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19-Sep-2011

Maintenance

Once again, I wasn’t able to check on the site on the change of the month, and other (more, and less important) jobs interfered. But yesterday I blew the wiki – more on that later – so I had to get into the system anyway….
As to be expected, there were no surprises on the monthy cleanup. Mail statistics are in the logfile:

PMAS statistics for August
Total messages    :   1052 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    281 =  26.7 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    :     87 =   8.2 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS  :    684 =  65.0 o/o (Files: 31)
 Handled by explicit rule
        Rejected :    128 =  18.7 o/o (processed),  12.1 o/o (all)
        Accepted :    213 =  31.1 o/o (processed),  20.2 o/o (all)
 Handled by content
       Discarded :    106 =  15.4 o/o (processed),  10.0 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :    180 =  26.3 o/o (processed),  17.1 o/o (all)
       Delivered :     57 =   8.3 o/o (processed),   5.4 o/o (all)

So not too bad indeed. I don not know what happened in the Internet but the number of spam messages has indeed dropped – as well as the number of relay attempts. Perhaps because the Internet address has changed last month…
Wiki trouble

It all started with yet another bogus user.
When a new account is created, I’m informed, and normally I’ll give them the benefit of doubt, and once they have created a file without creating the personal homepage, and espsiaccly when it’s content is inappropiate, I delete the post and the user. In a specific order: Remove all notofications, delete the post and then disable the user forever. And logout.
Here I made a mistake, I guess. and whatever I tried, I could no longer login as administrator….
It seems MoinMoin doesn’t offer a facility so reset the password and signal it by email – or I have to change the address. But I do get signals from the administrator, so what’s wrong here?
Today I restored a beackup of a day before, but that did’t quite work as expected, but after having changed ownership to the user that the webserver uses to access these files, I was able to regain control.
I know I need to upgrade,,,,
sysblog troube
Almost the same applied to the SYSMGR blog, but at last that offers teh ability to reset teh admin password on request. So that was solved easily. And of course: bogus users have been removed.

Posted on

01-Aug-2009

Monthly maintanance
It seems the amount of spam has lowered – about 20% of the messages have been delivered, and just a few were false negatives and should be blocked. I’ve got information from Process how to achieve blockage of messages where sender = receipient. Add the ability to check the sending system’s address against my mailserver’s – but combining the two is still on the wish list…

PMAS statistics for July
Total messages    : 4724 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   : 3051 =  64.5 o/o (Files: 32)
Relay attempts    :   77 =   1.6 o/o (Files: 32)
Processed by PMAS : 1596 =  33.7 o/o (Files: 32)
        Discarded :  243 =  15.2 o/o (processed),   5.1 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :  363 =  22.7 o/o (processed),   7.6 o/o (all)
        Delivered :  990 =  62.0 o/o (processed),  20.9 o/o (all)

Of course logfiles have been archived, I’ve seem nothing particular, but I’l \l check the webserver logs next week and save the logs after that – Next Monday the logs will be cycled; rather short after the weekend.
Change login password
Last Friday my usual password on the VMS system expired, and that prevented access to webmail (that is, obviously, linked to the username). And I don’t have a facility yet to chnage my password over the Internet. It’ll be a problem anyway to chnage the password once it expires, since my current cobfurfatin requires the password to be valid – and an expired password won’t allow you to access the secured web…
Update WordPress to 2.8.2
This has been requested for some time now, and I tried it with the Bootcamp 2007-blog. But for some reason, the code seems to enter a loop somewhere and won’t load properly. It’s unlikely it’s a theme issue, since that one is really basic. The logical used (bc2007) is properly defined so that is not the problem either. Debugging PHP code is a tedious jobm, so I revert to 2.6.3. At least: for access; upgrade did succeed at some point, but display of the main page hangs when referring to 2.8.2…
Leasving this as they are: 2.6.3, untill the last update of PHP has been installed….