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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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keesan
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response 346 of 870:
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Jan 11 20:55 UTC 2005 |
ping command not found
I was looking for alternate ways to fetch ftp files since lynx ftp and links
ftp are not working yet here. I was able to use straight ftp at this site
(simtel) but not: lynx, links, wget.
Just now I tried to look at my energy bill www.mydteenergy.com with links,
which works for this purpose (well, part of it works, I can at least sign in
and look at one of my two bills) at sdf, but at grex 'no route to host'.
Gelinas tried to fix this problem during beta testing but I don't think
succeeded.
Yes I am a grex paying member with ftp out privileges.
I probably typed it correctly because substituting ftp for wget and removing
the file name worked to get me into the correct directory.
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keesan
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response 347 of 870:
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Jan 11 21:01 UTC 2005 |
Progress on making a better spam filter. An AOL-using friend helped me to
determine that non-spam AOL mails can contain, without the sender's knowledge,
3dhttp <td (as in tables) and 'click on', none of which were visible to me.
It might be simplest to just put all people I know using AOL on the whitelist
since they can't figure out how not to send HTML.
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mooncat
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response 348 of 870:
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Jan 11 21:04 UTC 2005 |
(birthday wisher broken?)
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mcnally
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response 349 of 870:
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Jan 11 22:07 UTC 2005 |
My mistake. The ping binary is around in /sbin/ping but execute permission
is reserved for root and staff.
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gull
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response 350 of 870:
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Jan 11 23:22 UTC 2005 |
If there are questions about setting up Exim I can try to assist. I've
done quite a bit with Exim, though never on a system that gets the kind
of mail volume Grex does.
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janc
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response 351 of 870:
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Jan 12 03:12 UTC 2005 |
I fixed talk.
The reason I didn't port the oldGrex spam filters over is that I was
unable to discover what they were. I don't have either source code or
documentation for them.
I have a very long list of things that need fixing and very little time
to work on things. I appreciate your patience.
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keesan
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response 352 of 870:
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Jan 12 03:14 UTC 2005 |
Many thanks for talk. Yesterday I had two long exchanges of info via tel
(which is even more confusing than usual when grex is running at load average
60 or the language of communication is Russian in the Roman alphabet).
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aruba
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response 353 of 870:
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Jan 12 03:16 UTC 2005 |
Is it your birthday, Anne?
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keesan
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response 354 of 870:
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Jan 12 03:51 UTC 2005 |
Lynx still offers me the option of sending a downloaded file to my computer
via kermit/telnet but I don't think that ever worked. Could lynx.cfg be
changed to reflect reality? Or grex be changed to allow kermit file transfer
via telnet? Maybe it once used to be slower than ftp but it is just as speedy
now and often more convenient than saving a file to a home directory, and then
starting a new connection to grex in order to ftp it. I was downloading a
few photos of someone I had a one-hour tel exchange with yesterday who had
ideas on how to improve procmail filtering. (His idea was to throw out all
mail from aol, yahoo, msn, earthlink - he said this gets 90% of the spam).
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mooncat
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response 355 of 870:
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Jan 12 03:53 UTC 2005 |
Re#353- Yup. :) I'm 30 now!
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mfp
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response 356 of 870:
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Jan 12 04:15 UTC 2005 |
You're more than ten years older than me!
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sholmes
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response 357 of 870:
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Jan 12 04:23 UTC 2005 |
Happy Birthday !
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gelinas
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response 358 of 870:
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Jan 12 04:24 UTC 2005 |
The "no route to host" message is often a result of the packet filter
blocking outbound packets.
OpenBSD's packet filters don't look at all the groups a person belongs to, so
we have to link programs to "inet_wrap", which then sets the group
appropriately and calls the real program.
wget is not on the 'approved' list. links is, but it does not seem to be set
up properly.
The problem with DTE appears to be malformed html: they don't properly
separate the file name from the host name. I don't know why links on sdf can
parse the link. If I recall correctly, links reports the name of the host it
cannot reach. If you look at that domain name, the problem should be
obvious.
