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[cobalt-users] Email / DNS problem
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Email / DNS problem
- From: "Sam Blythe" <sblythe@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Aug 24 23:57:40 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
I have a client I am hosting their Website and providing DNS. However,
another company is providing email. I have changed the DNS to point to
their server, however, now my client cannot send me mail to my domain.
What should my settings be in DNS and Email control panels for this
problem?
Thanks!
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Today's Topics:
1. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Unreal_Tournament_RaQ4_Server=3F?=
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mark_S_Burgunder?=)
2. Re: Unreal Tournament RaQ4 Server? (Ted Behling)
3. Search All Archives (Carrie Bartkowiak)
4. [RAQ3] DNS / PHP (Patrick Egloff)
5. Re: Question on which DNS to use in initial setup
wizard (Cobalt Support)
6. Re: consoled on ttyS0?? (Marco Baurdoux)
7. raqbackup.sh version 2.0 (Daniel Neuhaus)
8. FTP backup and cron (Ron Kulik)
9. FTP backup and cron (Ron Kulik)
10. RE: FTP backup and cron (Dan Kriwitsky)
11. RE: "email stuck in the qube 3" [long response] (Colin J. Raven)
12. Relaying error - We are positively desperate now... (Aussie Hosts
- Support)
13. RE: "email stuck in the qube 3" [self correction and followup]
(Colin J. Raven)
14. aliases.db playing up (Edward Bishop)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:07:36 +1000 (EST)
From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mark_S_Burgunder?=" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [cobalt-users]
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Unreal_Tournament_RaQ4_Server=3F?=
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CarrieB wrote:
> Has anyone used a RaQ (specifically a 4) to run a linux-based Unreal
> Tournament server? Any problems getting the linux version of UT to
> run? Comments on bandwidth consumption? (I wouldn't even know how to
> measure transfer on a UT game...)
Have you looked at the article
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15771
on Webhostingtalk. The article is mainly about setting up Counter Strike
on aCobalt but there is one guy claiming to have installed Unreal a few
times.
Cheers
Mark
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:54:31 -0400
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Unreal Tournament RaQ4 Server?
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
At 10:30 PM 8/19/01 -0400, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:
>Has anyone used a RaQ (specifically a 4) to run a linux-based Unreal
>Tournament server? Any problems getting the linux version of UT to
>run? Comments on bandwidth consumption? (I wouldn't even know how to
>measure transfer on a UT game...)
I see no reason why you can't install the program on a Cobalt if you can
install it on RedHat or other "traditional" Linux distros.
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Message: 3
From: Carrie Bartkowiak <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
To: Cobalt Users <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 03:19:00 -0400
Subject: [cobalt-users] Search All Archives
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just a note, if someone wants to search all three of the
cobalt-users, cobalt-development, and cobalt-security lists at once,
I've added this funtionality to the www.cobalthosts.com site.
Also put a note on the front page about the new lists that popped up
over the weekend, and have posted Chris' great "Installing
SquirrelMail on a RaQ" instructions (with his permission).
--
CarrieB
"E-mail . . . When it absolutely, positively must get lost at the
speed of light." Unknown
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Message: 4
From: "Patrick Egloff" <patrick@xxxxxx>
To: "Userlist Cobalt" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:31:36 +0200
Organization: Webraum Horgen GmbH
Subject: [cobalt-users] [RAQ3] DNS / PHP
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi
I'm looking for an easy way of restarting the DNS server and read in new
infos via PHP.
I know that I can put additional DNS records in a file called
domainame.include under /etc/named. Those records get read in as soon a
I
press the "Save changes" button in RAQ Web Control Panel ...
My idea is to have a small MySQL DB with all records, from which the
additional DNS file will be created. This part is easy ...
But as I like to create a fully automated solution build on PHP, I'd
like to
have those new records read in without having to go to the control panel
and
save the setting manualy. Any ideas? ... Hints on others ways of doing
this
(Perl, etc.) are also appreciated ...
Tnx,
Patrick
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:37:05 +0100
From: Cobalt Support <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Question on which DNS to use in initial
setup
wizard
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> When going through the initial wizard setup, each RaQ asks for primary
and
> secondary DNS. Would this be the IP addresses above, or the DNS of my
> upstream provider?
It would be the DNS server IP addresses of your upstream provider.
Thanks...
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:19:49 +0200
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] consoled on ttyS0??
From: Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi dave,
This bit comes straight from a RaQ3 manual:
"You can connect a console terminal to the DB-9 connector on the back
panel
of the RaQ3. The terminal can be either an ASCII terminal or a PC
running
terminal software. The console terminal should have the following
communications parameters - 9600 Bauds, 8 dat bits, no parity and one
stop
bit "
Page 143 of the manual.
Now I don't know what it's like on a Cube 3 but you might want to give
it a
try with these parameters, otherwise try consulting your manual :-))
le 17.8.2001 14:22, Dave Brillhart à Dave.Brillhart@xxxxxxx a écrit :
> There is a process running on my Qube 3:
>
> root ... /sbin/consoled /sbin/getty ttyS0 115200
>
> Any idea how to attach to this thing? I've tried to tip to
> the serial port? I've tried straight and null modem
> serial cables and various combinations of speeds and
> handshakes. Nothing on the port at all. Not even garbage
> characters.
>
> What's the trick?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Dave
>
>
>
>
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:53:15 +0200
From: Daniel Neuhaus <cobalt.com@xxxxxxx>
Organization: DNID
To: Cobalt-Mailingliste <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [cobalt-users] raqbackup.sh version 2.0
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi list!
Last week I posted a shell-script to backup Cobalt RaQs to another
server using the Cobalt Migration Utility and FTP. Jeff Bilicki
released a new version of his CMU and the posted shell-script IS NOT
compatible with this new version. So here is a new version of the
shell-script which should work both with CMU 1.x and CMU 2.x on any
Cobalt RaQ.
I recommend to upgrade to CMU 2.x. You can download CMU 2.x from
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/cmu/ and install it via your
webinterface.
For MySQL-users I added the possibility to backup all databases using
mysqldump.
Installation/Configuration:
1. Edit the configuration-section of the script
SOURCE
hostname (FQDN) of the Source-RaQ. Please use the hostname of your
home site.
CMUEXPORT
location of cmuExport (there should be no need to change)
MYSQLDUMP
location of mysqldump. If you use mysql telnet/ssh to your machine
and do a "locate mysqldump" to find the path to mysqldump on your
machine. If you don't have mysql or don't want to backup your
databases empty this line.
MYSQLPASS - password for the mysql-root-account
TARGET
hostname (FQDN) of the target machine on which you'll transfer the
backup-files. The target machine should be in the LAN of the source
machine because there are several huge files to transfer :-)
TARGETUSER
Username on the target machine. It's recommended not to use the
admin-user. So add a new user (e.g. username backup) on the target
machine and give him a lot of quota.
TARGETPASS
Password of TARGETUSER
2. Telnet/SSH to your source machine. su to root. I recommend to start
raqbackup.sh everyday, so
cd /etc/cron.daily
pico -w raqbackup.sh
(Copy the configured script to your clipboard and paste it into pico.
[CTRL]+[x] to exit pico. Save the file [y])
chown 700 raqbackup.sh
3. Be sure you installed CMU on the Source-RaQ and you added the user
backup to the Target-Machine.
4. You'll get a mail with the cmuExport-output and possible ftp-errors
(it's normal that you get an entry about a not found mysqldump-file
if you don't use the mysql-backup and that you get an entry about a
not found backup.md5lst if you use CMU 2.x instead of 1.x.
5. On my machines (RaQ3/RaQ4) raqbackup.sh needs 20-50 minutes to
cmuExport all sites and ftp them to the backup-machine. I have arround
150 sites with 1.5 GB data per raq.
5. After two days you'll have two backup-versions (the cmuExport from
today and yesterday) per source raq on your target raq:
/home/sites/users/backup/hostname-of-source.raq.com/
/home/sites/users/backup/hostname-of-source.raq.com.bak/
I need arround 1 GB to store these two versions (500 MB each).
