2011 Jun 30 - Thu
Minicom on Debian
This note is a quickie on getting minicom to talk to a standard Cisco device.
After installing Minicom on Debian through
apt-get install minicom
Configure Minicom with
minicom -s
In serial port setup, more than likely the device needs to be changed from /dev/ttyS1 to
/dev/ttyS0. Bps should be 9600 8N1, and hardware flow control should be turned off.
Save the settings as dfl (default), and 'Exit from Minicom', else the modem initialization stuff
will take over.
Startup Minicom with
minicom -ow
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2010 Jan 29 - Fri
Migrating Bacula 2.x on Debian Etch to 3.x on Squeeze
Debian Etch, which is the current release, has the Bacula 2.x packages.
I needed to upgrade to the Bacula 3.x packages, which are located in debian/testing,
also known as the forthcoming Debian Squeeze release. In addition, since PostgreSQL 8.3 is
packaged in Etch, and PostgreSQL 8.4 is packaged in Squeeze/testing, a database
migration is also required.
I had attempted updating my sources.list file to testing and then running the
apt-get dist-upgrade process. This broke some dependences, and also broke on a
udev migration. I guess testing has more testing to do on the distribution
upgrade process.
In the end, I built a new Bacula service on a freshly installed Debian testing server.
The special consideration for this configuration is that it needs to handle backing
up servers across a WAN. As such, backups may travel through one or more firewalls. Through
such a configuration, it is very difficult to get the firewall ports opened for the various
necessary Bacula service ports. The better way to tackle this is through the use of
ssh' port local and remote port forwarding capability. Port 22 is becomes the only necessary
port to open on a firewall. The ssh-tunnel.sh script helps make this happen.
To build the server, when it came to package selection, I unselected all packages, and then chose
just the database package which installed PostgreSQL.
After the basic server finished installing and rebooted, I manually installed the following packages:
apt-get install bacula-common-pgsql
apt-get install bacula-client
apt-get install bacula-director-common
apt-get install bacula-director-pgsql
apt-get install bacula-sd-pgsql
apt-get install bacula-server
If starting with a new database, then dbconfig-common can be used. If migrating an older database, don't use
dbconfig-common, and use the manual methods I'll describe further on. There is further documentation in
/usr/share/doc/bacula-director-pgsql.
During installation of the bacula packages, a new user of 'bacula' is created, as well as a group called 'tape'.
The 'bacula' user has a home directory of /var/lib/bacula.
Into that directory, create a .ssh directory for any authorized_keys and known_hosts required. I also created a keys
subdirectory to hold the public/private keys for ssh'ing into other servers for processing backups. I called the
two files 'bacula' and 'bacula.pub'. These will be referenced in my customized ssh-tunnel.sh script.
Run
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
to reconfigure the mail system to allow outbound mail delivery.
My backups go onto a remote file share. I created an entry in /etc/fstab along the lines of:
10.1.1.1:/bu /mnt/nas nfs rw,hard,intr,async,nodev,nosuid 0 0
Ensure that the NFS client is installed through:
apt-get install nfs-common
In /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf, I have lines along:
host bacula bacula 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host bacula sysadmin 127.0.0.1/32 trust
local bacula bacula trust
local bacula sysadmin trust
As an aside, a useful command to find out database information is through the use of:
psql -l
When migrating the database to 8.4, there are modifcations to the pg_dump command required (which are
required to prevent import errors along the lines of 'ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"',
basically resolving the UTF-8 to SQL_ASCII issues in Bacula):
pg_dump -E SQL_ASCII -U bacula bacula > /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql
On the new server, use the following to import the database:
dropdb bacula
su - postgres
psql
create role bacula;
create database bacula owner=bacula encoding='SQL_ASCII' template=template0;
/q
psql bacula </var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql
Basic instructions for updating the database from Bacula table version 10 to Bacula
table version 11 is found in /usr/share/bacula-director/update_postgresql_tables:
BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE file ALTER fileid TYPE bigint ;
ALTER TABLE basefiles ALTER fileid TYPE bigint;
ALTER TABLE job ADD COLUMN readbytes bigint default 0;
ALTER TABLE media ADD COLUMN ActionOnPurge smallint default 0;
ALTER TABLE pool ADD COLUMN ActionOnPurge smallint default 0;
-- Create a table like Job for long term statistics
CREATE TABLE JobHisto (LIKE Job);
CREATE INDEX jobhisto_idx ON JobHisto ( starttime );
UPDATE Version SET VersionId=11;
COMMIT;
Once the configuration files for the director, storage manager, and file manager are ready, bacula
can be managed through 'bconsole'.
