RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-04-01 Thread Michael Bellears
Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:24:36AM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: [Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] Lookout does not appear to

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-04-01 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:24:36AM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: [Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] Lookout does not appear to have this

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
[Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01.14, Michael Bellears wrote: Steve: I don't have a lot of experience with this but

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Adam Aube
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: qmail can log to syslog, can't it? I'm sure it did on the machines where I saw it. The recommended install (Life with qmail) has qmail logging through multilog (part of the daemontools package), but yes, it can log through syslog. Adam -- To

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Bellears
The recommended install (Life with qmail) has qmail logging through multilog (part of the daemontools package), but yes, it can log through syslog. Came across this if anyones interested: The following describes how to log to remote host using multilog and tcpclient

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Bellears
[Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] Lookout does not appear to have this feature - I'm sure I have seen an add-on though... MB

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 07.04, Michael Bellears wrote: Would appreciate anyone's experiences/recommendations on the following points: 1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all real servers (Eg. Httpd.conf, horde/imp config files etc?) - Have only one server that admins

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Witt
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Michael Bellears wrote: We are in the process of migrating an overburdened Debian 3.0/Apache/qmail box into a webfarm setup. Looking at using a ServerIronXL for loadbalancing. Would appreciate anyone's experiences/recommendations on the following points: 1. What is

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Michael Bellears said on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:04:58PM +1000: 1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all real servers (Eg. Httpd.conf, horde/imp config files etc?) - Have only one server that admins connect to for mods, then rsync any changes to the other servers? Not

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Bellears
Another way is to set up a cvs or subversion repository and use this to distribute the config file. Has the additional bonus of being able to trace back how the config file was changed. Like it! Couple of other responses also suggested cfengine (And combining cvs with cfengine) - So I'll

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Bellears
1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all real servers (Eg. Httpd.conf, horde/imp config files etc?) - Have only one server that admins connect to for mods, then rsync any changes to the other servers? I asked a similar question a few months ago and someone

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Bellears
Not sure about recommended, but cfengine is pretty good. You can go a long way with CVS + cvsup, too, but I think the best solution is to put configs in CVS/subversion, and use cfengine to handle deploying new versions of configs. Like that suggestion a lot! - Thanks. 3. Imaging of