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We deployed an update of our software today (3 EC2 instances) and made a migration to our RDS (db.t2.medium, Postgres) which added one column to a table with ~15 rows. Before migrating, we had a CPU usage of around "2". After the migration the CPU usage increased to "60". After a db reboot, it dropped, but went up again.

As a sidenote: After migration we tried to connect using a GUI and it hanged while SSL-verification. We restartet the GUI and it worked again.

Any advice on this? Here is a screenshot with current metrics. You can clearly see the increase in usage.

We currently use PostgreSQL 9.6.2!

Is there a way to sync every mail from the old server into one single folder on the new server using imapsync? I can't find something relevant in the manual…

Thanks in advance!

is there way to specify wildcard aliases in postfix virtual table?

eg.

support+*@foo.bar

gets sent to

support+*@bar.foo

in this way i want to achieve that all mails with a [email protected] address get redirected to another server..

thanks!

is it possible to make specific mailboxes (Maildir) read-only? so users can only read, forward and search mails, but don't delete them?

thanks in advance

as I want to send mails to another internal server, i need the following address to be valid:

[email protected]

at the moment, postfix gives me the following error:

Mar 26 10:40:52 ludwig postfix/smtpd[11765]: warning: Illegal address syntax from localhost[127.0.0.1] in RCPT command: <[email protected]>

in another forum i saw these two config options, but they doesn't work anyway:

strict_rfc821_envelopes = no
allow_min_user = yes

any advice how i can disable this RFC standard?

thanks!

For the past few days, I couldn't update our apt-sources on Debian 5.0 (lenny). I get the following errors.

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/source/Sources  404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]

How do I fix this problem?

Edit:

My current sources are:

# Debian Lenny
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib  
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib  

# Debian Lenny Non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US lenny/non-US main contrib non-free  
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US lenny/non-US main contrib non-free

# Debian Lenny Security
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

i wanto to implement the following scenario:

we use a postfix mailserver. to archive all old and new mails, i want to setup a second postfix on our fileserver and create a single mailbox "archive". then every mail gets forwarded as bcc to this mailbox automatically. now, i want to create different folders in a maildir structure and let the server move each mail to the right subfolder of the mailbox based on its sender or receiver.

e.g. when we get a mail to one of our employees named "John Doe" at [email protected], the mail should be moved to "Inbox/John Doe Incoming". the same applies when john doe sends a mail, folder would be "Inbox/John Doe Outgoing".

how can i implement this filter behaviour. i heard of Procmail and Maildrop. Which of the two would you prefer? Which is more easy to configure? Any out-of-box solutions here?

thanks in advance!

as we switch from our rackspace apps e-mail mailboxes to a local exchange 2010 server, i'm looking for a working way to migrate all mailbox from IMAP to exchange mailboxes. i already tried using imapsync and drag'n'drop mailboxes from one imapa ccount to the other, but both ways take ages or fail because of the mailbox sizes. each mailbox has about 10gig of mail.

is there any solution which can convert .mbox files to exchange directly on the server?

there's a migration tool by microsoft "Microsoft Transporter Suite", but the dropped support for exchange 2010.

do you have best pratice solutions? thanks!

I was just thinking about how to split my C partition and move the databases and log files to separate partitions. I read that the backup process is much easier than with one big system partition including everything.

What are your experiences with it?

I have a 500GB drive in my server - how would you split it to have logs and databases separate? I'm running Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Is a Mac OS X Lion Server capable of servicing multiple e-mail domains? We want to get a Mac to use as a standalone mailserver, but the Apple web site doesn't appear to provide an answer.

anyone has a nice, simple script for backing up a VPS to a S3 bucket? can be ruby, python, whatever...

should be easy to configure!

thanks

I get the following Passenger error:

undefined method `post_reset' for Gem:Module

Someone knows what this could mean? Thanks!

I'm rather new to Amazon Web Services. I have a question regarding S3 and EBS. Do I have to backup an S3 or EBS service? Are these types of storage secure and backuped by amazon itself?

i try to install rake on my clean lenny server, i get the following error:

Updating installed gems
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
    bad response Found 302 (http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8)

any advice here? thank you!

I want to send emails with an rails webapp. I set up an exim server and when looking into the logs, the sending works, but the emails aren't sent really.

I had the same problem with another ISP.

The sender address is hosted on another mailserver, other ISP. I think the problem is, that sending doesn't work because the sender address isn't hosted on the same server. Do you have any advice on this? The logs (exim) tell me the following:

2011-01-01 14:38:06 1PZ1eo-0000Ga-38 <= <> R=1PZ1eo-0000GY-1p U=Debian-exim P=local S=1778
2011-01-01 14:38:08 1PZ1eo-0000Ga-38 => [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mx1.emailsrvr.com [98.129.184.131] X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN="C=US,O=mx1.emailsrvr.com,OU=GT21850092,OU=See www.geotrust.com/resources/cps (c)08,OU=Domain Control Validated - QuickSSL(R),CN=mx1.emailsrvr.com"
2011-01-01 14:38:08 1PZ1eo-0000Ga-38 Completed

[email protected] is the external sender-address.

Edit with more details

When sending a mail from command line with:

echo "Test" | mail -s Testmail [email protected]

the logs says

2011-01-01 20:45:24 1PZ7OG-0001Vp-Rx <= root@gustav U=root P=local S=360
2011-01-01 20:45:26 1PZ7OG-0001Vp-Rx => [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [209.85.229.27] X=TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16 DN="C=US,ST=California,L=Mountain View,O=Google Inc,CN=mx.google.com"
2011-01-01 20:45:26 1PZ7OG-0001Vp-Rx Completed

and I get the mail on my gmail account.

But when sending by webapp (when testing locally with sendmail it works fine) I only get this log output:

2011-01-01 20:50:08 1PZ7Sq-0001X9-L4 <= <> R=1PZ7Sq-0001X7-Jo U=Debian-exim P=local S=1780
2011-01-01 20:50:11 1PZ7Sq-0001X9-L4 => [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mx1.emailsrvr.com [98.129.184.3] X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN="C=US,O=mx1.emailsrvr.com,OU=GT21850092,OU=See www.geotrust.com/resources/cps (c)08,OU=Domain Control Validated - QuickSSL(R),CN=mx1.emailsrvr.com"
2011-01-01 20:50:11 1PZ7Sq-0001X9-L4 Completed

i have to install debian lenny right now, but i can't find my keyboard for the server (just use a laptop). Is there a way to install lenny without a keyboard?

thank you!

any experience with checking smart status of a ServeRAID M5015 under debian 5 lenny?

thanks!

I set up an ubuntu fileserver. We use macs only, so I would to suggest to use the netatalk open source afp protocol for sharing. But if a windows pc would need files from the server in the future, that's a problem. So my questions:

Is netatalk stable? Is it a problem to have AFP and SMB activated at the same time?

Thanks!

i will get an ibm x3500 in the next days and wondered which linux i should use. i tend to use ubuntu 10.04 server, haven't heard anything bad about it and i'm a big debian fan.

there will be a raid 5 powered by the ibm hardware raid controller (don't know which one). is it possible to monitor and manage it wit hthe ubuntu 10.04 server distro? or should i go another way and choose something like redhat (haven't used it though...)?

thanks in advance

regards

Because I build a RAID 5 atm, I wanted to ask, what would happen if the server with a raid 5 in it (like 4-5 hdds) would have a power supply damage? Can I just switch the power supply and my data is safe and backup again or will there be a raid damage as well?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.