Greetings
Would you kind folks please update ClamAV please ?
- l07ac
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is anyone else getting spam from venamail.com servers ?
they usually come from a something.co.uk type email addy
usually letting spam and now starting to adver other junk
we see a coupla few a week slip through.
how are you dealing with it in terms of spamassassin rules or otherwise?
- rh
whomever did it, Thank You :-) for pushing out the new clamav 0.97.5 for us
there was an issue in our main.cld, or part of a file format change or
something
said it was corrupt or whatever
...and bombed the final parts of the yum update
so that was easily fixed by running freshclam a time or
I think the actual issue is that package clamav-db contains
both cld and cvd files. ClamAV doc says you should only have
one of the two. What's more, the cld files are empty. So it
seems that something went wrong in the build process.
Prior to the update my installation had main.cvd
Hi,
There is an commit on GH on it. See
https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/commit/c9ea3f89205911cba0adf
70e34cbf03bc9c0163f
Regards,
DH
excellent
what does that mean?
where do we find out more about the behind the scenes processes?
i cheched repoforge and didnt find a lot and some
As I recall you weren't necessarily nice to anyone who suggested the
process of building CentOS wasn't perfect. But now that it is, I
guess that doesn't matter.
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please dont recall Les...
let it go
your memory is poor.
- rh
what exactly is the planned day and time that centos4 will be moved removed
from working yum update current mirrored functionality ??
march 1st or a day or two later please?
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greetings
how are you folks on this list dealing with unwanted solicitations from
companies that spam via netsuite.com ?
-rh
It's not always just branding. It's also, giving proper attribution.
Organisations and people should be credited appropriately for
their contributions. It's the respectful thing to do.
GNU/Linux is the best example of this IMO.
At least you said free software arena and not open source
Christian,
when you reply to people, dont put their email address in the post.
please stop that.
again, if you would read the posts slowly and correctly, i was not attacking
you or your ideas.
see the word not there...
this is a discussion list, not a discrediting list.
in terms of negation,
pardon me for my ignorance, yet if you think about it, the OP's idea is why
some royalty had food and drink tester / tasters centuries ago
assume all food and drink is poisoned
problem is, if the poison wasnt fast acting, the royalty would ingest it and
die anyways.
eh?
not or negating
christian
i wasnt picking on you or your ideas
locks are not a good anology unless you unplug or close port 25
those were mentioned on the list
you are possibly on to some things, yet part of what you are on to is
already late to the table
i think you are realistically confused about truly
apologies in advance for asking
i know part of the answer can be found in the wiki, yet it isnt 100%
definative.
have these older FVGT rulesets been incorporated into the current SA
versions?
i.e. 00_FVGT_File001.cf and 88_FVGT_headers.cf and 99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf
we shouldnt be using these
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, darxus
I'd like to get this added to the default rule set, any objections?
header FROM_MYFANBOX From:addr =~ /\@myfanbox\.com$/i score
FROM_MYFANBOX 5
Not at that score.
I'll add it to my sandbox right now so we can see what happens.
--
John
some of you, like we did, probably noticed long ago that some ip addys rdns
to localhost
example
113.166.175.153
dig -x 113.166.175.153
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;153.175.166.113.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
153.175.166.113.in-addr.arpa. 86353 IN PTR localhost.
;; AUTHORITY
greetings SA users
there sure seems to be a lot of from .info server spamming
wierd temp registered .info domains spamming eh?
for those of you with volume, large or small, care to share an SA tips on
how you deal with .info domains?
i would imagine there is a very small percentage of valid
And using ALL means that you would match your own thread:
Subject: all spam emails from mailengine1.com servers
I'd suggest you use the X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted pseudo header
as previously mentioned.
thank you
are you suggesting that a person look at
as you know, some emailing companies have multiple domains for mail serving
mailengine1.com
mailengine2.com
mailengine3.com
.
.
.
mailengineN.com
among other domains...
what is the proper way to write a single rule to deal with N series
combinations?
header __LOCAL_MAILENGINE1 ALL =~
There are a couple of ways to do it.
If you know that the numbers are 1-9, you could do this:
header __LOCAL_MAILENGINE ALL =~ /mailengine[1-9]\.com/i
(this is matching a single character. You could NOT do [1-12])
If you just want to allow for a number, you could do this:
does anyone get legit emails that come from the mailengine1.com email
marketing servers?
aka streamsend aka ezpublishing ???
it appears to be all spammy to us
also, has anyone written any rules they care to share in regards to this
organization?
