Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [LONG] [RANT] Ubuntu and Quality Control

2008-03-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj is not. I am - on a personal server that happens to host the ilugd list. Choice of distro mostly due to the guy who did a remote hands install for my box having only one current distro handy that had a usable version of the tg3 gigabit ethernet driver. And yes, aware of this, I tend to follow

Re: [ilugd] [LIH] SpamAssassin options -- Razor, Pyzor, DCC, ???

2006-09-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur wrote: - Vipul's Razor - Pyzor - DCC - Any other tools - Commercial blacklists - Any other commercial service Chatting with a few SA developers .. 1. SURBL / URIBL 2. Other network based tests Crank as many of them up as you can. DCC is the next good thing do do. Blocklists

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Blackberry push with Linux server

2006-04-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://www.funambol.com/product/email.html seems interesting. Can push to any mobile, including blackberries. Yashpal Nagar wrote: Hi list, I know BB (Blackberry) works on standard POP/IMAP protocols. where user's email client need to check his/her email periodically. I just want to is

[ilugd] commercial - [Fwd: [TwinCLinG] [OT] MySQL Workshop]

2006-02-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mysql B wants to decide on where to do a workshop in india Original Message Subject: [TwinCLinG] [OT] MySQL Workshop Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:51:57 + From: Syed Ismail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ilughyd@yahoogroups.com To: ilughyd@yahoogroups.com fyi -Syed Ismail

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:00:19AM -0800, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: If my understanding is correct a simple NAS is: 1. A storage space available over the network 2. Fault tolerant 3. Expandable 4. Transparent 5. Compatible across OSes add 1. rack space costs (NAS / SAN devices typically have

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Exchange-like stuff for Linux

2005-12-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur wrote: Anyone know a freeware server that can perform the functionality of Exchange? The features I'm looking at include mail, calendaring, appointments and address book. Client will be Outlook co, so cross-compatibility is critical. No web-based solutions please! Not

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] Re: Where is the community?

2005-09-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sunday 25 September 2005 12:30, Raj Mathur wrote: I didn't see Atul Chitnis' response to my earlier queries in the thread he had jumped into earlier.  Either he's busy or he considers I think Atul's response is posted on his blog at http://www.atulchitnis.net I'll say this... [Fri,

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Re: [LIG] Where is the community?

2005-09-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:35:27PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the issue is not entirely about free or proprietory software. People are switiching to open source for a variety of reasons - philosophy, technical, economics whatever. There is that freedom to choose an element to

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Implication of new DNS server ?

2005-08-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms The govt. would like us to believe that this will save trillions of dollars but what exactly is this going to do - do we change our DNS server configuration to hit these servers only to reap the benefits or

Re: [ilugd] [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 784-1] New courier packages fix denial of service

2005-08-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:54:44AM +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: [Please upgrade if you use Courier Mail server on any distribution. This vulnerability applies only to Courier being used with SPF, but it'd be a good idea to upgrade anyway -- Raju] It would be even wiser to ditch SPF if you're using it

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]broadcast mailing for all users

2005-07-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
At 10:12 AM 7/8/2005, SWAPNIL wrote: I want to send one news to all users on my linux box. I had created some aliases for perticular groups using aliases file like group1: user1,user2, but now i want to send mail to all users except system users like ftp, apache, root, daemon etc. Typically

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Promise TX2300

2005-06-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:15:46PM -0700, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: I am considering the above mentioned RAID card and was wondering whether anyone has any experience with this particular model. Google seems to suggest it's predecessor TX2200 was quite compatible with all flavors of linux.

[ilugd] Testing 123

2005-04-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandip reported that one of his emails didnt get through - this is because of a python unicode decoding bug that mailman seems to keep triggering. Testing now. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Key at

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 635-1] New exim packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Pankaj kaushal wrote: Hey! who are you calling backward? Woody is still *the* stable to run. /me runs with placards stating The end is near. stick to woody. at least use the exim4 packages for woody then. exim 3.x is outdated and if debian users (as frequently happens) ask questions about stuff

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 635-1] New exim packages fix arbitrary code execution

2005-01-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Please upgrade Exim on all platforms immediately -- Raju] You already posted this for 4.x Debian has now backported this fix for 3.x versions (which are obsolete, so that only debian users keep using the old version when everybody else has moved on for over

Re: [LIH]Re: [ilugd] Running Apache context

2004-12-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sanvir Singh Jham wrote: You can do the follwoing two steps to achieve this: 1. create a host in your DNS like somelink.foo.com with ip 172.16.1.2 2. Create a rewrite rule in your apache on 172.16.1.1, where http://foo.com/somelink redirects to http://somelink.foo.com something as simple as

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [Sort-of-OT] PuTTY SSH client vulnerability

2004-10-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur wrote: [Yeah, PuTTY doesn't run under Linux, but then all the people I know PuTTY has a unix port (gtk libs) that runs quite well under linux / *bsd http://www.hserus.net/putty-linux.jpg ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] What is your view about Linux pcs in India?

