Re: [gentoo-server] [Somewhat OT] Backup Solution (Gentoo Based)

2006-06-07 Thread Kirk Hoganson
Chris Shelton wrote: I would suggest looking at bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ . This is a free open source backup program that likely meets most of your needs. Bacula has a moderately active users mailing list, detailed documentation, MySQL or postgreSQL as backup catalog options, and r

[gentoo-server] [Somewhat OT] Backup Solution (Gentoo Based)

2006-06-06 Thread Kirk Hoganson
Not really a Gentoo specific problem, but one related to my Gentoo servers none the less. Hopefully someone here can provide some insight that I lack, in finding a good overall solution to our backup needs. We have about 50 Gentoo servers filling different roles, and we have been outgrowing o

Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server

2005-09-02 Thread Kirk Hoganson
I use mkcdrec to make backups of my production servers. It works well for our purposes. It doesn't make an exact image, but it makes a bootable iso that can be used to restore everything on the system. Luca Dell'Oca said the following: Hi all, I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot

Re: [gentoo-server] in/out ACL SMTP filter

2005-07-22 Thread Kirk Hoganson
You could have this setup process both in and outbound mail as they are both processed by postfix. Wendall Cada said the following: You could check out using amavisd-new for receiving mail. There are several guides on using amavisd-new with postfix. I've not heard a single good thing about cour

Re: [gentoo-server] Can Apache Proxy for a NAT'ed web-server

2005-07-13 Thread Kirk Hoganson
You could use mod_rewrite to proxy rewrite all incoming requests to the other system. Every request that came in and matched the rewrite rule would be redirected and proxied to the system specified in the rule. mod_rewrite can be more than a little daunting but it could handle this scenario.

[gentoo-server] VRRP Replacement

2005-06-01 Thread Kirk Hoganson
I'm looking for a good alternative to VRRP for linux. I need something that can simultaneously handle the failover of multiple interfaces in the even that one of them fails. I have looked at UCARP, but it does not gracefully handle this scenario, as it is designed around a single interface.

[gentoo-server] Quartz Java Scheduler

2005-05-20 Thread Kirk Hoganson
Has anyone had any real world experience with the Quartz java based scheduler from OpenSymphony? I need the kind of information you can only gain from hands on exposure. --Kirk -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-server] ldap or mysql?

2005-05-18 Thread Kirk Hoganson
I use mysql as a backend for a very busy postfix mail/apache web infrastructure. While the apache setup is really in-house, the mail setup is pretty standard. We serve as a mail host for hundreds of domains using a mysql database to house all of the hosted domains and user accounts (mail is s

Re: [gentoo-server] Mirroring configuration

2005-05-16 Thread Kirk Hoganson
The load of rsync depends heavily on the number of files you are trying to sync. If you are sync'ing a large number of files your system will take a hit when the rsync begins. Depending on the permissions you want on the target box you may not need to do this as root. You may be able to use

Re: [gentoo-server] courier-imapd with a proxy/backup server ?

2005-05-16 Thread Kirk Hoganson
You could do this with postfix. Setup the "MAIN" server as a postfix mail gateway, and use your local server as the imap server. The messages will arrive at the "MAIN" server that your MX record points to (where they could be spam/virus filtered) and then would be immediately passed to the lo

Re: [gentoo-server] mysql 4.1 status

2005-05-10 Thread Kirk Hoganson
As someone responsible for dozens of production Gentoo boxes, I would personally love to see more stable options, not perhaps the Debian extreme, but something better suited to a production server environment. I appreciate devs who take to the time to make sure an upgrade isn't going to brea

Re: [gentoo-server] sshd (many connection attempts with invalid user)

2005-05-06 Thread Kirk Hoganson
It could be done using iptables, but I am not aware of such functionality within the sshd itself. Kirk Claudinei Matos said the following: Hi, I have a lot of connection attempts in my ssh server. I've take a look at sshd_config man pages but I didn't found a way to deny the source ip of the atte