My modified /etc/bacula/scripts/ssh-tunnel.sh looks like:
#!/bin/sh
# script for creating / stopping a ssh-tunnel to a backupclient
# Stephan Holl sholl@gmx.net
# Modified by Joshua Kugler joshua.kugler@uaf.edu
# Modified by Ray Burkholder ray@oneunified.net
#
#
# variables
USER=bacula
CLIENTADDR=$2
# CLIENTPORT is local end
CLIENTPORT=$3
#LOCAL=your.backup.server.host.name
# local is a local address and uses ssh's remote/local port forwarding
LOCAL=127.0.0.1
SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
SSHOPTIONS=-vfnCN2
LOG1=/var/lib/bacula/log1.log
LOG2=/var/lib/bacula/log2.log
#LOG1=/dev/null
#LOG2=/dev/null
# location of the public/private keys used with ssh to gain access to remote servers
KEY=/etc/bacula/keys/bacula
case "$1" in
start)
# create ssh-tunnel
echo "Starting SSH-tunnel to $CLIENTADDR..."
$SSH $SSHOPTIONS -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -i $KEY -l $USER \
-R 9101:$LOCAL:9101 -R 9103:$LOCAL:9103 -L $CLIENTPORT:$LOCAL:9102 $CLIENTADDR \
>> $LOG1 2>> $LOG2
exit $?
;;
stop)
# remove tunnel
echo "Stopping SSH-tunnel to $CLIENTADDR..."
# find PID killem
PID=`ps ax | grep "$SSH $SSHOPTIONS -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -i $KEY" \
| grep "$CLIENTADDR" | awk '{ print $1 }'`
kill $PID
exit $?
;;
*)
# usage:
echo " "
echo " Start SSH-tunnel to client-host"
echo " to bacula-director and storage-daemon"
echo " "
echo " USAGE:"
echo " ssh-tunnel.sh {start|stop} client.fqdn"
echo ""
exit 1
;;
esac
The links I used for getting started with ssh-tunnels are found at:
In /etc/hosts file, 127.0.0.1 should be the only line referring to the local server. The exteral port
ip address should be commented out:
127.0.0.1 localhost bu.example.com bu
#10.10.10.1 bu.example.com bu
In the bacula-dir.conf configuration file, a typical client configuration will look similar to:
Client {
Name = mail-fd
Address = 127.0.0.1
FDPort = 9130 # specific port for this client, allows multiple simultaneous backups
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "xxxxxx" # password for FileDaemon
File Retention = 120 days
Job Retention = 4 months
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
The special characteristic of the above configuration is the use of a unique port number for FDPort.
Each client in the bacula-dir.conf should have a unique port number. This allows bacula to
tunnel via ssh to remote clients and redirect them to the storage manager on the
local server.
The definition of the storage device in bacula-dir.conf will have Address=127.0.0.1 and SDPort=9103.
The job description for each client should have something similar to:
Job {
Name = "mail-fd"
Client = mail-fd
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
FileSet = "FileSet_mail"
Storage = storageSshClients
Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/mail.bsr"
Priority = 12
Run Before Job = "/etc/bacula/scripts/ssh-tunnel.sh start mail.example.com 9130"
Run After Job = "/etc/bacula/scripts/ssh-tunnel.sh stop mail.example.com 9130"
}
When using Bacula in console mode, a useful command to find out the meaning of the
backup status codes:
*sqlquery
Entering SQL query mode.
Terminate each query with a semicolon.
Terminate query mode with a blank line.
Enter SQL query: select * from status;
+-----------+---------------------------------+
| jobstatus | jobstatuslong |
+-----------+---------------------------------+
| C | Created, not yet running |
| R | Running |
| B | Blocked |
| T | Completed successfully |
| E | Terminated with errors |
| e | Non-fatal error |
| f | Fatal error |
| D | Verify found differences |
| A | Canceled by user |
| F | Waiting for Client |
| S | Waiting for Storage daemon |
| m | Waiting for new media |
| M | Waiting for media mount |
| s | Waiting for storage resource |
| j | Waiting for job resource |
| c | Waiting for client resource |
| d | Waiting on maximum jobs |
| t | Waiting on start time |
| p | Waiting on higher priority jobs |
+-----------+---------------------------------+
Enter SQL query:
End query mode.
For the bacula entry in /etc/passwd, change /bin/false to be /bin/sh.
