[cobalt-developers] Re: Newbie adding virtual siteson Cobalt RAQ3.

["Colm Brazel" <cbweb@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Do I give each new virtual site I add to the raq3 the same primary and
secondary dns ip addresses
as the site root, or do I need to purchase a block of these from elsewhere?


Regards

Colm

Colm (Brazel)MA
CB Publications
Internet: www.cbweb.net
E-mail: cbweb@xxxxxx
cbweb@xxxxxxxxx

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Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:47 PM
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>   1. RE: RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0 (Jose Luis Aguilar)
>   2. Access By Domain Web Reports (John Keegan)
>   3. Pop3 terminated? or did it just quit! (ewebplace)
>   4. Re: RE: Ups and downs with Qube3 and Sausalito (Tim Hockin)
>   5. Re: RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0 (Tarren)
>   6. Re: RE: Ups and downs with Qube3 and Sausalito (vic@xxxxxxx)
>   7. Diffrent Password (Myke Corredera)
>   8. Re: Diffrent Password (Harald Kapper)
>   9. RE: Different Password (Kal Amry)
>  10. Re: Different Password (Harald Kapper)
>  11. Re: RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0 (Chris Adams)
>  12. Re: Pop3 terminated? or did it just quit! (Herb Rubin)
>  13. RE: RE: installing Cobalt OS on another Server (Richard Nellist)
>  14. RE: non-parsed headers (Richard Nellist)
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>Message: 1
>From: "Jose Luis Aguilar" <jlaguilar@xxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:17:14 -0400
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Another issue with this update is email relaying. The RAQ3 now checks if a
>user is defined in a virtual host before accepting email for it. For
>example:
>
>Before, if you had an user called "example" defined under
"virtualsite1.com"
>you could actually send email to "example@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and it would
get
>to the user defined under "virtualsite1.com".
>
>Now, sendmail replies with a "553 No such user" error, if the user is not
>defined in the virtual site that the email is intended for. If the email is
>sent to "example@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" instead of "example@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>the site must be enabled to receive email for the domain in the site
>configuration and the user "example" must be defined in
>"www.virtualsite.com".
>
>I had many sites for sub-domains: (e.g. www.mydomain.com,
>support.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com) and I had users defined on all the
>sites. The MX record for all those hosts were set to "mail.mydomain.com"
and
>"mail.mydomain.com" was set to receive mail for the domain. After applying
>this patch, none of my users defined in www.mydomain.com or
>support.mydomain.com could receive mail sent to "user@xxxxxxxxxxxx".
>
>This is ok and I think it is a logical fix, but it would have been nice if
>Cobalt had documented this new feature somewhere. This feature was
>completely undocumented.
>
>JLA
>
>P.D.: As for the "*.md5lst files", I just moved them to the "obsolete"
>directory found in that directory. That's exactly what the upgrade-me
script
>does after appending a note at the bottom of the file like "Obsoleted on
>DATE".
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Keegan
>Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:54 PM
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0
>
>
>> The only thing that I noticed is that the following updates that get
>> obsoleted by this update do not get removed from the list of programs
>> installed in the server under the "install software" section of the
>"control
>> panel".
>
>Question for Cobalt:
>
>The fix should be as simple as removing the *.md5lst files from
>/var/lib/cobalt , correct?
>
>On a related note, will there be a similar OS Update release for the Raq2
>forthcoming?
>
>--
>John Keegan
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>http://RackShare.com
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:58:40 -0500
>From: John Keegan <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: cobalt-developers <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] Access By Domain Web Reports
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>What exactly are "Access By Domain Web Reports" which are now enabled in
the
>Control Panel after applying the OS Update 4.0?
>
>--
>John Keegan
>john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://RackShare.com
>
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:44:29 -0500
>From: ewebplace <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Organization: eWebPlace.com, Inc.
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] Pop3 terminated? or did it just quit!
>
>I got a present from my RAQ3 this morning:
>
>Jan 17 11:25:17 ns1 inetd[457]: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping), service
>terminated
>
>It left it in  /var/log/messages.
>
>Any idea what would cause my RAQ to be so generous?
>
>Sorry for the attempt at comedy...
>just seemed like such a dry...what's causing this message other wise ;)
>
>Brian
>
>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:58:24 -0800
>From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx>
>Organization: Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Appliances
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RE: Ups and downs with Qube3 and Sausalito
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>vic@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> As I don't like being reprimanded, I have take some time off to think and
>> research. I have succesfully crearted a new namespace for adding a
>> property to the User class without disturbing the Cobalt supplied
>> schemata. The design is so elegant for its simplicity. Adding schemata is
>> a matter of adding your own directory hyerachy under
>> /usr/sausalito/schemas and then, in there, writing the proper ,schema
>> files with the XML definitions for typedefs, and classes. Here is mine
>> that creates a new type: userType, and the a new namespace for the user
>> class with a new property: userType.
>>
>> <typedef name="userType" type="re" data="^(U0|U1|U2|U3)$"/>
>>
>> <class name="User" namespace="SES" version="1.0">
>>   <property name="userType" type="userType" readacl="ruleSelf" />
>> </class>
>
>you figured it out.  Well done. :)
>
>--
>Tim Hockin
>Systems Software Engineer
>Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
>thockin@xxxxxxx
>
>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:52:51 +0000
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0
>From: Tarren <tarren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>on 22/1/01 8:17 pm GMT, Jose Luis Aguilar at jlaguilar@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Another issue with this update is email relaying. The RAQ3 now checks if
a
>> user is defined in a virtual host before accepting email for it. For
>> example:
>
>Yes, it seems that after the update, and if you have NOT specified a
>"catch-all" in the GUI, the virtusertable gets littered with lines like
>this:
>
># catch-all aliases
>@www.tarren.co.uk       error:nouser No such user here
>
>This has set us back considerably, because we have customised the end of
the
>virtusertable with hundreds lines like this:
>
>@www.tarren.co.uk   %1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Basically so we can receive email at otherdomain.com without setting up
>users on each site, and it sends the email to the appropriate account at
>tarren.co.uk
>The new update conflicts with this very badly, and the GUI won't let me add
>a line like the above!
>
>HELP!  Now every time I make a GUI change, I have to do major hand-edits on
>virtusertable!
>
>Regards,
>
>Tarren.
>
>
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>Message: 6
>From: vic@xxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:52:05 +0100 (MET)
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RE: Ups and downs with Qube3 and Sausalito
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Tim Hockin wrote:
>
>[snip]
>> >   <property name="userType" type="userType" readacl="ruleSelf" />
>> > </class>
>>
>> you figured it out.  Well done. :)
>Thanks Tim, :) Three questions, where are the ACL rules defined?
>(readacl="ruleSelf", and the like) Any news about the apparence of all
>the menu URLs in the cList.php frame, regardless accessRights? Ans, as
>usual,last but not least, do you have any news about the .po files for
>translating the interface?
>
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>Message: 7
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:24:08 -0800
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: Myke Corredera <mecorr@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] Diffrent Password
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Is there a way to make the SU password different from that of the Admin
>password ??
>
>
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>Message: 8
>From: Harald Kapper <h.kapper@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Diffrent Password
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:38:51 +0100
>Organization: kapper.net, Inc.
>Reply-To: h.kapper@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>hi there,
>basically yes - simple :-)
>
>"su" and then simply use the command "passwd" enter your new
>root password (su makes you root btw) twice and you're done.
>
>but - if you change the admin-password via the webinterface, this
>also resets your root-passwd, I guess it should be possible to hack
>the script to disable this function, but you might then be lost on
>the other hand if you once forget your root-pwd.
>
>also using SSH as your shell instead of telnet should be highly
recommended.
>
>regards
>Harald Kapper, Kapper & Partner Communications KEG
>Vienna, AUSTRIA            Tel.    +43-1-319 55 00
>Fax +43-1-319 55 02        e-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxx
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>
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:24:08 -0800, Myke Corredera <mecorr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
to cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>>Is there a way to make the SU password different from that of the Admin
>>password ??
>
>
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>
>Message: 9
>From: "Kal Amry" <kamry1888@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Different Password
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:09:32 -0500
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Just login as admin, then su - and then type passwd, and your on your way.
>Be careful that when you do this, you are breaking the link between admin's
>password and su - which basically what you want. In other words, changing
>the admin password through the interface won't change the su - password.
>Finally this the only draw back so good luck...
>
>Kal
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Myke
>Corredera
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:24 AM
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] Diffrent Password
>
>
>Is there a way to make the SU password different from that of the Admin
>password ??
>
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>Message: 10
>From: Harald Kapper <h.kapper@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Different Password
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:42:30 +0100
>Organization: kapper.net, Inc.
>Reply-To: h.kapper@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>hi there,
