15-Oct-2011

Maintenance – at last
Once again, it has taken quite some time to do the monthly maintenance. That is: checking whether the batch job has done it’s work. Well, it seems. I got the mail stats for September:

PMAS statistics for September
Total messages    :    979 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    340 =  34.7 o/o (Files: 30)
Relay attempts    :     34 =   3.4 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS  :    605 =  61.7 o/o (Files: 30)
 Handled by explicit rule
        Rejected :    148 =  24.4 o/o (processed),  15.1 o/o (all)
        Accepted :    191 =  31.5 o/o (processed),  19.5 o/o (all)
 Handled by content
       Discarded :     75 =  12.3 o/o (processed),   7.6 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :    150 =  24.7 o/o (processed),  15.3 o/o (all)
       Delivered :     41 =   6.7 o/o (processed),   4.1 o/o (all)

A significant decrease of spam. I’ve observed this in the last month anyway. But still, it’s still a low percentage of valid mail….Moreover, the number of relay attempts have dropped to a low level. Could that be related to the fact I moved to another ISP?
Next, I need to install a number of updates, the last I made was about a year ago. So at the moment the system disk is being backed up, and after that, I’ll do the updates. They may require more time than I have available, it could well be I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get them installed….These were all updates released until February this year, so I’ll have to get the next ones as well. There has been some trouble (again) with SAID’s but it should now be solved.
I’ll notice in a while 🙂

(TBC)

02-Nov-2008

Patches = reboot
Since July 22nd, no patches have been applied, but new ones were available. In all, 11 of them: one big consolidated patch (that included a number that I already had installed), about 8 that were not included in that update, and TCPIP. Of course, I made a backup of the system disk, and when that ran, the connection was lost but the process continued and died once the backup was done.
Updates of this type means a reboot – and all went well, except that the VMS wiki seemed to have lost the stylesheets, and the main page that is not updated – I need to create a new text anyway so up to that time, it’ll be just the reboot text. It’s just a logical to be set properly. But that new file is not yet finished and uploaded….
The problem with the VMS wiki was simple: the logical referring to the static pages referred the wrong device: LDA21: in stead of LDA11: ; I changed the references to the containers for Python and related software, but forgot to adjust the MOIN_STATIC logical. Well, tha’s settles now.
Old error solved
I got a mail yesterday siganlling there was an “s” missing in on eof my older pages: The “back home” link was indeed short of an “s” – referring “grooternet” in stead of “grootersnet”.
That was an easy update. Thanks, Mira!