For each server to which will be connected via ssh, within the
context of the bacula user, use the following command to update ~/.ssh/known_hosts:
ssh -l bacula -i /etc/bacula/keys/bacula -v server.example.com
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2009 Sep 29 - Tue
Upgrade to KDE4: Black Screen, Obsidian Cursor
Today when upgrading my Debian Lenny/KDE to the latest version, I started having problems with KDE.
On my first upgrade, I did a simple 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' sequence. A bunch of packages were held back.
The end result was that I could log in to KDE, and could see a desktop, but I had no menu interface.
Considering that there were a bunch of packages being help back, I did a
'apt-get update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' sequence. Upon logging into the KDE shell, all I saw was a black screen
and a shiny obsidian cursor.
It looks like the transition from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.0 is not seamless in this Debian (Lenny) point release.
However, that isn't quite correct. In my /etc/apt/sources.list file I do have entries for testing and experimental.
So..., I may now be downloading testing or experimental releases.
In any case, the resolution to the problem appears to be to drop into the console and run one of these three commands:
'apt-get install kde-standard', 'apt-get install kde-minimal', or 'apt-get install kde-full'.
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2009 Sep 22 - Tue
Updating WebGUI
WebGUI's Update Page has links to the various updates.
Upgrade information can be found at
Upgrading WebGUI.
To view the current upgrade history:
cd /data/WebGUI/sbin
perl upgrade.pl --history --doit
perl testEnvironment.pl
Stop Spectre:
cd /data/WebGUI/sbin
perl spectre.pl --shutdown
Make a backup of the files in /data/WebGUI/etc. The originals will be over-written, but the customized ones
should be ok after the upgrade.
Decompress the new archive over the old files (with the current version as of this writing):
cd /data
wget http://update.webgui.org/7.x.x/webgui-7.7.20-stable.tar.gz
tar -zxvf webgui-7.7.20-stable.tar.gz
Read the WebGUI/docs/gotcha.txt file.
Read the WebGUI/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt to check out the latest changes.
Restart apache with '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart'.
Run the upgrade:
cd /data/WebGUI/sbin
perl upgrade.pl
perl upgrade.pl --doit --backupDir /data/bu/wg
Run testEnvironment.pl:
cd /data/WebGUI/sbin
perl testEnvironment.pl
Start Spectre:
cd /data/WebGUI/sbin
perl spectre.pl --daemon
Restart apache with '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart'.
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2009 Aug 19 - Wed
Debian Dpkg Install
From the Debian Security Announce List, a little short-cut for installing .deb packages:
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
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2009 Jul 31 - Fri
Installing OpenLDAP on Debian Lenny
Here are a few basic apt-get commands for the OpenLDAP installation. I have to look
into how TLS is actually implemented and configured.
apt-get install libsasl2-2 libgnutl26
apt-get install ldap-utils libsasl2-modules-ldap
apt-get install slapd libldap-2.4-2
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Installing Asterisk 1.6.2.0 beta3 on Debian Lenny 5.0.2
Debian package manager has the Asterisk v1.4 flavour as a package,
but I wanted the latest to try out. Here is the work flow to get the basics in place:
Here are some pre-requisites to install. I havn't figured out the 'lua' bit yet:
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install openssl
apt-get install libssl-dev
apt-get install libldap2-dev
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
apt-get install festival-dev festival
apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev
apt-get install lua5.1
apt-get install uw-mailutils
apt-get install libgsm1
apt-get install libiksemel3
apt-get install libogg0
apt-get install libspeex1 libspeexdsp1
apt-get install libtonezone1
apt-get install libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2
apt-get install doxygen
apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3
apt-get install libnewt-dev
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686
apt-get install libogg-dev
apt-get install libvorbis-dev
apt-get install liblua5.1-posix-dev
apt-get install libgsm1-dev
The basic hardware layer for the kernel is next. This includes dummy timers for
systems without additional telephony hardware.
d /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/dahdi-linux-2.2.0.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf dahdi-linux-2.2.0.2.tar.gz
cd dahdi-linux-2.2.0.2
make
make install
User space Dahdi tools are then built:
d /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-tools/dahdi-tools-2.2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf dahdi-tools-2.2.0.tar.gz
cd dahdi-tools-2.2.0
./configure \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ \
--libdir=/usr/lib \
--localstatedir=/var/local \
--datarootdir=/usr/share \
--includedir=/usr/include
make menuselect
make
make install
make config
This portion installs a recent beta releaes of the Asterisk engine:
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3.tar.gz
cd asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3
./configure \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ \
--libdir=/usr/lib \
--localstatedir=/var/local \
--datarootdir=/usr/share \
--includedir=/usr/include \
--disable-xmldoc
Ensure you've got all the various libraries, modules, bits and pieces attached:
make menuselect
If you are installing a system from scratch, the run all these. If you already have configuration files, skip the 'make samples'.