>well, my experience on raq2 appliances was a different one, setting via
>web-interface re-setted the root-pwd also...
>
>thanx
>hk
>
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:09:32 -0500, "Kal Amry" <kamry1888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
to <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>password and su - which basically what you want. In other words, changing
>>the admin password through the interface won't change the su - password.
>>Finally this the only draw back so good luck...
>
>
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>
>Message: 11
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:57:25 -0600
>From: Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] RaQ3-en-Update-OS Release 4.0
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Once upon a time, Tarren <tarren@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> on 22/1/01 8:17 pm GMT, Jose Luis Aguilar at jlaguilar@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Another issue with this update is email relaying. The RAQ3 now checks
if a
>> > user is defined in a virtual host before accepting email for it. For
>> > example:
>>
>> Yes, it seems that after the update, and if you have NOT specified a
>> "catch-all" in the GUI, the virtusertable gets littered with lines like
>> this:
>>
>> # catch-all aliases
>> @www.tarren.co.uk       error:nouser No such user here
>
>This should have been here all along.  Otherwise, siteA can set up a use
>"sales", and if siteB doesn't have a catch-all, "sales" on siteA can get
>email addressed to "sales@siteB", which is bad.
>--
>Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
>I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
>
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>
>Message: 12
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:51:37 -0800
>From: Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Organization: Pathfinders Software
>To: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Pop3 terminated? or did it just quit!
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>I saw this error on my RAQ4. It comes from inetd panicing that too many
POP3
>sockets per minute
>are occurring. The default is 40 POP3 connections per minute. This could be
>due to POP3 password
>failures or possibly a hacker attack. Or a bug in the qpopper program
itself.
>Or just more than the allowed number of connections.
>
>It usually results in mail checking disabled for 5 minutes. If you want to
>raise this number  just edit inetd.conf and change nowait to nowait.80 (to
>double it). You may want to restart init or reboot. I am
>not sure when it rereads the config file. I think  running "init q" will do
>the trick.
>
>example line in /etc/inetd.conf
>
>pop-3    stream    tcp    nowait.80    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd
   in.qpopper -R
>
>Sets the maximum connections per minute to 80.
>
>I got this little tidbit of information from Cobalt tech support 2 weeks
ago.
>
>Herb
>
>
>
>ewebplace wrote:
>
>> I got a present from my RAQ3 this morning:
>>
>> Jan 17 11:25:17 ns1 inetd[457]: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping),
service
>> terminated
>>
>> It left it in  /var/log/messages.
>>
>> Any idea what would cause my RAQ to be so generous?
>>
>> Sorry for the attempt at comedy...
>> just seemed like such a dry...what's causing this message other wise ;)
>>
>> Brian
>>
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>
>--
>Herb Rubin
>Pathfinders Software
>herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>www.pfinders.com
>phone: 415 292-4935
>fax:   415 292-4913
>
>
>
>
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>Message: 13
>From: "Richard Nellist" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] RE: installing Cobalt OS on another Server
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:32:40 -0000
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Having a look through the /proc dir showed various settings, and in the
cmos
>settings it lists the machine type.
>
>The restore CD seems to contain a generic set of RPM's ie all I386 RPM's on
>the Qube3 Restore CD, but there is an installation dir which also contains
a
>set of config files for each type of appliance. These files contain both
the
>RPM's to install and the order in which they are installed.
>
>The only RPM's which seem to be missing from the CD are the AXCENT specific
>RPM's which are shipped on the Cobalt Velociraptor.
>
>Will let you know how the tests go with the h/d swap and the keyboard/video
>
>Regards
>
>Richard
>
>
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>
>Message: 14
>From: "Richard Nellist" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:38:55 -0000
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] RE: non-parsed headers
>Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>>Greetings Cobalt Gurus --
>>
>>What's the secret for getting NPH scripts to work
>>on a RaQ2?
>>
>>I had 'em working fine on Apache on a Solaris box,
>>but when I moved 'em to the Cobalt they died.
>>
>>They run fine on the command line but in the
>>browser I get only "Internal Server Error".
>>
>
>If you are using Internet Explorer and want to get a better error
>description than "Internal Server Error", on the Advanced tab in the
>Internet Options, delect the option to "Show friendly HTTP error messages"
>and then the browser should return the actual data the server returned
>instead of the MS "Friendly Error Message"
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Regards
>
>Richard
>
>>Need I set a parameter in the Apache config, or
>>what?
>>
>>Thanks so much for your help!
>>
>>Dan Keller
>>dan@xxxxxxxxxx
>>http://www.keller.com/
>>+1 415 861-4500 (voice)
>>+1 415 861-4593 (fax)
>
>
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