Re: qmail or postfix? (was: RE: What is the best mailling list manager for qmail and Domain Tech. Control ?)

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas Lamy
Bjørnar Bjørgum Larsen wrote: I am in the process of choosing between postfix and qmail for our mail relays. I've not decided yet. However, I am surprised by the fact that many people who prefer postfix, also enjoy posting unqualified[0] statements[1][2][3] about qmail. If anyone have properly

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-07 Thread Thomas Lamy
Lucas Albers wrote: I use mimedefang testing, spamaassassing unstable, and kernel 2.4.23, on my production external mx server. Everything else is stable. The only externally exposed service, sendmail is stable. I tried unstable sendmail, but TLS didn't work. And I would not have timelly updates.

Re: How do you manage Perl modules?

2004-02-07 Thread Thomas Lamy
Lucas Albers wrote: I use mimedefang testing, spamaassassing unstable, and kernel 2.4.23, on my production external mx server. Everything else is stable. The only externally exposed service, sendmail is stable. I tried unstable sendmail, but TLS didn't work. And I would not have timelly updates.

Re: Postfix-mysql-procmail

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Fraser Campbell wrote: On January 10, 2004 09:17 am, Robert Hensel wrote: I currently have a properly working postfix-mysql setup. This all works fine, but I would like to implement an autoresponder/other stuff. The problem is, that for example procmail doesn't seem to work with virtual users.

Re: Mailscanner vs. amavis vs. other

2003-12-05 Thread Thomas Lamy
Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, We've had some experience with amavis over the last few years and while it generally works it has an a tendency to lose the occassional message or just continually requeue messages until their queue time expires and the message bounces. We're using amavisd-postfix.

Re: Automated solutions for a small ISP

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Lamy
Igor Wawrzyniak wrote: I work for a small Internet provider. I'm getting tired of entering the same information in many places (e.g., new client's IP into DHCP, DNS and /etc/ethers). I'd like to have a system which automates such tasks (OK, I've got a few scripts, but that's not enough). I have a

RE: splitting a subnet in an odd way

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Lamy
Leonardo Boselli wrote: You forget one thing: there are 10 other machines (addresses 3 to 13) that need not to be firewalled, and must be accessible from ANY pother ost either internally and externally, without passing the FW. The second group really is not a problem, since are just

RE: Where to get 'DCC' and 'pyzor' packages from?

2003-09-24 Thread Thomas Lamy
Dominik Schulz wrote: Dear List, since Spam is becoming more and more unpleasant I'm currently looking deeper into configuring SpamAssassin better. When running spamd in Debug mode I realized that dcc (distributed checksum clearinghouse) und pyzor were not installed. So I've started

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-21 Thread Thomas Lamy
Mathieu Martin wrote: Mario Lopez wrote: Why not using 'roundrobin' ??? Install a couple of Web-Servers, give each Server an IP and then setup for each Server a A-Record on your DNS-Server pointing to the same hostname. The problem with round robin is that when one server

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Lamy
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2003-09-17 01:49:31, schrieb Shri Shrikumar: Hi, I am looking to implement an Apache cluster with Load Balancing and failover and after going through several options, the only one that is not too complex and does everything that I need seems to be pen Why

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

2003-09-17 Thread Thomas Lamy
Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:46, Markus Oswald wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:00, Shri Shrikumar wrote: Looking at the documentation for LVS, it mentions that it needs two nodes, a primary node and a backup node which then feeds into n real servers.

RE: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-05 Thread Thomas Lamy
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Dale E Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.04.1447 +0200]: Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be interested in elaboration, if there is something technically inferior about exim or postfix to qmail or sendmail? Or politically, I

RE: Servers with X.