- rh
craig
this is your second troll in two posts.
stop trolling
we are glad for your past life when centos rescued you from whatever.
plus, your past and current usage of centos, migrations to another distro,
and opinions are duly noted again.
like for the hundredth time
another time will not be
what a crock -- go cry elsewhere, troll
I suppose I'll have to take up mailing list moderation issues
again -- The person I needed to talk with is already away for
the weekend, however. Fortunately we have already covered
the topic of addressing your spam and have consensus as to
how
Just want to remind everyone that this isn't a social chatter
list, or a LUG free for all. Lets try and actually be
productive and lets try to help people in a tangible manner.
If you don't have anything relevant to say or contribute to a
conversation, its perfectly fine to not say
greetings
are distro pkg update messages only email lists or website too?
i see that CentOS 5 kernel stuff is pushed 2x in past coupla days and just
wanna make sure what differences are...
or was it just a move from CR to mainline difference and upgrading same
things again?
- rh
I've edited /etc/hosts to add few custom IP/hostnames couples.
After each reboot, I have to add them again. I've then added
/etc/sysconfig/network/hosts, but it seems to ignore it or at
least ignore 127.0.0.1 assignments I'm doing in it.
Is there a mechanism I'm not aware of, or doing
brian,
there are many solutions
if you like ssh and rsync etc, then...
taking this solution and modify it a little and it works great
http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml
one, you can backup the machine(s) to another system with large space
two, once machine(s) backed up, then
Can we discontinue this and return to tranquillity please ?
Paul.
Paul,
with all humility due respect, if I was given authority within CentOS and
on this list, you would be one of the first we would discipline...
- rh
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Christopher,
It's not an email program but I think it has the best
filtering capabilities of all - the brain.
umm, yeah, exactly, i want to use my brain to program certain peoples posts
from never reaching my eyeballs
arent they called threaded email readers?
i really didnt find much
But filters tend to be stupid as well. And once you are involved in
a conversation you should have a certain responsibility to
follow it to the bitter end. Filters mostly don't understand
that (but gmail will push a reply to your own message into
the 'important' view).
i hear ya
we need to filter out various peoples posts on this list
would some kind soul(s) please direct us in locating the best email list
reading programs w/ the best features to read the centos and other lists.
the CentOS list signal/noise ratio is so bad that we need something better
than just
warren
thanks for the info
where is the .spec posted ?
any tips on the .spec and modifying the tree to get 3.3.2 working with EL4
until such time as EL6 server can be installed and tested please?
EL6 isnt that old (comparitively) and lab testing will start on it soon
- rh
greetings,
have been google foo for week or so.
used to be super easy to upgrade spamassassin on CentOS dist.
just grab the tarball and put in right spot and
rpmbuild -tb spamassassin-3.somethingsomething.tar.gz
then rpm or yum install and done
would take just a few minutes.
Yet...
in
john
you can inexpensively purchase proper slim dvd drives for proliant servers
we have done so for G3. G4 is essentially same
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apologies we missed the memo(s)
evidentally doing an rpmbuild -tb after downloading the 3.3.2 tarball doesnt
work for rhel4 / centos4 et al?
wow... always seemed like a 3 minute process to me
anyways, i think ive about exhausted a week of google foo.
rpms or tips anyone?
-rh
It's removal was based at least in part on a belief that it
was not actually usable for anybody. You could take it up
with the dev list, particularly if you're up for maintaining
it in a way that's useful for the major rpm platforms.
Either way you probably want to talk to Warren
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:37 AM
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to enable Flow Control on CentOS?
On 7/7/2011 9:24 AM, R - elists wrote
rudi
when migrating some rackmount HP servers running Centos4 from hard coded 100
meg fdx to auto gigE that we had to
1) remove this from our ifcfg-ethX files
ETHTOOL_OPTS=speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
2) proper CAT6 wiring
3) plug into the copper gigE switchport
4) reboot
using Cisco
A minor detail - I think you *must* have autoneg set first -
it applies them one after the other, in my experience.
ETHTOOL_OPTS=autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
mark
in this case though, it is gigE so dont use 100
it was used cause cisco typically should be hard set for
Do note that the server-grade SSDs are far more reliable than
the consumer-grade crap.
mark
mark,
what specific units are considered server grade ssd's ?
have you bought and used them with CentOS? other opsys ?
where are you sourcing and what are you paying?
