Delay in receiving emails

Fellow debian users-- I recently setup a box to act as a mail (qmail) and DNS (bind9) server. Because I only have one external IP address, this machine is accesible through a main server by means of forwarded ports using iptables. For example, if you telnet into port 25 of my main server, you are

Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2

Jeff -- I ran into a kernel panic problem when installing 2.6.14 as well. If you're sure that you've compiled the generic IDE drivers and the filesystem drivers that you're using for your root filesytem into the kernel, check that "Advanced parition selection" is not compiled at all. Using menuco

advances partition selection bug in some 2.6 kernels?

I recently installed Debian (Sid) on a laptop and compiled kernel 2.6.14 from kernel.org. The kernel would not recognize my partition scheme (created with the debian installer). It took me a while until I found someone else in a forum who had solved the same problem by not compiling into the kernel

Re: kjournald CPU usage

thanks for you help. i tracked down the problem to very poor configuration of my hard drive. hdparm revealed buffered disk read speed of 2.5 MB/ sec. Tuning the drive using hdparm, I got the speed up to 27 MB / sec. Now the same tar task runs much faster and kjournald uses very little cpu time. ma

kjournald CPU usage

Is it normal to have kjournal average 45% CPU usage (nice = 0) when I tar (without compression) a folder with 2GB of standard mp3 files on an ordinary pentium 4, 512mb ram, dell box? I'm not too familiar with the workings of the EXT3 filesystem, but those values seemed a bit suspect. thanks, ma

DPKG dependency

I am using sarge with qmail as my MTA. I compiled and installed qmail rather than using the debian package. Now, every time I try to install packages that depend on an MTA (say mutt) aptitude adds Exim to the list to satisfy the dependency. How can I override this and tell package management that I

procmail and samba

enied on "mbox/.lock" procmail: [17502] Sat Jun 25 13:36:29 2005 procmail: Locking "mbox/.lock" procmail: Lock failure on "mbox/.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=mbox/new/1119720981.17502_2.mail" procmail: Notified comsat: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/a