Mysqld dying together with safe_mysql

2001-07-03 Thread jens-ingo brodesser

hello,

i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato. 
it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is 
intended to restart a dead mysql server.

has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the safe_mysql script ?

thank you,

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Qmail Installation and Configuration

2001-07-03 Thread Florian DUVAL - HostMaster

Hi Guys !

I'm looking for install Qmail, but i don't understand How to ...
Could someone help me pleaze ?

Florian

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hello,

i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
intended to restart a dead mysql server.

has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the safe_mysql
script ?

thank you,

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Re: Mysqld dying together with safe_mysql

2001-07-03 Thread jens-ingo brodesser

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:49:32PM +0200, jens-ingo brodesser wrote:
  hello,

  i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
  it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
  intended to restart a dead mysql server.

  has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the
   safe_mysql script ?

What does your MySQL error log say?

nothing, it remains empty ...

all /var/log/mysql.err logs are empty


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Re: Qmail Installation and Configuration

2001-07-03 Thread Greg Rowe

The best qmail reference I ever found was http://www.lifewithqmail.com.

To install qmail on debian you should apt-get install qmail-src.  Then run
build-qmail (or something close to that, apt will tell you what to do).

The build-qmail script adds the qmail users and groups and also builds
qmail.

I haven't done this in a while so please correct me if I am wrong...

Greg

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Florian DUVAL - HostMaster wrote:

 Hi Guys !

 I'm looking for install Qmail, but i don't understand How to ...
 Could someone help me pleaze ?

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 hello,

 i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
 it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
 intended to restart a dead mysql server.

 has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the safe_mysql
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 thank you,

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Re: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-03 Thread Holger Lubitz

Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed:
 cards around.  If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet
 ports that unknown MAC addresses appear on.  In some areas (e.g. student
 labs) they do that automatically so kids can't just bring their laptop in
 and hop on napster at 100Mbit.

Easy. Disconnect any machine, set your MAC/IP-addresses to its
addresses, connect your laptop.
Don't know its addresses? Just sniff around on the port for a while, but
make sure you keep quiet.

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RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler

Your method would allow someone to attach their computer to the network,
certainly, but it would not allow them to bypass the traffic shaping
limitations configured for that host.  That is the goal of the original
poster, as I understand.

- jsw


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Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed:
 cards around.  If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet
 ports that unknown MAC addresses appear on.  In some areas (e.g. student
 labs) they do that automatically so kids can't just bring their laptop in
 and hop on napster at 100Mbit.

Easy. Disconnect any machine, set your MAC/IP-addresses to its
addresses, connect your laptop.
Don't know its addresses? Just sniff around on the port for a while, but
make sure you keep quiet.

Holger


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Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-03 Thread Christian Hammers

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:12:31PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
 If your root file system is at the start then it is unlikely to be large 
 enough to break any boot loaders.  Recent boot loaders are very capable...
fill it up to more than 512MB (was it that number?) and then compile a new
kernel years later and it will be after that magical border ans thus 
unaccessable. 

  * /var, as used for logs, can fill up completely if a program
  get mad and prevent other programs than just syslogd from working if
  it's on /
 chgrp log /var/log/*log
 Set quota for log group.  Problem solved?
I would assume that disc quota increase the load on a server. As we're talking 
about a heavily loaded server wich much disc IO (else this partitioning is
not necessary) this would slowdown it, or not?

 From what I've seen LVM is much better at breaking data into pieces than 
 it is at putting them back together...  I wanted to take over maintenance 
 of the LVM packages for Debian but couldn't because I couldn't get it 
 working with a recent kernel!
I use 2.4.6-pre7 and use LVM,reiserfs and ext3 without problems.
(maybe my kernel is just too recent...)

bye,

-christian-

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IP Accounting and 2.4

2001-07-03 Thread Chad C. Walstrom

OK.  New job, new problems.  Whereas I used to be able to ignore
systems administration and networking, it's now my focus.  Our ISP
wants to be able to record IP traffic and bandwidth useage for each of
its users, a common need amongst ISP's.

In my initial search, I found ipac[1] for Debian potato.  It worked
with the 2.2 kernels, but nothing greater.  A little digging brought
me to the ipac-ng[2] site at Sourceforge[3].  Three patches, a new
debian/rules file, multiple debhelper support files later, a manual
include directive to gcc in agents/iptables/Makefile.in, and I had a
working ipac-ng 1.04 package[4] that used iptables.*

The powers that be, those that provide my paycheck, didn't like the
ipac-ng graphics and wanted something prettier.  With ipac-ng came a
few contrib scripts, one for displaying the data via mrtg[5].  The
process is painfully slow and resource intensive, but workable.**
sarcasm Making it scriptable is going to be fun. /sarcasm  I'm
interested in trying rrdtool[6] with the mrtg data, but we're not
there quite yet (another step to set up the web cgi).

