[BlueOnyx:22980] Until we meet again...

2019-06-28 Thread Dogsbody
r home. From there I rented a Cobalt Raq server, then two, then three and ran "Dogsbody Hosting" as a hobby. When Sun shut down Cobalt (I could rant about this for hours) I migrated my systems to my own servers running BlueQuartz. When BlueQuartz started to stutter I migrated my ser

[BlueOnyx:21365] Re: Google pulls the rug on Symantec SSL certs

2017-09-15 Thread Dogsbody
On 14/09/17 18:44, Michael Stauber wrote: Symantec is also exiting the SSL-certificate businesses and has sold that part off to DigiCert, which is even less trustworthy than Symantec ever was. Michael, I also have ZERO time for Symantec who have done everything in their power to be bad and

[BlueOnyx:20645] Re: Localhost vs 127.0.0.1

2017-02-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 11/02/17 17:06, Richard Barker wrote: I remember something about this but can not find it on this board. Can't connect to MySQL using 'localhost' but using '127.0.0.1' it's ok? Richard, Please see... http://mail.blueonyx.it/pipermail/blueonyx/2016-September/057153.html

[BlueOnyx:20079] GUI replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1

2016-09-07 Thread Dogsbody
Hi Michael, I *think* it's the GUI that is replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1. Not a huge issue except for MySQL. Customers are complaining that they can't setup sites with the MySQL details for new sites. Sure enough, trying this on the command line $ mysql -u vsite_kvqYhnl -p Enter password:

[BlueOnyx:18642] Re: Linux-targeted 'encryption' blackmail

2015-11-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 09/11/15 19:10, Tigerwolf wrote: > Most of the articles don't mention just *how* > these attacks get in, but this one has a bit more information: > http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/new-encryption-ransomware-targets-linux-systems/ > Has anyone had any infestations from this yet? We've

[BlueOnyx:18261] Re: 5208R SL6.7 bug - Yum breaks

2015-08-28 Thread Dogsbody
It seems Yum breaks when upgrading to Scientific Linux 6.7... Nope. That shouldn't happen. Which YUM repository throws this error? BlueOnyx-520XR I tried a yum clean all. Full output if it helps (excuse the wrapping)... [root@orange ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: security Cleaning

[BlueOnyx:18258] 5208R SL6.7 bug - Yum breaks

2015-08-28 Thread Dogsbody
It seems Yum breaks when upgrading to Scientific Linux 6.7... http://blueonyx.solarspeed.net/pub/BlueOnyx/6108R/SL6/aventurin/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found Trying other mirror.

[BlueOnyx:18263] Re: 5208R SL6.7 bug - Yum breaks

2015-08-28 Thread Dogsbody
Got it. It was the Solarspeed.net Yum repository at mirrors.smd.net. The PHP script there that generates the YUM repository URLs had no provisions past version number 6.6 for EL6. Should be working now. Ahh, sorry for misinformation. Brilliant, it all works now thank you. Dan

[BlueOnyx:18259] 5208R, SL6.7 PHP upgrade bug - ImageMagick

2015-08-28 Thread Dogsbody
It seems that the ImageMagick library breaks when upgrading a 5208R box to Scientific Linux 6.7... PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/home/solarspeed/php/lib/php/20100525/imagick.so' - libMagickWand.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in

[BlueOnyx:17772] Re: Sendmail TLS Error

2015-06-12 Thread Dogsbody
Michael, you will like this one ;-) On 09/06/15 17:50, Richard Sidlin wrote: Getting these in the maillog for this recipient. Seems they are having a handshake issue. Is there a way to force sendmail to send to this recipient without TLS if it fails? Thanks. I'm seeing the same things and

[BlueOnyx:17715] Re: 28 May 2015: Failure to restart httpd after yum update

2015-05-28 Thread Dogsbody
On 28/05/15 12:41, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote: After today's YUM update, which carried some Apache / httpd payloads, httpd failed to restart gracefully on its own. We saw this first with a customer server, and then on all of our production hosting systems. Can confirm that we

[BlueOnyx:17448] Re: logrotate error on 5208R

2015-04-24 Thread Dogsbody
On 12/04/15 20:57, Dogsbody wrote: There seems to be no external signs of anything breaking however for the last two weeks (ish) the following line has appeared in the message logs... Apr 12 06:27:42 server logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] I found it and I think it's related

[BlueOnyx:17191] Re: Any/which version of BlueOnyx is vulnerable to 'FreakAttack' OpenSSL vulnerability?