make
make install
make samples
make progdocs
If you are using PostgreSQL, build the database tables with:
su - postgres
psql template1
> create database asterisk;
> quite;
psql asterisk < /usr/src/asterisk-1.6.2.0-beta3/contrib/scripts/realtime_pgsql.sql
Then edit /etc/asterisk/res_pgsql.conf to add connection information. Other files you may need to edit include:
sip.conf
dahdi-channels.conf
cdr_manager.conf
cdr_pgsql.conf
cdr.conf
extensions.conf
iax.conf
Get things started with:
/etc/init.d/dahdi start
safe_asterisk
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2009 Jul 24 - Fri
Debian Lenny with Sendmail, Dovecot, MailScanner, SpamAssassin: Part 6
I've spent the last articles writing about getting an open source email server up and running. So far so good.
My email logs show that a tremendous amount of spam is being blocked. One begins to wonder if there any real email
remaining any more.
During the building of this server, a number of web sites provided useful information for troubleshooting and for configuration.
I'm listing them here for reference before I close them out.
- http://www.linuxweblog.com/blogs/sandip/20080206/sendmail-accessdb-example:
provided useful explanations and examples of the interactions between the access database, the blacklist_recipients feature, the value part
of the map, and how to use the delay_checks feature for negative or positive exception handling.
- ZEN Return Codes: The 127.0.0.x return codes. Basically,
127.0.0.2 is for direct UBE sources, spam services, and ROKSO spammers;
127.0.0.4-8 are for illegal 3rd party exploits, including proxies, worms and trojan exploits; and
127.0.0.10-11 are for non-MTA IP address ranges set by outbound mail policy
- : a good description of the sendmail.mc file, it's options,
features, and ordering. It goes into some detail about special considerations of the VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE. It also goes into uses
and configuration examples of the access file.
- SPF Setup Wizard: I'm not sure if the Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
is much in use, but this web size provides a wizard for it's DNS record creation.
- Sendmail Readme for Configuration: The original source
for configuring Sendmail.
- Linux Home Server HowTo: Sendmail: another article on
how to build a full-fledged email server. One key command for ensuring you havn't configured an open relay through a series of 19 tests:
'telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org'. When run from the mail server, the server at relay-test.mail-abuse.org
will connect back to your server on port 25 and run the series of tests.
- sendmail.mc: this is the best organized and best
documented sample sendmail.mc file I've ever seen.
- xabean's sendmail.mc: example sendmail.mc with native macros and a milter, with
hotlinks to relevant sections in the
Sendmail Readme file.
- Hugo van der Kooij's sendmail.mc: looks like
he no longer runs sendmail, but here is his sendmail.mc with some native macros.
In some follow-up, I came across MailWatch,
which is a web-based front-end to MailScanner written in PHP, MySQL and JpGraph and
is available for free under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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2009 Jul 19 - Sun
Debian Lenny with Sendmail, Dovecot, MailScanner, SpamAssassin: Part 5
A couple of articles ago, I started with a
DoveCot Installation. I managed to download, build, and get a
rough installation. I also prepared a userid for the service. It was at that point in the Dovecot installation
instructions where they started talking about certificates, and I side-tracked into Certificate Authorities and certificate
installation.
In /etc/dovecot, I copied dovecot-example.conf to dovecot.conf. In dovecot.conf, I updated the following lines to
get things started:
protocols = imap imaps
disable_plaintext_auth = no
ssl = no
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
#mail_location = maildir:/%h/Maildir
auth_debug_passwords = yes
Dovecot Wiki does a good job of explaining the installation
process. In fact, the non-ssl installation process is quite painless, and consists mostly of testing the connection.
Once the basic configuration is tested, then enable the configuration for ssl, and restart Dovecot.
disable_plaintext_auth = yes
ssl = yes
auth_debug_passwords = no
# Same keys from the sendmail installation
ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/mail.example.com.crt
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/mail.example.com.key
Startup an IMAP session with a Mail Client and try IMAP and IMAPS. Try sending email as well through the
SMTP Sendmail connection with encryption. Tcpdump can be used to look at packets.
