Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Price
I've just been researching the same problem myself, and came accross a program called SMTPfeed.  Don't know anything more about it, except for a mailer comparison page which claimed that it was one of the better high volume mail thingies.  Supposedly plugs into sendmail somehow, so you won't have

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread Rich Puhek
JPS, Here's a few things to try... 1) Try multiple queues... that will help greately. Also sort your queues by host (to insure that your sendmail doesn't keep reconnecting to AOL for example) 2) Move BIND to a dedecated server, unless you've got an obscene ammount of RAM. Don't make that machine

A sendmail question from someone else

2001-03-28 Thread Josh Miller
Someone else is getting help for this here, so hopefully I'm asking on an acceptable list..If not, I'll have to go to the sendmail list (Ack! Scary!) Lots of 's in this message, because there's no reason to give 34 examples of the same thing :) Text from the console is enclosed in "---"'s All inc

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Price
I've just been researching the same problem myself, and came accross a program called SMTPfeed.  Don't know anything more about it, except for a mailer comparison page which claimed that it was one of the better high volume mail thingies.  Supposedly plugs into sendmail somehow, so you won't have

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread Rich Puhek
JPS, Here's a few things to try... 1) Try multiple queues... that will help greately. Also sort your queues by host (to insure that your sendmail doesn't keep reconnecting to AOL for example) 2) Move BIND to a dedecated server, unless you've got an obscene ammount of RAM. Don't make that machin

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
> My problem: The emails are being sent out at an UNBELIEVABLY SLOW rate. > > There must be a better way! The answer? qmail :) Dan Bernstein originally wrote a package designed purely to deal with huge mailing lists.. and people loved it.. It's popularity grew.. and gradually more features crept

sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread JPS
I have a sendmail installation using sendmail_8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta5-4_i386.deb + SASL on a linux 2.4.3-pre4 i686. I am attempting to process very high volume mailingslists (10-100K multiples) on this server. My problem: The emails are being sent out at an UNBELIEVABLY SLOW rate. First, during the

schema for NSS LDAP with not all accounts active

2001-03-28 Thread Russell Coker
I have an LDAP directory that contains the accounts for several machines. Most accounts will be active on all machines, but some accounts will only be active on a sub-set of the machines, I would like to implement this with a filter something like the following: (|(attr=all)(attr=machine-name)

A sendmail question from someone else

2001-03-28 Thread Josh Miller
Someone else is getting help for this here, so hopefully I'm asking on an acceptable list..If not, I'll have to go to the sendmail list (Ack! Scary!) Lots of 's in this message, because there's no reason to give 34 examples of the same thing :) Text from the console is enclosed in "---"'s All in

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
> My problem: The emails are being sent out at an UNBELIEVABLY SLOW rate. > > There must be a better way! The answer? qmail :) Dan Bernstein originally wrote a package designed purely to deal with huge mailing lists.. and people loved it.. It's popularity grew.. and gradually more features crep

sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-03-28 Thread JPS
I have a sendmail installation using sendmail_8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta5-4_i386.deb + SASL on a linux 2.4.3-pre4 i686. I am attempting to process very high volume mailingslists (10-100K multiples) on this server. My problem: The emails are being sent out at an UNBELIEVABLY SLOW rate. First, during the

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
Jeremy Lunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem would be that the replies to any requests sent to the 2nd > ISP will be routed back via the 1st ISP. They are probably blocked by > your 1st ISP which is sane and I wouldn't want to use an ISP that didn't > do that. That will be the problem.

schema for NSS LDAP with not all accounts active

2001-03-28 Thread Russell Coker
I have an LDAP directory that contains the accounts for several machines. Most accounts will be active on all machines, but some accounts will only be active on a sub-set of the machines, I would like to implement this with a filter something like the following: (|(attr=all)(attr=machine-name

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +0530, Bala wrote: > Hello > In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having > leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP > addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I > have config

Re: PHP question on query string formatting

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 03:34:47AM +, Sibuyas wrote: > hello list! > > if i enter this string inside a input box: > > > it's & a "sample" > string! > > > and the form method used is GET, the string is passsed in the query string > looking > like this: > > it%27s+%26+a+%22sample%22%0D%0A

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
Jeremy Lunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem would be that the replies to any requests sent to the 2nd > ISP will be routed back via the 1st ISP. They are probably blocked by > your 1st ISP which is sane and I wouldn't want to use an ISP that didn't > do that. That will be the problem.

