Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:47:16PM -0500, Dale E Martin wrote: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Is there good documentation available for postfix? Last time I looked I could not find anything close to the quality of exim's. I'd be happy if that has changed

Re: Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:23:50PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future delivery: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 452 Mailbox full

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:03:35AM +, Ronny Adsetts wrote: Craig Sanders said the following on 28/01/04 23:36: i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. On what do you base this conlusion

Re: Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:58:19AM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: why should there be? [...] Because, like you mentioned later in your message, not all mailers give proper responses. For example, I've see a lot of 5xx codes where the verbal explanation is that the user is over quota. well,

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:37:07PM +0100, Thomas GOIRAND wrote: Not looking for a fight either, but... ALL the MTAs? What are the results for qmail then? I've always heard it's the fastest... no, postfix beats it. qmail WAS the fastest several years ago. then postfix arrived. craig

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:47:16PM -0500, Dale E Martin wrote: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Is there good documentation available for postfix? Last time I looked I could not find anything close to the quality of exim's. I'd be happy if that has changed

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: The directory was using 17 megs that really hurts performance on an ext2/ext3 partition. some other filesystems (e.g. reiser, xfs) aren't affected so badly by huge directories. I'm not talking about the FILES in the

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: The directory was using 17 megs that really hurts performance on an ext2/ext3 partition. some other filesystems (e.g. reiser, xfs) aren't affected so badly by huge directories. I'm not talking about the FILES in the

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Ward Willats wrote: At 2:14 PM +1100 1/23/04, Craig Sanders wrote: e.g. his long-winded page on the base system, makes it seem as if a base system is something magically distinct that only freebsd has. Linux distributions have had base systems since

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:00:55PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: I've not had time to look closely at this, but I've heard it's a fair linux/bsd comparison http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/ let me know if anyone sees an inaccuracy! an interesting article, and

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:24:15PM -0800, Ward Willats wrote: At 2:14 PM +1100 1/23/04, Craig Sanders wrote: e.g. his long-winded page on the base system, makes it seem as if a base system is something magically distinct that only freebsd has. Linux distributions have had base systems since

Re: FreeBSD/ Redhat / Debian

2004-01-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:00:55PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: I've not had time to look closely at this, but I've heard it's a fair linux/bsd comparison http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/ let me know if anyone sees an inaccuracy! an interesting article, and

Re: SOP for debian isp/corporate server...

2004-01-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:55:37PM +0530, prasad wrote: As many of you must have experienced, there are usual SOPs for setting up non-bloated, secure bare-bones Servers with respective OSs eg for solaris. Is there SOP for debian, if not, I guess this list is better poised to produce one. Any

Re: SOP for debian isp/corporate server...

2004-01-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:55:37PM +0530, prasad wrote: As many of you must have experienced, there are usual SOPs for setting up non-bloated, secure bare-bones Servers with respective OSs eg for solaris. Is there SOP for debian, if not, I guess this list is better poised to produce one. Any

Re: Considering Debian (currently using Red Hat)

2004-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:55:04PM -0600, Rod Rodolico wrote: 2.) A related reason we used Red Hat was that practically anything you could want to use was pre-packaged in a simple to install RPM. And they were typically pretty high quality RPM's, and very often well maintained. Do admins

Re: Considering Debian (currently using Red Hat)

2004-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:55:04PM -0600, Rod Rodolico wrote: 2.) A related reason we used Red Hat was that practically anything you could want to use was pre-packaged in a simple to install RPM. And they were typically pretty high quality RPM's, and very often well maintained. Do admins

Re: replacing sanitizer w/ amavisd-new

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:39:39PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: # mailscanner system, works with Postfix and other MTAs. This uses unsupported methods to manipulate Postfix queue files, and there are multiple reports of message duplication and/or delivery of truncated messages. It isn't

Re: replacing sanitizer w/ amavisd-new

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:39:39PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: # mailscanner system, works with Postfix and other MTAs. This uses unsupported methods to manipulate Postfix queue files, and there are multiple reports of message duplication and/or delivery of truncated messages. It isn't

Re: Jesus Help Me !

2004-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
please keep your moronic and paranoid religious delusions off of our mailing list. this mailing list is for the discussion of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system in Internet Service Provider environments. that's why it's called debian-isp. note that it is *not* called Divine Assistance or

Re: Best way to update perl on Woody Stable ?

2003-10-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:52:11AM +0200, Roman Medina wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:49:56 +1000, you wrote: another method is to use apt's pinning features where you can tell it to upgrade certain packages from one distribution (e.g. unstable) and the rest from another (e.g.

Re: manual update of apt database (was Best way to update perl on Woody Stable?)

2003-10-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:08:08AM -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote: Correct, dpkg and apt are useful tools. All tools have strengths and weaknesses. I love perl, and can not imagine living without it. But, I doubt I'll use it to create a database engine. So, I use the tool best for a given task.