The IP's we need to track number in the hundreds, and we're expecting
to have to scale this whole operation many times over.  With ipac-ng
inserting two rules into iptables for each ip tracked, the tables are
starting to look REAL ugly.  I fear that performance on the router is
going suffer (as if it isn't already).

Now, I searched the archives here and took someone's [7] suggestion to
look at fiprad[8].  However, it's kernel module and patch are for the
2.2.14 kernel alone.  The last update to the website looks to be in
March of 2000.  I was intrigued because of the fiprad daemon that
inserted accounting for ipblocks (VERY nice way to configure by the
way), directly into MySQL (not my favorite, but not a problem).  I was
also intrigued by the efficient logic for logging the packets (no nest
of ipchains rules).

I'm interested in finding out what others have done for IP accounting
for a large number of customers.  (Rate limiting and traffic shaping
aside -- a topic for another day.)  If anyone else is interested in
fiprad for the 2.4 kernel, let me know.  I'll send off a copy of this
to the fiprad developers and see if they've worked on it since May
2000.

Footnote

* 1.05, the latest of the ipac-ng thread, had problems parsing the
config file.  In the interest of time alone, I dropped down one
version.

References
--
1. http://packages.debian.org/stable/main/ipac.html
2. http://ipac-ng.sourceforge.net/
3. http://sf.net
4. *.dsc available upon request
5. http://packages.debian.org/stable/main/mrtg.html
6. http://packages.debian.org/stable/main/rrdtool.html
7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp-0101/msg00166.html
8. http://www.umplug.org/fipra/

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Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-03 Thread Nick Jennings

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:26:46AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
 I use 2.4.6-pre7 and use LVM,reiserfs and ext3 without problems.
 (maybe my kernel is just too recent...)
 

 ext3 has just recently been ported over to kernel 2.4, and you have no 
 problems you say? (when I say recent, I mean the task began about 4 weeks
 ago). From what I've heard It does run. but there are still many
 problems.

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Re: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread David Bishop


ATA100 != 100Mhz pci bus.  All that's doing is reporting the pci bus (to 
which the ide controller is attached).  Nothing more, nothing less.  All 
cards/controllers attached to your pci bus will run at that same speed.

HTH.

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 03:49 pm, R K wrote:
 Does the following mean that Linux is only using my ide bus at ata33
 speeds?  Or more accurately not using the full ata100 mode?

 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

 I've seen nothing from dmesg to indicate that it's doing otherwise.  Does
 it configure it as 33 and then still use it to it's full potential or does
 it impose restrictions on itself?  Even if this doesn't have anything to do
 with it, how would I verify that Linux is using the hardware to its full
 potential?

 Thanks in advance

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Re: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, R K wrote:

 Does the following mean that Linux is only using my ide bus at ata33
 speeds?  Or more accurately not using the full ata100 mode?
 
 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
 idebus=xx
 
 I've seen nothing from dmesg to indicate that it's doing
 otherwise.  Does it configure it as 33 and then still use it to it's
 full potential or does it impose restrictions on itself?  Even if this
 doesn't have anything to do with it, how would I verify that Linux is
 using the hardware to its full potential?

Did you note that it said 33MHz and not 33 MB/s ?? And did you note that
it says PIO mode, while ata100 is a DMA mode ??

Entering that message into Google got me the following url:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-May/042555.html which
quotes another message (I am too lazy to find the original) which clearly
explains what this message means.

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Mysqld dying together with safe_mysql

2001-07-03 Thread jens-ingo brodesser
hello,
i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato. 
it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is 
intended to restart a dead mysql server.

has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the safe_mysql script ?
thank you,
--
jens-ingo



Re: Mysqld dying together with safe_mysql

2001-07-03 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:49:32PM +0200, jens-ingo brodesser wrote:
 hello,
 
 i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
 it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
 intended to restart a dead mysql server.
 
 has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the
 safe_mysql script ?

What does your MySQL error log say?
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Qmail Installation and Configuration

2001-07-03 Thread Florian DUVAL - HostMaster
Hi Guys !

I'm looking for install Qmail, but i don't understand How to ...
Could someone help me pleaze ?