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
DI Peter Burgstaller wrote: > Hi there, > > > > Most (of our) engineers are not linux-compliant. > > > Need centralized login, (can't use NIS+, we've already got a NIS+ system > > > for Solaris... don't wanna confuse the issue,) > > > > You might like to look into using LDAP for this. Another alt

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +0530, Bala wrote: > Hello > In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having > leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP > addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I > have confi

Re: PHP question on query string formatting

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 03:34:47AM +, Sibuyas wrote: > hello list! > > if i enter this string inside a input box: > > > it's & a "sample" > string! > > > and the form method used is GET, the string is passsed in the query string looking > like this: > > it%27s+%26+a+%22sample%22%0D%0Ast

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
DI Peter Burgstaller wrote: > Hi there, > > > > Most (of our) engineers are not linux-compliant. > > > Need centralized login, (can't use NIS+, we've already got a NIS+ system > > > for Solaris... don't wanna confuse the issue,) > > > > You might like to look into using LDAP for this. Another al

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
Hi there, > > Most (of our) engineers are not linux-compliant. > > Need centralized login, (can't use NIS+, we've already got a NIS+ system > > for Solaris... don't wanna confuse the issue,) > > You might like to look into using LDAP for this. Another alternitive is > using an SQL database. Thi

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
Dexter wrote: > What about VA System Imager (systemimager.sourceforge.net) ? We use it here > for all our base installs - we adapt the servers with apt-get next. RSync > shall also be useful - rsync -e ssh if you're on a hostile environment (and i > believe we always are ...) Thanks, I'll look in

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
Jeremy Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:58:27PM -0800, Duane Powers wrote: > > 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) > > discussion on the list before... I don't know if anyone has the details > > on redhat's kickstart program, > > and whether that is something that could b

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Duane, On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > faced with installing > 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) I modified the NetBSD boot floppy so it automatically uses the defaults (answers "yes"), uses DHCP (by default) and uses a local FTP server. (Right now it is two floppie

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
Hi there, > > Most (of our) engineers are not linux-compliant. > > Need centralized login, (can't use NIS+, we've already got a NIS+ system > > for Solaris... don't wanna confuse the issue,) > > You might like to look into using LDAP for this. Another alternitive is > using an SQL database. Th

PHP question on query string formatting

2001-03-28 Thread Sibuyas
hello list! if i enter this string inside a input box: it's & a "sample" string! and the form method used is GET, the string is passsed in the query string looking like this: it%27s+%26+a+%22sample%22%0D%0Astring%21 where i need help... using PHP, how do you convert the first string into

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
Dexter wrote: > What about VA System Imager (systemimager.sourceforge.net) ? We use it here > for all our base installs - we adapt the servers with apt-get next. RSync > shall also be useful - rsync -e ssh if you're on a hostile environment (and i > believe we always are ...) Thanks, I'll look i

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
Jeremy Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:58:27PM -0800, Duane Powers wrote: > > 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) > > discussion on the list before... I don't know if anyone has the details > > on redhat's kickstart program, > > and whether that is something that could

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Duane, On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > faced with installing > 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) I modified the NetBSD boot floppy so it automatically uses the defaults (answers "yes"), uses DHCP (by default) and uses a local FTP server. (Right now it is two floppi

KDE 2

2001-03-28 Thread buschjost
Hi there everbody! I have problems to get a german-nodeadkeys-keyboard layout at my maschine (generelly). I have libqt at version 2.3.0. Debian 2.2.r2. Is there anybody who can help me. Setting up the keyboard with kbdconfig ends with the same failure. Thanks, Martin Buschjost

