Re: Kernel = 2.2.17 or 2.4.* for FW/Proxy

2000-12-08 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
test10 and test11 both worked fine for me in my tests. I've heard some reports of file system problems with test11 so I'm running test10. conclusion is - there are still problems with 2.4.*, success depends heavily on your hadware. so - don't use 2.4.* for stable machines, and fw/proxy

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO -- debian tool(s))

2000-11-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, I wouldn't know. but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that field? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CISCO -- debian tool(s)

2000-11-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco there is wonderfull perl module for configuring Cisco routers. besides that you've got all default tools like telnet;),snmp utils like mrtg etc.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Postfix for many domains

2000-11-15 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
So I need to be able to add domains without (much) reconfiguring of the server. Preferrably I would like to use LDAP to specify the domains, do the LDAP patches for Postfix support this? I use exim for such purpose, all the configs are stored in LDAP, exim is EXTREMELY configurable, which

Re: High Availability... again

2000-10-10 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Would be a shame having this nice system up and running and then stop when we run out of disk space.. AFAIK LVM can do this. but I haven't done that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nat

2000-10-07 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Even for the "standard" protocols it fails if you need to connect to a port not handled by the module. Example: the ip_masq_irc watches only fails? since when? it works perfectly. something, not everything (here: DCC) will work. dah?? DCC works like a charm, where did you get an idea it

Re: Hello.

2000-10-07 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Could someone please indulge me and give me 5 reasons why they would like to go into computers for a job (or why they did)? hmm, maybe this will help: 1) people are evil 2) personal preferences ( physics, then maths, then discovered programming) 3) people are evil 4) computer jobs give you

Re: High Availability..

2000-10-06 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Has anyone tried to set up any such debian systems?? I'm thinking of i had to do something like that, but temporarily only. later I've seen the same setup on novell conference and they call it 'their clustering solution' and sold licenses for that for big money. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Strange problems with ppp

2000-09-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
There was this line, and it was running fine ( linux+ppp 1.3.11 vs win9x ) on 115kbit modems. then I upgraded potato to woody ( hmm accidentally, I need to put hostname in my bash prompt :(( ) ( ppp to 1.4.x ) now leased line dies.. although I downgraded ppp to 1.3.11 there is this message:

re: ppp problems

2000-09-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
there is noauth option in options ( or options.ttySx) or you could actually add some users to pap-secrets

Strange problems with ppp

2000-09-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
There was this line, and it was running fine ( linux+ppp 1.3.11 vs win9x ) on 115kbit modems. then I upgraded potato to woody ( hmm accidentally, I need to put hostname in my bash prompt :(( ) ( ppp to 1.4.x ) now leased line dies.. although I downgraded ppp to 1.3.11 there is this message:

Re: slink repository

2000-09-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
updates I want to quickly catch up on but my searching has been fruitless. Why are old distribs (hamm and slink for instance), not kept at any of the mirrors? just a common sense - why keep them on mirrors?! they're outdated, that's what we have museums for. And AFAIK slink hamm and bo are

tftpd.

2000-09-19 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I am having problems with tftpd - I need to upload some files using tftp protocol, I've installed tftpd package, now it's being run from inetd, problem is - it doesen't work! and there is no documentation .. I found some docs, but they are about *BSD tftpd, and it has all nice options

Re: Exim on slink - frozen messages

2000-09-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I found no directory under /var/cache/exim. Sorry. /var/spool/exim/msglog I do have exim with potato running, so I looked at it and it does mention 'auto-thaw' in the config file. Mostly, it tells you to go look it up in the documentation, which I already did. sorry I've seen this in some

Re: Exim on slink - frozen messages

2000-09-16 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I've been through my exim doc and found 'auto-thaw' (section 3.3) but I am unsure how to use it or even if it is the right option. there is example of how to use it in examples and in your default /etc/exim.conf. I don't use it, i do sth like this: cd /var/cache/exim/msglog exim -Mt *

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-15 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Cucipop, then. non-free AFAIK

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-15 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I don't need an entire mail server. I already have exim and courier imap set up. All I need is a standalone POP server which can handle maildir. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to make XMail's POP server standalone. Or is there? Courier has a POP server, but it isn't standalone

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-15 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
But fairly minimal license anyway (less than $200, I think, for a full, unlimited type). Though I've been having a lack of success contacting the developer recently, so I don't know if Cubic Circle still cares about it, even And that's true. And i've been using cubic-circle for about a

Re: information question

2000-09-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
113 opentcpauth I had a question as to the function of 'auth'. I am not quite sure what this does. If someone could give me a heads up. Any advice appriciated. it allows identifying users on the other edn of tcp/ip connection, ie when irc server recives connection it

