Saturday, June 22, 2002

High Linux uptime

My no-name white box (P200, 64M, Red Hat 7.1) had 231 day uptime when
I had to shut it down to add more memory and get ready to replace it
with a home built AMD 1.8G running debian 'woody'. The previous white
box system was a P486/33 with 24M running Red Hat 6.2. A 6x speed bump
then 9x. In a few years will the next one be a 21.6G monster?


$ uptime
9:36am up 231 days, 11:01, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00

Thursday, June 13, 2002

Teaching SpamAssassin about the Microsoft KLEZ virus

Adding lines like the ones below does a pretty good job about tagging
the KLEZ virus as spam. It does miss some of the KLEZ variations
because the KLEZ_CONTENT is slightly different.


$ grep -i klez /usr/share/spamassassin/*
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_IFRAME /iframe
src=3Dcid:/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_IFRAME Frame u
sed by the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_CONTENT /TVqQAA
MAAAAEAAAA/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_CONTENT Content
of part of the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_IFRAME 10.0
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_CONTENT 10.0

Teaching SpamAssassin about the Microsoft KLEZ virus.

Adding lines like the ones below does a pretty good job about tagging
the KLEZ virus as spam. It does miss some of the KLEZ variations
because the KLEZ_CONTENT is slightly different.


$ grep -i klez /usr/share/spamassassin/*
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_IFRAME /iframe
src=3Dcid:/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_IFRAME Frame u
sed by the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_CONTENT /TVqQAA
MAAAAEAAAA/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_CONTENT Content
of part of the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_IFRAME 10.0
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_CONTENT 10.0

Sunday, June 9, 2002

Upgrade to autoconf 2.53, gettext

Newer versions of lifelines
requires autoconf 2.50 or later and
(maybe) a more recent gettext to build. Upgraded to autoconf 2.53
(autoconf-2.53-5.noarch.rpm) and gettext 0.11.2
(gettext-0.11.2-2.i386.rpm)

Upgrade Mozilla 1.0 and Galeon 1.2.5

Now that Galeon has released a version that works with Mozilla 1.0 now
is the time to upgrade both packages. See href="http://ftp34.newaol.com/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/i386/">http://ftp34.newaol.com/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/i
386/
and galeon.sourceforge.net

Monday, June 3, 2002

xmlto pdf file.xml doesn't work well on Red Hat 7.3

A tip from #linuxdoc regular gleblanc suggested upgrading to rawhides
newer href="http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xmltex">xmltex
and href="http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=passivetex">passiv
etex.
Stock Red Hat 7.3 has: xmltex-20000118-8 and passivetex-1.12-3,
rawhide has one minor version later.

.procmailrc configuration for spamassassin

I put filters for mailing lists that are for the most part spam-free
above these to entries and those lists that are spam-heavy below it.


:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamassassin -P -c /usr/share/spamassassin

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam