[Demani]

Your better bet would be to just use a load balancing router/firewall-it would handle the routing automatically. I know it is possible to be done, but a simple device dedicated to the task will be much more reliable in the long run ($200 and 30 min of configuration should do it). And given the changes to DHCP in later OSes, you might as well start thinking about separating DHCP from the server unless you have a very strong need for it. A Sonicwall TZ100 or a Netgear FVS336G would both handle that easily (neither is an endorsement, simply naming two devices that do what you want).

[Demani]

I’m not currently running DNS on this machine- the T1 provider is handling the reverse lookup and our DNS is hosted elsewhere. I think I will set it up though since I don’t know that I’ll be able to get the ISP to change it rapidly.

[Demani]

Okay- I found out that logging into localhost works fine- its just using the DNS name that doesn’t work. So while I’m certainly not an expert it does seem to point to some sort of hostname/DNS/naming issue.

[Demani]

I’m glad to find someone who has seen it before. Here’s the file-should the HOSTNAME line read HOSTNAME=-SERVER- or does it need the FQDN instead (the machine hosts its own DNS-being behind a NAT-but resolves itself properly)?:

AFPSERVER=-YES-
AUTHSERVER=-NO-
AUTOMOUNT=-YES-
CUPS=-AUTOMATIC-
NFSLOCKS=-AUTOMATIC-
NISDOMAIN=-NO-
TIMESYNC=-YES-
QTSSWEBADMIN=-NO-
WEBSERVER=-YES-
SMBSERVER=-NO-
SNMPSERVER=-NO-
SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
QTSSRUNSERVER=-NO-
TIMESERV=-YES-
WEBPERFCACHESERVER=-YES-

ARDAGENT=-YES-
SOFTWAREUPDATESERVER=-YES-
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
IPFILTER=-NO-
LDAPSERVER=-YES-

[Demani]

I am logged in as the local Administrator account (“Authenticated as administrator to local directory: /NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode”).

Also, when I su – root (just trying to be as uberprivileged as possible so it should work) and tried to create a new sharepoint using sharing -a /Volumes/Drive2/Shared I got nothing new when I followed it with a sharing -l. Not sure why that wouldn’t work, except it seems like the whole sharing infrastructure is pretty borked. More than a little frustrating since is the part that usually takes the least effort.

Appletalk is currently turned on in the Network preference pane. I can turn it off, but preferred to leave it on for the OS9 machines.

Any ideas on where else to look?

Mike

[Demani]

Aha- (this is embarassing)- it was a misconfigured firewall- for some reason the range I was setting my server up in had most of the ports blocked. Now to track down the firewall admin….

[Demani]

Well then I guess I’ll just leave it- it works.

For everyone’s education the host is Dream Host. Not exactly a dream and obviously a bit on the odd side as far as implementation.

[Demani]

I tried running the above line on a user who had many older emails returned to his var/spool/imap/user/ folder to restore a machine after a server outage but nothing that wasn’t there before is
showing up now. How do I force the index to recheck all the messages in the directory? I thought that the above would do it (I read the man reconstruct page too- it says the same thing to reconstruct a user’s mailbox) but no luck.

I delete the cyrus.* files but nothing seems to generate new ones.
Any ideas?

[Demani]

Well, I followed the Migration directions to the letter (or what I assume was the letter). Alas, I still ran into some issues- probably a result of dirty files that caused the original server to go belly up.

I migrated my users over (still need to set passwords). Each showed that mail service was enabled.
I made all my settings changes, and saved them.
I then migrated the database dir and the mail stores over (used ditto- all permissions appear correct).
But when I opened the Server Manager I saw no accounts listed- though the databases are shown as having a 68MB size, and the mail stores as being 8GB.
I migrated the mail stores and mail databases as per the instructions, but got a DBERROR inthe console.

Some more searching produced thislink which gave me account listings again in the SA. The DB showed up as only 18MB after this.
Finally copying in the queues from Postfix on the old machine made sure everything was up to date.

[Demani]

This was on macosx.com- I haven’t tested it yet:

[QUOTE]
Open up /etc/postfix/master.cf

Uncomment the following line:
submission inet n – n – – smtpd

Open up the submission port (587) on your firewall and if necessary, set up port forwarding to the mail server on 587.

Just do a quick telnet on port 587 to check if it is working fine.[/QUOTE]

Port 587 is the standard alternate port. I would recommend 50025 if you are looking for a port that is easy to remember and not likely to be used. Many port scanners will also go through port 1-10000 and then move on.

[Demani]

try the following:

cd /usr/share/mailman/bin
sudo ./check_perms
sudo ./check_perms -f

Second line should tell you waht is incorrectly set. Third line will actually fix it. Run the third line again and it should say No problems found.

I have found Server Admin broken with regard to Mailman. Don’t use it- just use the webaccess tools (once you fix the permissions).

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