spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-25 Thread Neale Banks
Hi all, As part of a project I'm involved in, we need to deploy a new server (ia32, FWIW: running Debian sarge) to run a MySQL database (SME-sized, moderate complexity but not particularly large) + Java Application. I figure that upgradability probably isn't a big issue here, as the obvious path

spec-ing/dimensioning a server?

2003-11-24 Thread Neale Banks
Hi all, As part of a project I'm involved in, we need to deploy a new server (ia32, FWIW: running Debian sarge) to run a MySQL database (SME-sized, moderate complexity but not particularly large) + Java Application. I figure that upgradability probably isn't a big issue here, as the obvious path

building 2.4.21 with make-kpkg (woody)

2003-07-14 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, I've got a copule of woody systems and am trying to build a stock(i.e. from kernel.org) 2.4.21 kernel for one of them on the other (both are currently running 2.2 - but that shouldn't matter, right?). No matter what I try, I always get cramfs: wrong magic and a panic when it's unable to

sympa/pg/debian install woes

2003-06-03 Thread Neale Banks
I'm trying to install Sympa on a Debian(woody) machine but not getting far :-( I've tracked it down to this line in install-pg-db, which is called from the postinst script: # Get a sysid my $usesysid = $dbh-do(SELECT MAX(usesysid) + 1 FROM pg_shadow); That always returns 1 (and a subsequent

sympa/pg/debian install woes

2003-06-02 Thread Neale Banks
I'm trying to install Sympa on a Debian(woody) machine but not getting far :-( I've tracked it down to this line in install-pg-db, which is called from the postinst script: # Get a sysid my $usesysid = $dbh-do(SELECT MAX(usesysid) + 1 FROM pg_shadow); That always returns 1 (and a subsequent

testing postfix' maps_rbl config?

2003-05-19 Thread Neale Banks
I've set up postfix on a Woody machine as a low-volume server (like it's getting *really* low volume). All appears well except the amount of mail slipping through the maps_rbl config, which is pretty draconian - like this: # # OK, we are being pretty aggresive here maps_rbl_domains =

Re: testing postfix' maps_rbl config?

2003-05-19 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Mark Lijftogt wrote: Hope this helps, Cheers, Mark maps_rbl_domains = sbl.spamhaus.org, Quote from spamhaus.org (from their faq): Once you have set up your mail server to use sbl.spamhaus.org, you can test to see if the SBL blocking is working by sending an

building IRRd on woody?

2001-08-05 Thread Neale Banks
Yes, I will RTFM ;-) Meanwhile, does anyone have any experiences with building and/or running IRRd (the one at http://www.ird.net ) on woody? Thanks, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RCS and perms (WAS: Re: non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super)

2001-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
Hi Craig, On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: [...] the 660 permissions on the /etc/radius/radius.users file allow the admin group to edit it and check it in to RCS. Could you elaborate on this please? I started by ading a group mailadm, the theory being that all the relevant files

Re: non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
Thank you Craing and Ilya - I now see where I was approaching this from the wrong direction. The overall framework I'm trying to get happening is to use a supplementary group for the users and files to be maintained outside /etc/postfix and some simple glue-scripts to move the modified files

non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-06-29 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, With particular relevance to potato... I see that by default the files in /etc/postfix are owner: group root:root. This obviously doesn't lend itself to the contents thereof being admin'ed by admins who don't otherwise enjoy the total freedom of the system (nor is it best for

non-root postfix admin; sudo -vs- super

2001-06-29 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, With particular relevance to potato... I see that by default the files in /etc/postfix are owner: group root:root. This obviously doesn't lend itself to the contents thereof being admin'ed by admins who don't otherwise enjoy the total freedom of the system (nor is it best for

Debian source: GRE-patched traceroute_1.4a12

2001-03-22 Thread Neale Banks
-traceroute.patch.gz It was hacked into the Debian package traceroute_1.4a12-3 by Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT: Please do not worry Herbert Xu (maintainer of the official Debian traceroute package) about this hacked package. Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 2001

Re: making own dep packages

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Grischa Schuering wrote: we customized a new apache-ssl deb package, by adding a module called zmod to it. We need this module here in Germany for statistical analysis. Now every time a new apache-ssl version (or security fix) is available our package is overwritten by

Re: make machine

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: I need to make some serious changes to my kernels, on various servers at my location, I have everything from 486's up to 1.2Gig boxes, so rather than compiling on the cpu and RAM-challenged boxes, I'd like to make kernels on one of my more powerful

Re: making own dep packages

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Grischa Schuering wrote: we customized a new apache-ssl deb package, by adding a module called zmod to it. We need this module here in Germany for statistical analysis. Now every time a new apache-ssl version (or security fix) is available our package is overwritten by

Re: make machine

2001-03-18 Thread Neale Banks
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: I need to make some serious changes to my kernels, on various servers at my location, I have everything from 486's up to 1.2Gig boxes, so rather than compiling on the cpu and RAM-challenged boxes, I'd like to make kernels on one of my more powerful

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 forslink)

