mailing lists are not working after server patching

Hi Our server is cobalt raq4r . Yesterday we have patched our server with the latest patch.. We have also patched the sendmail with the latest patch.. RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-16402.pkg RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-16429.pkg RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-16620.pkg But after upgrading , it

PHP configure with mhas

Hi Our server is redhat8.0 with kernel kernel-2.4.18-14. The /PHP/ was already installed while the OS was installed, the version of php is *php-4.2.2-8.0.8*. Now we need the mhash library.. For that we have to configure PHP with the /mhash path/ .. So at my local server i tried as

Usenet setup

Hi Our server is Cobalt raq4r. I want to set with the Usenet getway.. Can anyone give me some idea - what is the startup.. I read on Usenet/NNTP. But not getting how and from where to start to set up this . Already our server has too much traffic for few sites... So is it possible to

How to check the status of giving duration

Hi The question is really silly though to all of you but i don't know how to see so asking.. *pine* has been called from different terminals.. I want from which terminal/userid/ip address pine has been called during the duration i will supply... PS will give you the

Telnet port change

Hi One of our client is very much stick to use the telnet in their server. But for security purpose we are trying to convince them, but failed. So if we change the telnet port and ask them to use - is it ok? I am asking for security level only... Thanks -Swapna

httpd process is becoming *zombie*

Hi Can you give us a snippet of your Apache error logs ? Mark down the time that you actually get the zombie process. Is your Apache solely serving static web pages or executing some Perl/CGI/Java/PHP scripts as well ? Regards, pascal chong Yes mostly all our sites are using

httpd process is becoming *zombie*

Hi Our server is Cobalt raq4r.Last few days I am noticing that sometimes the process under httpd is being killed. And the process becoming *zombie*. I checked all the cron jobs but did not find any clue which is to be the cause of httpd *zombie* process. Here i have mentioned

httpd process is becoming *zombie*

Hi Have you bothered to check the apache error log? Random cronjobs shouldn't normally have any connection to other processes becoming zombies. Which version of apache are you running? Which kernel version are you using? Yes i have checked the apache error log.. But i am not gettung any clue

Few mails in the maillog

Hi Can anyone give me some hints - for the following matter... Our MTA is sendmail. But i am watching that few mails are sending to some addresses using our sendmail MTA and *ctladdr* is hnadmin . This user we have in our server... But what are these mails for just not

Getting *viminfo* errors

Hi Today while i am editing some files, in our server redhat 8.0.. with *vi*, while saving i got the following message.. E138: Can't write viminfo file [NULL]! Hit ENTER or type command to continue After hitting enter, it is coming out though with saving the files... Why suddenly

Related to cron.daily

Hi In our /etc directory I am seeing there are two directories 1. cron.daily 2. cron.daily2 Under cron.daily2 the *webalizer.pl* is mentioned. But in /etc/logrotate only cron.daily is mentioned to be executed. But somehow i am seeing *webalizer.pl* is also running... So

Related to cron.daily

Hi Pointer to what? You haven't said what the problem is. You did alude to something about webalizer.pl, but there's no information on what is wrong. Is webalizer.pl not running per a cronjob? If so, then say so. Of couse the fact that its sitting in cron.daily2 sounds like the reason why. I

sendmail relay deny

Hi We are using sendmail-8.10.2-C1 in our cobalt raq-4r server. For few of our domains, if we don't use the full domain name in the /etc/mail/access file then it is coming *relay deny*. Where as for all our domaina we are mentioning the ip address in the relay and it is working fine.

Problem facing while trying to send mail through pine

Hi I am running sendmail on Cobalt raq4r.. i have created one user under one domain. when i am using webmail , i am not facing any problem to send the mail. But when i am trying to send the mails through pine, i am getting errors as follows: Sep 10 13:21:54 server sendmail[381]:

Problem facing while tring to send mail through pine

Hi I am running sendmail on Cobalt raq4r.. i have created one user under one domain. when i am using webmail , i am not facing any problem to send the mail. But when i am trying to send the mails through pine, i am getting errors as follows: Sep 10 13:21:54 server sendmail[381]:

RE: Related to sendmail gethostbyaddr error

then it is giving the error --- Jack Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you pointed your mailserver to the new dns server? Seems to me that should fix things, since you say that if you put the IP in hosts it works ok. -Original Message- From: Swapana Ghosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Related to sendmail gethostbyaddr error

Hi Two days back I asked a question about the sendmail gethostbyaddr errors.. Our server is Cobalt raq4r. On this server the sendmail is running.. Now in this server bind was running and all the domains' entries with their PTRs were present under the bind configuration. Now very

Re: Some errors in /var/log/maillog

Thanks you very much. -Swapna Reverse lookup failed? the zone for xxx.xxx.xx.35 (and others) doesn't have any PTR records for that ip or the zone does not exist on any dns server. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Some errors in /var/log/maillog

Hi We are running sendmail in one of our server. Last few days in the /var/log/maillog , i am getting this type of error messages. Sep 4 00:25:01 server sendmail[23133]: gethostbyaddr(xxx.xxx.xx.35) failed: 1 Sep 4 00:25:01 server sendmail[23133]: gethostbyaddr(xxx.xxx.xx.37) failed: 1