6. Comments are welcome :-)
7. Here is the script:
#!/bin/sh
# raqbackup.sh 2.0
# should work with CMU 1.x and CMU 2.x
# Local/Source Configuration
SOURCE="hostname-of-source.raq.com"
CMUEXPORT="/usr/sbin/cmuExport"
MYSQLDUMP="/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump"
MYSQLPASS="passwordformysqlrootaccount"
# Target Configuration
TARGET="hostname-of-target.machine.com"
TARGETUSER="backup"
TARGETPASS="passworduserbackup"
# no need to change under this line
if [ -d /home/cmu/$SOURCE ]; then
rm -rf /home/cmu/$SOURCE
echo "$(date +%T) > last cmuExport deleted"
fi
if [ -f /home/cmu/cmuLog ]; then
rm /home/cmu/cmuLog
echo "$(date +%T) > logfile cmuLog deleted to have a fresh one"
fi
if [ -x $CMUEXPORT ]; then
echo "$(date +%T) > starting cmuExport..."
echo "******************************************************"
$CMUEXPORT
echo "******************************************************"
echo "$(date +%T) > finished cmuExport!"
else
echo "$(date +%T) > Error: $CMUEXPORT not found or not executeable"
exit
fi
cd /home/cmu/$SOURCE
if [ -x $MYSQLDUMP ]; then
echo "$(date +%T) > starting to dump mysql-databases..."
$MYSQLDUMP --all-databases --add-locks -f -u root -p$MYSQLPASS >
$SOURCE.mysqldump.sql
echo "$(date +%T) > finished dumping to $SOURCE.mysqldump.sql!"
fi
echo "$(date +%T) > connect to $TARGET..."
echo "******************************************************"
ftp -i -n $TARGET <<!EOF!
user $TARGETUSER $TARGETPASS
mkdir $SOURCE.bak
cd $SOURCE.bak
mdelete *
cd ..
rmdir $SOURCE.bak
rename $SOURCE $SOURCE.bak
mkdir $SOURCE
cd $SOURCE
ascii
put $SOURCE.mysqldump.sql
put backup.md5lst
mput *.xml
binary
mput *.gz
quit
!EOF!
echo "******************************************************"
echo "$(date +%T) > finished connection to $TARGET!"
echo "$(date +%T) > raqbackup.sh finished!"
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Message: 8
From: "Ron Kulik" <ron_23@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:53:15 -0500
Subject: [cobalt-users] FTP backup and cron
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>Ok i have been trying for days
to get ftpbackup to run as a cron job but I have failed. I can get the
ftp b ackupprogram to work fine, if i run it manually. </DIV>
<DIV></DIV>How do I set it up as a cron job?
<DIV></DIV>
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Message: 9
From: "Ron Kulik" <ron_23@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:53:30 -0500
Subject: [cobalt-users] FTP backup and cron
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ok i have been trying for days to get ftpbackup to run as a cron job but
I
have failed. I can get the ftp b ackupprogram to work fine, if i run it
manually.
How do I set it up as a cron job?
Thanks
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Message: 10
From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] FTP backup and cron
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:39:29 -0400
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<original message>
Ok i have been trying for days to get ftpbackup to run as a cron job but
I
have failed. I can get the ftp b ackupprogram to work fine, if i run it
manually.
How do I set it up as a cron job?
Thanks
<reply>
1. Please, please, don't post in HTML. All the tags and other garbage
ends
up in the archives and the digest version of the list.
2. Have you tried the instructions at
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-June/013193.html for
example. There are several examples in the archives. Just search for
"FTP
cron" without the quotes. Or, "cron FTP" without the quotes.
You can search all the cobalt lists at
http://www.google.com/advanced_search.html using any parameters and just
specify cobalt.com as the "return results from the site or domain"
field.
--
Dan Kriwitsky
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Message: 11
From: "Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] "email stuck in the qube 3" [long response]
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:04:31 -0400
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We have email for some users, where the mail is just "stuck on the
cobalt
> cube 3". After we delete the user and recreate it, the mail seems to
> process just fine. The downside here is that all of the user's mail
is
> also deleted. When we had our whistle interjet, we could delete
> the first
> email that was clogging the queue. We don't seem to have that option
on
> the qube. Any ideas?
Ummm...notwithstanding that this was posted on Thursday I just got the
damned thing now.
Hello??? Sun/Cobalt???? Are we back to this silly list behavior
again?????
You still can delete the first, second...any mail in the queue and
here's
how:
Anyway, some general stuff:
Mail "stuck" (I assume you mean queued for delivery) can be seen by
running
"mailq" from the command line.
>From the sendmail man pages:
mailq List the mail queue. Each entry shows the queue
file ID, message size, arrival time, sender, and
the recipients that still need to be delivered. If
mail could not be delivered upon the last attempt,
the reason for failure is shown. This mode of oper-
ation is implemented by connecting to the showq(8)
daemon.