Re: information question

2000-09-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
113 opentcpauth I had a question as to the function of 'auth'. I am not quite sure what this does. If someone could give me a heads up. Any advice appriciated. it allows identifying users on the other edn of tcp/ip connection, ie when irc server recives connection it then

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-31 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Which file based database system is faster than mysql? I tried Berkeley db3 (although with transaction code) and it was horrible slow! old one is fast. hmm i thought the new one was db2, uh, some glitch in my memory files. I've seen benchmarks comparing various db-databases (gdbm, ndbm etc)

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
If you don't need record-level locking, rollbacks, etc. then I would recommend MySQL, simply because it's very fast. Hmm, if you need fast why use sql server? you could use databases in files. they're fast, simple etc. If you need to create apps based on SQL you will need transactions, and

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used, 1828K free, 36880K shrd, 7712K buff Swap: 104380K av, 3128K used, 101252K free 35860K cached This doesen't look like a

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
sorry for my last post, I haven't noticed that you people told everything already. To paint a better picture, here's an entire top screen: just a little hint - don't sort your processes by cpu usage when you want to check memory usage ( just press big 'M' and it'll all clear up ) regards,

Re: reiserfs databases.

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
to sum things up - my idea to use reiserfs as database placeholder ain't that stupid. - modern fs's do better job that commercial database designers well, actually I'm using postgresql which can't use raw partitions anyway. thanks for the response.

RE: Apache vhosts dinamically alias

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
For example: VirtualHost www.virtualhosta.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/WWW ServerName www.virtualhosta.com Alias /stats/ /var/stats/virtualhosta.com /VirtualHost I think he ment mass_vhost from mod_vhost_alias or sth. Maybe mod_rewrite could help you in this case?

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
postgres is using record-level locking, what does mysql do, is it locking the whole table ? what are rollbacks? what other advantages are AFAIK mysql locks whole table, rollback is term used with transaction - thing is, you put some sql statements inside transaction, and one of them fail, you

reiserfs databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
AFAIK reiserfs is about keeping files (blocks) in b-trees, and DBMS keep their data in a bunch of files, which are accessed directly (non-sequential access). So I figured that reiserfs would be great for keeping DBMS's data on it. but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data

Web crawler engine.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
There are lot of web search engines around, i mean like altavista's google's infoseek's etc.. What does one do when she wants to build one herself. I mean what do you people use when you build local search engine ( city, locality, my needs are about 100 000 pages?webs? for the beggining). I've

apache ssl certificates,

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I am having a little problem with ?x.509? certificates and virtual domains, it seems like name (not ip) of host is being put in certificate, so when I sign my cet as host.net, then when someone connects to virtual.host.net she gets 'hosts name differ from certificate' or sth error. Same

reiserfs databases.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
AFAIK reiserfs is about keeping files (blocks) in b-trees, and DBMS keep their data in a bunch of files, which are accessed directly (non-sequential access). So I figured that reiserfs would be great for keeping DBMS's data on it. but, there are some commercial databases which keep their data

Web crawler engine.

2000-08-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
There are lot of web search engines around, i mean like altavista's google's infoseek's etc.. What does one do when she wants to build one herself. I mean what do you people use when you build local search engine ( city, locality, my needs are about 100 000 pages?webs? for the beggining). I've

Re: mysql???

2000-08-13 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I have a problem in mysql ... I installed php3 , mysql and apache I run mysql server like that /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start hmm... well well... don't you use debian? if you don't then why asking on this list? if using debian you would be running mysql like

Re: Puzzled

2000-08-13 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
can someone explain me why the .45 IP is not visible and .46 and .42 are ? eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:5F:57:C4:41 inet addr:XX.YY.ZZ.42 Bcast:XX.YY.ZZ.47 Mask:255.255.255.248 eth0:2Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:5F:57:C4:41 inet

RE: very long passwd

2000-08-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
What databases? What is the name of debian package? libpam-pwdb authentication is ok with pam_mysql. The problem is that IMAP server need the home dir location. thats what you need nss for. it can authenticate not only passwords against varoius services

Re: very long passwd

2000-08-04 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
The file /etc/passwd es very, very long... but es necessary for IMAP server to check the home directory for every user. nss_mysql is the only solution? nope. Now, I have mysql to auth users for proftpd apache via PAM (pam_mysql) there is also ldap, pg_sql and, probably what you want -

Re: very long passwd

2000-08-04 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
The file /etc/passwd es very, very long... but es necessary for IMAP server to check the home directory for every user. nss_mysql is the only solution? nope. Now, I have mysql to auth users for proftpd apache via PAM (pam_mysql) there is also ldap, pg_sql and, probably what you want -