2001-03-13 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:29, Neale Banks wrote: [...] Then starts the slippery slope... the libldap2 in unstable depends on libsasl7, which in its turn recommends libsasl-modules (the only consolation here is that libsasl7 etc is also

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-13 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:29, Neale Banks wrote: [...] Then starts the slippery slope... the libldap2 in unstable depends on libsasl7, which in its turn recommends libsasl-modules (the only consolation here is that libsasl7 etc is also in testing

Re: latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-08 Thread Neale Banks
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: [...] Any suggestions other than building all of those for potato (and no, I don't want to upgrade yet). I have .deb's of the latest LDAP stuff for Potato. I didn't build them though. Hopefully we can establish some sort of official repository

latest postfix for potato? (was:Re: Compiling bind_8.2.3-0 for slink)

2001-03-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: [...] I think that we need some separate projects for maintaining outdated distributions of Debian. There's no way I'll touch slink but I have a great need for potato to be usable with the latest stuff. Inded, as well as (unsuccessfully) attempting

Re: Route annoncement on web

2000-12-06 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: Does anybody know a web site where I can see route announcement ? I want to see from outside if my routes are announced correctly or not. There's a pretty good list at http://neptune.dti.ad.jp/ HTH, Neale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: IDE RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Áts Attila wrote: have any of you ever heard of or used a RAID controller that is capable of "RAIDing" with IDE disks? Is there suuport for a card like this in Linux? A couple of years ago, I saw a hardware RAID controller which presented to the host SCSI as

Re: IDE RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Áts Attila wrote: have any of you ever heard of or used a RAID controller that is capable of RAIDing with IDE disks? Is there suuport for a card like this in Linux? A couple of years ago, I saw a hardware RAID controller which presented to the host SCSI as a

potato and Smart Array 221 in Compaq DL380

2000-08-03 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, A Compaq DL380 system has been built, ready for installation of Debian (i.e. potato). However, this system has a Smart Array 221 controller with two 9GB SCSI drives - the controller is setup for RAID-1 giving me a single virtual drive of almost 9GB. No performance cautions here,

potato and Smart Array 221 in Compaq DL380

2000-08-03 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, A Compaq DL380 system has been built, ready for installation of Debian (i.e. potato). However, this system has a Smart Array 221 controller with two 9GB SCSI drives - the controller is setup for RAID-1 giving me a single virtual drive of almost 9GB. No performance cautions here,

Re: apache question

2000-07-07 Thread Neale Banks
[...] I also think you'll need ip based vhosts in Apache to make it listen to a 2nd NIC. can I ask for some help on this ? i need apache to listen to both NICs No, you shouldn't need ip-based vhosts (which are inherently a Bad Thing, but that's another thread). Looking at

Re: Recommendations for Squid proxy hardware

2000-07-04 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, ridgey wrote: What would you recommend for Squid proxy hardware, for a machine thats running transparent and has approximately up to 80 dialups pumping requests through it? Current machine has a drive setup of: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: whois *server*?

2000-06-01 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Andrei D. Caraman wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:18:01AM +1000, Neale Banks wrote: Greetings all, A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something? Anyone got a pointer

whois *server*?

2000-05-28 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, A search around failed to turn up an obvious whois server, either as part of Debian or even just source code - did I miss something? Anyone got a pointer to this? Similarly, any pointers to relevant HOWTO/FAQ/etc docs? Thanks, Neale.

postfix: timeout after DATA from unknown

2000-04-28 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings, I've run up a new box with potato and using postfix for smtp relay. All looks well, however in mail.log there are many entries like: Apr 28 23:35:33 foo postfix/smtpd[1617]: connect from unknown[209.35.126.76] Apr 28 23:35:34 foo postfix/smtpd[1617]: 48751B8014:

running without portmapper, inetd

2000-04-26 Thread Neale Banks
Does anyone have any experience with hacking Debian's scripts to get a system happily running networking without portmapper, or even without inetd? Any issues to be wary of in this area? The motivations: * portmapper: I can't see what need I have for it - therefore it just becomes a security

Re: Making Debian Recognize 256 Meg of Ram

2000-04-06 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Wilson Tuma wrote: Would somebody be kind enough to tell me how to make my machine recognize 256Meg of RAM. When I added the ram and did top and did see only 64Meg. Any reasonably recent kernel (even 2.0.3x) _should_ be able to recognise this without specific assistance.

Re: Making Debian Recognize 256 Meg of Ram

2000-04-06 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: LOL! Oh, like trying to write to a non-existent memory location? :) Exactly ;-) First a cute quote: ---8--- When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could

Ethernet card recommendations?

2000-04-05 Thread Neale Banks
Greetings all, Any recommendations on a *reliable* ethernet card to spec for a Debian (potato) box to be deployed as a dedicated mail exchanger? Not thinking so much of the fastest, as something that will reliably pump data. 10/100, Full-duplex, PCI prefered (what else would you use in a

Debian-justifying reasons?

2000-03-27 Thread Neale Banks
Greeetings all, I need to come up with some reasons/whatever to justify continuing to use Debian - but this needs to be in suit-friendly terms ;-) One of Debian's key strengths is obviously its packaging system, and the consequent low cost of administration. Anyone got any pointers to