Re: [Fwd: Cron root@ghost test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]
Ashby Gochenour wrote: Hey Guys, I am not sure what this cron log is saying. Can anyone elaborate on this log? /etc/cron.daily/exim: deleted T:schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de:130.149.220.3 (too old) Read your /etc/cron.daily/exim, there must be a line with 'exim_tidydb -t ...' in it. Read the Exim manual to find out what exim_tidydb is. Tech Support wrote: There was a message sitting undeliverable in you mail queue for longer then your exim.config allows so it was deleted during exim's daily housecleaning. The mail was to the referenced domain. Check your exim/mainlog for details on why it failed to be delivered. Try to find out what the cron message says pls, before giving wrong answer. -m- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim as a gateway
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 at 21:58:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here's the picture. I have a Debian box as the SMTP gateway for about 4000 active nodes on a class B network. Many of these machines run sendmail, misconfigured, of course. I have MX records for the inside machines in the DNS all pointing to the gateway, which is configured to deny 3rd party relay. But, since it just forwards to the real machine, the relays still happen. Is there any way to stop this at the gateway machine? You can block at the border router all outgoing connections to SMTP port (25) _besides_ these ones which originate from your "legal" SMTP gateway. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NOC scripting
On Tuesday 23 January 2001, at 10 h 26, the keyboard of Michael Boman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may ask? Well, what if the router/switch/firewall/another-single-point-of-failure between your monitoring server and the rest of the network goes down? BB will scream that every server/router (etc) you have on the other side is down, while NetSaint understands that it's the router/firewall/etc that is down. mon http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ does the same, with its useful feature 'depend': watch kata service http interval 2m monitor http.monitor depend kata:ping If the machine does not reply to pings, there is no need testing Apache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NOC scripting
Funcionan con SNMP habilitado o simples paquetes UDP Jorge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Exim Outlook question
MB Sanjeev Gupta wrote: Far be it for a SysAdm to interfere with another, but this beats BOFH by a mile. This is classic ROTFL material. You are joking, right? ;-) MB I can see a few occasions when this might be useful. MB Take for an example when the Computer/IT/Security policy ban the use of MB MS Outlook MUA because of the security risk it has (anyone still MB remember the love letter and/or melissa virus?), then banning Outlook MB from using the mail server is a perfectly valid reason. MB Just my $0.02 That's the idea ! The mail viruses are in fact Outlook viruses. The M$Outlook is the only mail client with the unique ability to execute gif pictures (yes execute not only display) and many other "useful features" (security holes) like this. -- Best regards, Minta Adrian - YO3GIH phone: +401.683.66.52 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~gygy/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NOC scripting
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:37:25PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Tuesday 23 January 2001, at 10 h 26, the keyboard of Michael Boman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you may ask? Well, what if the
router/switch/firewall/another-single-point-of-failure between your
monitoring server and the rest of the network goes down? BB will scream
that every server/router (etc) you have on the other side is down, while
NetSaint understands that it's the router/firewall/etc that is down.
mon http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ does the same, with its
useful feature 'depend':
watch kata
service http
interval 2m
monitor http.monitor
depend kata:ping
If the machine does not reply to pings, there is no need testing
Apache.
Yes, and mon is very very nice. I have a 'main-mon' instance running on
one machine that monitors everything from pingability to router port
status (via snmp) to mysql status, radius server status, disk space,
etc, with a simple dependency setup so that if a router port goes down
(did I mention MCI sucks?), I don't get alerted about remote systems
being unreachable or ssh failing on them, just the router port.
Because I'm paranoid, I have a 'mini-mon' running on another machine
that just makes sure 'main-mon' is running. (Okay, it's never failed,
but the machine 'mini-mon' is running on is sorta flaky and makes me
paranoid)
It's simple to use, simple to write your own monitors for, and flexible
(use m4 for configs!). It can be accessed via command line ('monshow'
or 'moncmd') or from a web interface ('monshow' or 'mon.cgi') which
I use depends on where I am.
Oh, and the way cool feature: 'acks' of alerts. You can say 'damn, MCI
sucks again', ack the page and mon won't page you again about that
outage until it comes back up again. (ie, it's a "disable this until
it's fixed, but then re-enable it" so you don't have to remember to do
it). Jim Trocki has a cool pager that he can use to ack pages without
actually logging in.
Mon is what lets me sleep at night.