2015-03-04 Thread Dogsbody
On 04/03/15 18:46, Ralf Quint wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/03/03/2036241/freak-attack-threatens-ssl-clients I can't talk for every version of BlueOnyx but due to Michael's EXCELLENT work of updating all the SSL ciphers recently I can confirm that 5208R, 5207R, 5108R 5107R are all

[BlueOnyx:17156] Re: Two small 5208R bugs - fixed

2015-02-28 Thread Dogsbody
On 27/02/15 04:05, Michael Stauber wrote: You do have shell users that login via SSH? Most people prefer to not grant anyone shell access. For security reasons as we don't chroot shell users. We have four 5108R 5208R boxes, each one has a different security risk assessment. In this case,

[BlueOnyx:17147] Re: Two small 5208R bugs - fixed

2015-02-26 Thread Dogsbody
I just published a fix for this for 5207R, 5208R and 5209R. Here is how it works - just to make sure everyone understands it: Michael, I'm not actually sure what has changed as I rather assumed all of the above worked like that anyway. This however reduces security from our old 5108R boxes!

[BlueOnyx:17133] Re: Two small 5208R bugs

2015-02-25 Thread Dogsbody
Ditto on these issues, also seen on our 5208R systems Uhm ... that is when you updated from 5108R to 5208R, right? Not during regular yum updates afterwards? They happened on update from 5108R to 5208R AND have switched back regularly since. The most recently when I did a yum update last

[BlueOnyx:17098] Re: Two small 5208R bugs

2015-02-23 Thread Dogsbody
Ditto on these issues, also seen on our 5208R systems Uhm ... that is when you updated from 5108R to 5208R, right? Not during regular yum updates afterwards? They happened on update from 5108R to 5208R AND have switched back regularly since. The most recently when I did a yum update last

[BlueOnyx:17100] Re: email SSL 5207R

2015-02-23 Thread Dogsbody
Steffan, On 23/02/15 14:55, Steffan Noord wrote: Im getting a error” The server is not supporting the selected encryption” (or sort like it is translated from dutch J ) What is the client you are using to send/receive the email? Regards, Dan ___

[BlueOnyx:17092] Two small 5208R bugs

2015-02-22 Thread Dogsbody
We upgraded one of our 5108R machines to 5208R last month. Stirling work Michael and everyone involved. Thank you. We have found a couple of bugs though! :-) These just happened to us again when installing the updates that came out two days ago. 1) PermitRootLogin is getting overwritten as

[BlueOnyx:16577] New SSL config with Entourage email client

2014-11-26 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, We upgraded our last 5108R box on Sunday to implement the new SSL changes for Poodle (Thank you so much Michael for the hard work). We have one customer now that can't access their email. I was expecting a few Windows XP users but haven't had any yet. This customer is using the

[BlueOnyx:16209] Re: SSL v3 POODLE vulnerability

2014-10-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 15/10/14 02:17, Michael Stauber wrote: So as is SSL v3.0 allows snooping via a man-in-the-middle attack. This is bad enough. They kind of confirm that SSL v3.0 is pretty much dead and recommend to move to TLSv1.2 for secure connections. Think HTTPS, SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS and FTPS in our

[BlueOnyx:15853] Trying to set an admin *alias*

2014-09-02 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, We know BX well enough now not to try and set a user as admin ;-) However we are trying to set an alias of admin for a customer, something we have done many time in the past but for some reason it's not working. BX GUI is giving us the message Sorry, the email alias, admin, is

[BlueOnyx:15398] Re: Command line to list site aliases

2014-05-14 Thread Dogsbody
On 03/05/14 23:43, Michael Stauber wrote: Try this: # $Id: findalias.pl, v1.0.0.0 Mi 21 Mai 2008 15:56:35 CEST mstauber Exp $ Michael, you are an absolute star! Thank you :-) Dan ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it

[BlueOnyx:15336] Command line to list site aliases

2014-05-03 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, I'm trying to automate a few tasks and need a list of all the web (and email) aliases for a site. I could do a `grep RewriteCond /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/*` and spend ages cleaning up the output but I figure the data is in CCE somewhere anyway. I've used the output of

[BlueOnyx:15124] Re: OpenSSL (CenOS-6.5/SL-6.5) CVE-2014-0160

2014-04-08 Thread Dogsbody
On 08/04/14 02:23, Michael Stauber wrote: Let's see how fast this gets patched by upstream. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0160 The package for Scientific Linux was released 50 mins ago and has now hit the mirrors (for me at least). Please remember to restart Apache (both