2004-10-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: So do you think the Indian Linux community can and should be doing something about this? Talk to me. I have a budget, and no ideas. Did you see what the kerala govt is doing? Another thing that can be done is to have NASSCOM go after the Ritchie Street / Lamington

Re: [LIG] Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: [lb/2004] Getting the LUGs involved]

2004-09-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: For those of us who cant afford air fares for reaching such conferences, this is generally a week long affair, in which a third of the time is spent on the train. How many people can afford that much time off from work every year? much shorter events like sanog -

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIH]Indiatimes listed in RBLs again ...

2004-09-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: The great thing is that Manish Verma from Rediff did get in touch with me after my mail, and offered to help. I probably have been too quick to judge them. And he assured me that their abuse address does work and they have a dedicated spam team. I've worked with

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIH]Indiatimes listed in RBLs again ...

2004-09-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gaurav Vaish wrote: Can you let me know how to contact Manish Verman from Rediff. Rediff has also block-listed my IP. Actually, the problem is that dnsbl black-lists the IP and I don't know how to setup reverse DNS. Any help in this direction would be helpful. Help? Well, 1. Ask your ISP

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Indiatimes listed in RBLs again ...

2004-09-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Following complaints from my hosting customers, I was investigating bounces from indiatimes mail accounts. Seems that Indiatimes is (yet again) caught in multiple RBL lists (SORBS and NJABL). Rediff actually does have a fairly good attitude. One thing they do however

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]eight bit email addresses

2004-08-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: I am trying to send a email where the userid has a eight bit character in it. I assume it is in ISO-8859-1 but in future it could be in UTF-8 too. these are rfc illegal while madörin_ol [EMAIL PROTECTED] is legal - and the stuff within the would get encoded somehow,

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]eight bit email addresses

2004-08-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: But hasnt ICANN agreed to allow eight bit domain names ? If that is true then basically I can have a domain name but not a email address ? the smtp spec hasnt been modified ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ilugd] [LIH][Fwd: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: rsync-2.5.7-5.fc1.1]

2004-08-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Original Message Subject: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: rsync-2.5.7-5.fc1.1 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:33:04 -0400 From: Jay Fenlason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fedora Core 1 Update: rsync-2.5.7-5.fc1.1

[ilugd] Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[4/18/2004 2:49 AM] Anand Babu : I want to understand more about the legal issues. 1) Hosting at savannah.gnu.org. What issues do we have? Hosted in the USA? You'd have DMCA / Patriot issues 3) Hosting under FSF India? Right now, the indian copyright act is being cited. And I must point out

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 431-2] New perl packages fix information leak in suidperl

2004-04-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [4/17/2004 12:07 PM] Raj Mathur : | [Please upgrade Perl -- Raju] urgent only if you use suid-perl srs -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAgNHpRB4r9e3t77kRAnnNAKCG2/YUYuMc2WQVEM6clY5QQMeVWACg00Uu

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]accessing mail through squid server

2004-04-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[4/12/2004 2:58 PM] anshul_makkar : WE have a lan of around 6 computers . 1 system has been configured as squid server. all other systems are using internet through squid server. every thing is fine except that client systems are not able to access their mails squid server in their outlook

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Mail virusscanner woes

2004-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur wrote: First of all, clamav-milter doesn't quarantine messages, it just bounces them back to the sender. Now this has two issues; firstly, viruses tend to spoof the From address in e-mails, so some poor bugger you can set this differently iirc (quarantine or trash infected mail) you

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Transparent SMTP proxy

2004-04-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[4/1/2004 10:36 AM] Raj Mathur : A client is running NAT on a Linux box for his bandwidth customers. Now he needs to be able to catch spam and virus e-mails at the NAT gateway itself. Is there any way to transparently redirect outgoing SMTP into a local Sendmail (preferred) or other mail server

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]bootsplash and udev problems

2004-03-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[3/29/2004 7:09 AM] Ritesh Raj Sarraf : bootsplash: scanning last 2MB of initrd for signature bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19: looking for picture. doesnot fit into framebuffer. (found1024x768, 20789 bytes, v3). your bootsplash image seems to be a little too large.