There is a
Sample Dovecot init.d script which
can be used to start, stop, and reload the service. The sample can be pasted verbatim into
/etc/init.d/dovecot. Also do a 'chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dovecot'. Then '/etc/init.d/dovecot start'.
With a successful send and receive of email, that wraps up the rather lengthy configuration
of a reasonably protected email solution encompassing Sendmail as an email transport mechanism,
Dovecot as an IMAP/IMAPS service, and MailScanner with SpamAssassin/F-Prot for email
scanning and protection.
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Debian Lenny with Sendmail, Dovecot, MailScanner, SpamAssassin: Part 4
It has taken a series of articles to get Sendmail installed and working with authentication,
inline encryption, and some inline DNSBL capabilities. In this article, I'll see if I can get MailScanner, SpamAssassin and
a virus scanner up and running with Sendmail.
Before starting into that though, I have a couple of links to other sites which have good information for tuning
the sendmail.mc file:
Back to the install. Starting with SpamAssassin, which looks like the last version is 3.2.5 from June of 2008, which is a Perl
based utility, it can be downloaded from CPAN by starting the command line with 'perl -MCPAN -eshell':
install Bundle::CPAN
install Term::ReadLine
install MIME::QuotedPrint
install YAML
install YAML::Syck
install MIME::Base64
install Time::HiRes
install Digest::SHA1
install Net::DNS
install Mail::SPF
install IP::Country
install Net::Ident
install Mail::DomainKeys
install Mail::DKIM
install DBI
install LWP::UserAgent
install HTTP::Date
install Encode::Detect
install Mail::SpamAssassin
The pre-requisites build nicely, but the main Mail::SpamAssassin unit does not test well because it tries to start a
daemon, which doesn't appear to do so. To find the reason will take some digging, but in the meantime, a force install
may or may not be required. It probably is irrelevant anyway as MailScanner does not use spamd.
For a virus scanner, I've used
f-prot in the past, and I'll try it again for this install. Others have
used ClamAV, and I may add it as a secondary scanner. (Note, the file downloaded is a 64bit version).
The last bit of the install script will ask if the daemon should be installed in crontab.... select no
as MailScanner will it start it manually. Nor should Sendmail be configured to run the scanner.
cd /usr/src/
wget http://files.f-prot.com/files/unix-trial/fp-Linux-x86_64-ws.tar.gz
cd /opt
tar -zxvf /usr/src/fp-Linux-x86_64-ws.tar.gz
cd f-prot
./install-f-prot.pl
fpscan /etc/passwd
Create a test file and put the
EICAR virus into it.
Run 'fpscan test' to ensure it finds the virus.
For MailScanner, the following Perl modules are required:
install Sys::Syslog
install Net::CIDR
install IO::Stringy
install Mail::Util
install File::Spec
install HTML::Tagset
install HTML::Parser
install MIME::Tools
install File::Temp
install Convert::TNEF
install Compress::Zlib
install Archive::Zip
install Check::ISA
Next steps:
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/tar/MailScanner-install-4.77.10-1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf MailScanner-install-4.77.10-1.tar.gz
cd MailScanner-install-4.77.10
./install.sh
A few changes, like the domain name, may need to be changed in the /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf file.
Add the following with 'crontab -e' (the minute offsets may be randomized):
37 5 * * * /opt/MailScanner/bin/update_phishing_sites
07 * * * * /opt/MailScanner/bin/update_bad_phishing_sites
58 23 * * * /opt/MailScanner/bin/clean.quarantine
#42 * * * * /opt/MailScanner/bin/update_virus_scanners
#3,23,43 * * * * /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner
In /etc/mail/sendmail.conf MailScanner install notes recommend changing 'DAEMON_PARMS="";' to:
DAEMON_PARMS="-ODeliveryMode=d -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";
Instead, use:
DAEMON_PARMS="-ODeliveryMode=background -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";
By default, Sendmail will use a Delivery Mode of Background, which operates by forking itself
and processing the message. With a MailScanner Delivery Mode of Deferred, no DNS or DB lookups are performed.
QueueOnly mode will actually perform DNS lookups, which is what I need for handling the SpamHaus
enhdnsbl Features, but serializes all inbound connections. Queue mode sounds like the most straight forward option
for working with MailScanner but may not be just right. I think that Background will work better, as it will
fork and handle simultaneous connections. However, on further testing, I find that Sendmail delivers mail with
Background mode, and queues it for Sendmail with QueueOnly mode, so QueueOnly mode it is.
Rerun /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig, then '/etc/init.d/sendmail restart' to get the mta agent and
queue runner running as separate processes.
