Dlink 500TX

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Does anyone know if the DLink 500TX card (gigabit fiber) is supported in Etch's 2.6.18 kernel..? I have recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch, previous I was running kernel 2.4.27 and had the jt1lin driver compiled and working, it won't, however, compile under 2.6. lspci gives:

Sarge - Etch mailserver upgrade...

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I am running a bunch of Sarge servers and slowly upgrading them to etch. Most have been fine, but I am having a few problems with the mailserver. It is running : courier-authdaemon courier-base courier-doc courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-ldap courier-pop courier-pop-ssl

Re: Sarge - Etch mailserver upgrade...

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Clarke
Read http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-minimal_upgrade and use 4.5.4.1 or 4.5.4.2, whichever applies to your situation. Does this work ok? Doh! I read those notes too - that's how I managed to upgrade 6 o so boxes without a problem...just

Re: fetchmail syslog messages

2007-04-03 Thread Pete Clarke
Apr 3 12:40:02 big fetchmail[4337]: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != mail.mesanetworks.net Apr 3 12:40:02 big fetchmail[4337]: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate It just means that the remote end haven't set up their server certificate properly. Nothing to

Linux and firewire drives

2007-03-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within Linux .. I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the WD My Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire... Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Linux and firewire drives

2007-03-01 Thread Pete Clarke
I have a RAID1 running on a pair of external FW drives. I've found that Linux is picky about the chipset on the external drives, however, and have had some cases that work under MacOS X not work at all under Linux. I also ran into a situation in which two identical cases could not be

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-02 Thread Pete Clarke
You mean that was not the issue ? You have a problem then. I'd disconnect all the drives but one and see if I can isolate a culprit. Yep, set the SATA I jumper before setting the drives up. SATA should not be as suceptible as IDE to one device taking down the whole interface but still, I've

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-02 Thread Pete Clarke
So do smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda Doh ... :-) Everything looks OK from a SMART point of view: bungo:~# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION

Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: P4, 1.7Ghz 512MB Ram 2 x SI based SATA I controllers 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall performance is terrible. Every time it reboots (which happens due to dodgy power!), it

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:34:20PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: Hi there, I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: P4, 1.7Ghz 512MB Ram 2 x SI based SATA I controllers 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall performance

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
There was/is an issue with certain Maxtor SATA hard disk drives. In some cases, it is necessary to force them to SATA-I mode (1.5 gb/s). There's a jumper in the back for that. Yep, set that :-) 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives (Incidentally I would recommend against making a RAID array from

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
For SATA, you need to add -d ata to the command line, i.e.: # smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda bungo:~# smartctl -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ bungo:~# smartctl -d ata /dev/sdb smartctl

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Defects tend to happen to all the units in a certain production run. If one goes, the others may go before you can replace rebuild the first bad drive. Fair enough. I'd still prefer to have all my RAID drives be the same manufacturer + model. Maybe that's just an ingrained habit I picked up

CVS Limits

2006-11-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have a CVS repository (hosted on Debian Sarge 3.1), and one of the directories has grown in size from a few thousand files, to over 11,000. The result of this is, if a wide ranging change is made, the CVS client throws a fit and errors with a protocol error - too many parameters.

Re: CVS Limits

2006-11-22 Thread Pete Clarke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi there, I have a CVS repository (hosted on Debian Sarge 3.1), and one of the directories has grown in size from a few thousand files, to over 11,000. The result of this is, if a wide ranging change is made, the CVS client throws a fit and errors with a

Re: CVS Limits

2006-11-22 Thread Pete Clarke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi there, I have a CVS repository (hosted on Debian Sarge 3.1), and one of the directories has grown in size from a few thousand files, to over 11,000. The result of this is, if a wide ranging change is made, the CVS client throws a fit and errors with a

Re: CVS Limits

2006-11-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Is that a cvs-pserver.conf entry? or in the CVSROOT files? At the moment it's hard-coded in the source (src/server.c:serve_argument() ). Please feel free to post a wishlist bug (ideally with a patch! *grin*) and I'll get it fixed in the Debian package. Having it as a setting in