[BlueOnyx:15142] Re: OpenSSL (CenOS-6.5/SL-6.5) CVE-2014-0160

2014-04-08 Thread Dogsbody
On 08/04/14 16:34, Michael Stauber wrote: I'm going even one step further. I'll change all my SSH keys as well. On each and every box. They could have been leaked. AFAIK OpenSSH is not affected by the OpenSSL bug. While OpenSSH does use OpenSSL for some key-generation functions, it doesn't

[BlueOnyx:15071] Re: YUM updates for 5106R/5107R/5108R

2014-04-03 Thread Dogsbody
On 03/04/14 11:44, Eiji Hamano wrote: Are you insane? Take the fifth Michael!! :-p :-) (sorry, having a bad day and this made me smile) Thanks for your hard work with this Michael. Dan ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it

[BlueOnyx:14835] BUG: BX does not allow underscores to be entered into DNS records

2014-03-04 Thread Dogsbody
Michael, I know this has been discussed before (back in 2010) so please don't think I'm nagging :-) BX does not allow underscores to be entered into DNS records. This is essential for DKIM and DMARC records. I can carry on putting them in the .include files but I've just hit this bug again

[BlueOnyx:14840] Re: BUG: BX does not allow underscores to be entered into DNS records

2014-03-04 Thread Dogsbody
On 04/03/14 21:47, Michael Stauber wrote: Yeah, just normal TXT records but with fixed hostnames such as _dmarc.example.com Ok, am looking at it now. But I think I might have to ask again. Sorry for not being clear. The page where you create/edit the TXT record has three input fields:

[BlueOnyx:14845] Re: BUG: BX does not allow underscores to be entered into DNS records

2014-03-04 Thread Dogsbody
On 04/03/14 22:15, Michael Stauber wrote: I see. I just looked at the sources and the things there is that it's pretty complicated to fix. :-( !-- SNIP -- I feel so much better about failing when I tried adding records to the GUI now :-p :-) I can do that easily in the new 520XR GUI

[BlueOnyx:14687] Re: Dovecot intermediate cert (Was: error (0x800CCC80))

2014-02-18 Thread Dogsbody
On 17/02/14 23:58, Michael Stauber wrote: It still uses RC4 ciphers. Among them RC4-SHA. Which I think is a bad idea. If you can make do without RC4, then that would be a hell of a lot better. I absolutely agree, it's an unfortunate workaround for the time being. Michael. Any chance of

[BlueOnyx:14669] Re: error (0x800CCC80): 'None of the uthentication methods supported by this client are supported by your server'

2014-02-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 06/02/14 18:07, Michael Stauber wrote: Lastly, I cannot send any emails from Outlook. I get an error: Task 'u...@email.com - Sending' reported error (0x800CCC80) : 'None of the authentication methods supported by this client are supported by your server.' Until the update, the email

[BlueOnyx:14670] Re: error (0x800CCC80): - WORKAROUND

2014-02-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 17/02/14 12:07, Dogsbody wrote: We upgraded the BO on one of our servers last night and now have two separate customers that can't connect to POP3S giving the same error as above. We did identify a cert issue that the BO update overwrote and have fixed that again with... cp /etc

[BlueOnyx:14674] Re: error (0x800CCC80): - WORKAROUND

2014-02-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 17/02/14 14:18, Michael Stauber wrote: Sorry, but the cipher list you quote above is not really making much sense. I'm even a little tempted to say they're utter nonsense, knowing that they're not your ciphers, but some you found on the internet. No offence taken! :-) It was a random post

[BlueOnyx:14676] Re: error (0x800CCC80): - WORKAROUND

2014-02-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 17/02/14 16:14, Dogsbody wrote: If anyone can point me to the ciphers needed for Outlook 2007 then that would be very very appreciated :-) If anyone else has this problem I have found a slightly better workaround... ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+AES:EDH+AES:-SHA1:EECDH+RC4:EDH+RC4:RC4

[BlueOnyx:14334] Re: Yum Update error

2014-01-31 Thread Dogsbody
On 31/01/14 13:15, Richard C. Barker Sr. wrote: Getting this in yum update: You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem Scientific Linux released version 6.5 last night with 184 updates!! Unfortunately you have to do a `yum clean all` and then a `yum update` to get all the

