Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-09 Thread Blars Blarson
age over 400 for a while, 25% idle time, 50% wait. The only unusuall thing running was many exim4 and procmail processes starting and completing quickly. My guess is spammers tried sending so much spam at once that nothing got through. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-11-01 Thread Blars Blarson
sages to any and all addresses they find or make up. (There was one spammer that figured out how to open bugs, and created three bugs before stopping.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, fail

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-31 Thread Blars Blarson
een cleaned since the last time it received mail. In other words, don't worry about duplicated reports. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-30 Thread Blars Blarson
/bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugspam.cgi?bug=$bug";); } -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-30 Thread Blars Blarson
has been going up, and I expect to have less time available for it in the future. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-30 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:02:41 -0800, Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >>We have a SA rule for this run now, but sending such hints to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] will get them seen much faster than debian-dev

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-29 Thread Blars Blarson
e, and I have reported all of >them in the BTS' spam interface [1] We have a SA rule for this run now, but sending such hints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will get them seen much faster than debian-devel that I'm more than a week behind in reading. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL

Re: Debian ISOs

2006-08-23 Thread Blars Blarson
on-trivial, the user may not have the ability to do so. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Blars Blarson
ny orders of magnatude less than those caught by spamassassin. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-18 Thread Blars Blarson
ebian sparc folks may follow suit. It does support 64-bit applications. However, in almost all cases compiling for 64-bit just makes the application slower. Don't expect all 64-bit mode support for sparc. (amd64 is only faster in 64-bit mode because of all the poorly designe

O: cutter

2006-06-05 Thread Blars Blarson
retitle 316195 O: cutter -- disconnect routed IP connections severity 232058 grave thanks I'm not using this package, and it reportedly does not work with 2.6 kernels. It's been in RFA state for almost a year, with no takers. (One NM contacted me, but never prepared a fixed package for sponsorshi

Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)

2006-02-24 Thread Blars Blarson
gic. Is "sa-learn --spam" considered "black shell magic"? Of course you need to "sa-learn --ham" on some non-spam too. That's what I do with nominated messages to the BTS, and messages with a certain range of spamassassin scores.

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-02-22 Thread Blars Blarson
bugs that have gotten messages with questionable spamassassin scores. Scripting using the BTS spam feature is pretty easy, I've done so to process the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] telling us about spam in a bug. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-10 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 05:21:46PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: >> I can do the analyzing, but what should I do with the results? >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be a black hole. You'll need to find >> som

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Blars Blarson
dministrator to "make sure you don't do that". (Who could abuse his power as part of other teams to do that.) Been there, done that. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is no

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Blars Blarson
to redo the build and give you the desired info. Best: rewrite your build script to put the desired info into the build log. Instead of: foo >/tmp/foo 2>&1 use: if foo >/tmp/foo 2>&1 ; then : ; else cat /tmp/foo ; exit 1 ; fi -- B

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-06 Thread Blars Blarson
's >problem that should be "handled centrally". The buildd administrators have made it clear that's the way they want it. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

2005-11-20 Thread Blars Blarson
am intfaces listed above for some reason, put a 5 second sleep between the completion of one request and sending the next. That spreads the load out and gives others a chance to access the BTS. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.

Re: per-user temp directories by default? "Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:16:43 -0500")

2005-11-04 Thread Blars Blarson
e permissions to write to $TMP. But I've >never run across that -- suid programs are pretty uncommon. Some buildds use sudo rather than fakeroot. This could cause problems for them... (like the /dev/null one being discussed on #debian-devel) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PRO

Re: iso2mirror

2005-11-02 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On 11/3/05, Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I submitted a patch to apt-move to do this to the Debian BTS. > >Does it also provide the "symbolic links only" functionality the >parent

Re: iso2mirror

2005-11-02 Thread Blars Blarson
tual >way, please tell me if something along the same lines exists). I submitted a patch to apt-move to do this to the Debian BTS. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an optio

tools for rebuilding after buildd

2005-10-21 Thread Blars Blarson
ailed or failed and succeeded. If there is interest, I can do some rough documentation and cleanup. I don't think it's worth putting in the Debian archives. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Micros