Tell which apache modules are loaded and used

2006-10-25 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Is there a nice easy way of telling, from a running instance of apache, which modules are currently loaded and being used? Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

local users not working, but ldap ones are fine

2006-09-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have a working LDAP environment, running Open Ldap on a Debian Sarge installation. This is all good - users can log in, change passwords etc. without a problem. What doesn't work are users contained in the /etc/passwd file - i.e. I can log into a system using an LDAP users, but

Netinst fails for Sparc

2006-09-13 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I am trying to install a Netra T1 200 via netboot. The machine has no cdrom so I am using a tftp server with dhcp to bootstrap the system. All goes well, until I point it at my local debian mirror (i386,sparc,hppa). It gets the release file, and some of the installer files, but fails

Re: why sarge's default kernel does not support scsi disk?

2006-08-04 Thread Pete Clarke
How could that be possible? I check /boot/config-2.4.27-2-386 again, I find : CONFIG_SCSI=m You must have re-compiled kernel. Not so, I have Sarge running on 8 Debian servers, all are only SCSI, moreover they are SCSI Hardware RAID. The drivers for the SCSI cards are built into the

Re: why sarge's default kernel does not support scsi disk?

2006-08-04 Thread Pete Clarke
Thanks! Then, how to pass options to initrd in grub's menu.lst? I mean scsi disks parameters. My scsi disk is not automatically recognized by sarge installation program. That I do not know - I use lilo. If you already have Sarge installed, you need to create a new /initrd.img file - see man

Re: Sending mail takes ages.

2006-07-05 Thread Pete Clarke
I have had this bookmarked for when I finaly get into setting up a mail server; Configuring Exim and Courier IMAP under Debian GNU/Linux http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml Perhaps it can help you.. Looks good. I followed something similar when I set this up. The

Sending mail takes ages.

2006-07-04 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a Debian sarge mailserver, running exim4-daemon-heavy, courier-pop/imap etc. When collecting email or using IMAP everything runs very well indeed, however, when sending mail from a standard client (OE, Squirrelmail, Kmail, Evolution, OSX mail app etc.) there is a long delay,

Re: Sending mail takes ages.

2006-07-04 Thread Pete Clarke
#You sure it's the authentication that's taking the time? A delay of a #minute sounds suspiciously like a DNS timeout of some kind. Is the #server able to resolve the hostname(s) of the connecting clients? I thought that, so I turned off host lookups in the exim config - same thing happens.

Re: Sending mail takes ages.

2006-07-04 Thread Pete Clarke
Could be an ident lookup timeout? Set: rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s Steve That appears to have made quite a difference...certainly from OE... I will test it on the other clients too ... Thanks a lot :-D Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

FS quotas with ReiserFS

2006-06-29 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I am running multiple servers, each with various reiserFS partitions. On the fileserver (home dirs amongst others) I wish to enable quotas. The last time I looked, quota support for the 2.4 kernel was not available for Reiser partitions - is this still the case? Cheers, Pete. -- To

OT: Maximum number of fast ethernet cards

2006-06-16 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, This is slightly offtopic, but does anyone know the maximum number of fast ethernet cards a typical PC can handle..? I want to use a cheap (ish) Debian box as a firewall/router to suppliment my Netgear, and provide more services to the internal network than currently available.

Apache 2, DAV LDAP problem...

2006-06-11 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a Debian Sarge server, running with Apache 2, DAV and Auth_ldap modules. If I avoid authentication (i.e. just apache/dav) things are good ... however, if I try to get apache to authenticate against my ldap server things go wrong. The relevant bit of the apache config is: DAV

Performance testing question:

2006-04-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have been doing some performance testing on my file server, the specs of the machine are: Compaq Proliant 6500 Quad Pentium Pro 200/1MB cache 2GB Ram 2 x 2/DH Hardware RAID controllers 1 x Emulex LP8000 Fibre Channel controller Dual 10/100 NIC (Intel) Fibre 1000 NIC (Intel) (All PCI

Re: Performance testing question:

2006-04-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have been doing some performance testing on my file server, the specs of the machine are: Compaq Proliant 6500 Quad Pentium Pro 200/1MB cache 2GB Ram 2 x 2/DH Hardware RAID controllers 1 x Emulex LP8000 Fibre Channel controller Dual 10/100 NIC (Intel) Fibre 1000 NIC (Intel) (All PCI

Re: Performance testing question:

2006-04-20 Thread Pete Clarke
2 x 2/DH Hardware RAID controllers 1 x Emulex LP8000 Fibre Channel controller Dual 10/100 NIC (Intel) Fibre 1000 NIC (Intel) (All PCI slots are 32-bit/33 Mhz.) I don't have experience with your hardware, but do you realize that a PCI bus with 32bit/33MHz can't handle a gigabit NIC? The

Samba and OS X issue

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have recently added an Apple OS X based machine to my little home network - nice to have a new architecture to play with :-)..and have hit a bit of a problem whilst connecting to a Debian Sarge Samba server...basically Finder hangs when attempting to browse any of the Samba shares on

Re: Samba and OS X issue

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
We're running samba 3.0.14a-3sarge both on behalf of clients and ourselves and have OSX10.2 to 10.3.9 and windows clients accessing shares successfully. OSX, however, is quite quirky and I found that I had to explicitly share users' home directories in smb.conf for the Mac's to see them. I

Re: LDAP madness! [u]

2006-01-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Without the LDAP entry you're attempting to authenticate against it is hard to say. I have gotten Samba to work with LDAP before; however, I don't currently have it setup as I'm re-structuring my LAN servers at the moment. Of interest in the LDAP entries is that Samba has it's own schema of

Re: LDAP madness! - FIXED (I think)

2006-01-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Pete, Without the LDAP entry you're attempting to authenticate against it is hard to say. I have gotten Samba to work with LDAP before; however, I don't currently have it setup as I'm re-structuring my LAN servers at the moment. Of interest in the LDAP entries is that Samba has it's own

Samba PDC, LDAP

2006-01-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have the LDAP server providing single-password logons. What I also have is a problem with new machines (Sarge based samba boxes) living alongside the PDC (sarge samba box). I can create a machine account on the PDC for the new samba server, and join the domain from the new box. When I

LDAP madness!

2006-01-19 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, LDAP! I have successfully managed to get a working LDAP installation for Unix clients, nss pam logins work fine, even alongside the current NIS setup for testing purposes! I am now trying to get the samba integration working for the Windows machines on this networkwhat a royal

passwd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.

2006-01-18 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a network running (mainly) Debian Sarge on both i386 and Sparc. This network uses NIS (currently) for user/password authentication. If I change the password for a user with yppasswd it's all fine, if, however, I use the passwd command I get: passwd: Authentication service cannot

Setting up a netboot server

2006-01-10 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris machines, it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot CD image to boot x86 and Sparc workstations before installation over the network. Solaris

Re: Setting up a netboot server

2006-01-10 Thread Pete Clarke
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: Hi all, I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris machines, it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot CD image to boot x86 and Sparc

Re: Compaq 1850R

2005-12-15 Thread Pete Clarke
Are there any know issues with Sarge on a Compaq 1850R ? I hope to install this weekend and hope to avoid any major issues. No issues that I know of - I have 2 running here with Sarge (amongst other Proliants). The Compaq hardware is pretty much well supported. Cheers, Pete. -- To

Reiserfs and quotas

2005-12-10 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I am running Debian sarge on i386 with some Reiserfs partitions. Is it still the case that Reiserfs volumes don't support quotas? Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PHP4 + Oracle

2005-10-28 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, So, I have the Oracle 9i client installed on my Debian Sarge development box. All is good - I can use sqlplus to talk to the Oracle server (a Netra running Solaris 9 and Oracle 9i). The next step is to get PHP talking to it! - What an uphill struggle this is proving to be... I have

Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle 9i on Debian Sarge

2005-10-26 Thread Pete Clarke
Installing the Oracle 9i client is easy. It's the database install that sucks, mainly due to Oracle's craptastic gui and it's problems. I only need the Client installed, the server is running on a Solaris box. I am having the devils own job getting the client installed tho' - I followed the