Re: Best way to update perl on Woody Stable ?

2003-10-09 Thread Craig Sanders
this: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:23PM -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote: Is there a way to tell apt (dselect) you have certain packages installed? If so, it would make sense to just trash the Debian perl install and install it all from source. I agree with your Perl guru -- roll your own is the

Re: named + virtual domains

2003-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:01:28PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: You MUST NOT have multiple PTR records for the same IP. This is an error. no it is not. multiple PTR records are perfectly valid and are standard usage. in fact, if you have multiple A records (note, not CNAME) pointing to 1 IP

Re: Dovecot

2003-09-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:30:38PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 19:32, Mark Devin wrote: Yes, I have been experimenting with dbmail. I would say the pros and cons are as follows: Pros: 1. Uses mysql or postgresql backend for storing mail (both headers

Re: ..mirror script: woody deb mirror for i386, how to exclude the rest?

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:52:32AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..in my mirror I like main, non-US, non-free and contrib for Woody/3.0r1. So I try to script a mirror for i386 Woody, should make a nice 4.2 GB mirror, how do I exclude the rest of the about 80 GB?: use debmirror. Package:

Re: ..mirror script: woody deb mirror for i386, how to exclude the rest?

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:01:17PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:01:41 +1000, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:52:32AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..in my mirror I like main, non-US, non-free and contrib

Re: Postfix + Quota (+ procmail?)

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:13:17PM +0200, R.M. Evers wrote: So, if I understand correctly, I *have to* enable SpamAssassin through an MDA? I thought SpamAssassin could be called by amavisd-new, which would make the MDA unnecessary, since Postfix can deliver to Maildir directly.. you can use

Re: Postfix + Quota (+ procmail?)

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:05:31PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: you can use spamassassin as either a content filter (e.g. with amavis), or by calling it from an MDA such as procmail or maildrop. I'm currently calling spamassassin (spamd) via procmail after piping through amavis, because I

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:43:33PM +1000, Rudi Starcevic wrote: Sendmail or Qmail ? That is my question. neither. postfix is the answer. postfix is backwards compatible with sendmail (meaning minimal disruption during the migration) with better security, speed, and features than qmail (and

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:54:55AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: - qmail has a good integration with one of the fastest mailing list servers, ezmlm. ezmlm is probably the best thing about qmail. however, it's also an example of the technology trap that i referred to in a previous message in

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:14:09PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:58, Eric Sproul wrote: First, scale is a consideration. Once we began to grow our customer base, our email volume began to increase dramatically. Qmail queues everything to disk, so the more mail you do,

Re: apt-get

2003-07-04 Thread Craig Sanders
-- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z $* ] ; then echo Usage: echo dpkg-hold package

Re: apt-get

2003-07-04 Thread Craig Sanders
-- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z $* ] ; then echo Usage: echo dpkg-hold package

Re: Server hacked - next...?

2003-06-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Thomas Lamy wrote: Re-installing from scratch would be a real pain... the server runs on a 3ware array, and has hundreds of users, all active :-/ IMHO there's only one save way to go after being hacked: reinstall. Jason, if you're really

Re: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat

2003-06-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:45:06PM +0200, Tom?s N??ez Lirola wrote: My boss is forcing me to install Red Hat. I am the sysad, and I personally prefer Debian, but it don't seem to be a reason for him. He worries about Oracle not giving support to Debian users. But we don't have any Oracle

Re: Slightly OT: They're forcing me to install Red Hat

2003-06-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:45:06PM +0200, Tom?s N??ez Lirola wrote: My boss is forcing me to install Red Hat. I am the sysad, and I personally prefer Debian, but it don't seem to be a reason for him. He worries about Oracle not giving support to Debian users. But we don't have any Oracle

Re: Apache proxying illegitimate requests

2003-06-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Amaya wrote: I fixed it like this: Location / Limit CONNECT Order deny,allow Deny from all /Limit /Location Thanks for your time. better yet, if you're not using apache's proxying capability(*) then DON'T ENABLE THE PROXY

Re: Apache proxying illegitimate requests

2003-06-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Amaya wrote: I fixed it like this: Location / Limit CONNECT Order deny,allow Deny from all /Limit /Location Thanks for your time. better yet, if you're not using apache's proxying capability(*) then DON'T ENABLE THE PROXY

Re: transparent proxy with multiple squids?

2003-06-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:23:12PM -0500, Jos? Guzm?n wrote: I have a main router/firwall for the lan in one box, and a squid hierarchy for redundancy of two or three boxes (siblings). What's the best way to do transparent proxying with 2 or more squids with iptables? What if I add a second

Re: transparent proxy with multiple squids?