[BlueOnyx:14263] Re: Another DDOS vulnerability: NTP Amplification Attacks

2014-01-14 Thread Dogsbody
This needs to be a high-priority check/fix on BX systems to stop servers being exploited for attacks. I'll look into that right away. Thanks for the heads up! FWIW we add all our boxes to the public NTP pool as a way of giving back. We're only running 5108R BQ boxes but I tested these

[BlueOnyx:14048] 5108R Bug Report: Email services not restarted when SSL updated

2013-11-22 Thread Dogsbody
Just a small bug and hopefully quick to fix. When the server's SSL certificate is updated it restarts Apache and the management interface but it doesn't restart sendmail or dovecot. Our servers SSL cert was expiring this month so last month we pro-actively updated the SSL cert for another

[BlueOnyx:13962] Python 3

2013-11-01 Thread Dogsbody
Has anyone got any nice install instructions for Python 3 on 5108R? I hear that a straight install will break a lot of the system :-/ Thanks Dan -- Find me online : http://www.dogsbody.info/ ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it

[BlueOnyx:13692] Re: error in new ssl settings for admserv?

2013-09-15 Thread Dogsbody
On 13/09/2013 12:48, Michael Stauber wrote: see the BlueOnyx news from yesterday: http://www.blueonyx.it/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0cntnt01articleid=167cntnt01origid=54cntnt01pagelimit=4cntnt01returnid=54 Michael, I've just been reading this and wanted to say a HUGE thank you for

[BlueOnyx:13631] Re: Adding AAAA records to DNS

2013-09-04 Thread Dogsbody
Michael et al, Going to give this a try, any tips on this? Dan On 06/03/13 17:06, Dogsbody wrote: I'd like to start helping BlueOnyx to support IPv6 if I may? I *think* a good first step for this would be to get the DNS GUI to support records!? (as they can still be served via IPv4

[BlueOnyx:13640] Re: Adding AAAA records to DNS

2013-09-04 Thread Dogsbody
Not sure if this would work for s, but I cheat. I also run a windows DNS server so I use my BO as a secondary. Seems to work great for our SPF records, etc. Hosting 's on BO isn't in issue, you just have use the .include files instead of the GUI. This is what I want to fix. I

[BlueOnyx:13082] Re: 5108R Bug Report: Active Monitor state changes

2013-05-22 Thread Dogsbody
in the wrong text in the English translations file /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/base-disk.mo But I could be wrong. Any ideas anyone? :-) Dan On 14/02/13 20:44, Dogsbody wrote: I'm kinda shocked this bug still exists in 5108R :-/ If the site goes over it's quota the email that gets

[BlueOnyx:12957] Re: Swatch error

2013-05-03 Thread Dogsbody
Yes, I'm seeing this to on servers that only have Dfix installed so I am pointing to that as the source of the error. I hope that helps. Dan On 03/05/13 05:59, Stephanie Sullivan wrote: I too am seeing this error and: # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sausalito/swatch/bin/am_base.pl

[BlueOnyx:12958] Re: Issue with site

2013-05-03 Thread Dogsbody
On 02/05/13 16:56, Wayne Michael wrote: I ended up having to manually modify the configuration file at /etc/httpd/config/vhost/sitex it was missing the server alias even though it was in the blue onyx dialog. You realise that file will be overwitten by BX? At least add it to

[BlueOnyx:12959] Re: Remove phpMyAdmin

2013-05-03 Thread Dogsbody
Michael, Can you please tell us what packages I can `yum remove` to remove the stock phpMyadmin that ships with BlueOnyx? Will this remove the GUI menu item as well? I totally agree with what you have written below but I'm one of the sad muppets that his happy installing and locking down

[BlueOnyx:12961] Re: Swatch error

2013-05-03 Thread Dogsbody
On 03/05/13 15:53, Michael Stauber wrote: All in all that was like two lines of code change. But I'll check that on a test box. Michael, The code that is throwing the error seems to have trouble parsing the output from http://newlinq.blueonyx.it/renewalstatus/$serialNumber; As we are only

[BlueOnyx:12862] Re: phpMyAdmin upgrade

2013-04-16 Thread Dogsbody
That's when we took a deep breath, stepped back and decided to offer the newer phpMyAdmin only as WebApps. That way they run on the frontend Apache and can work with a newer PHP that's usually installed. It also gives server and siteAdmins more flexibility if they want to install it and how

[BlueOnyx:12805] Re: OT: Backup MX

2013-04-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 10/04/13 18:38, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote: We run 3 inbound MX's for all of our hosting customers. They are each in a diverse geographic location, and each one performs spam filtering duties, with logging centralized to a MySQL database on the primary system. That's not

