RE: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Bingo. 'message' dump = ... ... ... Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.192.124#53 Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.193.124#53 Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.192.124#53 Aug 25 16:32:51 linux01 named[5353]: lame server resolving 'agreserves.com.au' (in 'agreserves.com.au'?): 203.2.193.124#53 Aug 25 16:52:22 linux01 named[5353]: message.c:809: REQUIRE(*rdataset == ((void *)0)) failed Aug 25 16:52:22 linux01 named[5353]: exiting (due to assertion failure) - The full file is 600kb+ dated from Aug 22. - The last few rolled logs (from whenever to Aug 22) are about 16k in size! Those are just the last few lines (obviously!) Does this help? Bind version: bind-9.2.0-8 If it can be fixed without re-installing / upgrading bind or named, then fantastic! =) I sense progress ;) I also looked at the zone files as per Plameras advice. NONE of them seemed to have Tabs.? And from memory, this was always the case. I changed a couple of the more important ones to have tabs anyway... I'll give an update tomorrow, in the meantime, if someone sees something else, or finds something in the log extract above, feel free to post it ;) Ta. Regards, Jared Pritchard The Waterexchange Pty Ltd Ph: (02) 6881 6316 Fax:(02) 6881 6318 -Original Message- From: David Gillies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2004 1:54 PM To: Jared Pritchard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns) Jared Pritchard wrote: I assume just by running it...? When I do it reports nothing. =) I'm not confident/experienced enough to make 'major' changes like updating named, because this server is very critical to our livelihood. I can't risk taking it offline. =( on my server, named logs all its output to /var/log/messages If you run 'grep named /var/log/messages', what does it come back with? Any other thoughts as to why it just suddenly started doing this without any apparent reason, or anything I can do to fix it? Also, I can't manage to figure out how to find its distribution. It's not in /etc/issue, and wasn't installed as a package (ie. rpm doesn't list it) try running rpm -q bind. What does it come back with? The dns server package under Redhat linux is called bind. It must be some sort of configuration error because it still does it after a reboot (mind you, I haven't tried a cold boot) - but we made If a warm reboot doesn't work, then a cold boot isn't going to do anything for you under linux unless it was specifically a hardware issue. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
I assume just by running it...? When I do it reports nothing. =) I'm not confident/experienced enough to make 'major' changes like updating named, because this server is very critical to our livelihood. I can't risk taking it offline. =( Any other thoughts as to why it just suddenly started doing this without any apparent reason, or anything I can do to fix it? Also, I can't manage to figure out how to find its distribution. It's not in /etc/issue, and wasn't installed as a package (ie. rpm doesn't list it) It must be some sort of configuration error because it still does it after a reboot (mind you, I haven't tried a cold boot) - but we made absolutely no changes that could affect that (I'm the only one that touches the server, and all I do is code web pages, PERL MySQL etc.) Could it be a DoS attack or something!? =/ All help is appreciated!! =) Cheers, Jared Pritchard The Waterexchange Pty Ltd Ph: (02) 6881 6316 Fax:(02) 6881 6318 -Original Message- From: Jamie Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 2004 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns) This one time, at band camp, Jared Pritchard wrote: Thanks for any help. Maybe see what named-checkconf tells you, if you're running a recent BIND. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)
Hi, Just experiencing some crazy problems with named (dns). Our web server (which is also our gateway to the Internet for our office machines) serves as a DNS and sporadically over the last couple of days, for no known reason, named keeps failing and every now and then (between 15 minutes to a few hours) it will just, stop. I restart it using service named restart and it says that the shutdown of named failed, but startup is OK. Originally (not knowing what the problem was) I reset our web server, so its not just some bug in startup, and we have made NO changes that should effect its workings at all. Just weird. =/ Ive looked through the cronjobs theres nothing that even comes close to the failure times, so I cant see what the problem might be. Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before, or have any idea what it might be? When named fails, it simply wont let us view our website, or any other site on the net using domain names. IPs work fine. Using Redhat 7.3 I think Here is a quick dump of rndc (when named is working unfortunately, havent been here for last few failures) * [root]# rndc status number of zones: 28 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF server is up and running * I have no idea how thats going to help, but who knows? Not me = ) Thanks for any help. Cheers, Jared Pritchard The Waterexchange Pty Ltd -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails
Thank you ppl - That puts my mind to rest - and thanks to the flood of fast responses!! Appreciated! =) In case anyone else has missed it - here's a summary A spammer or virus will forge (and most likely has in our case) a domain to mask their own presence, so when the recipient replies (individually, or by an automatic setup), the message gets sent to the forged domain, in this case being our server. I.E. Somewhere along the line, someone out there has decided to use waterexchange.com.au in the 'From' field in the email headers (with a randomly generated 'user' eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) so when the recipient gets the email, it appears as though it came from our server. Also advised, is that anyone with a system set up to automatically reply to emails such as these (with viruses, or considered to be spam), should consider turning them off because it is most likely to be a mask and responses only add to the unnecessary traffic, and annoy the (usually) innocent users from the domain that has been forged... =P or something.. =) Thanks again for all your help! Any idea how we might try and find the real source AND/OR should we report the abuse to some authority of some sort? Cheers, Jared Pritchard attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sendmail sends out multiple emails -
H .. this one's weird :-) It seems that sendmail is sending out multiple copies of an email to our users. The strange part is that it's random. Only happens to about 20-30% of the users, and it seems like different users each time. Also, sometimes they receive 2 emails, other times 3, and sometimes just the 1 they should be getting. It is run using a PERL script but I am 100% sure that the script is NOT selecting the email addresses 2 or 3 times (I've been through it countless times.) Anyone heard of this problem, or know how to fix it?? Using sendmail V8.11.6 and Linux 7.3-1 (has to be for a RADIUS server) :-( also - using MIME::Lite ( a PERL module) to send email (using sendmail) - but It seems a LOT more likely to me to be something in sendmail than the module. Thanks a bundle. Jared Pritchard. attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Security Certifacte
Ok - it's all working now. :) After taking the advice from one of the responses, I stopped all HTTPD and APACHE apps from running (httpd stop, apachectl stop etc.) then killed all the corresponding apps... THEN I did a shutdown and restart (cold boot)... But it STILL showed the old certificate. :S But I checked it today, and the new one is somehow magically installed. I don't get it. But it's working. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Maybe for future reference someone can tell me why this might have happened? Perhaps I had to restart the machine I was working on... maybe it's stored in cache or something here... h. Dunno. Thanks for your help anyway. Regards, Jared Pritchard. -Original Message- From: Jared Pritchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 November 2003 4:11 PM To: Slug List Subject: [SLUG] Security Certifacte Hello. Our security certificate is going to expire on the 11-12-03. I'm new to this business since the original was implemented. Back then, it was done via Equifax. The old keys etc. went under the default names of 'server.key' 'server.crt' and so on I have generated a new key for the business and named it 'waterexchange.key' to make it a bit easier to identify (our website is www.waterexchange.com.au) Then I generated a Certificate Request sent that off to GeoTrust who then generated the signed certificate. Then I installed that certificate under 'waterexchange.crt' - So far so good. Using the openssl I can read the certificate and all the output seems fine. It has all our details such as the common name etc. as it should be. Now - I have edited the httpd.conf file to point to the new files as above, then restarted apache httpd using apachectl restart httpd restart ... ... ... In theory, this should set the new certificates in motion ?? But a quick test on the webpage (change http:// to https://) by opening the certificate info still displays the old stuff. I thought somehow it might store that info in cache so I tried on other computers that had never been to the site (at least not the ssl areas)- tried all sorts of things - nothing. Old cert. So I tried = apachectl stop apachectl start and the corresponding commands for httpd but still nothing... Any ideas??? We are running RedHat / Apache / MOD SSL I think it's RedHat 7.3 (Had to be for a RADIUS server) Apache is V 1.3.23-11 openssl is V 0.9.6b-18 Does the original certificate have to run out first??? = If so - how does that work? If we've referenced to the new certs shouldn't it load those details... unless there's a central registry or something...? Perhaps at GeoTrust.? Anyway - I;m lost any help will be greatly appreciated. : ) A point in the right direction even? Regards, Jared Pritchard Waterexchange Pty. Ltd. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2736 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/attachments/20031128/69988264/= winmail.bin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Security Certifacte