Apache/PHP/Oracle 9i on Debian Sarge

2005-10-24 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a Debian Sarge server running Apache/Apache-SSL/PHP (Sarge standard releases). I need to add Oracle support to this box so that I can connect via PHP to an Oracle Server (Solaris 9 box) across the network...is this a simple thing to do? I have tried Googling, but nothing useful

Apache/PHP/Oracle 9i on Debian Sarge

2005-10-24 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a Debian Sarge server running Apache/Apache-SSL/PHP (Sarge standard releases). I need to add Oracle support to this box so that I can connect via PHP to an Oracle Server (Solaris 9 box) across the network...is this a simple thing to do? I have tried Googling, but nothing useful

Re: rack servers debian friendly

2005-08-30 Thread Pete Clarke
I FINALLY figured out to do an Alt+F2 at install before partitioning and modprobe megaraid so at least the system will install now. However, the network cards are whipping my butt. :) :-) I have a netinst boot disk that I found, for Sarge, designed for Dell,HP etc. with odd hardware -

Re: rack servers debian friendly

2005-08-29 Thread Pete Clarke
Having found the Netserver LPr to be not so debian friendly, I'm looking to buy a coupla used 600mhz 2u units that are more friendly. I'd like to be able to load mepis up in case of emergency etc, though the unit's will have debian sarge installed. I had a little problem with my LPr too - but

Re: OT: suggestions of uncapped Broadband 512Kbp in UK

2005-08-03 Thread Pete Clarke
On 3 Aug 2005, at 12:35, michael wrote: OFF TOPIC (not sure which is more appropriate list) I've moved house and need to get Broadband installed. I'll be running X from a remote site and it seems a 1Gb or 2Gb cap will be too restrictive. So any suggestions of uncapped (reliable) B'band

Re: OT: suggestions of uncapped Broadband 512Kbp in UK

2005-08-03 Thread Pete Clarke
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:26 +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: On 3 Aug 2005, at 12:35, michael wrote: OFF TOPIC (not sure which is more appropriate list) I've moved house and need to get Broadband installed. I'll be running X from a remote site and it seems a 1Gb or 2Gb cap will be too

Strange login problem

2005-07-27 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have a strange problem that has manifested itself recently. I am unable to log into ne of my boxes - either via ssh or local console. SSH returns ip address has closed the connection immediately after issuing the ssh2 command from another machine. A local login just quits - i.e. you

Linux and Solaris Mail playing nicely

2005-07-09 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I realise this is a Linux list, but I figured there must be some Sendmail guru out there :-) I have just added a few Solaris boxen to my (nearly) all Linux (Debian) network, and would like to get each one to deliver *all* mail to my current mailserver. Basically, I don't want *any* mail

Viewing Couriergraph output

2005-06-07 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have noticed a package called couriergraph which can give statistics for a mailserver (I believe). A Google brings up lots of information regarding Debian CD's and the Debian package information, but not the information on what it does, and how to run it/ view the output. I run

Source/Policy based routing on multihomed host

2005-05-03 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a couple of debian machines with multiple interfaces (two dual-port 10/100 e100 cards - bond0 bond1). When the systems are started, each interface receive packets, and the machines can access the internet etc. with no problems. The issue is that whilst the interfaces receive

Re: Debian creates duplicate image files with strange extensions!

2004-11-06 Thread Pete Clarke
when I take this folder through the windows explores I get files with a ~ attached to there names. If I try to delete them or open them the I get an error These are created by Windows (may be XP SP2 specific) whenever it creates a file. They contain zone information metadata - plain text files

Re: IBM Rack Server recommendation

2004-11-02 Thread Pete Clarke
# Thanks for this info. Can anyone recommend a branded 1 U Rack server # that works on Debian GNU/Linux? # I# have debian (woody and sarge) running on dell servers (PE 1750 and PE #2650) and IBM servers (x350 series). Personally I can't recommend Compaq (HP) servers highly enough - stable and I

Sed scripting...

