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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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janc
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response 26 of 870:
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Dec 29 17:23 UTC 2004 |
I removed all the old sum files, and had backtalk regenerate most of them.
I think I probably missed regenerating some.
If you see a conference where Picospan complains about there being no sum
file, there are two fixes. Either a fairwitness can say "set summary" in
Picospan, or any user can join the conference with Fronttalk or Backtalk.
Picospan will still work without a summary file - it'll just be slower.
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keesan
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response 27 of 870:
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Dec 29 17:35 UTC 2004 |
While trying to get procmail to work (now it lets through ALL my mails) I
attempted to logout and then login as a different user and logout got me a
NO CARRIER with no opportunity to login again. I had to redial.
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blaise
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response 28 of 870:
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Dec 29 17:37 UTC 2004 |
Just "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" without the quotes works fine; I don't
know whether the quotes would be needed if you added a parameter.
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keesan
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response 29 of 870:
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Dec 29 17:43 UTC 2004 |
I just emailed myself from a non-grex account (after making sure keesan was
no longer on my white list) with subject line 'viagra cialis meds', all three
of which words are in my subject filters, and the mail went to my inbox. I
have the double quotes - should I remove them? It is acting as if procmail
is not there. I changed both .forward and the MAIL line in .procmailrc and
these are both globally readable. I also got another spam not from me in the
inbox. My filter, when working, gets about 95% of spams. Would one of you
experts mind trying out a very simple procmail setup to see if it works for
you?
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janc
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response 30 of 870:
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Dec 29 17:55 UTC 2004 |
Yes, new Grex will hang up on logout. I think this is hard to change.
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blaise
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response 31 of 870:
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Dec 29 18:01 UTC 2004 |
I have my filter working. (I copied yours, commented out everything
except the first and last conditions, and changed them to something
simple I could work with. My filter puts anything from my spamcop
account into a folder named Mail/spamcop [in Maildir format], and
forwards anything else to my spamcop account.)
MAIL=/var/mail/blaise
LOGFILE=$HOME/Mail/from
VERBOSE=off
:0
* ^From:.*jtrigg.*@spamcop.net
$HOME/Mail/spamcop/
:0
!jtrigg+cyber@spamcop.net
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keesan
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response 32 of 870:
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Dec 29 18:45 UTC 2004 |
I just got one REAL spam (not the ones I was making up and sending from
myself) sent to /dev/null. So it appears to be working. I don't know why
mails from keesan@ are going into my inbox no matter what the subject line.
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keesan
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response 33 of 870:
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Dec 29 18:46 UTC 2004 |
Jan, why won't the new grex allow logging out and in again?
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blaise
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response 34 of 870:
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Dec 29 19:12 UTC 2004 |
Sindi, mails from *@grex are whitelisted before cialis is blacklisted.
(The grex whitelist is in the middle of the blacklists.)
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cross
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response 35 of 870:
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Dec 29 19:31 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 36 of 870:
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Dec 29 19:38 UTC 2004 |
I just removed from my white list 'org edu grex keesan' as From's and procmail
just caught a spam that I sent to myself. But I still cannot view my log file
(/mail/from) from within Pine. I can view it with less so it is not a problem
but it may be symptomatic of something not being set up right. I could view
the first time but ever since it has been blank. I now have a choice of 1
or 2 in 'from', both blank.
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blaise
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response 37 of 870:
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Dec 29 20:05 UTC 2004 |
It's possible that the new version of pine is more picky about mbox
format (which the procmail log isn't but is similar to).
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janc
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response 38 of 870:
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Dec 29 21:26 UTC 2004 |
Old Grex was modified not to hang up. It used to confuse a lot of
people who were used to the standard behavior. It would probably be
possible to figure out how to modify new Grex to do that, but I think
it'd be a lot of work.
Fronttalk directly executes backtalk when used on Grex.
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glenda
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response 39 of 870:
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Dec 29 21:56 UTC 2004 |
When I log in I get a message that I have mail, when I go into elm it says
I have 0 messages.
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glenda
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response 40 of 870:
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Dec 29 22:03 UTC 2004 |
Pine tells me that /var/spool/g/l/glenda doesn't exist. I prefer elm but
tried pine see if it could find this elusive new mail.
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glenda
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response 41 of 870:
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Dec 29 22:05 UTC 2004 |
Oops, make that /var/spool/mail/g/l/glenda
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blaise
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response 42 of 870:
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Dec 29 22:14 UTC 2004 |
In your .login file, remove the line that starts "setenv MAIL". That
should fix the problem; if not, replace it with "setenv MAIL
/var/spool/mail/glenda".
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cross
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response 43 of 870:
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Dec 29 22:44 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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gelinas
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response 44 of 870:
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Dec 30 00:39 UTC 2004 |
Re the final paragraph of 18: that is what I expected to hear. /usr/bin/ssh
is the ssh executable; /usr/local/bin/ssh is a wrapper to get through the
kernel blocks. The OpenBSD pf filters work well, but they are different from
our home-grown ones.
A general note on the pf filters: Every program that provides outbound
access to members will have to be linked to the wrapper program. The
wrapper _may_ have to be modified as well. So if you find something that
worked on the old machine but doesn't work here, please either mention
it here or send a message to staff.
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drew
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response 45 of 870:
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Dec 30 00:53 UTC 2004 |
sz (zmodem send) either is not present, is named differently, or is not in
the default $PATH.
kermit send pretends to work, but doesn't actually send anything.
At least sftp works, finally! Though I need to find a Windoze client that has
download progress reporting. (The version that came with Putty does not.)
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gelinas
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response 46 of 870:
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Dec 30 01:23 UTC 2004 |
/usr/local/bin/sz is linked to /usr/local/grex-scripts/xmodem_wrapper which
doesn't exist.
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cross
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response 47 of 870:
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Dec 30 02:17 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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keesan
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response 48 of 870:
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Dec 30 02:42 UTC 2004 |
I just confirmed the kermit send problem - I got the little bar showing that
it reached 100% and then looked and what I sent was not where I sent it.
While telnetted here.
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keesan
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response 49 of 870:
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Dec 30 03:08 UTC 2004 |
Ftp worked perfectly in both directions (put and get) just now. I will be
happy to test any fixes to kermit so that non-members can also transfer files.
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gelinas
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response 50 of 870:
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Dec 30 03:18 UTC 2004 |
Non-members can ftp in, they just can't ftp out.
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