2003-06-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:23:12PM -0500, Jos? Guzm?n wrote: I have a main router/firwall for the lan in one box, and a squid hierarchy for redundancy of two or three boxes (siblings). What's the best way to do transparent proxying with 2 or more squids with iptables? What if I add a second

Re: Re making routes permanent

2003-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:46:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i currently have 2 route add -net statments in my inittab file.. inittab is the wrong place for route statements. Where is the corret place to save route setting. I have a number of routes that need to be permanent and must

Re: Apache-SSL 'n Cert Fun

2003-03-02 Thread Craig Sanders
unless they know the pass-phrases for all encrypted keys used by the server. since there's no security advantage in using encrypted certificates (item #1 above), and significant operational disadvantages (item #2), your best bet is to use unencrypted certificates. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL

Re: Cracking attempt

2003-02-26 Thread Craig Sanders
boxes are superior to commercial routers - linux, like any unix, has available an enormous swag of useful tools. -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: ISP Billing Software / RODOPI

2003-02-26 Thread Craig Sanders
. very skilled programmer. long time debian user fan. their web site says that the core parts of Jet are Open Source. what that means, i have no idea. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: Cracking attempt

2003-02-25 Thread Craig Sanders
boxes are superior to commercial routers - linux, like any unix, has available an enormous swag of useful tools. -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Cracking attempt

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Sanders
plain routing and iptables firewalling rules. a third alternative, (which may or may not be viable, depending on what kind of border router you have and how your network is set up) is to replace the router with the linux box. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto

Re: Moving old inbox to new address

2002-12-29 Thread Craig Sanders
to their new address. simplest way would be (as root): mutt -f /path/to/mailbox T.enter;bnewadddress@newdomainenter i.e. load the mailbox in mutt, tag all messages, then bounce tagged messages to newaddress@newdomain. no need to write a script for a once-off. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL

Re: Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Story on IDE raids on tech-report.com slashdot

2002-12-07 Thread Craig Sanders
really stress-tests disks filesystems). unfortunately, it's still not in the standard linux kernel, you have to apply a patch to get XFS. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Qmail/Postfix/Sendmail for fastest outgoing mail

2002-11-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:33:57AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El lun, 25-11-2002 a las 07:00, Craig Sanders escribi?: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:37:58PM +1100, Jason Lim wrote: nope, because postfix has no way of knowing that they were originally the same email(*). postfix has

Re: Qmail/Postfix/Sendmail for fastest outgoing mail

2002-11-25 Thread Craig Sanders
-- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qmail/Postfix/Sendmail for fastest outgoing mail

2002-11-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:00:32AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: Actually, I can't see how Postfix would be at all faster, since it would still be sending individual emails on separate connections. In fact, wouldn't it be slower, since Qmail was optimized specifically for this? nope

Re: Qmail/Postfix/Sendmail for fastest outgoing mail

2002-11-24 Thread Craig Sanders
the mail off the qmail boxes ASAP, which will be some improvement at least. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qmail/Postfix/Sendmail for fastest outgoing mail

2002-11-24 Thread Craig Sanders
a qmail box as well as postfix, so it might be just right for your situation. search the postfix-users archive for ezmlm. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: load average question

2002-11-23 Thread Craig Sanders
, i'd use XFS or reiserfs in preference to ext2 or ext3 anyway. good luck. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: load average question

2002-11-23 Thread Craig Sanders
. whichever way it comes up will work fine :) craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: load average question

2002-11-23 Thread Craig Sanders
that. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
and error-prone, so i don't use djbdns. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: syslog-ng

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
bufferization for maximal performance. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
fucking personal. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:13:15PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:54:21AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:43:26PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Craig Sanders writes: nobody with more than a handful of domains is going to throw everything

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
with new software configurations. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
. Craig Sanders goes ballistic: he says this is ``self-serving propaganda peppered with prejudicial language that attempts to make trivial operations seem difficult or prone to error.'' there you go again, with more prejudicial language. i didn't say that that was the entirety of what made

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
is that some of the djb groupies find it intolerable that someone may have evaluated djbdns and decided it wasn't for him. that's blasphemy! craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
for sure whether something is really going to work until you cut over to it on your production servers. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. i can't recall who first said that, but it's both true and appropriate here. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
, chfn, etc. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:12:20AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Craig Sanders writes: [ http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/blurb/easeofuse.html ] almost every bind solution ends with Look for errors in your system's logs. but not one of the djbdns solutions does the same What you fail to realize

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
and error-prone, so i don't use djbdns. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: syslog-ng

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
bufferization for maximal performance. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: syslog-ng

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:21:03PM +0100, jernej horvat wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 13:08, Craig Sanders wrote: IIRC, the last time i looked at syslog-ng, it had no ability to write log files asynchronously which made it unsuitable for use on heavy-load servers - e.g. medium