2004-09-28 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a need for some search and replace type activity... I need to change the urls in a bunch of files within a directory hierarchy. I have been playing with sed to get the replacing done, and have come up with the following: sed -e 's/^.*:\///g' -e '/^\//!s/^/\//g' -e

Qlogic QLA2200F

2004-09-16 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with the following: QLogic QLA2200F (ISP2200); Compaq Fibre Channel Array Enclosure; Compaq Fibre Channel Hub 12; I am running Woody and Sarge on two different boxes, both with the QLogic cards installed. Both cards are recognised, and installed OK ...

Re: Ethernet card not responding after some time

2004-08-20 Thread Pete Clarke
#Well, the card that I am using is a DEC/Tulip as well, so I probably #have to replace it then. I have a similar problem with a Compaq Netellient (tlan driver).. It works for a while, then stops completely - no amount of /etc/init.d/networking stop/starting works - I end up having to reboot(!)..

Re: One More time.

2004-08-18 Thread Pete Clarke
I have copy of 2.1 (slink?) and 2.2 (potato?) on CD, and I'm more than happy to do you a copy if you want... - Original Message - From: Bradley Pursley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: One More time. I will ask

Deleted root account in passwd

2004-08-14 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, dumb modeI managed to delete the root entry in /etc/passwd whilst playing on a test box/dumb mode Is there an easy way of re-inserting, or copying the backup passwd file I have without physical access to the box? I can ssh into it, but only as a regular user - obviously I can't su to

Network connection failing, but adaptors still up

2004-08-09 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a strange problem, that I am sure is my fault somehow :-) I have 2 thunderlan cards in a server, they are set up to use active-backup bonding. After an undetermined period they stop communicating with the network, although the link is apparently up still ... mii-tool reports

Re: Debian, Xwindows, USB Mouse and GeForce 4

2004-08-04 Thread Pete Clarke
I have an unremarkable Pentium 4-class machine that I wish to operate as a webserver. I have installed Debian (v 3.0 r2 i386, the latest snip When I type 'startx' I get 'Fatal server error'. The error messages are too numerous to fit onto one screen but they are basically variations on

LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi gurus... I have a question regarding LVM and RAID. I have a 324gb and 350gb RAID enclosure, the 324gb consists of 9 x 36gb discs, and the other is 7 x 50gb discs. This space is destined for a file server, and usually I would just use appropriate RAID level to define the volumes etc. However,

Re: Re: LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Are you using hardware RAID or software RAID? It sounds like you intend to use software RAID. It doesn't really change much, though. The Fileserver has 3 hardware RAID cards with onboard cache. All discs are SCSI. If you don't actually want RAID functionality, you can use LVM to glue all the

Maximum number of logical partitions

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Does anyone know the maximum number of partitions that can be created on a SCSI disc? I have Googled and come up with the following: Primary - 4. SCSI - 15 logical; IDE - 63 logical. Seems a bit odd? I am using Kernel-2.4.18-1-686-smp on Woody. Cheers, Pete. -- To

Re: Maximum number of logical partitions

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Seems to be (mostly) correct. Take a look at the minor numbers of thedevice files: Indeed ... hadn't thought of that. Seems strange that SCSI can only have upto 15 partitions tho' - it's a bit of a PITA really as I wanted to split the large RAID 0 volume up into small partitions to distribute

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Pete Clarke
I know that this is a really n00bish question, but I have to ask. What is the command that limits output from a command to just a page at a time, like the /p command in DOS? Why not pipe the output through less .. eg: # cat somedoc.txt | less This will page the output, allowing you to

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Pete Clarke
Why would you want to cat the file _and_ page it? That is a useless use of cat here, as less accepts STDIN. It was an example ... the OP wanted a way to page output from a command, the command I chose for the example was cat - it could easily have been anything else - # ls -lsart | less

Re: FDDI vs Fast Switched Ethernet

2004-06-17 Thread Pete Clarke
(You say you're going to lay fiber and call that FDDI. FDDI is a networking protocol (ie PPP, Token Ring, ATM, Ethernet) not a physical cabling spec/designation like cat5. So, while I don't want to sound rude... I hope you know what equiptment you actually have :P I mean, is there a chance

FDDI vs Fast Switched Ethernet

2004-06-16 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I currently have a switched fast ethernet network installed in my house. Each room has network points, and all traffic goes through Cat 5e cables and10/100 switches. I have the opportunity to play with fiber (FDDI) - my question is has anyone any exprience of FDDI adaptors in linux,

Courier IMAP shared folders

2004-06-11 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a working installation of courier-imap for general mail delivery, the problem I am having is with shared folders. I can set up shared folders thus: maildirmake -S /home/shared/maildir maildirmake -s write -f Announcements /home/shared/maildir create /etc/courier/maildirshared

Extracting the $h_to domain...