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AW: NOC scripting
I used to uses some of RDDTools, BigBrother, mon,... but still need to login to a few servers. Despite that Bots (and i will try that earlier mentiond NetSaint, too :) so i'm interereset in that kind of thing too... ar -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Januar 2001 15:34 An: Debian Ghost Cc: debian-isp Betreff: Re: NOC scripting On Monday 22 January 2001, at 18 h 16, the keyboard of Debian Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using to develop the system. I plan on using enlightenment as a WM and wanted to ask for advice on the best way to write a script to open multiple terminal windows (Eterm or Xterm) to connect and log in to the many various systems that we monitor. It looks really old-fashioned. Many years ago, I saw supervision consoles in telcos which were operated that way, with a human in front of the console 24h/day, with nothing else to do than to watch. Unless you have a lot of staff, why not use more automatic systems like mon http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: NOC scripting
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Andreas Rabus wrote: I used to uses some of RDDTools, BigBrother, mon,... but still need to login to a few servers. Despite that Bots (and i will try that earlier mentiond NetSaint, too :) so i'm interereset in that kind of thing too... Sure, sometimes you can't fix things without logging in. It should be a trivial task to take your favorite window manager (fvwm2! :)) and add buttons and/or menu items to log into a remote machine. That and a web browser should be all you need. (And if you're bored, it's not hard to convince monshow to provide rlogin: url's on the details for each item... you should be able to convince Netscape to use ssh instead of rlogin see the Navigator/Applications preferences menu.) If you want real-time-pretty-graphs and such, look at scotty... not nearly as useful as mon since I've never convinced it to page me, but you can get real-time displays of all sorts of useless things and build a mini diagnostic/display tool (where clicking on a computer could open an ssh session). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NOC scripting
Hello Everyone, Thank you all for the replies regarding Big Brother/Netsaint/mon. Those are all very well to monitor hosts and networks. We aleready have something similar implemented made by Harris Systems. I was doing a seperate project to actually have a machine that has all connections open automatically (via ssh, telnet, rsh) and yes, many of these systems do have a funky interface that needs vt100 or something similar (mostly telco switches and devices) so I gess basically what I need is a scripting method to read in login: and reply passwd: and reply and a method to place and size Eterm/Xterm on various virtual desktops (E) ? I don't need an all around monitoring system, but rather a machine to supply actual connections to devices. Thanks, Ashby Gochenour NTELOS NOC On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 22 January 2001, at 18 h 16, the keyboard of Debian Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using to develop the system. I plan on using enlightenment as a WM and wanted to ask for advice on the best way to write a script to open multiple terminal windows (Eterm or Xterm) to connect and log in to the many various systems that we monitor. It looks really old-fashioned. Many years ago, I saw supervision consoles in telcos which were operated that way, with a human in front of the console 24h/day, with nothing else to do than to watch. Unless you have a lot of staff, why not use more automatic systems like mon http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian vs. freeBSD
Hey All, I know I've been causing a lot of mail on the list lately, but I hope to get a good response out of this one too. My manager has asked me to write a proposal on installing Debian or FreeBSD on a few servers here that will be used (internally to the company- i.e- non production) for basic services such as NFS, mail, apache (backing a request tracker ticketing system), internal DNS and ftp services. I've been using debian for about a year and a half and have used freeBSD for a few months back in 1998 before laying it aside for linux. From my experiences I can't really see why one would be superior to the other if configured properly. Do any of you as debian-ispers have any opinions of things I could list in the proposal? Thanks for the time. This is the best list I've seen in quite some time as everyone is curtious and non FLAMEboyant :) Kindly, Ashby Gochenour NTELOS NOC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian vs. freeBSD
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Debian Ghost wrote: Hey All, I know I've been causing a lot of mail on the list lately, but I hope to get a good response out of this one too. My manager has asked me to write a proposal on installing Debian or FreeBSD on a few servers here that will be used (internally to the company- i.e- non production) for basic services such as NFS, mail, apache (backing a request tracker ticketing system), internal DNS and ftp services. I've been using debian for about a year and a half and have used freeBSD for a few months back in 1998 before laying it aside for linux. From my experiences I can't really see why one would be superior to the other if configured properly. Do any of you as debian-ispers have any opinions of things I could list in the proposal? Thanks for the time. This is the best list I've seen in quite some time as everyone is curtious and non FLAMEboyant :) Kindly, Ashby Gochenour NTELOS NOC Well, I would say go with what you know the best. As you will most likely run the exact same programs, but compiled for your system, you can always change later if you find any problems. As far as I know FreeBSD is supposedly a tad sharper with very heavy load, but Linux supports more hardware and can be easier to start with. Regards Roger Abrahamsson - Roger Abrahamsson, Sys/Net Admin, Obbit AB Radhusespl.17D, S-90328 Umea, Sweden - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian vs. freeBSD
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:42:20PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: Hey All, I know I've been causing a lot of mail on the list lately, but I hope to get a good response out of this one too. My manager has asked me to write a proposal on installing Debian or FreeBSD on a few servers here that will be used (internally to the company- i.e- non production) for basic services such as NFS, mail, apache (backing a request tracker ticketing system), internal DNS and ftp services. I've been using debian for about a year and a half and have used freeBSD for a few months back in 1998 before laying it aside for linux. From my experiences I can't really see why one would be superior to the other if configured properly. Do any of you as debian-ispers have any opinions of things I could list in the proposal? Thanks for the time. This is the best list I've seen in quite some time as everyone is curtious and non FLAMEboyant :) So you ask a flamebait question? Hrrmph. Seriously, the differences are mostly religious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ADSL modems that work in linux ??
I am looking into some DSL solutions and have yet to find any PCI ADSL modems that are supported in linux. i was wondering if anyone knew of any. short of this what other adsl options to people know of other than buying an ADSL router ?? ie other modem setups, USB or whatever. TIA -=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=- -=| Daniel Free Earthlight Communications LTD|=- -=| [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ#15707938 |=- -=| Cellular # 021 258 3389 HTTP://quake.earthlight.co.nz/ |=- -=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=-=|=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL modems that work in linux ??
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:54:40 +1300, Daniel Free writes: short of this what other adsl options to people know of other than buying an ADSL router ?? ie other modem setups, USB or whatever. here in .at the telco supplies external adsl-modems which connect to your equipment via PPTP/ethernet. they are not exactly routers, but rather function as a kind of bridge...while this method being *far* from optimal there are pptp-clients for linux and they work (Im writing this over such a connection ;) ), AFAIR the modems can also do PPPoE, but the telco doesnt support this (yet). manufacturer is Alcatel, my model (for adsl/isdn) is called a "SpeedTouch 1000 ADSL", look at http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/supuser.htm , maybe you can find something there which fits your needs. hth, rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
