Re: exim and relaying

2001-07-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Try host_accept_relay = "*" sender_address_relay = "fcien.edu.uy" You are leaving yourself open to people misusing you as a relay. Carlos Barros wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a way to permit relaying some hosts only if the "From:" > line is local? > > I mean, relay *.edu.uy only

Re: Software RAID...

2001-07-31 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:28, Roger Abrahamsson wrote: > > Do anyone here know is if there is any way you can add disks/grow an > > existing software raid-5 system (2.4.x kernels)? > > The cost of large IDE-disks now makes it possible to have some 300+GB >

Re: Software RAID...

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:28, Roger Abrahamsson wrote: > Do anyone here know is if there is any way you can add disks/grow an > existing software raid-5 system (2.4.x kernels)? > The cost of large IDE-disks now makes it possible to have some 300+GB > system for cheap mass storage where access times i

Re: exim and relaying

2001-07-31 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 04:58 1.8.2001, you wrote: >On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Peter Billson wrote: > >> > Is there a way to permit relaying some hosts only if the "From:" >> > line is local? >> > I mean, relay *.edu.uy only if From: *@fcien.edu.uy. >> >> Do you mean to accept the mail

Re: Reasons why sending with Exim can be slow?

2001-07-31 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 04:58 1.8.2001, you wrote: >On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:40:21AM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: >> All networking otherwise works perfectly from LAN to email server. Exim.conf >> is same as before, I even recopied from backups my old one to be sure. > >Almost sounds like exim is trying to verify host

Re: exim and relaying

2001-07-31 Thread Carlos Barros
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Peter Billson wrote: > > Is there a way to permit relaying some hosts only if the "From:" > > line is local? > > I mean, relay *.edu.uy only if From: *@fcien.edu.uy. > > Do you mean to accept the mail regardless of where it *actually* com

Re: Reasons why sending with Exim can be slow?

2001-07-31 Thread Bob Billson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:40:21AM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > All networking otherwise works perfectly from LAN to email server. Exim.conf > is same as before, I even recopied from backups my old one to be sure. Almost sounds like exim is trying to verify hostnames and IPs. Is this what you wa

Re: exim and relaying

2001-07-31 Thread Peter Billson
> Is there a way to permit relaying some hosts only if the "From:" > line is local? > > I mean, relay *.edu.uy only if From: *@fcien.edu.uy. Do you mean to accept the mail regardless of where it *actually* comes from as long as the From line *says* that it comes from edu.uy? That

exim and relaying

2001-07-31 Thread Carlos Barros
Hello! Is there a way to permit relaying some hosts only if the "From:" line is local? I mean, relay *.edu.uy only if From: *@fcien.edu.uy. -- Carlos Barros. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poorly Sized Partitions

2001-07-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Assuming you have a tape drive, and you can take the machine offline, use dump/restore. In case you have no tape drive on the net, but a spare partition, you can dump to that. The problem I see is taking the the partitions offline while you copy them. Gene Grimm wrote: > A while back, we had

Re: scripting lynx

2001-07-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:17:20AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I want to script lynx to post data to a web site and save the results. > I am using the --post_data option but have been unable to find > documentation on the format of data expected on standard input. > > I have been trying the fol

scripting lynx

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
I want to script lynx to post data to a web site and save the results. I am using the --post_data option but have been unable to find documentation on the format of data expected on standard input. I have been trying the following: Hour="0_6" Day="2001-08-01" Getlist=List --- Where I want to

Poorly Sized Partitions

2001-07-31 Thread Gene Grimm
A while back, we had a mail server crash and when hurrying to rebuild the server, the tech who did the work did not size the /home and /var partitions adequately. We essentially need to swap the space which those partitions occupy. Is there any proper way of doing this with the ext2 file systems b

Re: Reasons why sending with Exim can be slow?

2001-07-31 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:40:21AM +0300, Antti Tolamo wrote: > > What are they? Above apply only while sending from local network. > > It's not a hosts, problem and I don't run it from inetd. No other > service has similar problems. I even reinstalled exim again. > > It's not fault on OS's on

Reasons why sending with Exim can be slow?

