging!


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POP + Maildir not at HOME

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Hi all,

We are trying to set up a Debian mail server running potato.  We
are planning to use Postfix as an MTA and Maildir as the mail storing
format.  The server should be able to handle POP requests for the users
to read their mail (we are an ISP that provides PPP connections).

However, we would like to separate home directories from mail
directories so we can stablish different quotas and/or filesystems,
such as ReiserFS.

So I have a pair of questions:

- Can Postfix be configured to store mails in maildir format in a
  dirtectory other than the user's home?
- What POP server could I use that supported Maildir?  I've heard
  of the POP server provided with Qmail.  And, if the maildir affair
  would not be possible, which POP server would you recommend
  anyway?

Well, thanks a lot in advance, and keep on dpkging!


    Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
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