Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:12:43AM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Baarda) writes: > > > Though I use uw-imapd instead of Courier. The general consensus is Courier > > is better, but I went with uw-imapd because it was "lighter", and I had > > legacy non-Maildir mailboxes.

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread Nate Campi
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:53:24PM +1200, John Morton wrote: > > Maildir performance and scalability is dependant on the filesystem. If the > filesystem your maildirs live on store small files efficiently, and can list > and access files in directories filled with thousands of other small files,

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Baarda) writes: > Though I use uw-imapd instead of Courier. The general consensus is Courier > is better, but I went with uw-imapd because it was "lighter", and I had > legacy non-Maildir mailboxes. > > Courier is nearly 1MB installed including ssl and support packages,

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread John Morton
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 15:33, Germán Gutierrez wrote: > Jeff Waugh escribio: > > > > > >> > There are plenty of reasons to not use Maildir, too. > >> > >> Aren't they mostly to do with backwards compatibility? If everything > >> in Debian could handle it, wouldn't this be a non-issue? > > > > No. I

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread Germán Gutierrez
Jeff Waugh escribio: > > >> > There are plenty of reasons to not use Maildir, too. >> >> Aren't they mostly to do with backwards compatibility? If everything >> in Debian could handle it, wouldn't this be a non-issue? > > No. I use maildirs on my IMAP server and mboxes on my desktop because > th

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:49:25PM -0600, Lance Levsen wrote: > > > What should I install to get mail to work? > > I have a small network: > > -1 debian gateway > > -2 debian boxes > > -4 Win98 PC (sorry, the kids are teached at school with word, excel etc.) > > > Frank. > > I'd suggest Postfix/

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > There are plenty of reasons to not use Maildir, too. > > Aren't they mostly to do with backwards compatibility? If everything in > Debian could handle it, wouldn't this be a non-issue? No. I use maildirs on my IMAP server and mboxes on my desktop because they are appropriate to each. They o

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:06:07AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Failing that, a migration to pure maildir would probably be good, provided > > the migration could be handled transperantly. > > There are plenty of reasons to not use Maildir, too. Aren't they mostly to do with backwards compa

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Failing that, a migration to pure maildir would probably be good, provided > the migration could be handled transperantly. There are plenty of reasons to not use Maildir, too. - Jeff -- "What's up with that word though... it's like something you did to frogs in grammar s

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Lance Levsen
> What should I install to get mail to work? > I have a small network: > -1 debian gateway > -2 debian boxes > -4 Win98 PC (sorry, the kids are teached at school with word, excel etc.) > Frank. I'd suggest Postfix/Courier IMAP. If you have the mail hosted elsewhere on an POP or IMAP server then

Re: mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread Todd Charron
Hi, For me a mix of qmail and fetchmail worked beautifully until I got a static (at which point fetchmail was no longer required). I did it all with one machine but if you really want you could use two (though I don't see the point). Fetchmail would retrieve the messages when connected and q

mail-config?

2002-08-01 Thread if . frijns
Hi Debian people. reading this list for a few weeks I want to put foreward this mail-question. What should I install to get mail to work? I have a small network: -1 debian gateway -2 debian boxes -4 Win98 PC (sorry, the kids are teached at school with word, excel etc.) At the moment one of the W

Re: Apache/PHP/FTP and user rights

2002-08-01 Thread Phillip Baker
Interesting. A stub runs as root, yes, but all the threads that actually handle requests are running as the correct non-priveleged user on my system. I've never experienced a problem with cgi-php and very much doubt debian would provide it as a package if it provided such a big hole. Regards, Ph

Re: Proftpd+SSL/TLS!!!