- rh
Dag wrote:
Before I leave this list let me take you back about 7 years
to the Whitebox mailinglist. You may not remember that
Whitebox had a list of issues of its own, no timely updates,
no community effort, lack of good communication. It was
mostly a one-man-effort.
bummer to see you
no, the saying is...
if it aint broken, dont fix it !
especially on weekends, monday, or friday
;-
that is why everyone should have a small or large lab for testing and
rollout...
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Les wrote:
Everyone expected this from Red Hat before the 'EL' versions
when publishing a free CD of community work was the way QA
was done. (And if you've forgotten, go dig through some
changelogs of that era to see just how bad things were and
how much we gained from that process).
we do not need post by post moderation so to speak
we need several lists...
two of which are
babies / horses behind list
adult list
when you prove your centos helpfulness community worth on the babies
list, you get to be in the adult list
this would seem easier to admin...
i would actually
There is a plan, of sorts. I wanted to make sure the QA guys
had a few days to mull it over before making it public. And
then there was the rather nice and long holiday weekends here
in the UK. 10th is the first target, with a release couple of
weeks later. We have a potential release
call redhat legal and/or please take this up with your own paul legal
counsel
this is not the place
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the we that we speak of is our organization, *not* of or for CentOS and
it's assigns
we believe that CentOS could do more and that (humble opinion) the CentOS
team should be financially compensated fairly for their efforts on all of
our behalf...
- rh
Eero,
that is great, as long as you consider and actually donate to CentOS
regularly
statistically, most people that download or use CentOS, do not donate.
- rh
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How would they be different from Oracle if they did that as a
business?
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Well Les, i dont know.
bringing in Oracle to the equation needlessly complicates this thread
although i get some parallels for thinking purposes only.
the project and that company are not
I never ask, and never complain, since I don't feel this
totally free product owes me anything... As a matter of fact,
we owe the project...
Scott,
yes, we all owe the CentOS project in some way...
thing is, IDFR if we have ever been fully updated on the Open Letter
problem(s) with the
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Cox
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 9:37 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard
It didnt work.
Here is the logs:
Feb 7 18:17:25
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of S Mathias
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:45 AM
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates
SNIP
Would someone please unsubscribe and BAN this person please ?
the person
This is a misunderstanding. I am largely against
whitelisting or negative score rules. I merely intend to
increase the variety of legitimate mail in the nightly ham
corpus so our spam-hostile rules can be better tested for
safety. This will be interesting especially with non-English
please stop wasting your precious time
break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some RAM
it is TOTALLY inexpensive and you can add some quality years to your life
than to spend it in such painful and worrisome turmoil
;-
I TOTALLY do not get your point.
If you
heads up and fyi folks...
CentOS 4 latest...
SpamAssassin version 3.3.1
running on Perl version 5.8.8
:-)
i noticed on a centos 4 box after doing a manual yum update and getting 2
updated perl packages from rpmforge
again, just a heads up as rpmforge has been rock solid for us for years so
we have CENTOS 5 on DELL servers. some servers have longer
than one year did not reboot. Our consultant suggest we need
at least reboot once every year to clean out memory junk.
What is your opinion?
maybe i missed it yet, did anyone mention the old adage...
if it isn't broke,
this is not urls, but ip blacklisted dns ip
url is another test
--
xpoint
benny,
it appears you might have it backwards...
http://www.spamhaus.org/dbl/
http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Spamhaus%20DBL#287
- rh
benny
i meant your description of DBL
i went to their website and everything they said was opposite of what you
said
- rh
Agreed. Seems to me that any discussion related to blocking
spam is relevant.
no Perkel, everthing posted is not necessarily acceptable, helpful and/or
relevant.
especially when spamming the list for your tarbaby stuff, free or not.
it appears to me that you used to be a lot more
mark
the FAQ suff is a good idea...
in fact, when people singup, they should have to agree to list rules or be
pointed to them on signup.
i wonder though, seriously, does the teach a man to fish principle really
apply?
ie LMGTFY type stuff or ???
or cluesticks?
;-
as far as lazy, it is
disagree, we read them all the time.
if we didnt, then we would be wasting time money purchasing very hi tech
and then wasting time and money not being able to use it or spinning wheels
looking for docs etc.
i think the problem is more that rules are not enforced in many lists...
or nobody
the point is enforcement somehow...
why not require a small yearly donation for access to the list ???