Hello. Our security certificate is going to expire on the 11-12-03. I'm new to this business since the original was implemented. Back then, it was done via Equifax. The old keys etc. went under the default names of 'server.key' 'server.crt' and so on I have generated a new key for the business and named it 'waterexchange.key' to make it a bit easier to identify (our website is www.waterexchange.com.au) Then I generated a Certificate Request sent that off to GeoTrust who then generated the signed certificate. Then I installed that certificate under 'waterexchange.crt' - So far so good. Using the openssl I can read the certificate and all the output seems fine. It has all our details such as the common name etc. as it should be. Now - I have edited the httpd.conf file to point to the new files as above, then restarted apache httpd using apachectl restart httpd restart ... ... ... In theory, this should set the new certificates in motion ?? But a quick test on the webpage (change http:// to https://) by opening the certificate info still displays the old stuff. I thought somehow it might store that info in cache so I tried on other computers that had never been to the site (at least not the ssl areas)- tried all sorts of things - nothing. Old cert. So I tried apachectl stop apachectl start and the corresponding commands for httpd but still nothing... Any ideas??? We are running RedHat / Apache / MOD SSL I think it's RedHat 7.3 (Had to be for a RADIUS server) Apache is V 1.3.23-11 openssl is V 0.9.6b-18 Does the original certificate have to run out first??? If so - how does that work? If we've referenced to the new certs shouldn't it load those details... unless there's a central registry or something...? Perhaps at GeoTrust.? Anyway - I;m lost any help will be greatly appreciated. : ) A point in the right direction even? Regards, Jared Pritchard Waterexchange Pty. Ltd. attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Hi
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard. rofl. rofl [R]olling [O]n [F]loor [L]aughing :) -Original Message- From: Brad Kowalczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 5:14 PM To: Jared Pritchard Cc: Slug List Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hi Jared Pritchard wrote: A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard. rofl. rofl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Hi
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard. rofl. -Original Message- From: James Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hi On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:27 am, Andar Broment wrote: This has gotta be the wierdest spam ever... But it is a reasonably effective way to harvest real addresses from clueless lusers. Luser now sends back a sorry I don't know who you are and bingo, fresh pork for the grinder - one batch of spiced ham, coming up :P --James __ A random quote of nothing: A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Slow DSL connection
Hi - This is just a quick question - in case anyone has run into something similar... One of our clients (on a DSL connection) is having some issues. His connection is running at almost dialup speed and he is on a 256k ADSL connection. He is the only client experiencing this problem, and he says it has built up over about 1-2 weeks. I had a look at his machines, and they all seemed to be fine. We tried resetting the modem computers, tried a different network port in the hub but nothing seems to make any difference. Initially, the connection worked fine and he has been up running for a few months with no problems until now. Is it possible that the modem itself is wearing down, possibly due to a manufacturing fault? Is something wrong with the computers?? They are running Windows 2000 Windows NT... Modem is Netcom NB1300 ethernet. I don't expect too much from this question, as it really isn't directly related to Linux or anything, but if anyone has seen/heard of this before, a point in the right direction will be very helpful, and appreciated as always Cheers, Jared P. attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Slow DSL connection
Title: RE: [SLUG] Slow DSL connection He's using our DSL :D lol We are a virtualISP using Comindico, and he is on a flat rate / unlimited plan so no probs there, and no-one else (including myself) has experienced slow-downs The modem has a NAT setup so as for it being hacked, it is unlikely (still possible, but unlikely), however the likelihood of just his connection slowiing so dramatically is also ver unlikely... If he downloads a big file, and does NOTHING else at the same time, he can get (eventually) about a 20kbps download speed, but if he downloads, or even uploads oddly enough, at the same time, it all drops to about 4kbps weird. -Original Message-From: Marty Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 5:38 PMTo: 'Jared Pritchard'Subject: RE: [SLUG] Slow DSL connection Hi Jared, Whose DSL service is he using? Some DSLs have a traffic cap where if you download more than X Gb's in a month they reduce your speed to a dialup... Other DSLs just have problems when the service provider gets overloaded or has one of their links go down etc. Its unlikely to be anything to do with the modem. Having Windows based PCs directly connected to the internet is asking for trouble... its very possible his machines have been hacked and are scanning the internet or doing other bad things on behalf of the hacker... if this is so, it would slow everything down a lot... Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From: Jared Pritchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2003 3:09 AM To: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] Slow DSL connection Hi - This is just a quick question - in case anyone has run into something similar... One of our clients (on a DSL connection) is having some issues. His connection is running at almost dialup speed and he is on a 256k ADSL connection. He is the only client experiencing this problem, and he says it has built up over about 1-2 weeks. I had a look at his machines, and they all seemed to be fine. We tried resetting the modem computers, tried a different network port in the hub but nothing seems to make any difference. Initially, the connection worked fine and he has been up running for a few months with no problems until now. Is it possible that the modem itself is wearing down, possibly due to a manufacturing fault? Is something wrong with the computers?? They are running Windows 2000 Windows NT... Modem is Netcom NB1300 ethernet. I don't expect too much from this question, as it really isn't directly related to Linux or anything, but if anyone has seen/heard of this before, a point in the right direction will be very helpful, and appreciated as always Cheers, Jared P. File: ATT160066.txt Netway Networks Pty Limited t 02 - 8920 8877 f 02 - 8920 8866 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w http://www.netwaynetworks.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] HTTP_REFERER not found [Repost]
Louis (Hi Louis!) is going to be in serious danger if he proceeds down the passing-variables-via-GET method of web programming lol :P POST is better - but only coz it's invisible to the human eye. Session variables are better still, but use in moderation... Also a good dose of SSL won't hurt ;) And I love databases! Very satsifying to see all your data saved efficiently and cleanly - with easy access later. But I leave that up to you Louis... check out some different methods, or maybe get some professional help :) -Jazza -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] HTTP_REFERER not found [Repost]
I think a lot of people who are posting here are probably having problem running linux in their business and come to slug for help. I don't see this as a problem at all. I think the only difference here is in degrees, there is a difference between how do i do XYZ and please teach me how to write a dynamic web application, but i think in general, if the slug list can't help those using linux at work, then what is the point?! 10-4 That's exactly how I found my way onto this list. :) And I do agree whole-heartedly about: there is a difference between how do i do XYZ and please teach me how to write a dynamic web application, I have learnt a lot between this list the perl list I'm subscribed to as well - There is also only so much you can learn by asking [relatively] simple questions like those passed around here (some are not quite so simple, but the majority are) The rest we'll have to dig deeper... But we'll also have to respect the businesses, so yeah. I think it would be silly to ask something like: eg. I need a script to manage my customer database and handle all my orders But I see no problem in the questions so far where the need is smaller: eg. I can't find an appropriate module to connect to a database using perl - can anyone point me in the right direction? We're all here to learn. (I'm sure you know what I mean...):) -- Jared attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
FW: [SLUG] This list has changed for the worst
Yes - ok agreed Mick. Sorry John Clarke, when I sent: John was only expressing his dislike for such spams... I meant Johnathon Kelly... just trying to defend him a bit, but I should have left it - I meant no harm. Apologies. Jared. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damien Solley Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] This list has changed for the worst On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 01:45, Mick wrote: Hi all, I'm not far from Sydney, so if anyone takes exception to this critisim, I can easily make the next SLUG meeting. There are no FLAMERS on this post, hasn't been, shouldn't be. If you take exception to what is said in an email, leave it be... kick the dog, beat your partner, or whatever else you need to do to boost your ego. Don't infect the list with faceless, gutless rubbish. (ref to paragraph 1) This list is for people who; a. Are advanced enough to actually confuse the rest of us when they have problems b. Are advanced enough to actually help newbies when they are not helping each other. When I see take your head out of your arse on the SLUG mailing list, I know we have problems. That's Microsoft talk for I found the command line, nah nah! SLUG is above all that, Slug is about helping and nurturing a growing community. Slug is the public face of Linux for alot of Sydneysiders (and possibly much further a field). Slug is where you turn when Debian bites you on the arse and you somehow manage to get Pine or Mutt to send a big Linux SOS. If this mailing list degrades into some windows orientated flame war with a lot half wit know it alls telling people off because they know better, then I'll go back to using windows where I can avoid/ don't need to contact/associate/speak/type messages to people like that. So will alot of other people. Get it together SLUG, we depend on you, we depend on your knowledgable members and we more than ever we need a sense of community. Like I said, I am available anytime ... Flame this post and you'd better have it to front the next slug meeting, otherwise, your just datavapour ... For all who have kept the faith, and especially for our departing el presidenti and vice Brave, Encore, Encore, Encore! Mick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] HTTP_REFERER not found [Repost]
Q1. If I click on a link to go to another HTML page say name.html, I lose
the hop=some_data part. How do I make the hop=some_data go with the
name.html with the a tag from an HTML document ? Is this possible or a
script can do this only ?