[BlueOnyx:12806] Re: OT: Backup MX

2013-04-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 10/04/13 20:39, Richard Morgan wrote: We've installed BX on a VPS run by a third party that's dirt cheap (8USD/month) and it's deliberately configured not to have any email security for SPAM, etc. This was is catches the occasional message but is particularly useful for also providing

[BlueOnyx:12800] OT: Backup MX

2013-04-10 Thread Dogsbody
I'm intrigued, does anyone run backup MX for their domains any more or has spam killed that practice? Dan ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx

[BlueOnyx:12792] Re: Scientific Linux mirrors are failing

2013-04-09 Thread Dogsbody
On 09/04/13 15:35, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote: There is not any official news about this from scientificlinux.org at this time, but it does appear to be a confirmed problem. FWIW they did confirm this on their announce mailing list. I would encourage SL users of this BX list to

[BlueOnyx:12713] Re: Proposed changes to BlueOnyx DNS (important!)

2013-04-01 Thread Dogsbody
On 01/04/2013 04:46, Michael Stauber wrote: The above default settings will create the following options{} section in /etc/named.conf: options { directory /var/named; // spoof version for a little more security via obscurity version 100.100.100; // no forwarders defined //

[BlueOnyx:12639] Re: Another Issue

2013-03-29 Thread Dogsbody
On 29/03/2013 13:01, Richard Barker wrote: Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: Current : Wed Mar 27 15:29:28 2013 Downloaded: Wed Mar 27 15:26:50 2013 The repomd.xml date issue is caused by Scientific Linux 6.4 shipping last night. In their

[BlueOnyx:12561] Re: SNI,, and also-notify in named.conf

2013-03-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 02/02/2013 17:38, Gary Sedgwick wrote: I would be grateful if this could be included in the official packages: [root@leon dns]# pwd /usr/sausalito/handlers/base/dns [root@leon dns]# diff dns_generate.pl.orig dns_generate.pl 274a275,277 . ; };\n . also-notify {

[BlueOnyx:12510] Re: Chained certs server-wide

2013-03-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 11/03/13 13:16, Matt James wrote: How do you add the intermediate cert? I only see one place to upload the end SSL for the site, there doesn't appear to be a place to upload the intermediate cert file. You should see a button labelled Manage Certificate Authorities on the same

[BlueOnyx:12514] Re: Large Website

2013-03-11 Thread Dogsbody
On 11/03/13 13:40, Richard Sidlin wrote: Depending on the hardware, if I was to install BO and just use that installation for this one site, are there any limits that BO has or is it based entirely on the hardware? There aren't any limits in BO that would stop you doing this, generally

[BlueOnyx:12447] Adding AAAA records to DNS

2013-03-06 Thread Dogsbody
I'd like to start helping BlueOnyx to support IPv6 if I may? I *think* a good first step for this would be to get the DNS GUI to support records!? What are others opinions? Any advice from the code masters on a good place to start or should I just start hacking around and submit a

[BlueOnyx:12448] Re: Problem with the following URL: www.mydomain.com/admin

2013-03-06 Thread Dogsbody
A lot of us turn off /admin for the server login for that reason. You either need to move your website admin pages to a different URL or turn it off for the server. We do that by editing /etc/httpd/conf.d/blueonyx.conf and commenting out the two lines... RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}

[BlueOnyx:12424] Re: Forged mail getting through

2013-03-05 Thread Dogsbody
On 05/03/2013 14:44, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I had several forged emails get through a BO 5106 server this morning and trying to figure out how they were allowed to be sent via the server... Mar 5 09:01:37 vnyxbo sendmail[18836]: r25E1F36018836: from=forged@domain .com, size=299, class=0,

[BlueOnyx:12277] Re: Kernel 0-day vulnerability + SSHd Spam Exploit (libkeyutils.so.1.9)

2013-02-22 Thread Dogsbody
On 21/02/13 17:17, David Hahn wrote: libkeyutils.so.1.9... If we find this what should we do with it? If anyone finds a copy of this file then I and other security researchers would like a copy please! :-) Michael has also said he'd like to take a look at the box. Thank you Dan -- Find

[BlueOnyx:12266] Re: Kernel 0-day vulnerability + SSHd Spam Exploit (libkeyutils.so.1.9)

