Hi Folks,
Just thought I'd let you all know. This mailing list has moved to a
new machine. It was time for an upgrade. Here are the stats on the
machine we are using.
Pentium III copermine 700Mhz 100Mhz Front Side Bus
256Mbytes Ram
adaptec SCSI controller on mother board
2 18G scsi2 LVD aka SCSI160 drives
10/100 Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 (10Mbit ethernet hub)
qmail-1.03 with large concurrency patch
big todo patch
vpopmail 4.9.8-1
qmailadmin-0.42
sqwebmail-1.2.5
daemontools
ucspi-tcp
djbdns-1.05
qmailmrtg
We moved the email setup from the old machine to the new machine.
Then switched IP's to the new machine and turned off the old.
The longest part, timewise, was moving the old email directories
to the new machine. First I tar'd gziped them, then ftp'd them
over. untared and fixed ownership. tweaked some other things.
One thing I found handy was a shell command to remove old emails
find /home/vpopmail/domains -ctime +30 -name "*.vast.inter7.com*" -exec
rm -rf \{\} \;
This removed all email's people had which were last used 30 days ago.
haha.
prune out that old email. Just modify the +30 to what you are
comfortable with.
the "vast.inter7.com" string should be the string that the emails
contain.
Which, if you have your hostname and dns setup correctly, should be your
hostname.
We also switched to djbdns.
I think this is a big plus. On the old machine we upgraded the bind
recently.
Because of the recent security hole. So I took this opertunity to switch
over.
I'm glad I did. It runs faster and we don't have to worry about
security.
DJB has damn solid code.
Bind 9 was big and slow. Even the code base on djbdns is orders of
magnitude
smaller. make takes no time. with bind it is much longer.
I thought about sending out a message earlier. This email is an
additional
test to see our throughput. I'm looking at tuneing maximum concurrency.
I'm going to try 500 max remote concurrency with this email.
cheers
Ken Jones
inter7
PS: I'm working on an htpasswd protected djbdns web admin program using
our new vqregister html template code that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.
Anyone interested in some hobby coding, please email me directly.