Related to mii-tool

Hi Because you most likely have interface files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for all of those interfaces. No there is not inferface files (eth1 ...ethn) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory... Here i am giving the *listing* of this directory...

how to increase /root space

Hi if i want to increase the partition space under the /bootwhat procedure i need to follow? Recently our server /boot partion is 99% full, [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 505605215026264475

how to increase /root space

Hi Thanks for all of your reply. I'm really wondering how you manage to fill up /boot, when its contents are static. I don't see why you need to increase the size of /boot in the first place. I am sorry , i can't say how it is inceasing but this servers' kernel was upgraded few

how to increase /root space

Hi Thanks again. Swapana, Each time you upgrade with up2date and the kernal is updated you add files to boot. Clean up the old kernals and you will once again have the space you need. Remember to make lilo or grub relect the changes. Ok , i did not know that thanks...here is the directory

how to increase /root space

Hi Try fdisk -l /dev/hdX or sdX where X is the disk and look for free space. df -h gives easier to read info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 494M 210M 258M 45% / /dev/sda3 23M 22M 283k 99% /boot

Related to root login

Hi Thanks a lot for all of your answers ... There's a good possibility that while using telnet instead of ssh that your root password has been sniffed and the box has been compromised. You may want to consider using an intrusion detection system such as Tripwire to be able to monitor file

Linux server packet loss - stopped occassionally

Hi Few days we are having problem with one of our clients's server(linux 7.1)... Within last few days, we had to reboot the server atleast 12 times... When the server stopped to work - we are checking the *traceroute*.. We are getting that after prceeding upto 10/12 hubs the

Linux server packet loss - stopped occassionally

Hi .Have you checked any logs to see if there are errors? Are there any ipchain/ipfilter rules in place? Can you ssh to the box during the times that it can't see the outside world? I have checked the log when the server is up but did not get anything from where i can diagnose the

Problem in connecting to mysql db with Spamassassin

Hi In our server Cobalt raq4r Spamassassin 2.55 is running smoothly with spamc/spamd with sendmail/procmail. Yesterday we configured it with *mysql* database..Now i am seeing that database is unable to connect. But database is running in a different server and it has no problem to

How can i connect remote mysql database through spamassassin?

Hi i have sent one email asking for - that i am unable to connect mysql database from my server. The database is under a different host but is *spamassassin* is trying to connect only the database at the local server? Here is again i am giving the snapshot of the log file for first few

Procmail rule

Hi Thanks for your reply... First of all, does it make a difference? In general, it has no difference. But demand is from client...:-) So client does not want that his maill will be in the mail box as client-name@www.domain.com - he wants *To address* in his mail box will be always shown as

Procmail rule

Hi Though it is really a silly qs but as i have not written the procmail rules yet - so asking because i want to patch it to the production server. Some mails are coming to our mail inbox like [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] when it is coming to inbox it is showing as full sting as

Mail related issues

Hi i am facing one problem recently...My server is cobalt-raq4r. we have created the users through the cobalt GUI and *sendmail* is running as MTA . Now in case of the mails. The problem is as follows: - When one user is sending mail from any address to one of our domain the

Spamd related error

Hi I have installed the spamassassin 2.41 in my local server. My intention is to upgrade it to 2.55. So after installing the spamassassin then i am running the procmailrc [which i kept under /etc directory ] , i have started *spamd* , the Option at spamd startup script i kept as follows:

Re: mail is not reaching.

Hi Few months back I have insalled *spamassassin* with spamc/spamd in one of our server. As i have failed in subscribing to the spamassassin list(they are giving message that they sent email to my address for authentication but i did not receive any mail from them till yet

Problem with Spamassassin

Hi Few months back I have insalled *spamassassin* with spamc/spamd in one of our server. As i have failed in subscribing to the spamassassin list(they are giving message that they sent email to my address for authentication but i did not receive any mail from them till yet

Problem with Spamassassin

Hi Andrew Thanks for your reply. You need to update Spamassassin first. 2.41 is quite old. Try the latest cvs. (2.60) 1. cd /tmp 2. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spamassassin login 3. cvs -z3 - -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spamassassin

Problem installing netcat under linux

Hi I am trying to install *netcat* . As per the README i did $make linux [ As i my servier is redhat 8.0 ] But the following errors are coming:: make -e nc XFLAGS='-DLINUX' STATIC=-static make[1]: Entering directory `/home/swapna/netcat' cc -O -s -DLINUX -static -o nc

Problem installing netcat under linux

Hi Net Llama! netllama at linux-sxs.org Thu Jul 24 16:45:26 EDT 2003 What version of netcat? netcat version 1.10 Thanks for your response. But i could able to install - there was a faq and i found that the solution they are giving as follows: - Make an entry #include resolv.h in the

how to connect to an USB disk drive...

