Jim Philips | 1 Dec 2007 01:33

OT: How many of us have been here before?

XKCD had an episode this week that is sure to be appreciated by all the
spouses of us tinkerers:

http://xkcd.com/349/
Jim Popovitch | 1 Dec 2007 01:56

Re: OT: How many of us have been here before?

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:33 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> XKCD had an episode this week that is sure to be appreciated by all the
> spouses of us tinkerers:
> 
> http://xkcd.com/349/

How true.

-Jim P.
William Bagwell | 1 Dec 2007 02:41

Re: OT: How many of us have been here before?

On Friday 30 November 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:33 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> > XKCD had an episode this week that is sure to be appreciated by all
> > the spouses of us tinkerers:
> >
> > http://xkcd.com/349/
>
> How true.

I don't know about that, might have to disagree a bit. The one (and so far 
only) time I ever installed BSD, I was done in well under an hour.

Of course it was at an ALE meeting and I had expert step-by-step 
instruction:)
--

-- 
William
Jeb Barger | 1 Dec 2007 15:01

Debian Postfix, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin

Ok, I can't seem to figure this one out.  I am installing Amavis and Spamassassin on a Debian Etch Postfix installation.

It doesn't seem that Spamassassin is working.  It the headers in the email that I send to myself all I get is:

X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.testme.net

I checked my amavis conf file, and I have headers to be listed no matter what

$sa_spam_subject_tag = '***SPAM*** ';
$sa_tag_level_deflt  = undef;  # add spam info headers if at, or above that level
$sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level
$sa_kill_level_deflt = 9999; # triggers spam evasive actions
$sa_dsn_cutoff_level = 10;   # spam level beyond which a DSN is not sent

Spamassassin seems to be loading in amavis:

Dec  1 08:12:45 paradox amavis[9049]: ANTI-VIRUS code      loaded
Dec  1 08:12:45 paradox amavis[9049]: ANTI-SPAM code       loaded
Dec  1 08:12:45 paradox amavis[9049]: ANTI-SPAM-SA code    loaded
Dec  1 08:12:45 paradox amavis[9049]: Unpackers code       loaded

Nov 30 22:24:07 paradox amavis[27168]: (27168-02) Passed SPAM, 

What am I missing or what else should I check?

Jeb
Jim Popovitch | 1 Dec 2007 18:19

Re: Debian Postfix, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 09:01 -0500, Jeb Barger wrote:
> What am I missing or what else should I check?

Why do you think spamassassin is not working?

-Jim P.
Jeb Barger | 1 Dec 2007 20:36

Re: Debian Postfix, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 09:01 -0500, Jeb Barger wrote:
>   
>> What am I missing or what else should I check?
>>     
>
> Why do you think spamassassin is not working?
>
> -Jim P.
>
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Because it's not placing the spam score in the email headers.  Shouldn't
it be doing that?
Jim Popovitch | 1 Dec 2007 23:45

Re: Debian Postfix, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 14:36 -0500, Jeb Barger wrote:
> Because it's not placing the spam score in the email headers.  Shouldn't
> it be doing that?

Yes it should.  I successfully use these settings:

$sa_tag_level_deflt  = 0.0;
$sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.0;
$sa_kill_level_deflt = $sa_tag2_level_deflt;
$sa_dsn_cutoff_level = 10;

NOTE: if you have $first_infected_stops_scan set to 1, then it could be
possible amavis determines the email is spam based on something other
than SA.  

Hth,

-Jim P.
Jim Popovitch | 2 Dec 2007 00:42

weird "find" behavior

I'm seeing some find weirdness.  On both Ubuntu Etch and RH4ES, if I do
the following I can locate files:

	find /usr/include/ -type f -name *.c

But if I do this, I find nothing:

	find /usr/include/ -type f -name *.h

However if I do this, I find files:

	find /usr/include/ -type f -name "*.h"

WTF?

-Jim P.
mutewonder | 2 Dec 2007 01:11
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Re: WIFI Radar, Network-manager-gnome and a WAP Key

In my version of wifi-radar (1.9.8), there are a couple of related lines 
for a WPA-secured connection, in /etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf:
  use_wpa = yes
  wpa_driver = wext

James Earl Smith wrote:
> Before my roommate added a WAP to our home network I had no problem 
> using Wifi Radar.
>
> Now the house has a WAP Key I have to run network manager gnome, which 
> takes the key, but it locks me out of non keyed networks.
>
> I prefer Wifi Radar but don't know how to put a WAP key into it. Does 
> any one in the group know how to do this?
>
> I am running Ubuntu 6.06 on a Dell 5150
>
> James Smith
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List | 2 Dec 2007 03:03

Re: weird "find" behavior

Your shell is likely expanding * when not enclosed in quotes.  Depending 
on what shell, and numerous set and environment variables all kinds of 
strange things could be happening.

Best practice is to *always* quote wildcard characters (or any character 
the shell might expand/modify).

Tom

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I'm seeing some find weirdness.  On both Ubuntu Etch and RH4ES, if I do
> the following I can locate files:
>
> 	find /usr/include/ -type f -name *.c
>
> But if I do this, I find nothing:
>
> 	find /usr/include/ -type f -name *.h
>
> However if I do this, I find files:
>
> 	find /usr/include/ -type f -name "*.h"
>
> WTF?
>
> -Jim P.
>
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