LOL. Bless you Christopher. Thanks. You made my day.
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> From: Christopher Maujean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:19:28 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2284] *Wooo* what a night.
>
>
> So,
> our main mail server goes down @ about 6:30 pm
> I investigate and find that it is running out of memory about 5 minutes after
> boot.
> I remember that its a 4th sysadmin sysadmin at least 2 of which were not,
> shall we say, *interested* in securing things, and therefore its the
> personal playground for multiple irc h4ck32z
>
> its a Redhat 6.0 MOSTLY DEFAULT install.
> I realize that its going to take more to fix this thing, than its worth.
>
> So, I tar up /home/ and /etc/mail/ and /etc/passwd and /var/spool/mail and
> /etc/procmailrc and /etc/procmail
>
> and then I wipe the system.
> at this point its about 10pm
>
> I boot to my debian potato floppies.
> I do a base install off the net.
> I apt-get sendmail, sshd and a couple of other admin type packages.
> i untar /etc/procmail, /var/spool/mail, and copy some of /etc/passwd back in.
> untar /home/.
> untar /etc/mail
> do come basic stuff to sendmail.mc
> make
> restart sendmail
>
> whammo
>
> working mail server. faster than its been since 1997
>
> I want to have linus's children.
> I'm gonna change my first-born son's name to root.
>
> Where do I wanna go today Bill? lets see... debian.org perhaps?
>
>
> --
>
> Christopher Maujean
> IT Director
> Premierelink Communications
> www.premierelink.com
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