Florian

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Objet : Mysqld dying together with safe_mysql


hello,

i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
intended to restart a dead mysql server.

has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the safe_mysql
script ?

thank you,

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Re: Mysqld dying together with safe_mysql

2001-07-03 Thread jens-ingo brodesser
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:49:32PM +0200, jens-ingo brodesser wrote:
 hello,
 i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
 it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
 intended to restart a dead mysql server.
 has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the
  safe_mysql script ?
What does your MySQL error log say?
nothing, it remains empty ...
all /var/log/mysql.err logs are empty



Re: Qmail Installation and Configuration

2001-07-03 Thread Greg Rowe
The best qmail reference I ever found was http://www.lifewithqmail.com.

To install qmail on debian you should apt-get install qmail-src.  Then run
build-qmail (or something close to that, apt will tell you what to do).

The build-qmail script adds the qmail users and groups and also builds
qmail.

I haven't done this in a while so please correct me if I am wrong...

Greg

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Florian DUVAL - HostMaster wrote:

 Hi Guys !

 I'm looking for install Qmail, but i don't understand How to ...
 Could someone help me pleaze ?

 Florian

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 hello,

 i'm experiencing a strange problem with mysqld under debian potato.
 it dies almost allways together with the safe_mysql script which is
 intended to restart a dead mysql server.

 has anybody an explanation for this strange behavior of the safe_mysql
 script ?

 thank you,

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Re: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-03 Thread Holger Lubitz
Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed:
 cards around.  If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet
 ports that unknown MAC addresses appear on.  In some areas (e.g. student
 labs) they do that automatically so kids can't just bring their laptop in
 and hop on napster at 100Mbit.

Easy. Disconnect any machine, set your MAC/IP-addresses to its
addresses, connect your laptop.
Don't know its addresses? Just sniff around on the port for a while, but
make sure you keep quiet.

Holger




RE: users bypassing shaper limitation

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Your method would allow someone to attach their computer to the network,
certainly, but it would not allow them to bypass the traffic shaping
limitations configured for that host.  That is the goal of the original
poster, as I understand.

- jsw


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Lubitz
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:08 AM
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: users bypassing shaper limitation


Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed:
 cards around.  If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet
 ports that unknown MAC addresses appear on.  In some areas (e.g. student
 labs) they do that automatically so kids can't just bring their laptop in
 and hop on napster at 100Mbit.

Easy. Disconnect any machine, set your MAC/IP-addresses to its
addresses, connect your laptop.
Don't know its addresses? Just sniff around on the port for a while, but
make sure you keep quiet.

Holger


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Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-03 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:12:31PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
 If your root file system is at the start then it is unlikely to be large 
 enough to break any boot loaders.  Recent boot loaders are very capable...
fill it up to more than 512MB (was it that number?) and then compile a new
kernel years later and it will be after that magical border ans thus 
unaccessable. 

  * /var, as used for logs, can fill up completely if a program
  get mad and prevent other programs than just syslogd from working if
  it's on /
 chgrp log /var/log/*log
 Set quota for log group.  Problem solved?
I would assume that disc quota increase the load on a server. As we're talking 
about a heavily loaded server wich much disc IO (else this partitioning is
not necessary) this would slowdown it, or not?

 From what I've seen LVM is much better at breaking data into pieces than 
 it is at putting them back together...  I wanted to take over maintenance 
 of the LVM packages for Debian but couldn't because I couldn't get it 
 working with a recent kernel!
I use 2.4.6-pre7 and use LVM,reiserfs and ext3 without problems.
(maybe my kernel is just too recent...)

bye,

-christian-

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They put their source on a public FTP-server and let the world mirror it.
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IP Accounting and 2.4

2001-07-03 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
OK.  New job, new problems.  Whereas I used to be able to ignore
systems administration and networking, it's now my focus.  Our ISP
wants to be able to record IP traffic and bandwidth useage for each of
its users, a common need amongst ISP's.

In my initial search, I found ipac[1] for Debian potato.  It worked
with the 2.2 kernels, but nothing greater.  A little digging brought
me to the ipac-ng[2] site at Sourceforge[3].  Three patches, a new
debian/rules file, multiple debhelper support files later, a manual
include directive to gcc in agents/iptables/Makefile.in, and I had a
working ipac-ng 1.04 package[4] that used iptables.*

The powers that be, those that provide my paycheck, didn't like the
ipac-ng graphics and wanted something prettier.  With ipac-ng came a
few contrib scripts, one for displaying the data via mrtg[5].  The
process is painfully slow and resource intensive, but workable.**
sarcasm Making it scriptable is going to be fun. /sarcasm  I'm
interested in trying rrdtool[6] with the mrtg data, but we're not
there quite yet (another step to set up the web cgi).

The IP's we need to track number in the hundreds, and we're expecting
to have to scale this whole operation many times over.  With ipac-ng
inserting two rules into iptables for each ip tracked, the tables are
starting to look REAL ugly.  I fear that performance on the router is
going suffer (as if it isn't already).