Re: pbuilder help (bug 334877)

2005-10-20 Thread Blars Blarson
t-get build-dep $package apt-get source $package cd $package-ver dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are >>>spam. Can that

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Blars Blarson wrote: >> I've been working on the spam filtering for the BTS. We are getting >> over 100,000 spams/day and about 50/day get through the filters. > >are these numbers available somewhere? (the

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-03 Thread Blars Blarson
e an issue, especially if we upgrade to spamassassin 3. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-02 Thread Blars Blarson
filters are tuned, not if we do it or not. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Blars Blarson
to see the problem. Either: the message ID exists and is unique (normal case) the message ID does not exist (bogus/malformed report) the message ID exists and is not unique (chances are some if not all are spam) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam on the BTS (was: Spam on this list)

2005-09-01 Thread Blars Blarson
one non-spam per day. CBL is easy to get off of.) Would it be acceptable to delay questionable messages for a human to review? (Due to spam bursts, sometimes the BTS already takes 6 hours or more to processes the message queue.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing bugs in BTS

2005-08-24 Thread Blars Blarson
or answering my mail and sorry for taking Your time >if I really omitted some part of documentation or so ! The version tracking stuff is new and may still have a few rough edges. It is documented on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-22 Thread Blars Blarson
additional buildd was turned down. Offers of additional machines have been made as well, and an "forklift" upgrade of the existing buildd is pending agreement of debian-admin and the local admin. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-17 Thread Blars Blarson
esses that spam thier spamtraps, and removes listings automaticly after several days. They attempt not to list mail servers. To be removed immediatly, just fill out their web form with the IP address to be removed. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Blars Blarson
d to filter at least as well. (Some spammers only send to backup MX servers.) See http://www.spamhaus.org/ and http://cbl.abuseat.org/ for more information on the lists. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Blars Blarson
hose cases the package maintainer should fix the architecutes line.) I don't know the internals of the buildd process, but it appears your patch would fix the problem. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With

Re: buildd machines (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:13:10AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >writes: >> >- sparc: one buildd which is not consistently able to keep up with the >> > vol

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Blars Blarson
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:37:15PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Blars Blarson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've been watching the sparc buildd queues for the past 9 months or > > so, filing most of the ftbfs bugs for sparc, and prodding the buildd > > maintainer whe

package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Blars Blarson
se some redesign to put less work on the buildd maintainers and scale better to more buildds. >5) something else? occasional. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a

Vancouver prpopsal (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Blars Blarson
who are either apithetic about the architecture or activly hostile to it. The proposal gives veto power over getting an architecture in Debian to dozens of people, and all they need do to exersize it is to not fix a non-release-critical bug. In addtion, the DSA, buildd, security, and release teams all

buildd machines (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Blars Blarson
ges by a Debian developer trying to help the situation have been strongly discouraged. (Puting it mildly.) Exactly what can an ordinary Debian Developer do to fix this situation? How is it fair to blame the porters when the DSA and buildd teams refuse offers of help? --

Re: successful sparc buildd log, but no upload after 11 days

2005-05-08 Thread Blars Blarson
buildd maintainer insisted I don't upload them. As a normal DD, I'm not fighting this issue further without the backing of either the technical committee (which refused to rule) or the DPL (the previous one eventually sided with the buildd maintainer). -- Blars Blarson

Re: gluck (cvs, people, planet, etc.) downtime - ongoing raid problems

2005-04-04 Thread Blars Blarson
(The new address is 140.211.166.43) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Possible compromise on releasing architectures

2005-03-24 Thread Blars Blarson
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:12:35AM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:59:19AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > > Release candidate architecture: > > > > * testing managed by port release manager(s) > > * testing consists of packages that built on the

Possible compromise on releasing architectures

2005-03-24 Thread Blars Blarson
is a difference on what is reasonable, the technical committee will decide. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Required firewall support