PHP question on query string formatting

2001-03-28 Thread Sibuyas
hello list! if i enter this string inside a input box: it's & a "sample" string! and the form method used is GET, the string is passsed in the query string looking like this: it%27s+%26+a+%22sample%22%0D%0Astring%21 where i need help... using PHP, how do you convert the first string into

Re: Squid Alternative

2001-03-28 Thread Ilya Martynov
RD> Hi all, RD> Has anyone found a free, decent alternative to Squid? try 'oops'. It is very stable and I belive has better perfomance. -- Ilya Martynov AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com

Re: secure remote backup

2001-03-28 Thread Francis 'Dexter' Gois
Hi, You could use rsync -e ssh. I think amanda also can handle encrypted sessions. And it's done to manage an automated multi-server backup. Anyway, you can encapsulate any session into an ssh tunnel (see man ssh, -L and -R options) - so you can keep your habits. On Saturday 24 March 2001 22:

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Dexter
What about VA System Imager (systemimager.sourceforge.net) ? We use it here for all our base installs - we adapt the servers with apt-get next. RSync shall also be useful - rsync -e ssh if you're on a hostile environment (and i believe we always are ...) On Wednesday 28 March 2001 07:58, Duane

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Magni Onsøien
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:58:27PM -0800, Duane Powers said: > I'm considering dd as one alternative, but that's kinda bulky 'cuz it > requires physically removing each hard drive installing in "parent" and > imaging... I've looked at things like > ghost, but that doesn't seem to be an option... I

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:58:27PM -0800, Duane Powers wrote: > 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) > discussion on the list before... I don't know if anyone has the details > on redhat's kickstart program, > and whether that is something that could be ported to debian... Any > su

KDE 2

2001-03-28 Thread buschjost
Hi there everbody! I have problems to get a german-nodeadkeys-keyboard layout at my maschine (generelly). I have libqt at version 2.3.0. Debian 2.2.r2. Is there anybody who can help me. Setting up the keyboard with kbdconfig ends with the same failure. Thanks, Martin Buschjost -- To UN

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:46:12AM +0200, DI Peter Burgstaller wrote: > I had the same problem when we switched from one ISP ot the other I was > running > both for a couple of months. > > Turned out that, as Jeremy Lunn suggested, that my new ISP wouldn't allow > IPs from a different Net be rout

Re: Squid Alternative

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:18:05AM +1000, Robert Davidson wrote: > Has anyone found a free, decent alternative to Squid? > > Our ones keep giving us trouble, such as: > > Dying in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, > > Filling up the drive that Squid maintains a cache on

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:22:29PM +0530, Nags wrote: > Hello all > I tried the same with Windows :( machine, but it is working with two ISP > perfectly . Both of my Internet IP's is accessiable from outside > world. I replied off-list to stop the three-list cross-posting. This whole

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Mailing List
I agree that something like this is needed badly in Debian. However... considering there has been so much hassle over the boot floppies alone, i doubt there will be much chance a kickstart-like proggie will make it in. - Original Message - From: "Duane Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nags
Hello all I tried the same with Windows :( machine, but it is working with two ISP perfectly . Both of my Internet IP's is accessiable from outside world. Sorry 2 post Windows messages here. Regards Nags - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Lunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jiri K

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +0530, Bala wrote: > Hello > In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having > leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP > addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I > have config

Re: Squid Alternative

2001-03-28 Thread Ilya Martynov
RD> Hi all, RD> Has anyone found a free, decent alternative to Squid? try 'oops'. It is very stable and I belive has better perfomance. -- Ilya Martynov AGAVA Software Company, http://www.agava.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
I had the same problem when we switched from one ISP ot the other I was running both for a couple of months. Turned out that, as Jeremy Lunn suggested, that my new ISP wouldn't allow IPs from a different Net be routed through his net, which is of course very sensible and right. However, in my case

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:30:06AM +0200, Jiri Kaderavek wrote: > Hi Jeremy. > > I'll have the same problem, but: > What do you mean with some form > of clustering? Can you explain that. > Thanx. Actually clustering probably isn't what you want since there's only one machine. But what you probab

