Al and others, I use a more simple-minded approach for updating my rulesets.
I am running Postfix/SA on a FreeBSD4.8 box, and am using Putty to ssh into it. Putty has a very nice feature that lets you paste into the window starting at the cursor by simply right-mouse-clicking. Thus, I bring up the web page containing the rules I want to copy, highlight and do a ^c, then right-mouse-click into the waiting vi window. If I'm updating a complete ruleset, highlight the entire page, ^c, rm the rulset, vi the new copy of the ruleset, type 'i' for insert mode, right-mouse-click, save it off, and I'm done. Works like a champ, and avoids any silliness with cr/lf conversion, and save me from doing a lot of typing as well. It's not automated, but seems to work just fine for what I need it to do. Kurt -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Al Danks Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: Bigevil and SARE update! If you read only one post this year, it should be this one Robert Menschel <Robert <at> Menschel.net> writes: > > Hello Al, > > How did you download the file, and then how did you save it to your > system? If you used any editor or word processor that might wrap text, > that could be the cause. > > Another possibility: If you saved the file on a Windows/DOS machine, and > then copied it to a Unix machine without translating for the O/S > difference, that could also cause similar symptoms. First attempt downloaded to Windows PC and copied to Unix. Second attempt, just now, wget http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/biz_market_learn.cf directly from Unix machine. Still get the same illegal hexadecimal ! line 1 when I restart SA 2.63. At this point, since Chris says it's not ready yet I'm waiting until he says it is. Al
