Month: July 2017

To https or not to https…
Mark Daniel has created some tools (well, ported them from Linux) to enable modern key-constructs on WASD – a requirement to run WASD 11.1 because HP’s latest version cannot be installed properly unless you are able to patch your system – which requires a support contract that I cannot afford |(and more with me). One more reason to do so is the increasing complaints of browsers about self-signed certificates…
Mark had set things up beginning of this month and all works fine now, but since these keys have a lifetime of 90 days, you need to refresh them regularly.
Well, that is what this product does – for free.

So I installed it, and since I haven’t changed the current keys, all is still working, But the product requires a plain-text key for the generation of the new ones, and this is missing in both Webmail and operator sites. And I had some other questions.
Mark supplied answers and I changed my system accordingly, but I still have to do some checks before I can state it all works properly.

One thing I could do is move all webmail and operator stuff to the main form. Of course you would need to login before you can access them (or even if possible, see the links on the page), but here I ran into mapping problems I could not solve that simple. For instance, the home page contains a CSS that is taken explicitly from the non-secure site; so I needed to change a text file to accommodate both flavours.
However; I ran in to the inaccessibility of anything beyond the home page – including the blog, so I had to revert most of that.

So this is a matter that will take some more time, but eventually it will be there.

Maintenance report
Remarkable: just two or three anti-relay log files that are non-ze4re (and those only 4 blocks in size):
PMAS statistics for June
Total messages    :   3031 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :     15 =    .4 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS  :   3016 =  99.5 o/o (Files: 30)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :   2180 =  72.2 o/o (processed),  71.9 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    176 =   5.8 o/o (processed),   5.8 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    367 =  12.1 o/o (processed),  12.1 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    277 =   9.1 o/o (processed),   9.1 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     16 =    .5 o/o (processed),    .5 o/o (all)
That was all to be mentioned…

Checking what Autogen has defines so far: some adjustions that have to do with global pages, areas and pool (both paged and non-paged). Requires a reboot…. And, of course, a required change in the startup files was missed so MySQL didn’t start up…easy fix.

Now it’s a matter of rechecking for a few weeks whether this keeps working Performance is constantly monitored.

MariaBD test – once more
Now my system parameters should be set high enough to have this running, I started this server as well, and did some requests. Most go fine but at times, the server is suddenly gone. According Mark Berryman this is likely caused by too little working space. But the system (and user-environment of this server) are the same as for MySQL051 – as suggested in the installation guide. But with some tweaking with mysqladmin, I got at least some data in the log: Stack overflow…