12 bucks a year? or more ?
donations cannot be taken back yet lusers can be moderated or terminated
and to come back, they donate again
- rh
But what's the point? When you give away
huh? it was sincere
we are on your side bunky... :-)
insert foot in backside;-)
lighten up homes
- rh
Come on, did he need satirepost/satire?
#insert old_guard.h
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well taken
i think centos should make manatory donation for support list or a few of
their lists...
revenue will do centos project/people good.
then moderate
- rh
The simple answer is moderation. If, say, 3, or 5 regular
posters complain about someone, they get a canned warning
no, i probably would join your list because it might be straight up doody.
right? eh? ;-)
open source doesnt mean free tech support to triple portion idiot morons on
an email list
present company excluded, of course ;-)
- rh
Ahh ok so you want mind paying a fee to join my list and
realistically you are not getting any dns
when in dhcp mode, the /etc/resolv.conf file typically will point to the
router ip instead of real dns servers
once you deal with that, you should be ok...
thing is, if you stay in dhcp mode, the next time you dhcp or reboot, the
resolv.conf will go
Has anyone had any success getting WinXP 32bit to use 4 CPU's
under Centos 5.5 KVM?
I have tried everything and the best I can get is 2 CPU's. I
tried everything listed here
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/running-windows-smp-guests
I am using
the VIRTIO drivers.
Is
Yes, it is a known issue. Fixed in SVN already, and will be
shipped with the next release 3.3.2.
when will 3.3.2 be pushed out?
- rh
In particular, I find these two paragraphs from
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf to be contradictory:
Trusted relays that accept mail directly from
dial-up connections
(i.e. are also performing a role of mail submission
agents - MSA)
should not be listed in
Having full rDNS isn't the issue.
What probably happened was something like this:
1) your ISP reported their dynamic addresses to SORBS, or
SORBS inferred them via various means.
2) SORBS listed those addresses in DUL
3) Your ISP ran low on static addresses, and allocated to
At 10:18 20-04-10, LuKreme wrote:
I got a mail from Paypal, but it is not FROM paypal, but it
appears to
have passed DKIM
If it passed DKIM and it is signed by info.paypal.com, it's
from Paypal.
Regards,
-sm
the biggest problem i ever saw was when paypal email was coming
add to that rule
else
score
gmail is both spf and dkim meta this for this score in a
else, where one score is real users that use gmail properly,
and one that dont :=)
so here the rule will give 2 scores when it mathes depending
on dkim/spf pass
benny,
what do you mean
greetings :-)
config is centos4 SA 3.3.1 upgraded from SA 3.2.5
having spent the better part of a two days searching as well as trying
different configs and SA restarts
no good results
we do not have a hardware horsepower resource starvation issue
this machine does *not* use SQL for
notes:
when using flock as the file locking in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf we get
spamd[2489]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases
/home/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed:
Interrupted system call
spamd[2489]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases
I'd guess that you have a bayes expire running that is either
taking too long or not finishing and leaving lock files around.
Turn off bayes_auto_expire and use bayes_learn_to_journal.
Add a cron job to periodically sa-learn --sync (say hourly)
and another cron job to do sa-learn
That was going to be my guess, too. You're not swapping, or
having some other i/o issue are you?
/Jason
no sir
i shutdown spamassassin
backed it all up
dusted bayes
started spamassassin
retrained 200 plus of each
seems ok so far...
3.2.5 was working awesome overall yet
greetings, :-)
coupla days ago upgraded from 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 on a production centos4 machine
all 3.2.5 old files and dirs and all conflicting/duplicate rules removed
from machine.
it appears that overall things went quite well
2 days later doing some normal log parsing i noticed this
They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would
get into contract liability if they did).
RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009).
RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010.
RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012
RHEL5 will go out of
RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May
31, 2009).
RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010.
RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012
Since the world will end in 2012, your version 5 installs
will be just fine!!!
LOL
Scott,
hehehe, do you mean
I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off
upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that
still seems like it was a good move even if most of the
problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with
many years elapsing between releases, skipping a version
Now THAT is off-topic. We are discussing the use of SA at SMTP time.
Please stay on-topic for this group, and for this thread.
If you actually care to continue, I expect a reasonable
response to my arguments about rejection being better than
bouncing or silent diversion.
Geez, you
i forgot...
is it necessary to reboot after glibc* yum updates on 4.x and 5.x or any
centos for that matter...
tia
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Just try it out. You will find that the detection rate
without SARE is excellent and there's likely no benefit from
SARE. Most SARE are well outdated. This applies to 3.2.5 as well.