2005-03-18 Thread Blars Blarson
s mode >> availability is a big plus, but not required from the OS point of view) > >Linux fails this. Even with forwarding disabled, it will accept packets >for an address on interface A via interface B. Enable rp_filter and it does reject such packets. echo 1 >/proc/sys/net

Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-16 Thread Blars Blarson
t two buildd administrators - systems located in at least two different facilities (different cities and backbones if at all possible) This allows the buildd administrator to take vacations, etc. This allows for redundancy in case of fire, flood, earthquake etc. -- Blars Blarson

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Blars Blarson
the status. I've also heard discussions several >months ago about using one of Ben's really fast machines. >If we do need auric and if we need resources to fix the RAID, Debian >can make funding available. > >> - kubrick: disk is dead I've also volenteere

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I have an e3500 to replace both auric and vore (and the raid), but I >haven't gotten an ok from James to do so yet. That would cut the number of sparc buildds down to one, when two are required for RC archtectures under the new propo

Re: s390 not currently projected releasable (was: Re: Dropping from mirror network vs dropping from tier-1)

2005-03-15 Thread Blars Blarson
itecture in the release architecture list. (I also volenteered my own machine as a buildd, but that was refused.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard featu

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-12 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >The fact is that I am unable to send emails with my debian.org address. >Does someone has some idea of how can I fix that? ssh to people.debian.org and send the mail from there. (use mutt, mailx, etc.) -- Blars Blarson

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-24 Thread Blars Blarson
. Requesting a specific requeue works with a week or two delay at times. I've been filing most of the ftbfs bugs for that architecture. You may wish to see my question to the tecnical committe on this matter. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: First line in /etc/hosts

2005-02-18 Thread Blars Blarson
nterface. The two may be combined. A router may use proxy arp. A machine may use the same ethernet address on multiple interfaces on different physical networks. This tends not to work well with vlans. (switches pretending to be multiple networks) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PRO

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-13 Thread Blars Blarson
faulty, you can return it for repair or refund. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-08 Thread Blars Blarson
kinda like a news client. hinfo optionally periodicly updates a couple of files using wget. Never, once, weekly and monthy are the current options. (Daily would be easy to add, but I considered it inappropriate for how often the hinfo data changes.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PRO

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Blars Blarson
e not given away some of what I've given away, or picked up slightly better machines for not much money. I may be given a few in the near future. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

Re: [debian-devel] Re: which policy checker?

2003-10-14 Thread Blars Blarson
updated since woody.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.

get together at torcon3? Toronto, Aug 28-Sep 1

2003-08-08 Thread Blars Blarson
access to -private.] -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: setgid crontab

2003-08-04 Thread Blars Blarson
before trusting it. It should not trust symbolic links either. Otherwise it instanly promotes everything that looks like a crontab into one. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: the RFC mess: tentative summary

2003-07-13 Thread Blars Blarson
Does it seem ironic to others that documents titled "Request for Comments" can't be quoted while making comments on them? (This is a flame of the current IETF, which has goals contrary to the people who originally designed the Internet.) -- Blars Blarson [

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread Blars Blarson
much spam as non-spam. Without the spam filters, I'd probably wind up not reading email at all. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Blars Blarson
tive mail as well. (sendmail.mc changes available on request.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-13 Thread Blars Blarson
g TCP sockets. It will also need to cope with writing to /var/run on the root partition, having /var mounted, and later processes not being able to open the file since the /var/run directory on the root disk is inaccessable. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

2002-08-22 Thread Blars Blarson
at a sysadmin needs to change to use them just because they arn't recomended. (See http://www.alternic.org/ for info on alternic. While I have my problems with the way icann runs the DNS, alternic doesn't show signs of being run better, just differently.) -- Blars Blarson

Spamassassin config files in /usr/share

2002-04-06 Thread Blars Blarson
The spamassasin maintainer doesn't think that there are settings in /usr/share that can't be overridden by the settings in /etc should be considered "serious". See bug #141125 and spamassassin bug #188. Currently, I edit the file in /usr/share to implement my site-wide policies, but this will be