Another update – and what is to come
The main workstation (Helena: Intel I7, 8Gb (for now)) started out with Windows7Pro64, was updated early this year to Windows8Pro64 – without a problem. And now it’s updated to 8.1 – again, without a problem. So far.
Next should be WP: the same way I’ve always done it: into a directory of itself, and just referring the blog directories to their own location (holding the configuration and other local files) and the appropriate WP version file. Moving on in the recommended way – max two stapes at a time – is time consuming in installing all these versions properly, updating the basic version first and when that succeeds, the blogs. Keeping a database backup at hand, just in case. If all goes well, it should be able to do the upgrade in a day or so. That is: both blogs.
And there are PHP (upgrade to 5.3, which is already installed but caused problems; these may have been solved with the new version of WordPress; and there is the update to VMS 8.4, to be done.
cURL port support rejected – somewhat
I have been asked – a few weeks ago – to take over the VMS maintenance on cURL; I know it was dome pereviously – years ago – by Marty Kuhrt, but he handed things over to other people. But the time required may be too much, especially when the cURL guyswant to update in a monthly cycle, if it has to be combined with a regular, 40-hour job and lots of other things to do. So I’m glad that someone else. No problem to be involved – but not on my own.
05-Nov-2013
The usual actions on the first of the month
revealed nothing special. Mail stats are not a real surprise:
PMAS statistics for October
Total messages : 1934 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 738 = 38.1 o/o (Files: 19)
Relay attempts : 44 = 2.2 o/o (Files: 26)
Accepted by PMAS : 1152 = 59.5 o/o (Files: 31)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 373 = 32.3 o/o (processed), 19.2 o/o (all)
Accepted : 342 = 29.6 o/o (processed), 17.6 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 152 = 13.1 o/o (processed), 7.8 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 236 = 20.4 o/o (processed), 12.2 o/o (all)
Delivered : 49 = 4.2 o/o (processed), 2.5 o/o (all)
The absolute number is pretty low – compared to what it used to be – but that is part of last month’s problems.
The only day with a somewhat higher amount of relay attempts has been 1-Oct-2013, the file is 6 blocks in size so the number is sure not dramatic: just 25 lines, same source, same destination, once an hour; a day earlier, the same addresses, once every 30 minutes of so.