2003-08-18 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jeff Waugh wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:28, Rudi Starcevic wrote: Is it bad practise to use X on your Debian ISP/Hosting machines ? Here I have 4 boxes all without X. I've always been of the impression X on servers was not good. It's not a terrible thing to do, unless you forget

RE: Apache + PHP4

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Lamy
it. -- Thomas Lamy[EMAIL PROTECTED] Softwareentwicklunghttp://www.netwake.de/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Apache + PHP4 Dear, I have a problem. I

RE: PHP 4.3?

2003-07-28 Thread Thomas Lamy
Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: Can anyone tell me why Debian php is still at version 4.2.3 while official PHP is at version 4.3.2 (4.3.3RC1)? Is there any reason not to upgrade to 4.3.2? The maintainers seem to be busy re-debianizing the whole package, trying to sort out all SSL and/or

Re: Weird Reboots

2003-07-22 Thread Thomas Lamy
Russell Coker wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:40, Blu wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:09:29AM -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote: I don't understand what is going on. My machine has rebooted 5 times between 10:00 and 18:00. I looked in syslog and the line contains 109 at signs (@). That

Re: Traffic Accounting

2003-07-21 Thread Thomas Lamy
Volker Tanger wrote: Greetings! On 19 Jul 2003 23:35:08 +0300 kgb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is best way for traffic accounting i use ipac-ng but i don't like it anymore because it make my system under high load. If you don't want to mess around with IPtables just to do traffic

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-07-04 Thread Thomas Lamy
Shri Shrikumar: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:30, Mario Lopez wrote: In any case if you have a lkm rootkit, your done, dosent matter if you upload static, dinamic or whatever, kernel root kits are hard to find, not even lsmod, rmmod can help you because it is quite easy to make a kernel

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-07-04 Thread Thomas Lamy
Shri Shrikumar: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:30, Mario Lopez wrote: In any case if you have a lkm rootkit, your done, dosent matter if you upload static, dinamic or whatever, kernel root kits are hard to find, not even lsmod, rmmod can help you because it is quite easy to make a kernel

Re: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jason Lim wrote: Hi Eduard, Nowadays, many motherboards have built-in ethernet ports. The most common seem to be either the SiS chipset (SIS900) or Intel's one (don't know what model number... but i think eepro or something?) Realtek is the most common PCI one... virtually all

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Lamy
Mario Lopez wrote: Hi!, First. We need some fresh clean tools; kill, killall, ps, more, netstat, ls, dpkg, apt-tools, chattr, lsattr, bash (or whatever shell you prefer). Replace your shell with the clean one (the /etc/passwd -race). Better, boot off a clean medium (I prefer

Re: Woody Stable and Kernel 2.4.21

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jason Lim wrote: Hi Eduard, Nowadays, many motherboards have built-in ethernet ports. The most common seem to be either the SiS chipset (SIS900) or Intel's one (don't know what model number... but i think eepro or something?) Realtek is the most common PCI one... virtually all

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-07-03 Thread Thomas Lamy
Mario Lopez wrote: Hi!, First. We need some fresh clean tools; kill, killall, ps, more, netstat, ls, dpkg, apt-tools, chattr, lsattr, bash (or whatever shell you prefer). Replace your shell with the clean one (the /etc/passwd -race). Better, boot off a clean medium (I prefer

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-06-29 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jason Lim: Hi Russell, Well, SE Linux certainly seems like something that needs to be installed. Most annoying is that all the recent security updates were already done! The user CGIs run as the user's UID... suexec. Consider to chroot apache, and keep available binaries to a minimum.

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-06-29 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jason Lim: Hi Russell, Well, SE Linux certainly seems like something that needs to be installed. Most annoying is that all the recent security updates were already done! The user CGIs run as the user's UID... suexec. Consider to chroot apache, and keep available binaries to a minimum.

