[e-smith-devinfo] Satellite Info needed.

2001-08-14 Thread David J. Boccabella
Hi folks. Thanks for the response. I have been able to find a local provider who has a satellite package that looks good. Nect Q.. How does one set up e-Smith with a satellite system. I'm not talking Telstra by the way.. So I should beable to get Linux drivers. But as to the err.. What does

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Darrell May
Kai Kiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know how can I block email from an IP address totally? Try creating a custom smtpd_check_rules template entry, say named 10DenyList with the following, replacing ip_address_here with the IP you want to block: # Block access to the SMTP server

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] tomcat on e-smith

2001-08-14 Thread Jelmer Kuperus
hi, You need to add the LoadModule JkMount and stuff to the e-smith template for httpd.conf , otherwise everytime you use the management console your changes will be overwritten., make sure you use the ajpv13 connector to be able to use ssl correctly , possibly you need to add the ssl classes to

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Anton Pirnat
create the file badmailfrom in the /var/qmail/control directory. Put the bad one in there.. line by line. By hostname or by mailadress. This file is a qmail control file, but not created by a default install. You can read about qmail control files under www.lifewithqmail.org hth Anton Pirnat

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Since everyone is having a small field day onviri.....

2001-08-14 Thread Alexander Wallace
I appreciate the link, it was very informative And scary On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Richard Ford wrote: Here is a link to a page about a more extreme symptom of what does affect us - Denial of service. I felt motivated to do some more research after a comment from Gordon.

[e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Richard Bruce
Hi, I've been asked to implement the following e-mail policy. For various reasons our company has made a decision that all employees should have internal e-mail (i.e. only be able to send mail to domains hosted by e-smith), but only a select few should have external e-mail (able to send to other

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread D.J. Schmidt
Check this link. I think this is what you are looking for. http://www.linux.made-to-order.net/article.php?sid=103 D.J. Schmidt Information Services Manager Excel Industries, Inc. P.O. Box 7000, 200 S. Ridge Rd. Hesston, KS 67062 Ph: 620.327.1228 Fax:

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] squidguard for essg reports

2001-08-14 Thread Trevor Ouellette
I've got the same result. I will post a fix after I get the new location from squidguard.org. Has anyone looked into a commercial solution (working it into es)? Trev. -Original Message- From: Johan Blignaut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 5:43 AM To: Trevor

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, D.J. Schmidt wrote: Check this link. I think this is what you are looking for. http://www.linux.made-to-order.net/article.php?sid=103 No, that won't help. That has to do with incoming external mail, not with the ability to send outgoing mail. Attempting to limit the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Richard Bruce wrote: I agree entirely, but some people at the top are paranoid and can't be dissuaded from their views. If it's any consolation the users concerned won't have web access either (I've forced proxy authentication thanks to information previously posted by

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Server monitoring module ready for download

2001-08-14 Thread Jaime Nebrera
Hi, You seem to have a problem with the timestamp of the data. When you create a rrdtool database, you tell the program when to expect the data. In our case most of the data is collected every minute. RRDTool is intelligent enough to resolve minor error with the time (for example if you

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Darrell May
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Have a look in /etc/e-smith/templates/var/spool/smtpd/etc/smtpd_check_rules/ Agreed. What you want can be set up via custom smtp_check_rules entries. Start with this HowTo: http://netsourced.com/servers/docs/smtp-restrict-howto.html Here is

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Darrell May wrote: If you really need to implement a complete solution you could look into adding 'authenticated' SMTP support where the user needs to login to send. The design of the e-smith server makes authenticated SMTP difficult. The SMTP daemon (in this case,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Server monitoring module ready for download

2001-08-14 Thread Blake Heinemann
I'm getting these same error messages and the .02 was my first install attempt. Only my error messages are coming in as emails to the admin account. bh Jaime Nebrera wrote: Hi, You seem to have a problem with the timestamp of the data. When you create a rrdtool database, you tell

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Multiple IP per Network card

2001-08-14 Thread devlist
Dear E-smith Devinfo List: Frist Off. Thanks to Steve Grasso who reference the Mini-Howto which had the answers that I was looking for. The IP Aliasing Mini-HOWTO -- http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/index.html -- might get you started in the right direction. Regards,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Darrell May
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The design of the e-smith server makes authenticated SMTP difficult. The SMTP daemon (in this case, obtuse smtpd) runs in a chroot jail which does not contain the password database. It makes the password database safe from theft (and cracking) via a

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
I prevent my kids from using certain Internet goodies (mainly http, https, and AIM) by implementing packet filters. Shoot me, because I do this with WinRoute (legacy systems sometimes just won't die ;-) Couldn't this be applied to email -- block (deny or drop) SMTP traffic originating from