Note the ID number (line 1, first group of digits)associated with each
email
currently in the queue in the following snipped exerpt from a mailq:
<snip>
f7ILH5X27215 1177 Sat Aug 18 23:17
owner-frontnieuws@www.<domainname>.nl
8BITMIME (host map: lookup (fnmail.com): deferred)
<username>@fnmail.com
</snip>
If you do an "ls -al /var/spool/mqueue" (or /home/spool/mqueue if you're
set
up properly) you will see files with this ID, but prepended with either
"df"
or "qf"
So "f7ILH5X27215" becomes:
dff7ILH5X27215
qff7ILH5X27215
As root, (not possible unless you are BTW)delete BOTH these files and
that
mail headed for <username>@fnmail.com is toast...it's gone...forever.
Don't delete the user, delete the problem mail. I'm sure your life and
the
users' life will be measureably less stressful as a result! :-)
Other issues to think about:
----- ------ -- ----- -----
1. If this is happening constantly BTW, you need to carefully examine
the
output of mailq to see what reason(s) mailq tells you it cannot deliver
the
mail.
1.(a)Is it always the same reason?
1.(b)Is it always the same user?
2. Take a look at your DNS if this is happening all the time. That's
outside
the scope of this response so I won't pursue the subject.
As a followup suggestion, in *your* .profile set mailq to run upon
login.
It's helpful to see the output each time you login to your machine, it's
a
quick check to see how things are running.
HTH
Met vriendelijke groeten,
-Colin
--
Colin J. Raven
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Message: 12
From: "Aussie Hosts - Support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:37:51 +1000
Organization: Aussie Hosts
Subject: [cobalt-users] Relaying error - We are positively desperate
now...
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Are we the only ones experiencing relaying problems since the POP-Auth
patch was applied? Our programmer has all but given up. Anyone able to
help us, off list if necessary.
No domains can send other than the top domain now, and we're being
flanked by angry mobs as a result...
Kind regards
Gary Meadows
Aussie Hosts
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Message: 13
From: "Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] "email stuck in the qube 3" [self correction
and followup]
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:39:59 -0400
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> If you do an "ls -al /var/spool/mqueue" (or /home/spool/mqueue if
> you're set
> up properly) you will see files with this ID, but prepended with
> either "df"
> or "qf"
>
> So "f7ILH5X27215" becomes:
> dff7ILH5X27215
> qff7ILH5X27215
> As root, (not possible unless you are BTW)delete BOTH these files and
that
> mail headed for <username>@fnmail.com is toast...it's gone...forever.
Rethinking this briefly, in /var/spool/mqueue (/home/spool/mqueue) you
*might* also see the same ID but prepended with "xf" as well. These too
should be deleted for the mail to truly be expunged.
SO after running mailq and finding the problem mail ID, you could (again
as
root) and using the above example do this;
[root@reddingsboot /root]# rm /home/spool/mqueue/*ff7ILH5X27215
which of course will remove any prepended ID terminating with the above
referenced message ID, this way you don't have to mess with deleting
individual files.
Sorry I pounded out my previous post in too much of a hurry and forgot
to
add these rather important matters to the howto.
Groetjes,
-Colin
--
Colin J. Raven
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:16:59 +0100
From: "Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] aliases.db playing up
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After making a very minor change to my aliases.db file and doing
makemap hash aliases < aliases
my RaQ4 won't accept any incoming mail. It sends mail OK, but not to
local
addresses.
The mail client trying to send the mail just hangs at "sending
address..."
and the message doesn't make it into mqueue or get recorded in maillog.
ps-aux shows sendmail trying to deal with it and the message ID but it
just
won't move.
Stopping and restarting sendmail makes no difference, and neither does
rebooting the whole server. The only way I have found to get mail moving
again is to delete aliases.db. That works, but obviously my aliases
don't
work. As soon as do the makemap to recreate aliases.db, the problem's
back.
This would suggest bad syntax in aliases, but I've had it working fine
with
the same syntax for weeks. Even if I put it back to its default,
original
state by commenting out the three lines I've added at the bottom, as
soon as
I do the makemap that's it.
I've tried deleting aliases and recreating it from scratch using pico -
no
difference.
I could well be wrong but I've got a hunch this trouble might have
started
one day when I accidently did
makemap hash aliases
instead of
makemap hash aliases < aliases
- or it might have been around the time I set up a "vacation response"
using
the GUI - but that worked fine for a while, and anyway I've commented it
out
of aliases now.
All suggestions gratefully received.
Eddie Bishop
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