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
20286R with success with Debian. But my personal impression is: If you have the choice, go with 3ware. Their card design is superb, 3ware cards are definitly the best IDE Raid controllers when it comes to Linux support. Just my 2c, Thomas -- Thomas Lamy[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Large Hard Disks and Debian

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
20286R with success with Debian. But my personal impression is: If you have the choice, go with 3ware. Their card design is superb, 3ware cards are definitly the best IDE Raid controllers when it comes to Linux support. Just my 2c, Thomas -- Thomas Lamy[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP versioning and security information

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Lamy
Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, I have backported unstable's php 4.2.3 packages to woody and I've been using them successfully for a few months. I am rather concerned about security so I sent the following message to the php-general mailing list. So far I have no response (granted

Re: PHP versioning and security information

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Lamy
-- I wrote: Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, I have backported unstable's php 4.2.3 packages to woody and I've been using them successfully for a few months. I am rather concerned about security so I sent the following message to the php-general mailing list. So far I

Re: PHP versioning and security information

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Lamy
Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, I have backported unstable's php 4.2.3 packages to woody and I've been using them successfully for a few months. I am rather concerned about security so I sent the following message to the php-general mailing list. So far I have no response (granted

Re: PHP versioning and security information

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Lamy
-- I wrote: Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, I have backported unstable's php 4.2.3 packages to woody and I've been using them successfully for a few months. I am rather concerned about security so I sent the following message to the php-general mailing list. So far I

AW: {G} Problem Compiling Exim on woody

2003-06-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Gregory Machin wrote: I have compiled exim on this system before no problem , but no when i try and compile i get the following error. If file include from exim.h:341, from exim_dbmbuild.c:30: dbstuff.h:101: db.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [exim_dbmbuild.o]

Re: XEON SMP KERNEL 2.4.20 tree

2003-06-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Emile van Bergen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:21:27AM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: I have 3 dual processor IBM Netfinity Servers with the XEON P3 (1Mb Cache). [...] Does anyone know of any SMP problems with the 2.4.20 kernel ? If not, who should I report this

AW: {G} Problem Compiling Exim on woody

2003-06-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Gregory Machin wrote: I have compiled exim on this system before no problem , but no when i try and compile i get the following error. If file include from exim.h:341, from exim_dbmbuild.c:30: dbstuff.h:101: db.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [exim_dbmbuild.o]

Re: XEON SMP KERNEL 2.4.20 tree

2003-06-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Emile van Bergen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:21:27AM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: I have 3 dual processor IBM Netfinity Servers with the XEON P3 (1Mb Cache). [...] Does anyone know of any SMP problems with the 2.4.20 kernel ? If not, who should I report this

Re: Antivirus license

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Lamy
Brad Lay wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: Hi I want to put an antivirus on the mail server (BugBear helped me to convince my boss). Now is time for wondering about licenses. Kaspersky and F-Prot (two examples) have a product for a mail server.

Re: Antivirus license

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Lamy
Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: I have a doubt respecting amavis... I've read there are some antiviruses that run in daemon mode (clamav-daemon, sophie) because if you want to check a lot of files every 2 or 3 seconds (like a mail server does), it takes a lot of resources to load virus

AW: loadbalancing

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Lamy
Joost Veldkamp wrote: Hi, We're using old cisco Localdirectors for loadbalancing between webservers. These need to be replaced by something else, because they are EOL. Are there software packages that can do the same as the localdirector, with failover functionality? I looked at

Re: Antivirus license

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Lamy
Brad Lay wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: Hi I want to put an antivirus on the mail server (BugBear helped me to convince my boss). Now is time for wondering about licenses. Kaspersky and F-Prot (two examples) have a product for a mail server.

