Re: tcpserver: Return 553 instead of 451?

2001-05-30 Thread Jos Backus
$RBLSMTPD begins with a hyphen, rblsmtpd removes the hyphen and uses a 553 error code. This tells legitimate clients to bounce the message immediately. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-09 Thread Jos Backus
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 05:58:49PM +, Mark wrote: > It's a bummer that ktrace is like that on FreeBSD. It doesn't show the > *current* system call that the process is sitting on. Conversely, > truss on Solaris does this nicely... But FreeBSD does have a (procfs-based) tru

Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)

2001-06-09 Thread Jos Backus
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:11:41PM +, Mark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:00:46PM -0700, Jos Backus allegedly wrote: > > But FreeBSD does have a (procfs-based) truss. > > Right. But it suffers from the same problem that ktrace does in that > it starts with the next sy

Re: qmail + freebsd = reboot

2000-09-16 Thread Jos Backus
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:25:00AM +0200, Didier Derny wrote: > there r bugs, in qmail + 1 in freebsd (at least for 3.x) This was a FreeBSD kernel bug, fixed (in RELENG_3) in if.c rev. 1.64.2.4: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/if.c.diff?r1=1.64.2.3&r2=1.64.2.4 -- Jos

Re: compiling under SUN Solaris 2.6

2000-09-29 Thread Jos Backus
> ./makelib: ar: not found Does /usr/ccs/bin contain ar and is it in your PATH? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/-- D.

Re: Is qmail's log method inefficient?

1999-05-20 Thread Jos Backus
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:53:48AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > errorsto is supposed to write to a file. splogger is not a file. I don't > think the above will work. fifo's are your friend. ... errorsto /my/fifo ... fifo /my/fifo | splogger

Re: Is qmail's log method inefficient?

1999-05-23 Thread Jos Backus
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:45:26PM +0200, Balazs Nagy wrote: > Oh, I'm sorry. It doesn't work if I stopped fifo and wanted to use errorsto > again ;) errorsto will block when there's no reader on the other side of the fifo (if that's what y

Re: Is qmail's log method inefficient?

1999-05-24 Thread Jos Backus
:32 CEST 1999 jos:/tmp% errorsto fifo sh -c 'date 1>&2' 2 Sun May 23 14:32:34 CEST 1999 jos:/tmp% Works fine here... -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never

Re: Completely off topic: supervise cron?

1999-06-09 Thread Jos Backus
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 04:26:11PM +0200, Chris Garrigues wrote: > Would it work to run cron under supervise? All cron's I know daemonize themselves (by, say, double-forking and disassociating themselves from their ctty). Hence: no. -- Jo

Re: Compile error with AIX 3.2.5

1999-07-14 Thread Jos Backus
been used by programs to save the name of a working directory for the purpose of returning to it. A much faster and less error-prone method of accomplishing this is to open the current directory (`.') and use the fchdir(2) function to return. AIX 4.x does have fchdir(2). Chee

Re: queue modification

1999-08-10 Thread Jos Backus
tined. Is there any way > to muck with the queue to implement this? I don't mind taking down qmail-send > for a bit to change things. Use an smtproutes entry perhaps, and SIGALRM qmail-send? dead.host:[my.ip.add.ress] ? -- Jos Backus _/ _/

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Jos Backus
sed to address this problem in a generic fashion. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_

Re: Potential hole?

1999-09-08 Thread Jos Backus
What about Dan's suggestion? http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/03/msg00918.html -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say yo

Re: Qmail dies over and over

1999-09-11 Thread Jos Backus
off. See ktrace(1)/kdump(1) for details. Another thing to try is do a cvsup, a make world, a kernel config/rebuild/install, and reinstall the qmail binaries (using ``make setup check'' in the qmail source dir). -- Jos Backus

Recording the envelope-from in Received: line

1999-09-21 Thread Jos Backus
effect with qmail? [Side note: I'm asking because we are currently reevaluating our use of sendmail. Postfix is a strong contender; Wietse Venema is a personal friend of a couple of my colleagues.] Thanks, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Re

Re: Recording the envelope-from in Received: line

1999-09-22 Thread Jos Backus
>colleagues for tracing mails trough broken e-mail gateways. > > qmail puts that in Delivered-To: Um, that's the effective envelope recipient. I'm looking for the envelop _sender_. Normally that ends up in the Return-Path: upon final delivery. -- Jos Backus

Re: Recording the envelope-from in Received: line

1999-09-22 Thread Jos Backus
cord the first rcpt-to to avoid making bcc public. Um, I'm looking for the envelope _sender_... -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry."

Re: Recording the envelope-from in Received: line

1999-09-23 Thread Jos Backus
; by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 22 Sep 1999 09:29:01 - Cool! I didn't look at the header before, sorry. Now it's of course a matter of patches being politica

Re: Daemontools?

