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jlamb
response 25 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 15:19 UTC 2003

Login      Name               TTY  Idle  Login Time   Location   Work 
Phone
noot     Scott Helmke's Root   p1        Jan  1 10:14
root     Operator              p0        Jan  1 10:13
tonster
response 26 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 15:23 UTC 2003

resp:20: If the webserver is up, you should be able to login and use
backtalk.  If logins are disabled, you just can't login, likely because
someone is working to clear up whatever was causing the problems that
made them reboot grex.  They'd want to make sure those scripts are gone,
logins are disabled, and possibly networks are blocked so they can
prevent the person from coming right back and starting again.
jlamb
response 27 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 15:27 UTC 2003

Valerie Comeing to Save GREX!!!!!!


Login      Name               TTY  Idle  Login Time   Location   Work 
Phone
noot     Scott Helmke's Root   p1        Jan  1 10:14
valerie  Valerie Mates        *s0        Jan  1 10:21      Happy 
Everything!
jlamb
response 28 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 15:28 UTC 2003

The Webserver is Obviously up, Or how would i be entering items, or how 
would people read them.
scott
response 29 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 15:54 UTC 2003

Really nasty vandal - but I think we've managed to deal with it.
jlamb
response 30 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 15:56 UTC 2003

grex is up at 10:54
appeared to be another attack early this morning!!!!!
jlamb
response 31 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 16:05 UTC 2003

While grex is preventing Vandals, Mnet is letting them on their 
systems, after the mailbombing cgi script
Login: kap                              Name: kap de kuk
Directory: /home/guest/kap              Shell: /bin/bash
On since Wed Jan  1 10:48 (EST) on ttypk, idle 0:08, from 203.111.194.11
No Mail.
Plan: Alternate Email: neuro@pula.com
bash-
2.05a$                                                                  
  
davel
response 32 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 18:28 UTC 2003

Thanks, Scott.
naftee
response 33 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 1 22:22 UTC 2003

I'm not sure if the user kap is still allowed to log on.  Finger information
shows up even if the user is splatted.
jlamb
response 34 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 00:28 UTC 2003

resp:33   READ CLOSER
On since Wed Jan  1 10:48 (EST) on ttypk, idle 0:08, from 203.111.194.11
keesan
response 35 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 16:11 UTC 2003

In the past day or so I have received five (5) copies of happy.scr from
azhar.rajput@sympatico.ca.  If other people have been receiving these, can
the filter be set to reject mail from this idiot?  Is happy.scr the
screensaver it claims to be or some virus on another machine?  The mails are
47K and I have to empty my mailbox regularly to keep it functional.
keesan
response 36 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 18:03 UTC 2003

Can someone explain again, in detail, how to use procmail.  I just got a sixth
copy of the above spam, all 49K with header and message.
keesan
response 37 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 18:12 UTC 2003

Would it work to create a file in my home directory called .procmailrc
and put into it the lines  :0      * ^From:azhar.rajput*      /dev/null
(These are three separate lines but I cannot type a line starting with a colon
into bbs.)
naftee
response 38 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 18:33 UTC 2003

RE:37 
You might have to put something in your .forward to make it work.  You can
also put a space before the gate prompt if you are entering special
characters, like:
 !
 :
keesan
response 39 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 19:06 UTC 2003

So what is .forward supposed to look like?
I think procmail should be included in something like the CHANGE program so
that all we beginners can use it more easily.  Any volunteers to do this?
I put those lines in a file .procmailrc (also * before the from address
since it comes as azhar rajput <azhar.rajput.....> and at least it is not
blocking normal mail (I sent myself a test mail).  The man page for procmail
also said to put -m somewhere, but I could not understand most of it.
jlamb
response 40 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 20:32 UTC 2003

You might want to post something in JellyWare about this, i dont think 
the item gets much traffic
jmsaul
response 41 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 22:32 UTC 2003

Procmail's not trivial to set up using just the man page.
keesan
response 42 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 2 23:40 UTC 2003

I know, can you help me to figure it out?  All I want to do is block mail from
azhar.rajput@sympatico.ca (send it to /dev/null), but I suppose it would also
be helpful to block other mail with subject line 'urgent business proposal',
and other people probably would want to learn procmail.  Should I start an
agora item on this?
jlamb
response 43 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 02:55 UTC 2003

resp:42 you should start an item on procmail, i would like to know how 
to block spam from many different places i get them from 
jmsaul
response 44 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 03:05 UTC 2003

Re #42:  No, because I haven't taken the time to learn it myself.
naftee
response 45 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 03:09 UTC 2003

 !man 5 procmailrc
remmers
response 46 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 11:55 UTC 2003

I've been using procmail for a while, so I'll make a stab at a procmail
quickstart.  Your .forward file should have one line, that looks like this:

        "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #USER"

where in place of USER you put your own login id.  The .foward file must
be publicly readable.  Then every time a mail message is received,
procmail will be run and consult your .procmailrc file to decide what
to do with the message.

The first line of .procmailrc should be this:

        MAIL=PATH-TO-YOUR-INBOX

where in place of PATH-TO-YOUR-INBOX you put the full path of your mail
inbox.  For keesan, this would be /var/spool/mail/k/e/keesan .

Subsequent lines of .procmailrc are filter rules.  Lines that begin with
a # are comments.  A filter rule that will will send all messages from
azhar.rajput@sympatico.ca to /dev/null would be this:

        # Toss all mail from azhar.rajput
        :0:
        * ^From:.*azhar\.rajput@sympatico\.ca
        /dev/null

The characters '.' and '*' are wildcards that match any single character
and any run of 0 or more characters, respectively.  The purpose of the
the '.*' in the above rule is to skip over blanks between the From: header
and the email address.  The purpose of the '\' preceding the periods in
the email address is to cause the periods to be interpreted literally
rather than as wildcard characters.  The '^' character means "beginning
of line".

You can filter on "From:", "To:", "Subject:", or any other header, as well
as body content.  For example, this rule tosses all mail with the phrase
"free sex site" in the subject line:

        :0:
        * ^Subject:.*free *sex *site
        /dev/null

Here, the ' *' sequences match any number of blanks between the words, so
that this rule will catch the phrase even if the words are separated by
multiple spaces.  Procmail does case-independent pattern matching, so the
rule will also filter "FREE SEX SITE", "Free Sex Site", etc.

The above examples are pretty simple.  Procmail rules can be quite elaborate;
see "man procmailrc" and "man procmailex" for complete discussion and more
examples.

I actually don't use procmail rules to filter spam -- the spamassassin
program (not installed on Grex) is much more effective for this purpose.
My main use of procmail is to pre-sort mailing list messages into separate
folders.
krj
response 47 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 13:57 UTC 2003

(That should probably be a separate item so it's easier to find it.
Thanks John!)
tsty
response 48 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 15:34 UTC 2003

what are teh various pros/cons between procmail and mh. or does mh
also use procmail for a filter?
gelinas
response 49 of 251: Mark Unseen   Jan 3 16:06 UTC 2003

Rather than responding further, let's start a new item for mail-processing.
If one hasn't been started by the time I finish reading currently new
responses, I'll start one.
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