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keesan
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response 359 of 870:
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Jan 12 04:32 UTC 2005 |
Links at sdf works on the dteenergy site on the second try (but the site has
other problems so I may give up on it).
I will use straight ftp until lynx and wget work again with ftp sites.
DTE says they asked the company doing the website to fix some problems but
it just keeps getting worse instead of better. Thanks Joe for spending so
much time on fixing these small problems.
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gelinas
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response 360 of 870:
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Jan 12 04:47 UTC 2005 |
I fixed the birthday-greeter. Thanks for reporting its failure, Anne.
And happy birthday. :)
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mooncat
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response 361 of 870:
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Jan 12 05:25 UTC 2005 |
re #356- Yeah, nyah nyah! ;)
re#357- thanks. :)
Re #360- you're welcome, and thanks! :)
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other
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response 362 of 870:
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Jan 12 06:13 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk authentication problem:
Using the vanilla interface, some of the links at the bottom of a page
when browsing new responses to an item are formatted such that even if
the user is connecting via https, the link will be formatted for http,
which results in a browser asking for cleartext authentication before
submitting a "forget" request, for example.
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other
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response 363 of 870:
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Jan 12 06:14 UTC 2005 |
Backtalk authentication problem:
Also, response 'Post' buttons submit via http rather than https.
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davel
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response 364 of 870:
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Jan 12 16:45 UTC 2005 |
Re way back (out of my scrollback buffer) re my problem with ft "read since":
Joe, I did read the ft help. (It didn't differ from my memory of Picospan
help on this issue, but it's been a few years since I looked at that.)
"help read" referred me to (I think) "help range", which gave the format I was
trying as an example.
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keesan
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response 365 of 870:
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Jan 12 17:52 UTC 2005 |
My mailbox this morning was full because a friend sent me two photos, one of
which was about 400K and the other a bit smaller. Please could the mail size
limit be given a high priority? McNally, until then, could you explain
precisely how to set up a .procmailrc that will dump such mails? I did not
follow the last explanation. For the benefit of all email users here, please
also include the first three lines of .procmailrc and the last two.
.forward is, I think |/usr/bin/procmail right? This sends all incoming
mail to procmail to be filtered. Maybe someone could run a script to set up
this sort of mail size filter for everyone until the exim one is working?
Why would 'cpl' dump a returned message from me?
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tsty
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response 366 of 870:
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Jan 12 18:57 UTC 2005 |
is there any sort of filtering mechanism creatable (by user or system)
that can mostly de-spam the stuff in 'plain ol mail'?
same as dpc and keesan, i am *really* getting slammmmmmmed/spammmmmed!
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rcurl
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response 367 of 870:
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Jan 12 19:00 UTC 2005 |
If I could just filter on "cum", it would take care of about half my spam.
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mcnally
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response 368 of 870:
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Jan 12 19:10 UTC 2005 |
> My mailbox this morning was full because a friend sent me two photos,
> one of which was about 400K and the other a bit smaller. Please
> could the mail size limit be given a high priority?
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> McNally, until then, could you explain precisely how to set up a
> .procmailrc that will dump such mails?
Try adding a recipe like this to test with:
:0fw
* > 50000
/a/k/e/keesan/bigmail
Then send yourself two messages, one small one, one with at least 50 kbytes
of content. The larger message should wind up in ~keesan/bigmail and not
in your inbox. Once you're satisfied that it filters as you expect you can
change the destination file to /dev/null.
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other
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response 369 of 870:
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Jan 12 19:38 UTC 2005 |
367: Do you get a lot of spam in Latin?
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keesan
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response 370 of 870:
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Jan 12 19:40 UTC 2005 |
I get a lot of spam with utf or iso on subject lines and just now one of my
two latest spams was about a cumshot but that is only about 5% of the spam.
Is there some way to set a filter to forward mails over 100K to another
address instead of a folder here? They are usually photos from friends.
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