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Grex > Helpers > #130: Grex System Problems - Winter 2003/2004 |  |
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keesan
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response 153 of 384:
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Jan 9 14:42 UTC 2004 |
After I put # in front of the line in .forward, and also after I renamed it
.forward.bak, I got both my test mails and also four of the spams that would
normally have gone into the bulk or other spam folders. Anyone want to take
a look at my .forward.bak (or .forward) file to see what stupid thing I might
have done to it last time I added a few filters? Thanks all.
But four spams slipped by whatever filter was causing the problem. I have
saved two of them in case they are helpful.
Do I need to make my .forward file readable somehow (chmod +x .forward)?
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keesan
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response 154 of 384:
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Jan 9 15:35 UTC 2004 |
I got my grex mail fixed just in time. Today I got a bounced mail at my
temporary address which I sent to someone using a service that uses spamcop's
blackhole list. I would greatly appreciate someone helping me to fix my spam
filter here so my box does not fill up with trash.
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aruba
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response 155 of 384:
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Jan 9 16:38 UTC 2004 |
Sindi - that error message your friend got sounds like it was during the
period when a lot of people were reporting domain lookup problems on both
grex.org and cyberspace.org. I still don't know what caused that - it was
only cyberspace.org that changed registrars.
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gelinas
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response 156 of 384:
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Jan 10 02:56 UTC 2004 |
named on grex was running but not, apparently, working. I restarted just
before the machine went down for the mail problem, IIRC. Apparently,
we dropped out of puck.nether.net's config files, while named wasn't
responding.
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naftee
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response 157 of 384:
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Jan 10 14:14 UTC 2004 |
IRC
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keesan
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response 158 of 384:
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Jan 10 16:32 UTC 2004 |
I am getting mail okay now and have started a new .procmailrc file and am
sending myself a test mail every time I add a filter but I would still
appreciate people telling me what I did wrong with .procmailrc.old so I won't
do it again. How do I filter (with one filter): viagra, v-i-a-g-r-a,
v!iagra, v1agra without filtering all my mail to a bulk folder?
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kip
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response 159 of 384:
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Jan 10 16:54 UTC 2004 |
I'm not certain, but I believe it was just a manner of poor luck and timing
that the DNS issues occured about the same time and were the real cause of
your mail issues.
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keesan
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response 160 of 384:
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Jan 10 17:12 UTC 2004 |
The DNS problems were in addition to my mail filter problems. I started
getting mail yesterday a minute after I removed my filter.
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kip
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response 161 of 384:
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Jan 10 18:24 UTC 2004 |
Hmmm, okay then. May I suggest you add something like this to your filter
file near the top:
LOGFILE=/a/k/e/keesan/mail/procmail.log
Or whereever you would like to point that file.
That will give you a file that records the From:, date, Subject: and eventual
file or destination for every email procmail handles. Very useful for
tracking these types of issues down.
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keesan
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response 162 of 384:
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Jan 10 18:53 UTC 2004 |
Thanks, but I think I would fill up my disk quota quickly if I logged all my
spams. Jeremy found my problem - I added five filters without a * before
^Subject. I restored my old .procmailrc and will test that i can send myself
mail every time I change it.
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kip
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response 163 of 384:
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Jan 10 21:54 UTC 2004 |
That's true, procmail averages about 150 characters per log entry for me
at my home domain and last month I had a little over 16,000 emails, so the
whole month's procmail log was just under 2.5 million bytes. That would
chew up the quota here pretty fast.
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mcnally
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response 164 of 384:
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Jan 10 22:47 UTC 2004 |
*if* you left it on..
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keesan
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response 165 of 384:
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Jan 11 01:00 UTC 2004 |
I have a very long filter set up and all four of the spams that arrived in
the last two hours were of the XOCPT she swims bananas type with five lines
of nonsense words before the HTML. I have not found any way to filter them
- any ideas?
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i
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response 166 of 384:
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Jan 11 12:42 UTC 2004 |
Dialing in to 761-3000 several times in the past few days, i've gotten
NO CARRIER disconnects as soon as the modems are done with their training
tones. Dialing in to 761-3451 gets me in normally when this happens.
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ryan
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response 167 of 384:
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Jan 12 19:18 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 168 of 384:
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Jan 12 23:09 UTC 2004 |
Someone hogged up a lot of space. I'm looking into it, but I don't have a
lot of time right now.
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willcome
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response 169 of 384:
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Jan 12 23:30 UTC 2004 |
Hey, punk, that doesn't help Grex.
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naftee
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response 170 of 384:
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Jan 18 07:07 UTC 2004 |
tail: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
Fix this please.
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scott
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response 171 of 384:
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Jan 18 13:43 UTC 2004 |
That's intentional.
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kip
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response 172 of 384:
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Jan 18 14:48 UTC 2004 |
I'll bite. What is in /var/log/messages that you want to see?
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willcome
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response 173 of 384:
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Jan 18 15:23 UTC 2004 |
ACN"T YOU SEE I"M COLOUREd??
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naftee
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response 174 of 384:
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Jan 18 18:12 UTC 2004 |
re 172 Someone killed my login processes last night while I was in party.
I want to know who did it.
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naftee
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response 175 of 384:
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Jan 18 18:35 UTC 2004 |
last pid: 15042; load averages: 10.59, 15.37, 14.54
13:35:16
220 processes: 213 sleeping, 3 running, 4 zombie
CPU states: 28.2% user, 0.0% nice, 18.7% system, 31.6% idle, 21.5% spin
Memory: 233M available, 151M in use, 82M free, 7992K locked
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
5058 root 1 0 17M 16M sleep 325:47 11.34% 11.33% named
15031 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 17.03% 3.91% sendmail
15029 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 15.33% 3.52% sendmail
15020 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 10.22% 3.12% sendmail
15024 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 8.95% 2.73% sendmail
15022 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 8.95% 2.73% sendmail
15018 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 8.02% 2.73% sendmail
256 root 15 0 12K 8K sleep 591:38 3.73% 2.34% update
15027 krj 3 0 364K 472K sleep 0:00 7.27% 1.95% vi
15041 root 40 0 904K 460K run/1 0:00 30.77% 1.56% sendmail
14995 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 3.02% 1.56% sendmail
14990 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 2.76% 1.56% sendmail
15034 root 1 0 904K 444K sleep 0:00 8.30% 1.56% sendmail
15009 k0i 1 0 924K 464K sleep 0:00 2.69% 1.17% sendmail
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willcome
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response 176 of 384:
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Jan 18 19:04 UTC 2004 |
Looks like Valerie's back to her old tricks.
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ryan
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response 177 of 384:
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Jan 18 19:13 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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