Re: Antivirus license

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Lamy
Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: I have a doubt respecting amavis... I've read there are some antiviruses that run in daemon mode (clamav-daemon, sophie) because if you want to check a lot of files every 2 or 3 seconds (like a mail server does), it takes a lot of resources to load virus

AW: loadbalancing

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Lamy
Joost Veldkamp wrote: Hi, We're using old cisco Localdirectors for loadbalancing between webservers. These need to be replaced by something else, because they are EOL. Are there software packages that can do the same as the localdirector, with failover functionality? I looked at

Re: German KK-applications and domain transfers

2003-05-24 Thread Thomas Lamy
Cameron Moore wrote: This is a little off-topic, but I figure someone here has to know this. A customer of mine is wanting to buy a domain from a German citizen. They tell me that the German told them to fill out a KK-application to get the domain transferred. Can anyone tell me where

Re: Using hash directories

2003-05-23 Thread Thomas Lamy
Emmanuel Lacour wrote: Hi, I would like to understand why some softwares such as postfix or squid uses hash of directories like: a/a/ b/a/ c/a/ d/a/darmond e/a/ f/a/ for their spools. I will set up a server for a lot of mail accounts (~2) with

Re: can't compile courier-imap with authmysql *G*

2003-05-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Gregory Machin wrote: I can't compile with authmysql on debian 3 woody... yes i do have all the require lib's for mysql got a full server install and libmysqlclient10 installed. I have tried the following as sergested by the faq and in mailing list...

AW: Exim 4 giving trouble compiling on woody HELP

2003-05-01 Thread Thomas Lamy
Gregory Machin wrote: This is my make output . As far as i can the all the files that arequired on the system are there. and the Makefile is set to point to the correct loactions. [...] gcc -o exim acl.o child.o crypt16.o daemon.o dbfn.o debug.o deliver.o directory.o dns.o drtables.o

Re: Open File Limit

2003-05-01 Thread Thomas Lamy
Rus Foster wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2003, Matthew Walkup wrote: However, every morning, I run a Perl script that processes all of my apache logs into webalizer. I believe it is this script, that cause me to get several errors in the /var/log/daemon.log (The cron.daily is run at

Re: Network monitor

2003-05-01 Thread Thomas Lamy
Ghe Rivero wrote: Hi! I would like to monitor a complex and heterogeneus network, but i dont know what to use for it. It should be almost real time monitor and has any kind of alerts (sound, sms..) Any idea? Thx Ghe Rivero I use netsaint, and heard of other tools like big

Re: Re making routes permanent

2003-05-01 Thread Thomas Lamy
Tarragon Allen wrote: e.g. something like this in /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast x.x.x.255 up route add -net y.y.y.y gw z.z.z.z up route add -net a.a.a.a gw z.z.z.z And you should really put

Re: making routes permanent

2003-04-28 Thread Thomas Lamy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (get yourself a real name) wrote: i currently have 2 route add -net statments in my inittab file.. Where is the corret place to save route setting. I have a number of routes that need to be permanent and must survive a system resart. Gregory Machin I learned that

Re: Squid 2

2003-04-18 Thread Thomas Lamy
Andreas Krüger wrote: Hello people. I have just installed Squid 2 on my debian box and started it. However, it seems to not work, when I enter the information in my browser for a proxy (gatekeeper.no-9.dk and 3125) then it just says it has not any access to the proxy. Could it be because

AW: Raid 1 woes

2003-04-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Craig wrote: Hi guys I am getting the following error message from cron Does anyone know what steps I need to take to resync these broken mirrors ? And what the U stands for ? [...] Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md2 : active raid1

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-09 Thread Thomas Lamy
Oliver Hitz wrote: On 08 Apr 2003, Thomas Lamy wrote: I recently switched to mydns (http://mydns.bboy.net/). As all data is stored in a mysql (or pgsql) backend, it's easy to edit zones/resource records. And While I see that it may be useful to have zone data in an sql backend, I

Re: which dns server to use ?