2002-08-01 Thread Jorge . Lehner
Hello! On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:32:01PM +0200, Jones Down wrote: ... > My alternative is to use ssh, there is a really beatiful win-prog to > use scp, looks like mc, can be found here: > > http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ > > but then again you should setup a chroot environment, because it´s >

Re: Apache/PHP/FTP and user rights

2002-08-01 Thread Phillip Baker
(oops, sent it directly to nicolas instead of the list - resent to the list for other people's benefit) I resigned myself to using cgi-php, mainly because I didn't want users scripts running as the webserver (somewhat of a security risk as then all files readable by the webserver become readable t

Re: Apache/PHP/FTP and user rights

2002-08-01 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:40:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm facing a problem I thought would be fairly easy to deal with, but > haven't found a proper solution. Here it is : > > We have a web werver hosting a few tens of customers using > VirtualHosts. We have mod_php and use FTP for

Apache/PHP/FTP and user rights

2002-08-01 Thread nbougues-listes
Dear all, I'm facing a problem I thought would be fairly easy to deal with, but haven't found a proper solution. Here it is : We have a web werver hosting a few tens of customers using VirtualHosts. We have mod_php and use FTP for updates, each customer having its own UID. Thus : - customers fil

Re: /root/ drwxr-xr-x?

2002-08-01 Thread Phillip Baker
> > short version: /root 755 is no security risk and it wont get changed > >either. If you want, set it to 0700 on your box. > > long version: search the list archives (both -user and -devel will have > > some hits I guess). Assuming you dont have any sensitive data i

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2002-08-01 Thread Jones Down
HI, have a nica day, Jones

Re: General Apache-Question

2002-08-01 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:46:08PM +0200, Jones Down wrote: > package apache-ssl is the apache with compiled in ssl statically? Yes. > package apache is apache build with module support? Yes. apache-ssl has module support, too. > So if I want an ssl apache it´s ok to have package apache

General Apache-Question

2002-08-01 Thread Jones Down
HI, as I want to switch a server from redhat to debian I am investigating the differences and want to ask a simple question: package apache-ssl is the apache with compiled in ssl statically? package apache is apache build with module support? So if I want an ssl apache it´s ok to have

Re: /root/ drwxr-xr-x?

2002-08-01 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
+ Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [31.07.02 23:56]: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > > # ls -lad /root/ > > drwxr-xr-x9 root root 4096 Jul 31 18:25 /root/ > > This is not the first time this comes up. Damn - this is my first RTFM for a while ;) > short v

Re: Proftpd+SSL/TLS!!!

2002-08-01 Thread Jones Down
Hi, > Does anyone knows Proftpd+SSL/TLS was official idea from Proftpd It´s something I absolutely don´t understand: the developers of proftpd are not supporting this, don´t ask me why, it´s a real problem... unfortunately I am no C-Coder, so I would do it myself..

Re[2]: Newbie: Is there a basic Debian-for-ISP HOWTO?

2002-08-01 Thread Jones Down
Just wanted to opt for www.courier-mnta.org It is a great mail solution for *everything*! Wonder why nobody seems to know this. BTW: New package of courier is in sid! Have a nice day, Jones

Re: Maildirs in Debian

2002-08-01 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01.08.02 06:53]: > Some steps I remember: > > - Change /etc/login.defs to use: > QMAIL_DIR Maildir/ > #MAIL_DIR/var/spool/mail > MAIL_FILE Maildir/ /etc/pam.d/login sessionoptional pam_mail.so dir=~/Maildir/ Perhaps add a lin

Re: Linux box

2002-08-01 Thread mlist-debianisp
Riccardo Losselli wrote: [-snip-] My question was aimed to see if it is possible (and worth) for a small ISP like us to implement bgp. I'm using BGP4+ for our IPv6 Site using Zebra, works good :-) Before doing that we will train the staff, or use already trained tech personnel. I would also buy th

Re: Newbie: Is there a basic Debian-for-ISP HOWTO?

2002-08-01 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:55:58AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > exim is basically smail done right. > > it's adequate for a small site with low mail volumes, but it doesn't > scale very well. Have you got some real experimental data about exim's scalability or just guessing? > IMO, exim is a po

Re: Linux box

2002-08-01 Thread Jorge . Lehner
Hello! On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:15:53PM +0200, Riccardo Losselli wrote: ... > I know it will never be like bgp, but it still better than nothing at > all, or not? I don't know bgp at all, but I cannot believe it's easier than the following: One Linux Router, three network cards: 1- nothing s