Re: Debian and LDAP

2000-08-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
my users faster, and it's more straight-forward ( without using Are you sure that you used indices on your entries? hmmm, what are indices and how can I use them? in their outlook or netscape or whatever addressbooks? The main fear I have is exactly that our custumers *will* see each

Re: Debian and LDAP

2000-08-01 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
my users faster, and it's more straight-forward ( without using Are you sure that you used indices on your entries? hmmm, what are indices and how can I use them? in their outlook or netscape or whatever addressbooks? The main fear I have is exactly that our custumers *will* see each

Re: Debian and LDAP

2000-07-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Should anyone be interested, I've documented my experience here and provide pointers for deployment. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap I'm curious, what are other list members doing with ldap? I am trying to migrate all my pop users to ldap, well... that's easy, and provide

Re: Debian and LDAP

2000-07-30 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Should anyone be interested, I've documented my experience here and provide pointers for deployment. http://www.imaginator.com/~simon/ldap I'm curious, what are other list members doing with ldap? I am trying to migrate all my pop users to ldap, well... that's easy, and provide

Re: Pine Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can could you please tell me why? because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't quite follow that argumentation, and can't see any benefits

Re: Pine Maildir

2000-07-25 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I swithed from /var/spool/mail to ~Maildir on my debian Potato BOX. I can could you please tell me why? because qmail people often tell me that qmail is better than anything else because it supports maildir, well.. i don't quite follow that argumentation, and can't see any benefits

How to control on which interface linux replys incoming connections?

2000-07-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
with it's own adress. regards, Dariush Pietrzak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: e-commerce

2000-07-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
a good solution to implement a virtual store? consider minivend probably www.minivend.org, and com. and www.tellyman.org would be good places to start looking -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to control on which interface linux replys incoming connections?

2000-07-23 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
with it's own adress. regards, Dariush Pietrzak

Re: only POP3

2000-07-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
What's the way, if I would like to provide only e-mail service to the It works with giving a fake shell in the passwd file, but how would you do it? Should I create definitely a shell account? There was a short discussion here about virtual services ... you can keep your pop3 password in

Re: only POP3

2000-07-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
What's the way, if I would like to provide only e-mail service to the It works with giving a fake shell in the passwd file, but how would you do it? Should I create definitely a shell account? There was a short discussion here about virtual services ... you can keep your pop3 password in

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and what I should do? you seem to have more than one;) scsi device in your system. is that drive the only one with errors on it's scsi ribbon?

Re: chrooted bind

2000-06-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns/dns-linux and chrooted bind work now, but ! when trying to zone transfer can't exec /usr/sbin/named-xfer: No such file or directory is /usr/sbin/named-xfer present in your chrooted environment? hmm, never did it though,

Re: pop3 server,

2000-06-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
gnu-pop3d has been removed from debian due to it's instability. Where can I find more information about gnu-pop3d being removed from Debian? just try installing it - it has been removed from all the mirrors, and I mailed gnu-pop3d maintainer and he told me that it had been removed from

Re: apache_1.3.12 SSL error

2000-06-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Make sure the LoadModule directive for mod_ssl comes before any SSL directives in the config file. is it posible and secure to run apache-perl with mod_sll? I need at least a little crypted access to my ASP pages regards, Eyck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pop3 server,

2000-06-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
gnu-pop3d has been removed from debian due to it's instability. Where can I find more information about gnu-pop3d being removed from Debian? just try installing it - it has been removed from all the mirrors, and I mailed gnu-pop3d maintainer and he told me that it had been removed from debian

Re: apache_1.3.12 SSL error

2000-06-28 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Make sure the LoadModule directive for mod_ssl comes before any SSL directives in the config file. is it posible and secure to run apache-perl with mod_sll? I need at least a little crypted access to my ASP pages regards, Eyck

pop3 server,

2000-06-27 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, which packaged with debian pop3d would you people recommend? which one do you use? apt-cache search pop3d on potato shows only gnu-pop3d and cyrus-pop3, cyrus ain't best choice - it's non-free, and as cyrus's manual says - it's designed for closed hosts, hosting only as e-mail

Re: resource limits?