Kai
Kai
i appreciate your input, yet i really wanted Warren to answer for his blog
post on it in
http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2010/01/spamassasin-rarely-misses.php
Yeah, it's partly self-serving, but that's what corporate
blogs are for. The people who read this blog are mostly
marketers with very little exposure to the open source
community, so this should help them
-Original Message-
From: Spamassassin List [mailto:spamassassinl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:24 AM
To: 'Warren Togami'; 'SpamAssassin Dev'; 'SpamAssassin Users List'
Subject: RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL
http://wtogami.livejournal.com/33674.html
in regards to
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin/
Q1) what does this annotation mean?
* Do not publish the ADVANCE_FEE re-evolve test rules! *
we frequently check for updates and it appears that we shouldnt at this time
until ???
Q2) when? :-)
tia
-
Per,
Must be why Marc asked the list too :-)
so, that is why you responded?
are you the uninformed, or the unqualified? or both?
;-
But seriously, in a case like this, who better to ask than
the people you are serving?
but seriously, *all* necessary things considered to make a
The spam/ham decision is always in the eye of the beholder.
One persons spam is another ones ham.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Per,
you are right!
i am seeing you filling out those free credit report URL's frequently...
:-)
yet...
the thing really is, i havent figured how to block
From: Adam Katz
I can definitely relate. My $10 Titan Peeler is less
effective than a rusty old pocketknife, and it somehow cost
me $43 (had to buy two, shipping was about 2x the cost).
Not only that, but I never saw the total price until the
order had finished, and I couldn't
Ask your customers - block the ads for a while and see if
anyone complains.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
that's right, experts should always ask the uninformed or unqualified.
;-)
- rh
I have them blocked here because they have sent me two
totally unsolicited emails that got through hostkarma
whitelist. They were on my dubious list because of stories
I've heard about them. This places them on my specific
blacklist. This is a particularly large problem given their
This is a tricky decision. What they Free Credit Report /
Experian is doing is fraudulent. Although they aren't
stealing they way phishers are, just because they aren't just
as bad. In fact I suspect they rip off far more people than
phishers do. I'm thinking about black listing them but
Yes, complaining instead of notifying the right people. Way to go!
karsten,
woooh!
you are welcome! :-)
since i dont know who it is, what do you expect?
this isnt the first post to the list about it...
there was another thread or two about it in the recent past... i.e. 1 to 3
I'm starting to wonder if the simplest solution to this is to punt.
If I put a $40 router between eth2 and the big scary world,
then eth2 could become 192.168.whatever.whatever, and then
this routing issue would go away on its own and it could
still talk to the outside world (and
I have had a number of people ask me why I want this
arrangement, where I have two modems on a single outbound subnet.
This is (going to be) a server with limited upload bandwidth.
By having two outbound connections, I can use a round robin
dns entry to share the load between the
I have been using a free DNS service for the past seven (7) years.
This morning, at 4 A.M., , I changed the A record for one
of my web sites, to point to an IP address on a different
server, so I could test. After watching the TTL count down
from 3600 to zero, with the dig command,
would anyone out there care to share their robots.txt experience using
centos as a webserver and their robots.txt files?
i realize this is a somewhat simple exercise, yet i am sure there are both
large and small hosters out there and possibly those that have high traffic
modify their robots.txt
From: tonjg [mailto:t...@freeuk.com]
On 01/13/2010 07:22 PM, tonjg wrote:
thanks for your response Ned.
your last line describes exactly what I want to do - reject
mail, do it at the smtp stage in sendmail - but I don't know
how to achieve this.
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TonJ,
From: Christian Brel
Sensible folk know people like Return Path will never grow
the balls to stand up to eBay, they will just take the money
and smile.
Christian Brel,
are you suggesting that orgs like Return Path buy some body part growth
pharma ?
;-
- rh
Karanbir Singh wrote:
snip
Good question, they are after all ( the Sun 45xx's ) just
opteron box's with a mostly standard build. Finding a CentOS
compatible ( drivers pre-included, and not crap like cciss )
would not be too hard.
Who wants to offer up a machine to test on :)
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RW,
thank you...
exactly what we thought.
exactly what others said/thought.
we changed it to this before the update and still had the issue.
so we changed back to the older version and then zero'd the score.
waitied for the update
after the update,
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