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Grex > Helpers > #138: Grex System Problems - Winter 2004/2005 |  |
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eprom
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response 740 of 870:
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Feb 16 17:37 UTC 2005 |
Grex won't let me save changes to the HTML version of a conf login.html file
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albaugh
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response 741 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:04 UTC 2005 |
dpc is suffering the same thing I went through, until my /tmp quota was
increased. Is this how it's going to be - one by one, affected users have
to ask for help to solve something they could have solved for themselves?
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tod
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response 742 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:06 UTC 2005 |
Do you have spam filters?
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keesan
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response 743 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:33 UTC 2005 |
A short spam filter that catches about 75% of my spam -
delete lines starting in #, which I put in for information only.
.forward (in home directory):
|/usr/local/bin/procmail
.procmailrc (in home directory):
MAIL=/var/mail/yourlogin ##change this!!!
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail/from
VERBOSE=on
##The above sets your mail directory and produces a logfile
##with a list of what mail went where and why -- ~/mail/from
##which you can read with pine, L, as 'from'. You can see if
##the filter caught a real mail and why, then either put the
##mailer on your white list or remove the filter that caught it.
## This first filter forwards mails over 100K to my other address.
:0:
* >100000
! keesan@myotheraddress.org
#The next two are 'white list', mail to be let through:
#Change from carole to the names of people who write you
#if your filter catches their mail.
:0:
* ^From:.*carole
$MAIL
#Change to subjects that you want to be sure not to accidentally filter
:0:
* ^Subject:.*ebay
$MAIL
#This filter lets through mail from people using pine.
:0:
* ^References:.*pine
$MAIL
#The following is a sample of how to filter on mails with word
# 'filter' in message body and send them to mail folder filter.
# Useful if you want to save mail from a list.
:0B:
* ^*filter
${HOME}/mail/filter
#The rest of this throws out (to /dev/null) spam.
#All mail with java in it is spam.
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* ^Content-type:.*java
/dev/null
#I don't know what this is, but it is always spam.
:0:
* ^X-Message-Info:
/dev/null
#All mail with embedded images is spam.
:0B:
* ^.*img.src
/dev/null
#All mail sent to these characters is spam, unless you are carson.
:0:
* ^To:.*benny
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*carson
/dev/null
:0:
* ^From:.*carson
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*cme
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*gmike
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*hal9000
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*krex
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*makji
/dev/null
:0:
* ^To:.*pez
/dev/null
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* ^Cc:.*true
/dev/null
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* ^Subject:.*medication
/dev/null
#perscription, prescripiton
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* ^Subject:.*p..scrip..on
/dev/null
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* ^Subject:.*\|
/dev/null
## The following lines (0B) filter on message bodies only:
##The first will catch cialis, c!ial1s, etc.
:0B:
* ^.*c.al.s
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*deals
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*medication
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*meds
/dev/null
#the . is any character, the ? means character before it is optional
# so this catches mortgage, mor.tg.agge etc.
:0B:
* ^*mor.?tg.?agg?e
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*pills
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*\%.rate
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*refinance
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*rx
/dev/null
:0B:
* ^.*s0ft
/dev/null
#leave the next line so real mail will arrive safely
:0:
$MAIL
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albaugh
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response 744 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:44 UTC 2005 |
That's fine, but one's mailbox filling up isn't always about SPAM:
Friends could send you several large file attachments, and that would do it.
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keesan
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response 745 of 870:
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Feb 16 18:47 UTC 2005 |
That is why I started the filter with a section that forwards large mails to
some other address. You could also just set the filter to send the large
mails to /dev/null if you don't have a forwarding address. I added this
filter (with much help from mcnally) after a friend sent me a 700K photo
(which she following with 1.3 and 1.4MB). See the line with 1000 in it.
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gull
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response 746 of 870:
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Feb 16 21:01 UTC 2005 |
I think it'd be better to fix the underlying problem, which is that the
/tmp quota is apparently smaller than the mailbox quota.
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gelinas
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response 747 of 870:
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Feb 16 21:41 UTC 2005 |
SBC is at Provide.Net working on the lines now. Apparently, the problem is
extensive; they hope to get it fixed tonight, but if they can't, they'll be
back on it first thing in the morning.
Right now, the lines are ringing open.
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aruba
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response 748 of 870:
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Feb 16 22:12 UTC 2005 |
Thanks for the update, Joe. I wonder what the problem was? Bad wires, I
suppose.
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albaugh
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response 749 of 870:
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Feb 16 22:45 UTC 2005 |
"Bad dates"
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gelinas
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response 750 of 870:
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Feb 17 01:37 UTC 2005 |
They have to replace the cable and will be out tomorrow to finish the job.
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dpc
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response 751 of 870:
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Feb 17 01:42 UTC 2005 |
Thanks to whoever fixed my /tmp quota!
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gelinas
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response 752 of 870:
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Feb 17 04:03 UTC 2005 |
I've now reset the quotas on /tmp for all users who have logged in since the
middle of December (Dec 19 14:45 2004, to be precise).
I've also set newuser to assign the new quota to any new users.
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gelinas
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response 753 of 870:
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Feb 17 04:43 UTC 2005 |
I note that there were a couple of connections on tty01 today, before SBC
took the lines down for repair. So I did get the modems connected to the
'right' lines this time. :)
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keesan
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response 754 of 870:
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Feb 17 15:04 UTC 2005 |
Thanks again Joe. Clever of you not to assign new quotas to non-using users
who would just get more spam.
Today my abridged spam filter posted above caught 13 of my 15 spams that
arrived since midnight: 3 X-message, 3 img.src, 1 java, 2 medication, 2 meds,
1 pills, 1 prescripiton, also (using the longer filter) a generic.drug and
a To: true. Before I rearranged the order of filters half of the spams were
caught because of the To: line. It is interesting how most of my current
spam is due to our lack of national health insurance or care.
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gelinas
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response 755 of 870:
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Feb 17 19:23 UTC 2005 |
I think SBC has finished the work on our telephone lines.
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dpc
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response 756 of 870:
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Feb 17 23:28 UTC 2005 |
I've got a "system non-problem" to report. Typically I get at least
50 spam e-mails per day. This morning there were only 5 spams.
And just now I checked, and I have received *no* mail at all!
What happened? Did someone connect a spam filter?
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mcnally
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response 757 of 870:
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Feb 17 23:44 UTC 2005 |
I tried to send an e-mail (from within Pine) and failed on
three successive attempts. The third time I noticed a briefly
flashed message in the status line at the bottom, something
about "Error 451, error writing spool file, mail not sent."
(not an exact quote.)
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mcnally
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response 758 of 870:
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Feb 17 23:46 UTC 2005 |
Make that:
[Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 Error while writing spool file]
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mcnally
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response 759 of 870:
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Feb 17 23:47 UTC 2005 |
Probable cause:
/dev/sd2d 6092380 6069840 -282078 105% /var
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jor
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response 760 of 870:
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Feb 18 01:02 UTC 2005 |
yep, just got /var: write failed, file system is full
in party
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mcnally
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response 761 of 870:
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Feb 18 01:16 UTC 2005 |
There are some overgrown log files in /var/log that could probably
be rotated and compressed to help alleviate the crunch.
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aruba
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response 762 of 870:
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Feb 18 06:09 UTC 2005 |
I dialed in! Thanks Joe, for dealing with SBC.
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naftee
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response 763 of 870:
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Feb 18 06:27 UTC 2005 |
Thanks aruba!
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scholar
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response 764 of 870:
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Feb 18 06:29 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, Jim!
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