Re: upgrading just one stable package to testing version

2002-03-17 Thread Jason Lim

OR... you could simply download the ssh testing deb file and install
that... (don't know what the dependencies are though).

- Original Message -
From: Jeremy Lunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: upgrading just one stable package to testing version


 On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:51AM +1100, Toby Thain wrote:
  I've just upgraded one Debian 2.2 machine from stable to testing and
  other 2.2 stable machines can't ssh into it (Disconnecting: Bad
  packet length 1349676916). So I'd like to upgrade ssh on the client
  machine to the testing version. But I don't know how to do this
  other than adding testing to the apt-get sources, dselect upgrade,
  etc., which will upgrade everything. Can anyone explain to me how to
  be more selective?

 I'm not sure how this related to debian-isp but anyway you could add
 testing to your sources.list and do:
 apt-get update  apt-get -u install ssh

 Then either take it out again or create an /etc/apt/preferences file
 with something along the lines of:
 Package: *
 Pin: release a=testing
 Pin-Priority: 50

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Re: booting from CompactFlash Cards

2002-03-17 Thread Nicolas BOUGUES

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:35:44AM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote:
 Where do you buy your CF cards that are bootable, and the IDE adapters? 
 I would like to do the same thing and would really appreciate it if you
 would send me over your vendor information.  Part numbers would be nice
 if you have them handy, too!
 

I bought CF to IDE adapters from ACS (http://www.acscontrol.com). $20
each, you can order online.

The CF cards I use are no-name 128 MB cards bought from a local
retailer. I believe there's nothing special about them, except they
were the cheapest around :)

As stated on ACS website, if your application works with IDE drives,
it will work with a CF card and our CF to IDE adapter.

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Re: upgrading just one stable package to testing version

2002-03-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:51 +1100, Toby Thain wrote:
 I've just upgraded one Debian 2.2 machine from stable to testing and other
 2.2 stable machines can't ssh into it (Disconnecting: Bad packet length
 1349676916).

The SSH in stable only supports version 1 of the SSH protocol; if you
configure your testing machine to accept that older version of the
protocol (by putting Protocol 2,1 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarting
ssh), SSH-ing from your stable machines works.

 So I'd like to upgrade ssh on the client machine to the testing version.
 But I don't know how to do this other than adding testing to the apt-get
 sources, dselect upgrade, etc., which will upgrade everything. Can anyone
 explain to me how to be more selective?

You'll need testing's apt (plus its depencencies) for that. The following
should work (though I'm not aware of people actually using this
configuration as most simply fully upgrade to testing, so you may want to
use the -s flag to apt-get to see what it intends to do before actually
doing these steps):
- add testing entries to /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to the entries
  for stable
- apt-get update
- apt-get install apt
- create an /etc/apt/preferences with contents
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
  to have apt default to the stable versions
- install testing's ssh by requesting it explicitly:
  apt-get -t testing install ssh

HTH,
Ray
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Re: upgrading just one stable package to testing version

2002-03-17 Thread Andrew Tait

I have done this to all except 2 of my stable servers, many of them
remotely.

The one problem is that the libc6 upgrade requires you to restart a few
programs (ie, exim, inetd, ssh). You may have other programs on the machine
that the upgrade doesn't detect, and must be restarted manually.

An easily solution is just to restart the entire machine.

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- Original Message -
From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: upgrading just one stable package to testing version


 On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:51 +1100, Toby Thain wrote:
  I've just upgraded one Debian 2.2 machine from stable to testing and
other
  2.2 stable machines can't ssh into it (Disconnecting: Bad packet length
  1349676916).

 The SSH in stable only supports version 1 of the SSH protocol; if you
 configure your testing machine to accept that older version of the
 protocol (by putting Protocol 2,1 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarting
 ssh), SSH-ing from your stable machines works.

  So I'd like to upgrade ssh on the client machine to the testing
version.
  But I don't know how to do this other than adding testing to the
apt-get
  sources, dselect upgrade, etc., which will upgrade everything. Can
anyone
  explain to me how to be more selective?

 You'll need testing's apt (plus its depencencies) for that. The following
 should work (though I'm not aware of people actually using this
 configuration as most simply fully upgrade to testing, so you may want to
 use the -s flag to apt-get to see what it intends to do before actually
 doing these steps):
 - add testing entries to /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to the
entries
   for stable
 - apt-get update
 - apt-get install apt
 - create an /etc/apt/preferences with contents
 Package: *
 Pin: release a=stable
   to have apt default to the stable versions
 - install testing's ssh by requesting it explicitly:
   apt-get -t testing install ssh

 HTH,
 Ray
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what do you do with detected relay attempts?

2002-03-17 Thread Chris Evans

I have just realised that I wasn't getting postfix relay block alerts 
under my new postfix set up (on a small Email list system).  So I've 
twigged the right setting and am now getting the very satisfying 
messages like:

 In:  MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Out: 250 Ok
 In:  RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Out: 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Relay access denied

which, of course, has the IP address and sender name in the subject 
line of the alert to me.  A quick check confirms that they are 
congruent so I think I should report it to the system.  I currently 
report all spam I get to abuse.net and spamcop.net as I want the 
anonymity I think they given my reports.  Now I'm not sure of the 
best way to report something like the above.  What do other people 
do?

TIA,

Chris
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Re: Exim + POP3 + quota problems

2002-03-17 Thread Rich Puhek



Marcin Owsiany wrote:
 
 Hi!
 
 Here's my setup:
 
  - a potato box (sounds cool, doesn't it? :-)
  - exim delivers mail to /var/mail/user
  - qpopper is my POP3 server
  - there is a user quota for /var partition
  - /var/spool/pop is a symlink to /usr/local/pop
  - there is no user quota for /usr/local partition
  - all users use POP3 to fetch their mail
  - also, a few users do read mail via local MUAs,
so disabling locking in qpopper is not possible
 
 The problem is that from time to time the following thing
 happens:
  - the size of a user's mailbox in blocks becomes equal to the user's
quota on /var
  - because the user may not use any more blocks on that partition,
qpopper is unable to create a lockfile (/var/mail/user.lock)
and exits with
-ERR maillock: cannot lock '/var/mail/foo': 1
  - because of that the user is unable to fetch her mail
 
 How do you guys cope with that problem? The only solution I could come
 up with is switching to Maildir delivery, but might be painful...
 Maybe there's some solution I've overlooked?
 

Argh... yes, use Maildir, have procmail deliver locally, drop qpopper
for courierpop, qmail's pop server, or any of the other Mailbox-aware
servers. You'll have a lot less trouble in the long run IMHO. The
changeover isn't really that painful either.

Been a while since I dealt with qpopper, but wasn't the lock actually
/var/spool/pop/user.pop (the temporary copy of the user's mailbox)?

If that's correct, mount /var/spool on a different partition from
/var/mail, and only enable quotas on /var/mail. If you've got any load
on the server, you'll want /var/spool, /var/log, and /var/mail on
seperate drives for performance anyhow.



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Mail Servers

2002-03-17 Thread Chris Jenks

I hate asking this, but I thought that this would be the fastest
way to get the answer.

I may be setting up a mail server for a factory. From what little
I know so far, it will be for all a mail server for all five hundred
employees. (one in each location) so they can check work
related email. I was thinking about using woody, but have
the following 2 questions.

1 What is the max user limit that woody + exim will support

2 Could someone point me to a good pointer / how-to for this.


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