Re: OF! Why not KDE in Debian

2000-08-18 Thread Torsten Krueger
Hi, On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 14:01:55 +0100, Pontus Ullgren wrote: After this matter I decided to try KDE out and found out that KDE is not in the Debian dist. Any reason why or is it just lack of package matainers ? A conflict exists

Re: very long passwd

2000-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:39:51AM +0200, Joaquin Ferrero wrote: I have 200.000 users. The most part only have email service. The file /etc/passwd es very, very long... but es necessary for IMAP server to check the home directory for every user. i'm surprised you get that many users in a

More than 65K users..

2000-08-18 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
Hello We are risking to pass this magic number in a short while.. Is there any neat way to handle more than this as I recall you can only have 2^16 UIDS?? /Roger - Roger Abrahamsson, Sys/Net Admin Obbit AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread Gene Grimm
Upon reviewing host configurations created by my predecessor, I inherited a nightmare. DNS was misconfigured from the start, causing dial-up clients to use a SMTP/POP3 hostname of "domain.com" instead of "mail.domain.com". We need "domain.com" to resolve to the NT web server for

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, i dont think this is possible. There may be some tricks you can do with ipchains to forward packets from one port to another IP/port and get the job done, but it would probably be a kludge. You could also do this on your cisco, kinda like redirecting all traffic through the router to a

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread Gene Grimm
Upon reviewing host configurations created by my predecessor, I inherited a nightmare. I almost forgot to mention, we have about 40-60 virtual domains hosted via for both email and web services on these two machines. Is there some script that will handle this for all domains without having to

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, you need to be a little bit more specific. It sounds like you might be getting in a little over your head. You should probably do a little bit of reading before you go changing alot of stuff around, or you could have some pissed off customers to deal with... i know how much that sucks,

Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
GG [...] DNS was misconfigured from the start, GG causing dial-up clients to use a SMTP/POP3 hostname of GG "domain.com" instead of "mail.domain.com". We need GG "domain.com" to resolve to the NT web server for GG "http://domain.com" requests and to the Linux mail server for

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread Kevin Blackham
Gene, From what I understand here, you need a simple webserver on the Linux mail server (domain.com) that will redirect clients to www.domain.com, at least until you can get the customer base reconfigured. Stick Apache on there and set your index.html with this tag in the header. META

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread cowboy
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Gene Grimm wrote: The easiest thing I can think of is ipportfw. Why not just forward the mail or http ports to the other machine. (probably the http in this case). Maybe setup a simple ip chain on the mail ports to keep track of how much data goes through them, or even

Re: OF! Why not KDE in Debian

2000-08-18 Thread Torsten Krueger
Hi, On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 14:01:55 +0100, Pontus Ullgren wrote: After this matter I decided to try KDE out and found out that KDE is not in the Debian dist. Any reason why or is it just lack of package matainers ? A conflict exists

Re: very long passwd

2000-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:39:51AM +0200, Joaquin Ferrero wrote: I have 200.000 users. The most part only have email service. The file /etc/passwd es very, very long... but es necessary for IMAP server to check the home directory for every user. i'm surprised you get that many users in a

Re: mailman error

2000-08-18 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Ed Kai wrote: I'm not sure why mailman is trying to use a majordomo script...Any help is you're using sendmail with smrsh enabled look at the smrsh root dir, and modify the ``wrapper'' link to point to mailman's wrapper instead of majordomo's wrapper -- [-] ``And there

More than 65K users..

2000-08-18 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
Hello We are risking to pass this magic number in a short while.. Is there any neat way to handle more than this as I recall you can only have 2^16 UIDS?? /Roger - Roger Abrahamsson, Sys/Net Admin Obbit AB

Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread Gene Grimm
Upon reviewing host configurations created by my predecessor, I inherited a nightmare. DNS was misconfigured from the start, causing dial-up clients to use a SMTP/POP3 hostname of domain.com instead of mail.domain.com. We need domain.com to resolve to the NT web server for http://domain.com;

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, i dont think this is possible. There may be some tricks you can do with ipchains to forward packets from one port to another IP/port and get the job done, but it would probably be a kludge. You could also do this on your cisco, kinda like redirecting all traffic through the router to a

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread Gene Grimm
Upon reviewing host configurations created by my predecessor, I inherited a nightmare. I almost forgot to mention, we have about 40-60 virtual domains hosted via for both email and web services on these two machines. Is there some script that will handle this for all domains without having to

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Gene, you need to be a little bit more specific. It sounds like you might be getting in a little over your head. You should probably do a little bit of reading before you go changing alot of stuff around, or you could have some pissed off customers to deal with... i know how much that sucks,

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-18 Thread cowboy
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Gene Grimm wrote: The easiest thing I can think of is ipportfw. Why not just forward the mail or http ports to the other machine. (probably the http in this case). Maybe setup a simple ip chain on the mail ports to keep track of how much data goes through them, or even