Best way to update perl on Woody Stable ?

2003-10-09 Thread W.D. McKinney
We are back to needing to upgrade perl on one of our mail servers. The version perl-5.8.1.tar.gz is being called for one our apps needed. I am sure I am not the first to run into this on production servers and wondered what approach other folks take ? Thanks, Dee -- W.D.McKinney (Dee)

Re: Best way to update perl on Woody Stable ?

2003-10-09 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:14, Rod Rodolico wrote: You could install the CPAN module on your current system, then use it to update Perl. CAVEAT: CPAN and Debian have, in the past, placed Perl in two separate locations. When I did this before, I did have a problem configuring Perl correctly

Re: Best way to update perl on Woody Stable ?

2003-10-09 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:40, Rod Rodolico wrote: Is there a way to tell apt (dselect) you have certain packages installed? If so, it would make sense to just trash the Debian perl install and install it all from source. I agree with your Perl guru -- roll your own is the best way to go. I

migrating a large mail system

2003-09-08 Thread W.D. McKinney
Sure hope you like Postfix better. It's PITB when you don't get along with your MTA. Best Wishes. Dee On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 07:44, Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Sanders) [2003.09.07 20:55]: qmail is so different to sendmail, exim, postfix, and just about every other unix

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:43:33PM +1000, Rudi Starcevic wrote: Sendmail or Qmail ? That is my question. Well Rudi, You have heard from most camps of users who prefer MTA's for various reasons. Interesting enough, Debian ships exim default, and uses Mailman for it's Debian hosted lists,

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread W.D. McKinney
Hmm. Since '98 ...good for you. All the patches in the world don't help some folks anyway.Qmail has many ways to skin a cat. In the end, it's pick a horse and ride it. Exim, Postfix, Sendmail and qmail all have querks. Like the Mutt homepage, All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:54, martin f krafft wrote: - qmail isn't available as a binary package for Debian Wrong. See http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/ . - qmail support includes being flamed by the author Wrong. Ask a question and find out. Many helpful people who don't flame but as they

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 04:58, Eric Sproul wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:43, Rudi Starcevic wrote: Hi, Sorry to bother you all with this repeat question. I've have searched around and seen plenty of opinions but I'd like to ask again and get the latest from this list. Sendmail or

Re: New to list

2003-08-03 Thread W.D. McKinney
Good for you and good choice. Try http://www.tldp.org for starters. Have fun ! Dee On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 20:13, Anil Gupte wrote: Hi all! I am newbie to Linux, and decide to throw my lot in with Debian. I always learned by asking questions, so I hope you won't mind newbie questions here.

Re: BIND 8 or 9 version ?

2003-07-22 Thread W.D. McKinney
and djb is not compatible with working OSes. :) As in which OS that is not compatible ? And Bind is ? Dee On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:06:39PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It is partly a matter of taste. - v8 is faster - v8 is

SSL wrapping of Outlook ?

2003-06-25 Thread W.D. McKinney
Question: We run sslwrap for POP3 wrapping and I see Outlook for XP when selecting Advanced Options and using SSL enabled for both SMTP and POP connections, that with Ethereal the clear text password is still there in view ? Is this an SSL issue or an Outlook bug ? Previous verions of

SSL wrapping of Outlook ?

2003-06-24 Thread W.D. McKinney
Question: We run sslwrap for POP3 wrapping and I see Outlook for XP when selecting Advanced Options and using SSL enabled for both SMTP and POP connections, that with Ethereal the clear text password is still there in view ? Is this an SSL issue or an Outlook bug ? Previous verions of

Re: Which SSL Company? (Slightly OT)

2003-05-25 Thread W.D. McKinney
Maybe reading a little deeper (broader) on the website and you could answer that question. :-( http://www.whichssl.com/html/who/index.html Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) Alaska Wireless Systems http://3233667600 On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 04:15, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2003 12:32:33 +0200,

Re: sendmail or qmail or what?

2003-05-21 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 07:10, Ana Paula Sabelli wrote: Hi, I´m setting up a mail server, I ´d like to hear opinions about which one is better. TIA Ana Paula Sabelli OK, it's a sysadmin preference type isssue for sure. Having run Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, qmail and atmail, we have settled