Now, I searched the archives here and took someone's [7] suggestion to
look at fiprad[8].  However, it's kernel module and patch are for the
2.2.14 kernel alone.  The last update to the website looks to be in
March of 2000.  I was intrigued because of the fiprad daemon that
inserted accounting for ipblocks (VERY nice way to configure by the
way), directly into MySQL (not my favorite, but not a problem).  I was
also intrigued by the efficient logic for logging the packets (no nest
of ipchains rules).

I'm interested in finding out what others have done for IP accounting
for a large number of customers.  (Rate limiting and traffic shaping
aside -- a topic for another day.)  If anyone else is interested in
fiprad for the 2.4 kernel, let me know.  I'll send off a copy of this
to the fiprad developers and see if they've worked on it since May
2000.

Footnote

* 1.05, the latest of the ipac-ng thread, had problems parsing the
config file.  In the interest of time alone, I dropped down one
version.

References
--
1. http://packages.debian.org/stable/main/ipac.html
2. http://ipac-ng.sourceforge.net/
3. http://sf.net
4. *.dsc available upon request
5. http://packages.debian.org/stable/main/mrtg.html
6. http://packages.debian.org/stable/main/rrdtool.html
7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp-0101/msg00166.html
8. http://www.umplug.org/fipra/

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ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread R K



Does the following mean that Linux is only using my 
ide bus at ata33 speeds? Or more accurately not using the full ata100 
mode?

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for 
PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

I've seen nothing from dmesg to indicate that it's 
doing otherwise. Does it configure it as 33 and then still use it to it's 
full potential or does it impose restrictions on itself? Even if this 
doesn't have anything to do with it, how would I verify that Linux is using the 
hardware to its full potential?

Thanks in advance


Re: disk partition schemes

2001-07-03 Thread Nick Jennings
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:26:46AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
 I use 2.4.6-pre7 and use LVM,reiserfs and ext3 without problems.
 (maybe my kernel is just too recent...)
 

 ext3 has just recently been ported over to kernel 2.4, and you have no 
 problems you say? (when I say recent, I mean the task began about 4 weeks
 ago). From what I've heard It does run. but there are still many
 problems.

-- 
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Re: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread David Bishop

ATA100 != 100Mhz pci bus.  All that's doing is reporting the pci bus (to 
which the ide controller is attached).  Nothing more, nothing less.  All 
cards/controllers attached to your pci bus will run at that same speed.

HTH.

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 03:49 pm, R K wrote:
 Does the following mean that Linux is only using my ide bus at ata33
 speeds?  Or more accurately not using the full ata100 mode?

 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

 I've seen nothing from dmesg to indicate that it's doing otherwise.  Does
 it configure it as 33 and then still use it to it's full potential or does
 it impose restrictions on itself?  Even if this doesn't have anything to do
 with it, how would I verify that Linux is using the hardware to its full
 potential?

 Thanks in advance

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a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated.
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Re: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, R K wrote:

 Does the following mean that Linux is only using my ide bus at ata33
 speeds?  Or more accurately not using the full ata100 mode?
 
 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
 idebus=xx
 
 I've seen nothing from dmesg to indicate that it's doing
 otherwise.  Does it configure it as 33 and then still use it to it's
 full potential or does it impose restrictions on itself?  Even if this
 doesn't have anything to do with it, how would I verify that Linux is
 using the hardware to its full potential?

Did you note that it said 33MHz and not 33 MB/s ?? And did you note that
it says PIO mode, while ata100 is a DMA mode ??

Entering that message into Google got me the following url:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-May/042555.html which
quotes another message (I am too lazy to find the original) which clearly
explains what this message means.

-- 
Tot ziens,

Bart-Jan




RE: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
You can use the hdparm utility to discover what mode your disks are
operating in.  Notice the second-to-last line that begins with 'DMA modes:'.
The '*' next to udma4 indicates it is operating in that mode, which equates
to something commonly called ATA/66.  :-)

intrepid:/home/jsw# hdparm -i /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:

 Model=Maxtor 96147U8, FwRev=BAC51KJ0, SerialNo=N8046RBC
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=120060864
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
 Kernel Drive Geometry LogicalCHS=7473/255/63

- jsw


-Original Message-
From: R K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:49 PM
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: ATA Speed


Does the following mean that Linux is only using my ide bus at ata33 speeds?
Or more accurately not using the full ata100 mode?

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

I've seen nothing from dmesg to indicate that it's doing otherwise.  Does it
configure it as 33 and then still use it to it's full potential or does it
impose restrictions on itself?  Even if this doesn't have anything to do
with it, how would I verify that Linux is using the hardware to its full
potential?

Thanks in advance