2003-04-08 Thread Thomas Lamy
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 06:30:48PM +0200, Markus Welsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Which dns server would you suggest ? Why not PowerDNS URL:http://www.powerdns.com/, the only one which is fully extensible? BIND (

Re: Postfix log analizer

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas Lamy
Andre Luis Lopes wrote: Hi, Does someone know a good Postfix log analizer which could generate reports featuring the sender and recipient addressess for each message which went through Postfix ? -- André Luís Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should give pflogsumm a try. -- Thomas

Re: Postfix log analizer

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas Lamy
Andre Luis Lopes wrote: Hi, Does someone know a good Postfix log analizer which could generate reports featuring the sender and recipient addressess for each message which went through Postfix ? -- André Luís Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should give pflogsumm a try. -- Thomas

Re: Free Radius Software

2003-03-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: [] mic:/etc/apt# apt-cache search radiusd-freeradius radiusd-freeradius - A high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server [] tom:/etc/apt# apt-cache search radiusd-freeradius tom:/etc/apt# apt-get install radiusd-freeradius Reading Package

Re: Neighbour table overflow problem

2003-03-07 Thread Thomas Lamy
Jeff S Wheeler wrote: Dear list, I have a linux 2.4 box running zebra and acting as a default gateway for a number of machines. I am concerned about Neighbour table overflow output in my dmesg. From some articles I've read on usenet, this is related to the arp table becoming full. Most

Re: Small Debian Installs

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lamy
and have made progress, but I have a lot to learn and many problems remain -- if there is an easier way I'd like to try it. Sorry, I never went that path. Sounds like an adventure, though :-) Randy Kramer Thomas Lamy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Tayloring Debian Installs

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lamy
Hi, some days ago I had the task of setting up 6 debian servers for our web server farm. It was rather boring to do the base install, alter the apt.conf and sources.list (we run a combo of testing/stable), de-select unwanted default packages (you know the score...). I'd like to streamline that

Re: Tayloring Debian Installs

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lamy
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:54, Thomas Lamy wrote: [installing multiple servers] For large scale/frequent installation happenings: fai Don't use it myself, but I hear it's really great when you've set it all up. I also received some direct

Re: Small Debian Installs

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lamy
and have made progress, but I have a lot to learn and many problems remain -- if there is an easier way I'd like to try it. Sorry, I never went that path. Sounds like an adventure, though :-) Randy Kramer Thomas Lamy

Tayloring Debian Installs

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lamy
Hi, some days ago I had the task of setting up 6 debian servers for our web server farm. It was rather boring to do the base install, alter the apt.conf and sources.list (we run a combo of testing/stable), de-select unwanted default packages (you know the score...). I'd like to streamline that

Re: Tayloring Debian Installs

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lamy
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:54, Thomas Lamy wrote: [installing multiple servers] For large scale/frequent installation happenings: fai Don't use it myself, but I hear it's really great when you've set it all up. I also received some direct

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: Email doesn't really need much processing, but does take surprisingly large amounts of disk space. Obviously such things differ depending on exactly who is using the service and what they are doing. But my

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Lamy
Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:34, Colin Ellis wrote: Email doesn't really need much processing, but does take surprisingly large amounts of disk space. Obviously such things differ depending on exactly who is using the service and what they are doing. But my

AW: Bandwidth monitoring

2003-02-12 Thread Thomas Lamy
Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi, When installing servers in a colocated environment what do people suggest for monitoring bandwidth used by virtual hosts on that server? Traffic will be http, https and smtp. I'm hoping this can be accomplished without dedicating an IP to each host/domain

Easy trouble ticket system?

2003-02-11 Thread Thomas Lamy
Hi, can anybody recommend a simple (to set up and maintain) TTS for ISP use? We want to - auto-assign ticket ids to incoming support requests (by mail or web form) - assign tickets to individuals or groups - have a simple ticket report system (where customers can look up the state of their

Re: Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Thomas Lamy
Hi, just a quick guess, but maybe Evolution tries to open too many parallel imap connections. The courier default is max 4 connections per IP, you can change this is /etc/courier/imapd (parameter name is MAXPERIP) Thomas -- Thomas Lamy[EMAIL PROTECTED] Softwareentwicklung