there are a couple ways -
one way is to add the hop=some_data to the href itself, IF it is a static
string... ie: a href=http://www.domain.com/name.html?hop=some_data;
otherwise, you can implement a simple CGI/Perl script to generate the
index page from a template...
Q2. The order page calls a Perl script say orderpage.pl, I want the
script to capture the hop=some_data. I got the script to print the whole
%ENV, and I see no HTTP_REFERER. I thought HTTP_REFERER would show the
url that called orderpage.pl with the hop=some_data . But if I cannot
see HTTP_REFERER, then how do I get the script to capture the
hop=some_data ?
The ENV variable you are looking for is definitely the QUERY_STRING...
or use STDIN to retrieve POST data...
If you are using perl (looks like you are using a hash there - %ENV) then
you can
either use the CGI module to retrieve the query strings, in which case you
don't
have to worry about that at all, or you can do something like this -
my %formData;
read STDIN, $_, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}; #Read in STDIN to default
variable...
%formData = split/|=/; #Place separate keys/values into
'formData' hash, split by '' and '='
if (!%formData) #- If we didn't get anything
from POST method,
{
$_ = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};# try retrieving it from
QUERY_STRING (GET method)
%formData = split/|=/; # and split like before.
}
Then to access the data, you would go:
my $hop = $formData{'hop'};
This is a quick hack - CGI module is much better more efficient
eg. what happens when you get a number of values from select multiple in
this code?
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RE: [SLUG] Yuk
Boys boys boys!!! John was only expressing his dislike for such spams... I'm sure he appreciates the efforts of the admins as much as the rest of us do... he didn't exactly go overboard, nor abuse anyone... basically asking if there was anything being done to solve the problem, with a hint of disgust at the content... He now has his answer that yes, things are being done and are 99% successful - no need to bite back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shaun Oliver Sent: Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:48 PM To: John Clarke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Yuk at the risk of being helpful, John Clarke delivered up the following on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:16:08PM +1000, On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:10:00AM +1000, Richard Ames wrote: They should be filtered before the listserver. We had this discussion a couple of weeks ago. All of you, stop whinging about the tiny bit of spam that makes it through the list filters. Something like 99% or more of spam *is* stopped at the list server, thanks to the efforts of the admins. The list admins, all unpaid volunteers, do a great job and should not have to listen to whiny gits who can't be bothered running their own spam filter and expect someone else to protect them. Or better yet --- member only. We've had this discussion too. It's not going to happen. You asked for this a couple of weeks ago and were told so then, what makes you think the answer's going to be any different this time? HERE HERE!! john, we may not have agreed on a couple of things a week or so ago but, is not the idea of Linux to a point total and utter customisability in as much as you can do wtf u need to be able to suit your purpose? at least that in part is what I thought running Linux was about, look quit bitching about the spam, personally, if someone wants to send spam about someone blowing a horse or some other sick crap like that there's an interesting function you should read about. it's called delete. christ sakes people, couple extra key strokes or a click of a mouse and a press of a key and it's gone. best fucken spam filter around. -- Shaun Oliver Becareful of the toes u step on today, they maybe connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow! EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net: IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Virtual server is down...