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:13:15PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:54:21AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:43:26PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Craig Sanders writes: nobody with more than a handful of domains is going to throw everything

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
will have a backwards compatible replacement too one day. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:43:26PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Craig Sanders writes: nobody with more than a handful of domains is going to throw everything away and convert to a new nameserver program Five of the top ten domain-hosting companies on the Internet---including Namezero

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
subscribe and unsubscribe requests, and removes undeliverable addresses from the subscription rolls. Mailing lists managed by couriermlm require zero human administrative oversight. couriermlm supports digests, write-only posting aliases, and moderated mailing lists. craig -- craig sanders

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
more than overblown newbie opinion like yours. how do i know that you're a newbie? your shrill insistence that you have all the answers is a dead giveaway. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:12:20AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Craig Sanders writes: [ http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/blurb/easeofuse.html ] almost every bind solution ends with Look for errors in your system's logs. but not one of the djbdns solutions does the same What you fail to realize

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
will have a backwards compatible replacement too one day. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:43:26PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Craig Sanders writes: nobody with more than a handful of domains is going to throw everything away and convert to a new nameserver program Five of the top ten domain-hosting companies on the Internet---including Namezero

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
subscribe and unsubscribe requests, and removes undeliverable addresses from the subscription rolls. Mailing lists managed by couriermlm require zero human administrative oversight. couriermlm supports digests, write-only posting aliases, and moderated mailing lists. craig -- craig sanders

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-20 Thread Craig Sanders
more than overblown newbie opinion like yours. how do i know that you're a newbie? your shrill insistence that you have all the answers is a dead giveaway. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-19 Thread Craig Sanders
Way. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS servers

2002-11-19 Thread Craig Sanders
Way. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:06:06AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Craig Sanders wrote: FYI, doesn't look like the memory leaks have been fixed: # ps v -Cnamed PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS%MEM COMMAND 6799 ? S 0:00 111 232 336175 200968 39.1

Re: how to upgrade dozens of debian servers

2002-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
. script logs all output, including control-characters and escape codes so dialog boxes (e.g. from debconf) can make the logfile difficult to read. like so: script -f ./test.log ./upgrade-all.sh ./test.sh exit craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:06:06AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Craig Sanders wrote: FYI, doesn't look like the memory leaks have been fixed: # ps v -Cnamed PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS%MEM COMMAND 6799 ? S 0:00 111 232 336175 200968 39.1

Re: how to upgrade dozens of debian servers

2002-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
. script logs all output, including control-characters and escape codes so dialog boxes (e.g. from debconf) can make the logfile difficult to read. like so: script -f ./test.log ./upgrade-all.sh ./test.sh exit craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:46:14PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: the main thing i'm worried about is that bind9 had enormous memory leaks when i tried 9.0 several months ago. i hope they're fixed now. FYI, doesn't look like the memory leaks have been fixed: # ps v -Cnamed PID TTY STAT TIME

Re: Bind8 to Bind9

2002-11-16 Thread Craig Sanders
/dynamic IP addresses. not a problem on a static ip server, but requires a bind restart if your link is dialup/dsl/cable/etc and your IP changes). craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:46:14PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: the main thing i'm worried about is that bind9 had enormous memory leaks when i tried 9.0 several months ago. i hope they're fixed now. FYI, doesn't look like the memory leaks have been fixed: # ps v -Cnamed PID TTY STAT TIME

Re: Bind8 to Bind9

2002-11-16 Thread Craig Sanders
/dynamic IP addresses. not a problem on a static ip server, but requires a bind restart if your link is dialup/dsl/cable/etc and your IP changes). craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
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Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
tried 9.0 several months ago. i hope they're fixed now. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
to woody's bind9) bind9-doc has a migration file in /usr/share/doc/bind9-doc/misc/ which explains the differences. it's stricter in enforcing RFC compliance. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
? craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
tried 9.0 several months ago. i hope they're fixed now. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: New BIND 4 8 Vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Craig Sanders
to woody's bind9) bind9-doc has a migration file in /usr/share/doc/bind9-doc/misc/ which explains the differences. it's stricter in enforcing RFC compliance. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: Moving from BSDi

2002-10-29 Thread Craig Sanders
and generally works out-of-the-box with minimal configuration (i.e. the default config provided with the package is sane, you just need to tweak it for your needs) craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: Ok, I'm sold!

2002-10-29 Thread Craig Sanders
. check the archives for more info if you're interested. http://www.postfix.org/ and follow the links to the list archives. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: Moving from BSDi

2002-10-28 Thread Craig Sanders
new servers have been debian. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail upgrade

2002-10-28 Thread Craig Sanders
servers. i find that it's a lot less hassle than testing. i test upgrades on workstations and other less important machines *before* i upgrade the really important servers. ppps: try postfix rather than sendmail :-) -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh

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