If they have not yet put the disk drive from the failed machine in the trash, there are data recovery companies who can usually get the data off of a fried disk drive.
> > On 5/27/2014 3:47 PM, John Goubeaux wrote: > > Thanks guys, > > > > Yes, I was aware that an exit code of "1" IS normal when No New > > updates are available, But I assumed that the fact that this was going > > on for so long might indicate another problem was occurring. > Good time for an update to the users list about the issue. The box that > processed the updates at the ASF collo failed catastrophically during a > power surge that took down some other boxes as ell. Unfortunately, while > the project requested backups in 2009, they were not implemented. > > Since that crash, I've recovered a lot of the data and rebuilt several > of the services from the data recovery, rsync backups and svn data. I > also had the new box increased by 100GB in diskspace thanks to Jan > Iverson with Infra because I was spending too much time manipulating > data due to low space. > > Yesterday, I spent some time as well and Joes4 from Infra agreed to try > to recovered the crontab/spools today though he is not hopeful. > Otherwise, luckily I have cron logs and I think I've identified most of > the scripts that run from cron. > > So at this point, I will soon have exhausted all of the attempts to > recover without going to the next phase which is to try and reverse > engineer the cron jobs. The hardest part is that there are multiple > iterations of the various pieces of the masscheck system that have been > put in place so I have to figure out in some cases, which one is the > right piece. > > And at the same time, I've been properly documenting the changes to the > underlying system so should I get hit by a bus, the system can be > rebuilt without me. > > > Apparently the sought.rules.yerp.org channel is also not being > > regularly updated either ? > Sought is technically not a project ruleset but I think I now have > access to all the boxes to get it running again. Alex Broens has > offered to help so I hope to get him that info soon. It's a second > priority after the rebuild of the zones box. > > > > Are there any other recommended rule channels to use ? > > I would recommend this rule set though I do not publish it as a channel > though some (thanks Gushi) have attempted to help me do so: > http://www.pccc.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf > > Regards, > KAM > Tom Schulz Applied Dynamics Intl. [email protected]
