04-Jul-2019

Maintenance to be done manually – in part
Because the local disk wasn’t available (no notion why, yet) saving the logfiles of June didn’t work as planned so I have to do that by hand. No big deal.
The mail statistics for June show a huge amount of messages – including a huge amount that are rejected – because I have added these rules to the PMAS configuration:

PMAS statistics for June
Total messages    :  16187 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :     24 =    .1 o/o (Files: 18)
Accepted by PMAS  :  16163 =  99.8 o/o (Files: 30)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :  13511 =  83.5 o/o (processed),  83.4 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    113 =    .6 o/o (processed),    .6 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :   2041 =  12.6 o/o (processed),  12.6 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    279 =   1.7 o/o (processed),   1.7 o/o (all)
        Delivered :    219 =   1.3 o/o (processed),   1.3 o/o (all)

but for some reason, it doesn’t always work, some messages still come through.

Today, there was another power failure, just before 12:00 local time (9:55 system time – which us set to UCT, no DST) and this offer the opportunity to re-enable the local disk so I should be able to do the savings that did not occur on July 1st: Created a procedure to do just that, from the save_Logs procedure, except it won’t submit itself and contains a restriction on moving files into the archive: All before first of current month.

But there is another thing that is found in scanning logfiles: There seems to be problem with the ODS-5 structure on some files on Webdisk2 – which uses a disk container. It goes back to 3-Aug-2018 where the same message arose. But it is pretty harmless: The command that writes these (information) messages is ”

$ backup/interchange/log SYS$MANAGER:'fn'_done'fv'.log -
web_disk2:[private.operator]'fn'_done'fv'.txt

help on backup / interchange tells the story:

BACKUP

  /INTERCHANGE

     Directs BACKUP to process files in a manner suitable for data
     interchange (software distribution) by excluding information that
     would prevent other utilities or sites from reading the BACKUP
     save set.

     The /INTERCHANGE qualifier implies /CONVERT when the input is
     an ODS-5 disk or file. (You can also specify /NOCONVERT with the
     /INTERCHANGE qualifier.)

Forgot about that – so it’s normal.