2013-02-20 Thread Dogsbody
Hi Michael, May I quote you on some of this excellent write up please? I will of course give full attribution. Thank you Dan On 20/02/2013 03:47, Michael Stauber wrote: Hi Dan and all, After a few hours of reading up on various sources I think I finally managed to wrap my head around

[BlueOnyx:12258] SSH 0-day vulnerability

2013-02-19 Thread Dogsbody
It seems there is a major 0-day vulnerability doing the rounds and a lot of data is showing SSH as the attack vector, even though the exact vulnerability hasn’t been fully discovered yet or patched. The vulnerability seems to mostly affect Redhat/CentOS with cPanel/Plesk installed but not

[BlueOnyx:12193] 5108R Bug Report: Active Monitor state changes

2013-02-14 Thread Dogsbody
I'm kinda shocked this bug still exists in 5108R :-/ If the site goes over it's quote the email that gets sent says that Disk usage is normal! Please fix :-) Dan On 13/02/2013 15:00, root wrote: Active Monitor has detected recent changes in the state of your server appliance. For more

[BlueOnyx:12179] Secure FTP or SCP?

2013-02-11 Thread Dogsbody
So I've made a decision with my new BlueOnyx box that I'm not allowing insecure protocols! :-p Moving people to IMAPS and POP3S hasn't really been a problem but... How are you all dealing with replacing FTP? Are there any options or is opening up shell access and using SCP the only one at

[BlueOnyx:12146] Re: Increasing disk space

2013-02-03 Thread Dogsbody
On 04/02/2013 00:54, Mark E. Levy wrote: Thank you, that makes sense. How do I go about adding the new virtual disk to the LVM group? Disclaimer: These are old instructions I last used in 2006 so read the man pages for each command to check nothings changed but it should help point you in

[BlueOnyx:11909] Re: Package Distribution Platform

2013-01-05 Thread Dogsbody
On 04/01/2013 23:57, Greg Kuhnert wrote: Compass and SOLARSPEED.NET http://solarspeed.net/ have joined forces, to create a new platform for package delivery to Blueonyx servers. Just wanted to say great work on this. A system is only as good as it's community and one of the reasons a lot of

[BlueOnyx:11864] Can't send mail from PHP without a mailalias

2012-12-26 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, I have two sites (example.com and example.net) We'd like mail to go to both domains but separate websites... Site: www.example.com Web Alias - example.com Mail Alias - example.com, example.net, www.example.net Site: www.example.net Web Alias - example.net Mail Alias - blank

[BlueOnyx:11871] Re: Can't send mail from PHP without a mailalias

2012-12-26 Thread Dogsbody
On 12/26/2012 4:52 AM, Dogsbody wrote: I have two sites (example.com and example.net) We'd like mail to go to both domains but separate websites... ... email is running fine and the sites work fine but I can't send any email from the www.example.net site at all. On 26/12/2012 19:45, David

[BlueOnyx:11812] 5108R Bug Report: Adding MX records to DNS

2012-12-17 Thread Dogsbody
I've been consolidating DNS records onto a 5108R server to act as a primary and have a bug that is really starting to be annoying :-p Adding or modifying an MX record in the GUI works fine however then jumps the returning page to a completely different domain. I don't know what it loves about

[BlueOnyx:11736] Re: 5108R Bug Report: POP3 on when turned off

2012-11-30 Thread Dogsbody
We have some servers with those ports closed, and we do... service dovecot stop service xinetd stop then setup chkconfig xinetd and dovecot to be off chkconfig dovecot off chkconfig xinetd off Turning dovecot off will turn off IMAP as well though!? We want IMAP on and POP3 off. I

[BlueOnyx:11730] 5108R Bug Report: POP3 on when turned off

2012-11-29 Thread Dogsbody
Fully patched and new 5108R. GUI settings... Enable SMTP Server - On Enable SMTPS Server- On Enable SMTP Auth - On Enable Submission Port - On Enable IMAP Server - On Enable IMAPS Server- On Enable POP Server - Off Enable POPS Server - Off Enable Z-Push -

[BlueOnyx:11701] Re: Solarspeed.net: Reduced availability until December 3rd

2012-11-25 Thread Dogsbody
On 24/11/2012 17:49, Michael Stauber wrote: I'm emigrating to South-America. The I hope the move goes well and safe travels :-) Dan -- Find me online : http://www.dogsbody.info/ ___ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it

[BlueOnyx:11635] Re: Web Services and Admin funcions

2012-10-27 Thread Dogsbody
Is it possible to integrate the admin GUI functions with an external software? Maybe through Web Services or something else? No web services but there are a number of shell scripts that allow you to control the BlueOnyx. I'm sure you can write wrapper scripts around then if needed.

