On Jan 10 14:43:06, [email protected] wrote: > On 01/10/2014 12:12 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > >>> I have had 1 OBSD box, with e-mail server (sendmail), 1 web page > >>> (apache), and anonymous ftp server for almost 14 years; upgrading by > >>> clean installations every 6 months, and without problems. I have 2 80GB > >>> hard drives (1 system, 1 /ftp/pub). > >>> > >>> This time, i installed DokuWiki, and Mailman over 5.3; > > > > How? Using packages? > > yes > > >> failing with Mailman. > > > > How exactly? > > i could not understand the logic, and security.
So to be sure: it's not that the installation of the mailman package failed, it's you that failed to understand its logic? > >> I added 2 vhost to the web server. And at this time everything > >>> was going well. > > > > No it wasn't: mailman installation failed in some way. > > Nop, mailman was before the clean installation. So after a 'clean installation', you have no mailman, right? > >> Before, the last upgrade; i decide to test the upgrade > >>> 5.3-5.4 using the recommended method (install54.iso), and failed. > > > > How exactly di the upgrade fail? > > i failed with sysmerge, but did not like me that method. How exactly did sysmerge 'fail'? > >> It > >>> really, did not like me. After that, I did a clean installation of 5.4, > >>> and installed the full system, plus DokuWiki and dependencies; it > >>> happened on Jan 7 2014, > > > > How did you install DokuWiki? > > pkg_add > > >>> Surprise, on Jan 9 2014; i found 1 soft link to the web server from > >>> /root; > > > > What was the synlinks name, when was it created, etc? > > exactly the name of 1 vhost. created on Jan 9 > > > What did fstat say about it? > > ??? I mean stat(1) > >> i began to review deeper, and found the file > >>> /var/www/logs/etag-state in chinese; > > > > How do you know? How exactly did you open and read the file > > so that you know it was in chinese? Does you terminal support > > the chinese character set? Please elaborate. > > i open the file with kwrite, and i saw exadecimal characters (maybe); What made you open /var/www/logs/etag-state with kwrite? (You have kwrite installed on a web server, right?) What format was the file in? > the second time there where chinese characters; i was using another > laptop (ssh). So you copied /var/www/logs/etag-state over to some other machine, opened is again with kwrite, and saw some chinese characters. Right? > >> 2 references to hinet (chinese) > > messages from sendmail. > > > What "references"? > > What's "hinet" and how do you know it is chinese? > > whois So this is unrelated to your mysterious chinese etag-state; there were simply some "references" to "hinet.cn" in your sendmail logs. > >>> intenting to send spam (relay). > > > > How do you know that "hinet" (whatever it is) > > was intenting to send or relay spam? > > i simply know it, reading the message. What message? > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which > had a name of signature.asc] Attachments are not allowed on this list.
