Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: RaQXTR-All-Kernel-1.0.1-2.2.16C33_V-1

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan,

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:36, support@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi William, 
> 
> >> > Where did you get this from ftp.cobalt.com? 
> >> 
> >> I got it from blue linq.
> > 
> > Strange, my blue link has never worked correctly. Instead all blue link
> > notices end up as a dead.letter in /root?
> 
> hmmmmmmmmmm... did you configure the email notification correctly? Have
> you looked at these files? What is the recipient of the dead letters? 

I have not configured anything for that. It should still be set to it's
default of admin.

In reality emails are being sent to

?ISO-8859-1?Q?admi?= <admi>

What ever that is. Now all other email notification works fine. For
example a fan failed a while back, I got an email and replaced the fans.

I also get other admin type emails, so everything should be configured
correctly.

I was not aware that you needed to do anything special for Blue Link to
email you?

It's really not a big deal. I have other software I am always checking
to see if I need to upgrade it, that is not part of the Cobalt Distro.

So checking to see if Cobalt has any updates is part of my normal
routing.

Blue link is a good idea, I do use RHN on my other RedHat machines.
Convenient.
 
> Yes, you are right. As far as i know the patch was issued on friday. I
> got it on my machines on Saturday and it was listet on the patch site
> at Monday. 

Glad, I did not come across it or install it before you did. Sorry you
had to pay the price, but I am happy someone other than me did. I have
paid my own in the past.

> 
> DON'T INSTALL IT!!! 

I WON'T :)
 
> > You mentioned PHP and nothing special. Do you have any third party apps
> > installed like MySQL, WebMail, etc.?
> 
> Just all standard, with ssh from pkgmaster and qmail. i don't use
> sendmail, but i left it on the machines. It's just not activated.
> qmail may be installed without any interference on a system also containing
> sendmail. 

I will have to look into Qmail. It's supposed to be better with Spam
which is driving me nuts. It's hard enough for me to relay real mail
through my XTR, but the rest of the spammers have no problem. I have a
spam list upward of 1000 entries, and growing daily.

The volume of spam emails has gone down, but still a headache.

> > What services are you using on the XTR? Mail, FTP, Web, Db,etc.
> 
> Web, Mail 
> 
> > What is your average load, CPU & more importantly memory?
> 
> > What do you mean by crash. Kernel/Machine locking up becoming
> > unresponsive? Spontaneous re-boots, blue screen of death ;)
> 
> all of that (no joke!) 

Wow, I have never seen Linux spontaneously re-boot. The only times I
have seen Linux lock up is with certain programs like Quake under X,
which usually can be over come. I seem to remember one other time that a
Linux machine became unresponsive, but it was hardware/driver related
which is kernel level.

I wonder what tests were run on the kernel prior to release, and why thy
are releasing another 2.2.16 kernel, that has been out of date for years
now. Unless they are applying the current kernel patches, which would
make it a 2.2.23 kernel.
 
> > What was the last operation completed or run from your knowledge prior
> > to the crash.
> 
> don't know 

Fair enough.
 
> > What is your system config from a hardware point of view, mem, proc,
> > RAID?
> 
> 3 and 4 drives as RAID 5; 512 MByte RAM; the machine with only 3 drives in
> RAID has an extra drive as fast mail spooler only. 

Ok

> > Along with any other details or information you can provide. Details are
> > greatly appreciated. 
> > 
> 
> hope i could help al ittle bit 

A little still not enough info, but I will take your word that in
general it just does not work and is not stable.

Thanks for the heads up, I do appreciate it.

I wonder if someone from Sun/Cobalt will care to comment, or remain
anonymous cowards. ;)

No offense intended.

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone  707.766.9509
Fax    707.766.8989
http://www.obsidian-studios.com