[BlueOnyx:11613] Re: 5108R Bug Report: NTP Settings

2012-10-26 Thread Dogsbody
Yeah, it's a long story. According to RFC's hostnames must not start with a number. The checks of the GUI that verify a hostname or a FQDN therefore don't allow it. Of course there are some host and/or domain names in the wild that violate the RFCs. Ahh gotta love the RFC's sometimes :-)

[BlueOnyx:11610] 5108R Bug Report: NTP Settings

2012-10-25 Thread Dogsbody
I'm sure you know this one but it is a bug and should be fixed. 1) Trying to set the NTP server in the GUI to 0.uk.pool.ntp.org which is a valid timeserver results in no timeserver being saved. 2) Setting the NTP server in the GUI to ntp.demon.co.uk works however viewing /etc/ntp.conf shows

[BlueOnyx:11587] Bug Reports

2012-10-22 Thread Dogsbody
Michael et al, I'm doing a couple of bare metal 5108R installs at the moment and finding a few bugs, nothing major, things like the permissions issue I posted last week. Any chance I can be given access to report bugs to the trac or wherever it is that you would like them filed? I'm happy to

[BlueOnyx:11542] Bug: wrong permissions of fix-httpd-log-dir

2012-10-17 Thread Dogsbody
Michael, I'm not sure where to report bugs now so I'll report them here :-) Brand new install of 5108R results in admin getting a cron email every 15 mins saying... /bin/sh: /usr/bin/fix-httpd-log-dir: Permission denied Sure enough... # ls -al /usr/bin/fix-httpd-log-dir -rw-r--r--. 1 root

[BlueOnyx:11538] Re: Podcasting

2012-10-15 Thread Dogsbody
On 14/10/2012 12:34, WnA C-S wrote: One of my users is trying to publish a podcast into itunes. The podcasted file is hosted on my blueonyx server… she gets this error. our episodes are hosted on a server that doesn't support byte-range requests. Enable byte-range requests and try your

[BlueOnyx:11408] Re: Fund-raising for a modern BlueOnyx theme

2012-09-25 Thread Dogsbody
On 25/09/12 04:28, Michael Stauber wrote: So we'd like to ask you for donations. http://www.blueonyx.it/fundraising/ More than happy to donate some money to the cause and thank you for doing this :-) If I may make a request... I used to replace some of the graphics in the old theme that

[BlueOnyx:11201] Re: domain name with accent

2012-08-21 Thread Dogsbody
Internationalized Domain Names come in two forms, the displayed version and the Punycode version. Use the Punycode version in BO/BX and everything will work just fine. There are converters online that allow you to swap from one to another. Dan On 21/08/12 14:28, Frank Soyer wrote: maybe do

[BlueOnyx:11204] Re: domain name with accent

2012-08-21 Thread Dogsbody
On 21/08/12 16:28, Frank Soyer wrote: not sure to understand all : is there something to do at registrar level, when we register a domain name with accents ? Or adding this punycode name in BO is sufficient ? Nope, just think of it as two ways of writing the same address. Using the punycode

[BlueOnyx:11049] Re: Why does mx record override Smart Relay host?

2012-07-30 Thread Dogsbody
Apologies if you know this but it isn't clear from your message so I want to check... A smart relay uses MX records. A lot of people don't know this and in some cases an A record can work but it is designed for and is supposed to use MX records. If you need to use mx.example.com for

[BlueOnyx:11051] Re: Secondary DNS records: no expire?

2012-07-30 Thread Dogsbody
What is the Expire Interval set to in the SOA for one of the affected domains? This time is how long the secondary should carry on serving the domain for after the primary goes offline. It's usual to set this to a high number such as 604800 (7 days) although anything up to 4096000 (47 days)

[BlueOnyx:10956] Re: 5106R system w/solarspeed phpMyAdmin-3.1.3 w/ php-5.3.6

2012-07-17 Thread Dogsbody
On 17/07/2012 23:07, Ralf Quint wrote: At 02:48 PM 7/17/2012, Gerald Waugh wrote: we will change passwords, but would appreciate the moderator removing those messages Well, it's too late for that, after all this is a mailing list and not an online forum. I believe Gerald was asking that