1999-09-30 Thread Jos Backus
$_ = "$s.$t$rest\n"; } } continue { print; } exit 0; -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sor

Re: Frivolous forking

1998-12-23 Thread Jos Backus
Russell Nelson writes: > This is a red herring. /var/qmail/owners is chmod 700. owners? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you&

Re: failure notice (fwd)

1999-03-25 Thread Jos Backus
ct that it's in .qmail-default make qmail look at it first > then .qmail? Nope, you can stick this in whatever .qmail file you wish, as long as you take care to point ``$USER-toolarge'' to ~user/.qmail-toolarge. > thanks for the help. Hope this does. Cheers, -- Jos Backus

Re: revalias equivalent / perl to read cdbs

1999-03-30 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:23:09PM -, Efgé wrote: > On a related note, has anyone written perl code to read (maybe write) > a cdb ? CDB_File-0.7 (available at a CPAN near you), courtesy of Tim Goodwin is your friend. Sorry, no link handy. -- Jos

Re: anyone done this: one mail domain, but users are split over two internal qmail-servers

1999-01-06 Thread Jos Backus
You still needed a whopping *64K* to run a complete office productivity suite though (AppleWorks under ProDOS). Those where the days... -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you

Re: It still cannot deliver local messages...

1999-04-16 Thread Jos Backus
ck the syscall tracelog for the reason for the chdir failing. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/

Re: [Off-topic] Simplicity (Re: What's a DSN?)

1999-05-18 Thread Jos Backus
Maybe you mean "Non sunt entia multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." -- Sir William of Ockam (also known as "Ockam's razor")? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never

Re: [Off-topic] Simplicity (Re: What's a DSN?)

1999-05-18 Thread Jos Backus
Grr. Sorry for the off-topic off-topic post, I should have _read_ Harald's post before replying... -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say yo

Re: Queue stalls

1999-10-10 Thread Jos Backus
ll be using will address this todo issue. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein

Re: qmail-send hogging resources on upgraded FreeBSD system

1999-11-15 Thread Jos Backus
e deinstall reinstall clean'' if you are using the port.) Hth, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry."

Re: qmail-send hogging resources on upgraded FreeBSD system (resolved)

1999-11-15 Thread Jos Backus
ave the final analysis to the more qmail-knowledgable. At one point I was seeing the exact same thing (I think it was after moving the default system binary format from a.out to ELF). It had nothing to do with the trigger perms (which is the usual culprit). Rebuilding/reinstalling qmail fixed t

Re: when does qmail-local add the Deliverd-To line?

1999-12-08 Thread Jos Backus
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 04:41:13PM +0100, Markus Wuebben wrote: > Problem is now that I am missing the Delivered-To line, qmail normally > adds. You can add it yourself by prepending $ENV{'DTLINE'} to the safecat input. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Re

Re: daemontools and qmailanalog

1999-12-31 Thread Jos Backus
nue { print; } exit 0; -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein

Re: Problems compiling with AIX

2000-01-14 Thread Jos Backus
ymbol: __res_search They live in libc: libc.a ../../../../../../../src/bos/usr/ccs/lib/libc/res_query.c f - .res_query T 372076 .res_querydomain T 371004 res_query D 181752 12 res_querydomain D 181

Re: Encryption and t-shirts

2000-02-25 Thread Jos Backus
> > Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail" > > Back: "Send mail with qmail" I'd buy one, too. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never

Re: qmail-ifc-len-patch (ipme.c)

2000-02-28 Thread Jos Backus
unsigned because I think we should guard against this from happening. Thus panic() in case space becomes negative. Approved by: jkh Revision ChangesPath 1.85 +10 -2 src/sys/net/if.c -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means

Re: Messages don't get deleted

2000-04-12 Thread Jos Backus
[Yes, I know this is off-topic...] > find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; find . -type f -print | perl -ne 'chop; unlink;' or, depending on your level of paranoia and your find supporting -print0, find . -type f -print0 | perl -0ne 'chop; unlink

Re: our qmail server shutdown help ??

2000-10-18 Thread Jos Backus
/ for its value (GENERIC if you are running the GENERIC kernel). Btw, 2.2.[78] is ancient. I suggest you look into upgrading to 4.1.1, the latest stable release. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack." _/ _/ _/

Re: AIX 3.25 install?

2001-04-10 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:09:06AM -0700, Leitha discount wrote: > 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected: > .fchdir AIX 3 doesn't have fchdir(). You should be able to find the answer to this in the archives, as this has come up a couple of times before. --

Re: AIX 3.25 install?

2001-04-10 Thread Jos Backus
xr-x 1 root wheel 204 Apr 10 20:17 home lizzy:/usr/ports/mail/qmail/work/qmail-1.03# Is it there? Jos > The error code from the last failed command is 111. > > Make Quitting. > > Well, home is there. So I'm not sure what it is looking for? > > Any suggestions are g

Re: AIX 3.25 install?

2001-04-11 Thread Jos Backus
); fdin = open_read(file); if (fdin == -1) strerr_die4sys(111,FATAL,"unable to read ",file,": "); -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/"Modularity is not a hack."