2001-07-31 Thread Antti Tolamo
What are they? Above apply only while sending from local network. It's not a hosts, problem and I don't run it from inetd. No other service has similar problems. I even reinstalled exim again. It's not fault on OS's on local computer(unless it affects only port 25) as I have 98/2000 on same com

Re: editing exim

2001-07-31 Thread Bob Billson
Kris Blackwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly needs to be edited on exim? Along with the advice of the others, check the exim FAQ and mail list archives which are also on www.exim.org. If you get stuck on some point in exim, check their archives. If you're still stuck, ask on their

LDAP + quotas

2001-07-31 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
To compare to a database concept, if the LDAP daemon had `triggers' and could execute code that made quotactl(2) calls on the relavent filesystems, on the relavent machines, when the quota values in the LDAP database changed that would be effective. To determine current usage the LDAP daemon woul

Re: Re[2]: LDAP + quotas

2001-07-31 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:52:55PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > something like NSS for quota lookups would be nice, and to have a > > caching daemon (like nscd) to store the data for later lookups. > > nscd is only ever called by user-land code such as login, su, ls, etc. Quota > is handled

Re: editing exim

2001-07-31 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 18:33 31.7.2001, you wrote: >Hello, > >Thank you all who answered my previous problem. The >webmin that was installed was for TESTING and someone >really nice helped me remove it. So nowI can >install okay. > >Next situation: > >What exactly needs to be edited on exim? >What do I need to c

Re: FW: openSSH

2001-07-31 Thread Jaume Teixi
hello, for potato ones take a look into http://download.alcove-labs.org/packages/debian/ bests, teixi. On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:30:34 +0200 Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My story: > > apt-cache show libssl09 > > gave: > > Versi

Re: editing exim

2001-07-31 Thread Peter Billson
> What exactly needs to be edited on exim? > What do I need to change? Kris, The basic Debian install should have gotten you to - or at least close to - the point of a working MTA but there are quite a few tweaks you can do. I'd suggest taking a look through the docs at www.exim.org and askin

editing exim

2001-07-31 Thread Kris Blackwood
Hello, Thank you all who answered my previous problem. The webmin that was installed was for TESTING and someone really nice helped me remove it. So nowI can install okay. Next situation: What exactly needs to be edited on exim? What do I need to change? Thanks Kris ___

Software RAID...

2001-07-31 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
Hello. Do anyone here know is if there is any way you can add disks/grow an existing software raid-5 system (2.4.x kernels)? The cost of large IDE-disks now makes it possible to have some 300+GB system for cheap mass storage where access times is less critical, but it would be nice to be able to

Re: q ad ftp- w/o system-accounts

2001-07-31 Thread Haim Dimermanas
> Hmm, I don´t want to cope with LDAP and/or MySQL just for a bunch of > ftp-accounts (~ 30). Flat berkeley-db-files are much more appealing > for such small numbers (they´re definitely not supposed to grow, not on > this box, it´s just that I´m much more security-aware since it was > hacked not

Re: need advise: productive HDD is down

2001-07-31 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:16, Dmitry Litovchenko wrote: > > fsck (e2fsck) refuses to fix anything telling different things on > > different partitions, "Cannot mount FAT due to some blah blah blah" or > > "superblock is damaged try to run e2fsck -b 8193 b

Re: need advise: productive HDD is down

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:16, Dmitry Litovchenko wrote: > When connected it to another Debian (of course :) machine, fdisk says > all partitions are ok, this 3G, this 1G etc. but "mount" refuses to > mount any of damaged partitions. Are there any hardware errors being reported? > fsck (e2fsck) refu

Re: Re[2]: LDAP + quotas

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:35, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:43:47AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. This system could work. But I think the real > > > solution would be to devise a way to have system quotas read directly > > > from LDAP. Oh well. C'est

Re: FW: openSSH

2001-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My story: > apt-cache show libssl09 > gave: > Version: 0.9.4-5 I think that there is a back-port of SSL >0.9.5 to potato... > But OpenSSH openssh-2.9p2 claims to need openssl 0.9.5a and up. What happens when you try to compile it? -- http:

Re: a few newbie problems

2001-07-31 Thread Peter Billson
> Everytime I try to apt-get install xxx > I get this error: Kris, If you are still having troubles, it is possible that your list of sites that apt uses to grab packages is not correct and that is why it can't find some of the dependencies. If you are still having trouble, could you post yo

Re: a few newbie problems

2001-07-31 Thread Frank Louwers
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:33:57PM -0700, Kris Blackwood wrote: > I checked to see if apt is installed and it is. > > Everytime I try to apt-get install xxx Try a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" first ... Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: [MY SOLUTION] Recommended way to setup an encrypted tunnel (a VPN)

2001-07-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:59:57AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, > Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 24 > lines which said: > > > I have to connect two networks together and the virtual link needs > > to be safely encrypted

Re: Recommended way to setup an encrypted tunnel (a VPN)

2001-07-31 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:52:24AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 42 lines which said: > I said that IPSec was probably the "best" way because it's > a standard protocol, with companies such as Microsoft and > Cisco supporting it Well, to set up a tunnel, standar

[MY SOLUTION] Recommended way to setup an encrypted tunnel (a VPN)

2001-07-31 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 24 lines which said: > I have to connect two networks together and the virtual link needs to > be safely encrypted (some users know SSH but some will just POP > blindly and LDAP in woody is not