Hi Recently a new USB disk drive has been set to one of our redhat8.0 server. When i am typing *df* command , i am not getting any existance of that disk drive... I tried to check in the dmesg as follows:: ---X- [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]#

how to connect to an USB disk drive...

Hi Define disk drive. That can mean floppy, hard, CD, or tape drives. It is a hard disk drive. Also, what brand/model is it? Is it supported under Linux? It is supported by Linux. Model etc i am sorry i can't provide , i am working remotely with this server. This is done by somebody else

how to connect to an USB disk drive...

Hi It would be nice if you answered all my questions. I will try my best, as the person is out of station so at present i can't provide more info...As soon as i will get i will give all the answers of your questions... Thanks again. -Swapna __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC

Remote file/directory access

Hi I want to access few directories which is in remote server. I have already set the RSA key - so i can talk between two severs without any password.. I can copy those remote directories in my calling server and work but in that case a huge amount of disk space is required so I can't go

Remote file/directory access

Hi On 06/21/03 07:43, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Hi I want to access few directories which is in remote server. I have already set the RSA key - so i can talk between two severs without any password.. I can copy those remote directories in my calling server and work but in that case

Remote file/directory access

Hi --- Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is why i need some soluntion where i can call the directories/files from one server to another server.. NFS? Thanks a lot - i got the direction now. Best Regards. -Swapna __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL -

Is there any command like ftp dump

Hi If any user tries to do ftp to the server , i want to check each user's activity, login, etc etc being a root. I tired to check the log, but log files does not give all the information. I heard about ftp dump... What is the exact command? Can i check the command with man?

Regarding sendmail connections

Hi What kind of HDs? I can only say the speed that is 100MB/sec approx. Bandwith and other it is with the company who are holding our DNS etc... That doesn't answer the question of what kind of harddrives you have. Sorry I did not mean about hard drives . I mentioned for bandwith etc.

Regarding sendmail connections

Hi Andrew Unless defined by the ConnectionRateThrottle, MaxDaemonChildren, DelayLA, or RefuseLA parameters, it's limited by bandwidth, disk I/O, .memory, processors, and numerous other variables. The -d44.4 flag when in testing mode will show the open file attempts, which is a beginning .to

Regarding sendmail connections

Hi Have you looked at the output from iostat vmstat? It is ide-disk version 1.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide]# iostat -bash: iostat: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide]# vmstat procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache

Regarding sendmail connections

Hi What kind of HDs? I can only say the speed that is 100MB/sec approx. Bandwith and other it is with the company who are holding our DNS etc... I have posted another email.. I want to know how many connections sendmail can accept... Becaues i am testing with 250k recrods and want to send

change default direcory path for ftp

Hi i want to do the ftp and want one fixed directory (which i need) by default.. Now if we do ftp , by default is /home/user. But if i want to change that... where i will look? Thanks in advance -Swapna __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per

change default direcory path for ftp

Hi i want to do the ftp and want one fixed directory (which i need) by default.. Now if we do ftp , by default is /home/user. But if i want to change that... where i will look? I could able to change thanks to all -Swapna __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL -

Regarding sendmail mail queue

Hi Andrew Thanks a lot... Now the mail are coming to my queue and i am not seeing any rejectiong of smtp connection in the maillog. So qmail is sending the mail without holding those defeffed mails in its queue. But one problem is there . All the mails are now gathered in the

Regarding sendmail mail queue

Hi Andrew Thanks a lot I waited almost 1 hr just to see if my luck favours. But i found that after more than an hr mail started to generate from the queue and finally all mails have been sent... Best Regards. -Swapna __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC

Related sendmail mail queue

Hi When i am processing 10,000 subscribers for the mailing list testing, then the records took 15 mints to clear the qmail queue and after 15 mints i checked that all the records came to sendmail queue and then it started for clearing the queue. But when the same testing i did with

Related sendmail mail queue

Hi How much memory does this box have? The OS Redhat linux 8.0 Mem: 517156864 306970624 2101862400 54534144 178073600 Swap: 107347148820480 1073451008 MemTotal: 505036 kB MemFree:205260 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 53256 kB Cached: 173892

Regarding sendmail queue related

Hello --- Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Swapana Ghosh wrote: | Thanks again. | | I will follow as you advised. | | |define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider') | | | Where i need to mention this line? | | Thanks and regards

Regarding sendmail queue related

Hi Andrew Andrew Mathews andrew_mathews at linux-works.org Fri Jun 13 01:54:08 EDT 2003 You need to define a higher load average using confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE in your sendmail.mc. Start at 25 and increment it as necessary after retesting. Also check for confDELAY_LA and confREFUSE_LA and

Regarding sendmail queue related

Hi | I have to test this list with 2.5laks data. I wanted to mean that the mailing list is containing 2,50,000 subscribers and i have to test for these many records |You need to define a higher load average using |confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE in your sendmail.mc. Start at 25 and |increment it

Regarding sendmail queue related

Hi Andrew Here is my sendmail.mc file - i am sending because if i missed anything to explain you divert(-1) include(`/home/swapna/sendtest/m4/cf.m4') VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl OSTYPE(`linux')