[e-smith-devinfo] blacklist for SquidGuard

2001-08-14 Thread Trevor Ouellette
ftp://ftp.univ-tlse1.fr/pub/reseau/cache/squidguard_contrib/ This link looks like it contains the latest blacklist.tar.gz, but I'm still trying to confirm with Lars Erik Haland from SquidGuard where the blacklist disappeared. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Server monitoring module ready for download

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Doerner
Hi, ERROR: illegal attempt to update using time 997796580 when last update time is 997796580 (minimum one second step) ERROR: illegal attempt to update using time 997796580 when last update time is 997796580 (minimum one second step) I am getting these about 2 or 3 times a night only (I will

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] real time network info

2001-08-14 Thread Orange Squash
have you looked at www.telemetrybox.org it may be of some use to you if you have a spare computer to install it on. --- little bark BIG BYTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know of something I can use to monitor real time traffic on a network? We have over thirty computers on this

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Server monitoring module ready for download

2001-08-14 Thread Nigel Gent
Hi, I'm getting similar stuff at about 4 am. Several emails (4 last night) with ERROR: could not lock RRD followed with several (probably 4 more) with the following or similar ERROR: illegal attempt to update using time 997758183 when last update time is 997758183 (minimum one second step)

[e-smith-devinfo] 3ware naked boot: BUG

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lyon
Hi, I've just been through the process of booting e-smith on a small DELL server with a 3ware 6200 controller with mirrored drives. It has been painful. The server was totally clean, no OS, no IDE drives. e-smith seems to really want to see /dev/hda since there were several timeout/error

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 3ware naked boot: BUG

2001-08-14 Thread David Brown
This seems odd to me - I just setup an e-smith server with a 3ware Escalade 6410 with no problems at all. I had no ide drives other than those connected to the raid controller, and they were blank. Booted off the CDROM and did a standard install from scratch. Not a single problem. My

[e-smith-devinfo] time to start quoting guys!

2001-08-14 Thread Peter Hollandare
Guys! i dont mean to be rude but, jesus can you learn howto quote msgs, so we dont have to see replies with like : (answer) oki i'll do that followed by 500 lines of un.quoted garbage text under. There are guys out there, that pays for every kb they bring home, so please (i know the list

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] real time network info

2001-08-14 Thread P Miller
I don't have an e-smith solution; but if you have a Macintosh on your network you can use Intermapper to show you realtime info on your network. I used it for years at an ISP to monitor dozens of boxes. I found it indispensable, educational and actually a lot of fun. SMTP is available if you

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] real time network info

2001-08-14 Thread P Miller
Arghh! I meant to say SNMP, a completely different thing! P Miller wrote: SMTP is available if you have agents on your machine but is probably overkill for the kind of monitoring you propose. little bark BIG BYTE wrote: Anybody know of something I can use to monitor real time traffic

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:01:34PM -0400, Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Remember to do it all reliably and securely. Also ensure that the usernames/passwords are not made available in the clear (or you compromise local security by sniffing SMTP connections), and/or use another

[e-smith-devinfo] List etiquette (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] time to start quoting guys!)

2001-08-14 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:41:50AM +0200, Peter Hollandare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There are guys out there, that pays for every kb they bring home, so please (i know the list owners agrees to this) start learning howto quote. [...] personal hat Which raises a few other pointers on

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +0200, Anton Pirnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: create the file badmailfrom in the /var/qmail/control directory. Put the bad one in there.. line by line. By hostname or by mailadress. badmailfrom is for qmail-smtpd and is not used in e-smith 4.1 or later. See

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restricting External Email

2001-08-14 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gordon Rowell wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:01:34PM -0400, Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Remember to do it all reliably and securely. Also ensure that the usernames/passwords are not made available in the clear (or you compromise local security by

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Kai Kiang wrote: So, if I want to stop one particular IP from sending emails (massive!) to us, should I use the badmailfrom file for control? No. or should I look at something else? You need to configure obtuse smtpd to reject any mail from that IP address. You also

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Darrell May
Kai Kiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, if I want to stop one particular IP from sending emails (massive!) to us, should I use the badmailfrom file for control? or should I look at something else? Kai, how about looking at the answer I gave you already :) In case you missed it, here it is

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Kai Kiang
Hi Darrell, So, if I want to stop one particular IP from sending emails (massive!) to us, should I use the badmailfrom file for control? or should I look at something else? Kai, how about looking at the answer I gave you already :) In case you missed it, here it is again: Try creating

[e-smith-devinfo] dhcpd problems

2001-08-14 Thread Ted Hobson
My dhcpd is acting very strange. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. The only symptoms I've been able to see (besides no access from my only networked machine through the server) is /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpd flashes red and the command: more dhcpd says too many symbolic links I tried restarting it

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Questions about qmail...

2001-08-14 Thread Kai Kiang
Do you mind tell me more detail which file I should modify... Just follow this HowTo - Problem/Solution #2: http://netsourced.com/servers/docs/smtp-restrict-howto.html The howto is very clear, thanks. What is the effect for this template way of customizing? If I perform a backup using the