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Getmail error while running

2004-03-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[3/25/2004 2:58 PM] Sandeep Agarwal : When I run the getmail, following error msg appear on the screen. Please suggest to resolve this error. Try reading the error message? (refuse to deliver to commands as root), skipping srs

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Pine Problem

2004-03-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[3/25/2004 3:08 PM] Ritesh Raj Sarraf : I've configured pine on my machine to use IMAP. Upon deleting of messages pine normally marks and later expunges the messages. How can i automatically move deleted messages to the trash folder. instead of marking them deleted, move them / save them to the

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 457-1] New wu-ftpd packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2004-03-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur [3/9/2004 10:01 PM] : [Please upgrade wu-ftpd (again!) -- Raju] This time please upgrade to vsftpd or proftpd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ mv linux Gnu/Linux mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No such file or directory

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Kernel 2.4.25 performance issues

2004-03-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
? Some vmstat / iostat readouts might tell you more. And if that is an email application, how are you injecting the email? Keep into account stuff like nagel / tcp slowstart penalties And how are you using smp on that machine - threads? srs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [EMAIL

[ilugd] Re: [LIG] New Apache licence runs into rough GPL weather

2004-03-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sandip Bhattacharya writes on 3/3/2004 6:06 AM: After the XFree86 4.4 saga, another license disagreement is brewing. This time between the FSF and the apache Software foundation, over teh compatibility of Apache license and GPL. This might have ramifications over Debians packaging of Apache

[ilugd] Re: [LIG] Re: CBI is logged in, checking your email?

2004-02-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
either of these claims. --srs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ mv linux Gnu/Linux mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No such file or directory jaharkes @ cs.cmu.edu in reply to RMS on linux.kernel

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [apache-ssl] Apache-SSL security advisory - apache_1.3.28+ssl_1.52 and prior

2004-02-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
://www.modssl.org/ srs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ mv linux Gnu/Linux mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No such file or directory jaharkes @ cs.cmu.edu in reply to RMS on linux.kernel ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] Free (as in freedom) CS books online

2003-12-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
vivek khurana writes on 12/1/2003 2:51 AM: HI! --- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.moskalyuk.com/links/free_cs_books.htm A very useful link. It has some of the best books. Come to december meet i will give you a choclate for sending such a useful link. Not very

[ilugd] Some people have just too much time on their hands :)

2003-11-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
An x server implemented using ascii art (aalib / aa-project.sourceforge.net)? http://www.meow.org.uk/stan/xserver/ srs ps - This post is just an excuse to test my upgrade of mailman on frodo.hserus.net - it is now running 2.2a0 I tend to keep reasonably current with mailman-cvs - this one

[ilugd] [LIG] Free (as in freedom) CS books online

2003-11-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://www.moskalyuk.com/links/free_cs_books.htm * Free as in Freedom - Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software * Creating Applications with Mozilla - Mozilla is not just a web browser. It is also a framework for building cross-platform applications using standards such as

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]TCP Wrapper problem

2003-10-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sandip Bhattacharya writes on 10/24/2003 8:46 AM: I seem to be having a problem using TCP Wrappers to restrict access to the portmap service on my Red Hat Linux 9 box. I want to allow every host except one. My hosts.deny file contains this: hosts.deny is deprecated. Put the deny entry

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]Catch-all acount problem due to multiple recipients

2003-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sandip Bhattacharya [10/1/2003 12:30 AM] : But my question is that is there a way to cajole/coerce sendmail to make multiple copies of the mail locally (according to the envelope recipient) therefore keeping envelope information intact before delivering them? Issue for your local delivery agent -

[ilugd] Re: [LIH]New sendmail breaks STARTTLS

2003-09-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur [9/19/2003 6:55 PM] : Anyone else experiencing STARTTLS weirdness after upgrading Sendmail? I'm not able to have clients authenticate to the server anymore (even when both the client and the server are the same machine) after upgrading Sendmail after the latest advisory. Certificates

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIH]New sendmail breaks STARTTLS

2003-09-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur [9/20/2003 9:12 AM] : Where can I find this? Threads on comp.mail.sendmail Suresh What error are you getting in your logs? This is from Suresh cf/README ... verify=FAIL. That is ok - as long as the mail gets through. You'd normally have to present a client CERT signed using

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIH]New sendmail breaks STARTTLS

2003-09-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur [9/20/2003 10:38 AM] : The certificates are OK, they are read when Sendmail starts up, they were working up to yesterday (before the upgrade). BTW, the logs are from my local machine, but the remote server also exhibits the same behaviour. Did you by any chance upgrade openssl in the

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) exim remote heap overflow, probably not exploitable

2003-09-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raj Mathur [9/4/2003 7:38 AM] : [please upgrade if you use Exim v4.21 -- Raju] This bugtraq post is a bit of old news. Also, 4.21 had assorted IPV6 bugs in it and was reverted pretty soon. 4.22 is current, I'd recommend you move to that. srs ___

Re: [ilugd] spam problem !

2003-08-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Jim De wrote on July 12, 2003 re: [ilugd] spam problem : Thanks for the feedback. I am using postfix but it is currently in the closed intranet environment. for external email i am still stuck with using the smtp and pop3 services of our host provider. If you get such problems mail [EMAIL