Monthly maintanance
First, it’s time to get the mail statistics of last month:
PMAS statistics for April
Total messages : 5125 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 3672 = 71.6 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts : 121 = 2.3 o/o (Files: 30)
Processed by PMAS : 1332 = 25.9 o/o (Files: 31)
Discarded : 348 = 26.1 o/o (processed), 6.7 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 431 = 32.3 o/o (processed), 8.4 o/o (all)
Delivered : 553 = 41.5 o/o (processed), 10.7 o/o (all)
Logfiles have been checked and archived.
Just the ususal assumption that Diana is a Linux or Windows box: All these packages that seem to be a foothold to abuse the system; Mail packages (does anyone – that take the Internet access seriously – run these packages over a non-encrypted connection. These packages should check whether they have been accessed over a secured socket!).
Ubuntu trouble
Well, not exactly Ubuntu, but a weird thing happened on the Ubunto installation on Aphrodite: Firefox doesn’t work. That is: I lost all history and bookmarks; new history and bookmarks are not added. Accessing sites is fine if plain links are followed, but buttons don’t work properly. I launched Wireshark to see whether the requests are sent, it seems they are but the result is nada, nope,nothing: Firefox is waiting for the result to come. Not even a timeout occurs.
Re-installation doesn’t change a thing. Upgrade Ubunto 8.04 to 8.10 doesn’t change a thing.
But a new installation or 8.04 from the DVD – and applying all updates – gives a goor working Firefox. The only problem with this is that I have to re-install quite a number of packages…
It shouldn’t be needed, though.
New laptop delayed
Demeter, the company laptop, is due for replacement – and a mobile workstation has been requested. Not a plainnnew one, but one used for a few months by a collegue. However, they are not eager to hand them over, because they would need to do re-installation of all their stuff – they say. I’ll just have to wait…