Re: secure remote backup

2001-03-28 Thread Francis 'Dexter' Gois
Hi, You could use rsync -e ssh. I think amanda also can handle encrypted sessions. And it's done to manage an automated multi-server backup. Anyway, you can encapsulate any session into an ssh tunnel (see man ssh, -L and -R options) - so you can keep your habits. On Saturday 24 March 2001 22

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Jiri Kaderavek
Hi Jeremy. I'll have the same problem, but: What do you mean with some form of clustering? Can you explain that. Thanx. Jiri Kaderavek. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Lunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; ; Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: R

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Dexter
What about VA System Imager (systemimager.sourceforge.net) ? We use it here for all our base installs - we adapt the servers with apt-get next. RSync shall also be useful - rsync -e ssh if you're on a hostile environment (and i believe we always are ...) On Wednesday 28 March 2001 07:58, Duan

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +0530, Bala wrote: > Hello > In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having > leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP > addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I > have config

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Magni Onsøien
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:58:27PM -0800, Duane Powers said: > I'm considering dd as one alternative, but that's kinda bulky 'cuz it > requires physically removing each hard drive installing in "parent" and > imaging... I've looked at things like > ghost, but that doesn't seem to be an option...

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:58:27PM -0800, Duane Powers wrote: > 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) > discussion on the list before... I don't know if anyone has the details > on redhat's kickstart program, > and whether that is something that could be ported to debian... Any > s

Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Bala
Hello In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I have configured with ISP2. With the third card, I have configured my LAN. N

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:46:12AM +0200, DI Peter Burgstaller wrote: > I had the same problem when we switched from one ISP ot the other I was running > both for a couple of months. > > Turned out that, as Jeremy Lunn suggested, that my new ISP wouldn't allow > IPs from a different Net be routed

Re: Squid Alternative

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:18:05AM +1000, Robert Davidson wrote: > Has anyone found a free, decent alternative to Squid? > > Our ones keep giving us trouble, such as: > > Dying in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, > > Filling up the drive that Squid maintains a cache o

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:22:29PM +0530, Nags wrote: > Hello all > I tried the same with Windows :( machine, but it is working with two ISP > perfectly . Both of my Internet IP's is accessiable from outside > world. I replied off-list to stop the three-list cross-posting. This whole

Re: "kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Mailing List
I agree that something like this is needed badly in Debian. However... considering there has been so much hassle over the boot floppies alone, i doubt there will be much chance a kickstart-like proggie will make it in. - Original Message - From: "Duane Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nags
Hello all I tried the same with Windows :( machine, but it is working with two ISP perfectly . Both of my Internet IP's is accessiable from outside world. Sorry 2 post Windows messages here. Regards Nags - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Lunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jiri

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +0530, Bala wrote: > Hello > In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having > leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP > addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I > have confi

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread DI Peter Burgstaller
I had the same problem when we switched from one ISP ot the other I was running both for a couple of months. Turned out that, as Jeremy Lunn suggested, that my new ISP wouldn't allow IPs from a different Net be routed through his net, which is of course very sensible and right. However, in my cas

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:30:06AM +0200, Jiri Kaderavek wrote: > Hi Jeremy. > > I'll have the same problem, but: > What do you mean with some form > of clustering? Can you explain that. > Thanx. Actually clustering probably isn't what you want since there's only one machine. But what you proba

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Jiri Kaderavek
Hi Jeremy. I'll have the same problem, but: What do you mean with some form of clustering? Can you explain that. Thanx. Jiri Kaderavek. - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Lunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTE

"kickstart" for debian needed

2001-03-28 Thread Duane Powers
Ok all, I've talked upper management into rolling out linux as the primary OS/workstation for the members of our NOC (we're a major ISP). Now I'm faced with installing 30+ similar machines with debian, life sucks, eh? :o) I'm considering dd as one alternative, but that's kinda bulky 'cuz it requir

Re: Firewall configuration with two ISP

2001-03-28 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +0530, Bala wrote: > Hello > In Debian GNU/Linux, I have configured three network cards. I'm having > leased line connection from two ISP's with two different series of IP > addersses. With first card I, have configrued ISP1 and with second card, I > have confi