- I apoligse for sending this twice, but the first one was being looked at by a moderator because of a suspiciouse header or something, and this is urgent... hopefully this will get through straight away... -- Please help!! very urgent as the boss is trying to make a presentation ATM in Brisbane on this very website!!! We have about 3-4 sites running off the one machine (virtual servers) One is called the Waterexchange (www.waterexchange.com.au) - AND IT IS DOWN!! :( All the others are working perfectly fine. I have tried to restart apache (apachectl restart) but it tells me that httpd has not started, then 'trying to start httpd' which it then says is successful, but if I run the same command, it says exactly the same thing!!! if I do apachectl stop it says something about not being able to find httpd.pid - ?? if I try apachectl start it says it has started. But nothing I do (none of the above) will allow the waterexchange to be viewed! (I can view it, but only because I'm on the local network) I have tried a warm boot - nothing. exactly the same. I just tried a cold boot - same. PLEASE HELP!!! :'( very desperate! Very very very very very very very appreciative of any guidance here ..! -- Please feel free to call - (02)6881 6316, ask for Jared attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down...
the httpd error log reports similar - and all the same on todays date - [Wed Sep 24 10:59:59 2003] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 x31 ... so that seems to be the error..! canoot bind to port 80... but why? :| -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Billy Kwong Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2003 6:27 PM To: Jared Pritchard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Virtual server is down... Check the logs in /var/log/apache/error.log and see what error messages Apache has came up with. On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:25:26 -0700 Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I apoligse for sending this twice, but the first one was being looked at by a moderator because of a suspiciouse header or something, and this is urgent... hopefully this will get through straight away... -- Please help!! very urgent as the boss is trying to make a presentation ATM in Brisbane on this very website!!! We have about 3-4 sites running off the one machine (virtual servers) One is called the Waterexchange (www.waterexchange.com.au) - AND IT IS DOWN!! :( All the others are working perfectly fine. I have tried to restart apache (apachectl restart) but it tells me that httpd has not started, then 'trying to start httpd' which it then says is successful, but if I run the same command, it says exactly the same thing!!! if I do apachectl stop it says something about not being able to find httpd.pid - ?? if I try apachectl start it says it has started. But nothing I do (none of the above) will allow the waterexchange to be viewed! (I can view it, but only because I'm on the local network) I have tried a warm boot - nothing. exactly the same. I just tried a cold boot - same. PLEASE HELP!!! :'( very desperate! Very very very very very very very appreciative of any guidance here ..! -- Please feel free to call - (02)6881 6316, ask for Jared -- Billy Kwong Fluffy Spider Technologies System AdministratorSuite 87, 330 Wattle Street Ultimo, NSW 2007 Phone: (02) 9281 9055 Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down...
Yes - i'd actually looked at that, but didn't go as far as to ping them... should have thought checking it out now. Do I need the two pointing at us? or at least one? The mags.nsw.edu.au thing is one of those virtual servers on our server along with the waterexchange... dunno how that works exactly, but I do believe they are moving everything to their own server, so they may have just updated their name servers or something, and not realised it was pointing to us... I know the bloke that runs webnicians, so I guess it comes down to - do we need BOTH pointing to us, or just one? I heard that site need 2 name servers, but I was never clear on whether that was just as a backup or something, or absolutely required... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Hewitt Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2003 6:46 PM To: Jared Pritchard Cc: SLUG Subject: RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down... On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 02:39, Jared Pritchard wrote: the httpd error log reports similar - and all the same on todays date - [Wed Sep 24 10:59:59 2003] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 x31 ... so that seems to be the error..! canoot bind to port 80... but why? :| If I were you I would be checking your DNS setup. According to whois the two servers you are using are: Name Server: mags.nsw.edu.au Name Server: webnicians.com The first one is not pingable and the second one is returning no IP address for the domain waterexchange.com.au...Looks like you have bigger problems on your hands Adam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down...
Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you! I don't know WHY I didn't think of that!! IP address does work, so that at least has taken the edge off the urgency, even though it took all morning!! :( also, it has definately confirmed that it is a DNS problem! (stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid - should have tried IP!) Thanks alot :P Hopefully now we can get some name servers pointing at us properly. Should be right now guys for the time being. Thank you all very much for time and effort! Please feel free to slip any tips regarding setup of DNS etc. :P but (as I said) at least now the urgency has lessened! *PHHHEEEW* -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Voytek Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down... ** Reply to note from Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:16:35 -0700 Yes - i'd actually looked at that, but didn't go as far as to ping them... should have thought checking it out now. Do I need the two pointing at us? or at least one? The mags.nsw.edu.au thing is one of those virtual servers on our server along with the waterexchange... dunno how that works exactly, but I do believe they are moving everything to their own server, so they may have just updated their name servers or something, and not realised it was pointing to us... you are supposed to have two to register/delegate a domain, (though I think a lot of registars no longer seem to check that.) once a domain is registered and delegated one will do, but, obviously, two have some redundancy benefits. as an iterim solution, you might access your web pages via http://ip_address/path/from/docroot/toyour/virtual Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Server 'up'; but 'down' from external viewers...
Eerrkk... experiencing some problems here with our server :( We had a crash of some sort on the weekend, whereby 2 of our 4 machines in one rack 'turned off' and the switch just stopped working (all lights were on). I pulled the power on the switch restarted it, and it's working fine now, and restarted the other two machines... The main machine is the main server, and acts as a basic router, sending log in requests from our ISP to our RADIUS server (one of the machines that was still on working). Henceforth, since the main one was down, no-one could log in to our internet connection. After re-starting the main server, we could log in again and everything seemed to be fine dandy. Our main machine has two major websites stored on it. One is our ISPs, the other is the main website for the other business the boss runs. The ISP website is working fine. The Main website is not. Is this an httpd.conf error? maybe it started up wrong? (or an apache)... how can I restart those? I think it's something like 'apachelt restart now'that we use instead of httpd restart... where should I execute this? Many thanks, Jared Pritchard ' 02 6882 0288 6 02 6881 6318 * 0427 813 400 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in and accompanying this communication is strictly confidential and intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). The copyright in this communication belongs to Macquarie Telecom Pty Limited or one of its related entities. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and telephone Mactel on +61 6882 0288 immediately. You should not copy, disclose or distribute this communication without the authority of Mactel. Emails may be interfered with, therefore if you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email purportedly sent by Mactel please contact Mactel immediately. attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Mail redirecting
- Maha! thanks bundles. I knew it would be simple ;) -- Jared Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Macquarie Telecom Pty. Ltd. 48 Carrington Ave. Dubbo NSW 2830, Australia -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mail redirecting -
hey ppl - our server redirects any email sent to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to my boss, but he wants it to come to me from now on, because the only thing that would ever come from root are basically any errors returned by cron etc. and I am the one that needs to know of those :) hehehe I'm sure this is easy, but I can't find a thing on it anywhere... any ideas? Jared Pritchard ' 02 6882 0288 6 02 6881 6318 * 0427 813 400 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in and accompanying this communication is strictly confidential and intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). The copyright in this communication belongs to Macquarie Telecom Pty Limited or one of its related entities. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and telephone Mactel on +61 6882 0288 immediately. You should not copy, disclose or distribute this communication without the authority of Mactel. Emails may be interfered with, therefore if you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email purportedly sent by Mactel please contact Mactel immediately. attachment: winmail.dat-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] URGENT: Please help, Mail problem (FROM Field=NOBODY....change?)
Hi - I'm new to this group, and relatively new to linux (I work in it every day and have done for the past 8-10months or so - but it has been all in VI editing HTML PERL scripts etc. so no specific linux commands besides the basics) but now I have reached a point in the PERL scripts that it sends emails out to a list of users... however, when they receive them, it is addressed from 'nobody'. We REALLY REALLY need to change that!!! I use the command 'mail' in the form mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/mailout.$$ I cannot find an option in the 'mail' man pages that allows me to specify the 'from' section, and I am assuming that it is the 'user' that sends the email that fills in that position. Maybe the user is guest, or nobody or whatever - i don't know :/ How can I change the user or specify the 'from' field in the email without using a different mailing program? I need it to be admin or something - If I have to change mail programs, I will opt for sendmail in the short term, so what I would need the correct syntax to accomplish the same as above WITH from defined as well :) (the man pages for sendmail weren't much help in this regard) Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Regards, Jared Pritchard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