2004-06-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I would like to have my exim system filter reply to certain domains with a standard message - the text is unimportant, but the problem I have is that I cannot seem to extract the recipient domain from the message. i.e. if the email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then I would need to

7zip

2004-05-28 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Is there a .deb version of 7-Zip? I have googled, and apt-cache search'd but couldn't find anything other than it may be a removed package... If not, I'll grab the source... Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: 7zip

2004-05-28 Thread Pete Clarke
Is there a .deb version of 7-Zip? I have googled, and apt-cache search'd but couldn't find anything other than it may be a removed package... Oops - sorry. Just found that it is a Windows-only tool (even though it's GPL) and requires the Windows SDK to compile.

Re: Messages from cron daemon and exim_tidydb

2004-05-27 Thread Pete Clarke
What do these messages from the cron daemon mean? Failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists and Failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists I had these on one of my boxes that has exim set up as a satellite system. It would relay mail to

Re: aptitude in cronjobs

2004-05-18 Thread Pete Clarke
Can you not just redirect the output to /dev/null ? I do this for several of my cron jobs... i.e. cmd parm ... /dev/null I was getting the same kind of thing, but once I added the redirection it stopped :-) HTH. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Pete Clarke
Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 etc)? or just Stable. I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem a little out of date, and an upgrade with a 56k modem looks as though it would take forever. :-) check the archives. There was a

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Pete Clarke
P.S.: And while I'm on it, plez enhance the installation routine, something like a graphical interface. This takes the fear off most users. Personally I like the current Woody installer :-) I find it quick and easy to use - runs nicely on older hardware due to not having the overhead of any

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Pete Clarke
I dislike the old and miserable/poor look of it, reminds me of old dos boxes or a blue screen :-) I dislike the poor information you sometimes get out of it (not true for every inst. step though) Isn't this down to personal preference tho' - the last time I installed RH or Mandrake it had a

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Pete Clarke
I don't mean this to sound rude, but it probably will do. If you need it and no-one else is willing to do it, we look forward to submission of your patch. If no-one else is willing to devote resources to it, then take a step back and ask why. :-) well said. Also, please note that Debian

Re: Latest kernel security upgrade in woody is BROKEN! DO NOT INSTALL!

2004-04-14 Thread Pete Clarke
kernel packages named kernel-image-2.4.18-1-subflavor with version 2.4.18-13 contain only one module. That and it expects the modules at 2.4.18-1 instead of 2.4.18-1-686-smp! hoping this warning is timely and not _too_ redundant, :-) Found out the hard way there is a 13.1 now tho' ...

RAID performance

2004-04-13 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I am about to upgrade my file server, and have a question for you good people :-) I will be installing 4 120gb EIDE ATA133 drives, would I get better performance by mounting each one individually, or by RAID0ing them? Backup is taken care of, so redundancy is not a problem, also I

Local apt mirror

2004-04-07 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I would like to run a local apt mirror for the machines on my local network. At the moment all Debian machines independantly do their own updates dist-upgrades via one of the Debian web mirrors. This results in many duplicated downloads, what would the best way to setup and maintain a

Re: Local apt mirror

2004-04-07 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Thanks for the sugesstions ... I will try apt-mirror later on and see what happens. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

vsftpd

2004-04-05 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I am running vsftpd v1.2.1 backported for Woody on an otherwise pretty standard install. The problem is that when running, I can only connect as one certain user (me as it happens)..all other users get Login Incorrect errors , even when the correct username/password combination is

