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

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Hi William, 

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> > > 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?

Yes, you do need. Log in on the admin web and look ad BlueLinq / Settings /
Basic and enter the address where the notifications should be mailed to.
I set the query schedule to daily, just to get information as quick as
possible. 

> 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.

the BlueLinq works on all my three XTRs ... you should check your
configuration 

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> 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.

I made really good experiences with qmail. It's quite easy to install and
and i never heard that a properly configured / installed qmail was ever
hacked. You should check out 

http://cr.yp.to  (the site of D.J. Bernstein the developer of qmail)
http://www.qmail.org
http://www.lifewithqmail.org
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html 

> > > 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.

Yeah, i had some more funny messages like "lost interrupt" and also this: 

Dec 17 00:01:26 cobalt3 kernel: hdg: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, 
stat=0xd0
Dec 17 00:01:26 cobalt3 kernel: hdg: write_intr: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 17 00:01:26 cobalt3 kernel: ide3: reset: success
Dec 17 00:01:26 cobalt3 kernel: hdg: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, 
stat=0xd0
Dec 17 00:01:26 cobalt3 kernel: hdg: write_intr: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 17 00:01:27 cobalt3 kernel: ide3: reset: success 

whateverthehell that means ... 

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

that's the way it is 

> Thanks for the heads up, I do appreciate it. 
>
> I wonder if someone from Sun/Cobalt will care to comment, or remain
> anonymous cowards. ;)

Yes, there is already an escalation running. There is a very kind technician
of Sun Cobalt EMEA support in Netherlands who helped me a lot. 

Yours
Jan*