2000-06-21 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
root$ man ulimit Isn't this a bash shell level thing? % ulimit ulimit: Command not found. So what happens when you have users using tcsh? ulimit is not available in limit [-h] [resource [maximum-use]] tcsh. Can't users also change their ulimit settings? What about preventing they

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH process to achieve this without having to encrypt the files on disk. In fact, that's how our That was the original scheme, but bosses hmmm, after some consultations said that we should transfer data on cd-roms with armed guardian. so now

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-18 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the .. encrypting would solve that problem. or private network between two comps. And - if I could connect those two comps by some network daily data

Re: LDAP on debian

2000-05-17 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Debian is using LDAP to authenticate users but I couldnt realize how it's done. apt-get install pam-ldap, or sth like that, and then switch to ldap authentication using /etc/pam.d/* files.. i tried it, it works like a charm. it even supports md5 hashing, and i like it. How to add/remove

Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
is unacceptable. Does anyone have any suggestions on this? (data should be moved via some physical way, not using network as that's what bossess fear the most, zip drives could be nice, but they B are too small, streamers seems to be to slow ) regards, Dariush Pietrzak

Re: can apache log to MySQL ?

2000-05-11 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
MySQL is faster and I believe easier. I doubt he would need transactions it ain't easier. just to log Web stats. why use tools that are weaker and non-free when you can use better and open-source? and when he'll need better sql server one would have to install another sql server for that

Re: can apache log to MySQL ?

2000-05-10 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
the Apache::Traffic module, just in a real database, and with a lot more logged information). installed-size: 30 btw, why do you choose mysql? it ain't free, it ain't any good try Oracle, Sybase, PostgresSQl, they are ok, and Postgres is free regards, Dariush Pietrzak

Re: virtual ip's

2000-05-05 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
when using some stock kernel you probably should run insmod ip_alias, or modprobe it. in 2.2.x there used to be some problems with aliases, but there are no more. ifconfig eth0:22 206.29.139.35 broadcast 206.29.139.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -host 206.29.139.35 dev eth0:22

Backup on cd-s

2000-04-27 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, i used to backup my servs on old HP SureStore 4Gig tapes, it took almost 5h to fill-up whole tape, but it worked. until they took HP SureStore from me and left me with SGI-packaged Conner streamer, which i found broken too late. Recently I realised that i need only about 600Megs to store

virtual e-mail recommendations,

2000-04-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, anyone to recommend solution for this? -virtual e-mail domains (one uid, authenticated via ldap or via /etc/virtual/passwd-like-files with per-user or per-group quotas, smtp preferrably based on exim with something like procmail - per-user forwarding

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
I need a programm with which I can upload files by email. I want to pipe the mails to its stdin and it should put it to a special directory or what and whats wrong with procmail?

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
customerx does not have a direct connection to the internet. he only can sends mail over a mail exchanger. But he should be able to update a file on the firms webserver. therefor he have to send this file as an attachment to the server who now have to put it in the right directory. ok. i think

Re: Proxy and APT

2000-04-04 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
My problem is: alhmngsrv:/home/javier# apt-get update Err ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org frozen/main Packages Protocol corruption that's quaint, but thats exactly my problem, which i solved by editing both /etc/apt/apt.conf AND setting environment variable ftp_proxy to

Re: Webserver stats for customers

2000-03-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Wich one do you recomend for use with apache and separate stats for each domain ? analog. for windoze-type customers: analog + rmagic both available as debian packages, in potato or woody, can't recall now.

Re: Easier administration (similar to Linuxconf)

2000-03-29 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Specifically, the software should be able to do things like set up virtual hosting on apache, and at the same time set quotas, allocate IPs (or named based) for the domains, set up pop accounts, allow users to set up their own virtual forwarding lists (like .qmail-something, but with

Re: apache VH help

2000-03-26 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
VirtualHost www.pexchange.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/pexchange.com/htdocs ServerName www.pexchange.com add this: ServerAlias *.pexchange.com pexchange.com

Re: Writing to the root directory of disk partitions

2000-03-16 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
On a new mail server I place the /var/log/spool/mail on a different partition /dev/hda7 mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /var/log/spool/mail in the file /etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin but why did you put it there? why not /etc/fstab? The problem I have is send mail can seem to be able to write to

Re: How make that proxy use proxy?

2000-03-02 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
# #proxy icp # # hostname type port port options # # - - --- # cache_peer parent.foo.net parent3128 3130 [proxy-only] Nice. my

Re: Transferring users ( shadow and passwd files)

2000-02-16 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
server but when a user tries to pop retrieve is says -ERR passwd incorrect even when the passwd is correct. The only way is to do a userdel and then adduser again and this seems to fix the problem. maybe passwords are originally crypted with crypt and new machine uses config for md5 or the

Re: Virtual pop3

2000-02-16 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hope this helps, Thanx, thats exactly the solutions I was looking for.

Virtual pop3

2000-02-15 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Hello, I am going to set up some mail account, and I don't want them to exist in my system. solution would be virtual mails based on some sql server, i know that qmail has almost well-documented ability to do so using mysql server. My problem is that I would prefer exim mailer, and as far as I