Monthly maintenance
Housekeeping is one of those jobs that needs to be done. “Cleaning the mess”. Not yet automated…Well, that’s life.
Mail statistics
The over-all number has been decreasing over the last months, I learned that a hosting site from where lots of spam originated, was isolated fby ISP’s. This may well be a cause of less spam.
November is no exception:
PMAS statistics for November
Total messages : 3271 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 2308 = 70.5 o/o (Files: 30)
Relay attempts : 109 = 3.3 o/o (Files: 30)
Processed by PMAS : 854 = 26.1 o/o (Files: 30)
Discarded : 287 = 33.6 o/o (processed), 8.7 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 227 = 26.5 o/o (processed), 6.9 o/o (all)
Delivered : 340 = 39.8 o/o (processed), 10.3 o/o (all)
There has been a site that has tried to login as “Administartor” over 2000 times in a few hours. It orginates from a .cn domain. Of course it failed because this is no Windows box – and this site has been banned from the system as a suspected intruder. I leave it that way 😉
There have been the ususal attempts to tamper the site, thinking it is Windows- or Linux based AND using default installations. The ususal stuff, but not that much… And the often repeating /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:) stuff shows up again, more than the last weeks – again, without result.
PHP
I’m more concerned on the PHP trouble, that seems to concentrate now to PCRE not buildt with UTF-8 support. Some could be bypassed by changing one OPTION record: BLOG_CHARSET set to something else than “UTF-8”, but in other places, the test is omitted and that causes problems as well. I’ll have to find out where this test is needed before ver getting into UTF-8 translation, and see what trouble may arise from there. Or do a rebuild of PHP_SHR after having compiled PCRE – the routine dealing with regular expressions – with UTF-8 support. Quite a job since I’ll have to figure out the full logical environment and see if all required files are present.
Or, like Robert Atkinson replied on the WASD mailing list:
“Just another one to add to the “Why can’t HP release a fully functional, recent version of PHP?” list.”
Changing the PHP code is easier, I think. And quicker.