Add a 'crontab -e' entry to ensure MailScanner is always running:
0,20,40 * * * * [ -x /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner ] && /opt/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner >/dev/null 2>&1
Edit the /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf file:
- Set 'Virus Scanning' to yes
- Set 'Virus Scanners' to f-port-6
Test the virus scanner with '/opt/MailScanner/lib/f-prot-6-wrapper /opt/f-prot eicar.virus'.
Restart MailScanner.
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2009 Jul 18 - Sat
Debian Lenny with Sendmail, Dovecot, MailScanner, SpamAssassin: Part 3
In part two of this series, I started into the installation of the Dovecot IMAP service. The IMAP
serivce can use validation and encryption through the use of SSL/TLS services. SSL/TLS services require
the use of Certificates signed through a Certificate Authority. Many installation directions provide information for
using the simple expedient of self-signed certificates. As some of these services I'm building are quasi-public,
I wanted to go through the exercise of getting my certificates signed through a Certificate Authority.
As such, I was side-tracked into doing some research to come up with two intermediate articles:
I'm going to step back to my SendMail install, and get a certificate installed in order to
utilize SendMail's TLS based verification and encryption capabilities.
In the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file, the following needs to be available (I've enabled AUTH as well):
include(`/etc/mail/sasl/sasl.m4')dnl
include(`/etc/mail/tls/starttls.m4')dnl
Don't put these lines in the submit.mc file as they will cause permission errors.
For configuring AUTH (SASL2), edit /etc/default/saslauthd and make sure 'MECHANISMS="pam"' is included and then
start the service: /etc/init.d/saslauthd start. Shell users should now be able to authenticate, otherwise use
/usr/sbin/saslpasswd2 to add users.
You cancheck in /etc/mail/tls to see various self-signed certificates which have already been created and linked within
the configuration file /etc/mail/tls/starttls.m4. The various settings can be changed to match the new certificate.
I changed the line with confCACERT to match my StartCom CA found in /etc/ssl/certs. I had placed
my new server key and cert in /etc/ssl/private, and in sendmail.mc, updated confSERVER_CERT and confSERVER_KEY to match.
Once the certificates are properly installed and SendMail restarted, it can be tested by connecting to telneting
to port 25, running 'ehlo localhost' and looking for a line with '250-STARTTLS'. If it is there, all is well.
I found the page at
SMTP STARTTLS in sendmail/Secure Switch
to help somewhat in building the scenario.
For testing the STARTTLS capability, one can use the one of the following openssl commands (the first works better than the second):
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect localhost:25
openssl s_client -ssl3 -state -debug -msg -connect localhost:25
For other OpenSSL s_client command line parameters, visit:
s_client man page.
At one point, I was getting errors in sendmail logs with:
STARTTLS=read: 12080:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number:s3_pkt.c:284:
STARTTLS: read error=generic SSL error (-1), errno=104,
get_error=error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number, retry=1, ssl_err=1
I think these are permissions related depending upon privleges of certificate files and
the username under which sendmail is running. Sendmail is now running under root and no longer
has these problems. The errors magically disappeared during some restart so I can't confirm this
for sure. ... further information: the errors happen when running the 'openssl s_client -ssl3 -state -debug -msg -connect localhost:25'
command, but not the 'openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect localhost:25'. I havn't spent the time
to determine why yet.
I was also getting errors like:
STARTTLS=client: file /etc/ssl/private/sub.class1.server.ca.pem unsafe: Permission denied
STARTTLS=client, error: load verify locs /etc/ssl/certs, /etc/ssl/private/sub.class1.server.ca.pem failed: 0
These errors went away by taking the starttls.m4 and sasl.m4 macros out of submit.mc.
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Debian Lenny with Sendmail, Dovecot, MailScanner, SpamAssassin: Part 2
Now that email is inbound and being stored, now I need a mechanism of accessing it remotely.
In the past I used courier-imap. Lately, the in-thing appears to be
Dovecot. It appears to be fast, simple, and effective.
The Debian package repository is not really up-to-date, so I'll have to download the source and compile. The source is
Dovecot v1.2.1.
I usually put it into /usr/src and 'tar -zxvf ' it to expand the source. For configuring and compiling, I used:
./configure \
--sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot \
--with-storages=maildir \
--localstatedir=/var/local/dovecot \
--with-rundir=/var/local/dovecot/run \
--with-statedir=/var/local/dovecot/state \
--with-pam
make
make install
A user dovecot needs to be added with 'useradd -r dovecot'.
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