[BlueOnyx:10658] Automate Secondary DNS

2012-05-24 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, Has anyone done anything with automatically adding secondary DNS entries on a BO system? I have a customer that is always adding and removing domains on their BO server. They are happily doing the Primary DNS and I am doing the secondary DNS on a couple of other BO servers that are

[BlueOnyx:10662] Re: Automate Secondary DNS

2012-05-24 Thread Dogsbody
Here is the export script... https://gist.github.com/2784525 Good point on having to remove all the secondary DNS data for the import but should be fixable by doing two diffs to remove domains that have gone and add new ones. What commands did you use to add the secondary DNS data? Dan On

[BlueOnyx:10499] Re: Increasing size of hard drive

2012-05-08 Thread Dogsbody
With LVM this is really easy. Especially if you don't want to resize the root partition. To grow /backup to 500GB I used... vgdisplay lvextend -L500G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 umount /backup e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol06 resize2fs -p

[BlueOnyx:10459] Re: PCI Dss Compliance Issues

2012-05-06 Thread Dogsbody
Don't get me started on companies like this! PCI compliance isn't a bad thing, security is always a good thing but companies that just try and use automated vulnerability scanners are just wasting everyone time and money. Security is a procedural thing, not a technology one. Use a better

[BlueOnyx:10340] Sending one site's email via a separate IP

2012-04-26 Thread Dogsbody
Has anyone done this? I have one site that send a lot of mail and I don't want their mail affecting the reputation of the rest of the sites on this server. Moving their website to a separate IP is easy however their email will still be sent via the main IP of the server. Before I dive

[BlueOnyx:10350] Re: 5108R Quota discrepency

2012-04-26 Thread Dogsbody
Any files that are owned by that user are counted so there could be loads in /home/sites/www.domain.com/web/ File ownerships can also transfer over when files are copied as root and users uid's are different on different servers. e.g. you untar something as root which you copied from another

[BlueOnyx:10226] Re: 5106R/5107R/5108R YUM updates - Yet another fix

2012-04-20 Thread Dogsbody
Not to mention pssh ;-) On 20/04/2012 12:11, Matthew Komar wrote: You do. http://saltstack.org/ On 4/20/2012 7:05 AM, Bill Hicks wrote: Thank you for the quick fix! Now it just makes make me wish I had a program where I could update all the servers at the same time instead of doing each

[BlueOnyx:10228] Re: 5106R/5107R/5108R YUM updates - more fixes published

2012-04-20 Thread Dogsbody
Michael, thank you for your quick fixes on this even though I wasn't affected. Nice write up of the issues too. May I suggest we bring back the testing repo? A repository that you can put new code in before it gets moved into the production repo. This can even be automated so that things go

[BlueOnyx:10126] Mirrors of old cobalt stuff

2012-04-14 Thread Dogsbody
My how things have changed! I'm a bit of a hoarder and tent to mirror everything in case things disappear. I'm having a clear out and have come across some mirrors of old cobalt sites. Does anyone want these before I delete them? ftp-eng.cobalt.com Last Updated : Thu 12 Oct 2006 06:30:03 GMT

[BlueOnyx:09390] Re: Amazon Web Services Blueonyx setup

2012-01-13 Thread Dogsbody
I've been doing IP networking for over 15 years, and even worked as a Engineer for Cisco for a few years. But I've never heard of a elastic IP address. What is that? Do you mean a address in the private address space 10.x.x.x?? Chuck, On Amazon AWS EC2 every instance gets two IP

[BlueOnyx:09307] Re: Heavy load during lots of httpd requests

2012-01-04 Thread Dogsbody
Not disagreeing with what anyone has written so far. When hosting sites you do have to plan for the maximum load which means sites can sit idle for long periods. Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: We are working on optimizing MySQL and Apache now. Has anyone dealt with this or have any

[BlueOnyx:09158] CentOS-4 End Of Life 3 Month Notice

2011-12-02 Thread Dogsbody
Just a heads up to anyone still using BlueQuartz... If you are on this list then you have probably already migrated to BlueOnyx but you maybe like me and have a couple of old machines / customers still on it. BlueQuartz uses CentOS 4 as it's operating system. CentOS will stop providing

[BlueOnyx:08941] Re: OT: Domain Registries

2011-10-31 Thread Dogsbody
Another vote for OpenSRS. I have a huge spreadsheet comparing many registrar's and OpenSRS are the cheapest for pretty much every domain. I will say though that their interfaces aren't the best as they are designed to be accessed via an API but once you get the hang of them they are solid.