Re: [SAtalk] Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep upwith the latest rulesets

2004-01-18 Thread Victor Brilon
Why not just run --lint on the downloaded file and then check the exit status of the command? If it's non-zero, then you know there was an error. Victor Jack L. Stone wrote: Chris: I made a few little changes to your script to have it use a "tmp" file, then ask is the --lint was okay to go forwa

[SAtalk] Interesting spam content

2003-09-14 Thread Victor Brilon
This morning I got a piece of spam that contained the following lines in it at the bottom. Obviously this was a spam tool gone wrong -- but does anyone see anything useful in this data that could be used to prevent further spam? The dns addresses listed belong ot an outfilt in Florida (why do a

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-07 Thread Victor Brilon
I took the interface that someone (sorry don't remember who right now) posted and modified it. The original was written in PHP and I rewrote it in Perl, since I am allergic to PHP :), and added a bunch of functionality to it. The text of the script is here: http://www.victorland.com/rules.txt

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-11 Thread Victor Brilon
system wide for our users since we began using sa. Thanks. -- Chris LaFrance, System Administrator Berkshire County Network email: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." -- William Safire On Tue, 7

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-11 Thread Victor Brilon
You have 2 options: 1) Run the script suid as root so it can read/write users' ~/.spamassassin dirs. This is a really bad idea in general. I am pretty sure I coded my script safely, but I certainly would not bet the security of my mailserver on it. 2) Have your users' user_prefs file in a singl

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-11 Thread Victor Brilon
After thinking about the whole web interface thing this weekend, I decided to give my script another rewrite (the current script can be downloaded from http://www.victorland.com/rules.txt, and can be seen in demo mode at http://www.victorland.com/rules.cgi). I'd love to hear (either on-list or

[SAtalk] Turn off SA in user_prefs?

2003-01-11 Thread Victor Brilon
Is there a setting a user can put his user_prefs setting to turn off SA? I've looked through the SA man pages and haven't been able to find anything of the sort. Thanks, Victor --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Ed

Re: [SAtalk] My posting

2003-01-13 Thread Victor Brilon
*plink* That's the sound of your idiot behavior causing me (and I suspect quite a few others) to add you to my killfile. Nice way to make yourself known to a list btw. Blatant stupidity and rudeness is bad enough. Crude racist remarks are a different kind of offensive behavior altogether. Don