Re: vsftpd

2004-04-05 Thread Pete Clarke
I am running vsftpd v1.2.1 backported for Woody on an otherwise pretty snip The vsfpd.conf file looks like this: U ... I know it's generally bad to reply to your own posts, but I have kinda solved this one .. For those that are interested ... the users that are eligible for ftp access must

Re: Squidguard vs Dansguardian

2004-04-03 Thread Pete Clarke
Hmm.. Ok... Are you sure your squidGuard ACLs are set correctly and that in squid.conf squidGuard is using the correct config file? From my squid.conf: redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/chastity/squidGuard-chastity.conf From mine : redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c

Squidguard vs Dansguardian

2004-04-02 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, OK, so I have not got broadband (yea!) and have got my firewall etc. in place. The next thing for me to sort out is the proxy ... Squid is my first choice - simply because it's the only one I have any experience of.. I also want to install content-filtering for the kids (rightly or

Re: Squidguard vs Dansguardian

2004-04-02 Thread Pete Clarke
Our blacklists dir totals to about 24MB - I'd suggest that squidGuard rather than squid could be your problem. I concur .. when I disable squidGuard everything flies... Have the blacklists converted into dbm format? They are, I believe, still in the plaintext format under

Re: Squidguard vs Dansguardian

2004-04-02 Thread Pete Clarke
But your as well not to. SquidGuard doesn't look at them - we keep ours around so we can verify blocked urls, rebuild the db files if necessary etc. etc. :-) sorry - my reply should have gone to the list, not to you personally.. Thanks for the input - I will convert the files and try again.

Re: Squidguard vs Dansguardian

2004-04-02 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Well, I compiled the .db files using squidGuard -C all and everything runs *much* quicker now - no slowdowns at all, and system load is negligable - trouble is, nothing gets blocked! Any further ideas?? possibly something I've missed? Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: SMP on Compaq 850r

2004-04-01 Thread Pete Clarke
I am going to try a clean install of debian on a spare 850 to see if it works, I'll ost my results when I find out. DOH! How stupid do I feel? I re-ran the SCU and set the OS to Unix/Linux and the 2nd CPU magically reappeared.. seems I must have changed it at some point... Sorry to waste your

Re: SMP on Compaq 850r

2004-04-01 Thread Pete Clarke
I've got a few of their cousins - the professional workstation 5000. The 2nd CPU isn't correctly shut down when you do a soft reboot so you have to do a hard reboot i.e power cycle to get CPU2 online. I have a 5000Pro also - excellent X terminals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Eweek article: Debian earns quiet popularity

2004-03-31 Thread Pete Clarke
One thing that has bugged me for a while is the fact that so many websites (this is not the case with eweek I believe, it just surfaced again) that are dedicated to Linux, open source, GPL, etc, have the .asp pages. One of the causes is very clear: In most educational places that I know, they

SMP on Compaq 850r

2004-03-31 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have several Proliant 850r's running dual 200mhz Pentium Pro CPU's. I have noticed that since the last apt-get dist-upgrade the boot procedure no longer recognises the 2nd CPU. Each machine goes through the POST OK, with the bios initialising both processors, but when Debian boots it

Re: SMP on Compaq 850r

2004-03-31 Thread Pete Clarke
I'm running an HP Netserver LHPro200 and it is running the same kernel and both processors seem to be working fine. I think there was a security patch for this kernel a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any problems post upgrade. Wierd ... everything was fine before the last kernel security

Re: Question about sarge installation.

2004-03-30 Thread Pete Clarke
#I think that my question is very simple for you. I must install a sarge #in some machines. I have downloaded an unofficial ISO image from #ftp://ftp.fsn.hu. When I boot the CD, a choose the keyboard layout, but #I can't able to partition my disk. When I select that option, the system #does

Re: New Server

2004-03-30 Thread Pete Clarke
#Only thing I can advise, DON'T use REALTEK-Sh*t as NICS (build-in nic), #you're better off spending some extra money on a good 3COM Nic or #similar. the Realtek-Sh*t loses lots of packages, when it's working at #maximum transfer rate (e.g. SAMBA). as I found out (everybody had #this

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