A number of people reported severe problems with the bitdefender update scripts yesterday. Seemingly the processes were hanging and eating up CPU. Kevin Spicer found a good interim solution: vim /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-autoupdate Comment out the following two lines: LINE 190 system "$bitDCmd > $origFile "; LINE 253 system "$bitDCmd > $destFile "; You then need to … [Read more...] about BitDefender issue
SMTP Auth with postfix
Niall has written an excellent howto for setting this up: Postfix + smtp auth It worked for me first time … [Read more...] about SMTP Auth with postfix
IEDR – comreg again
Someone brought up IEDR and Comreg on the IIU list yesterday. I was chatting about this with a friend and he pointed me at Dave Wilson's very incisive posting about it: So the department of... The reality is that the cost of IE domains to resellers is not as high as some people would like to make others believe. Yes - co.uk domains cost less per unit Yes - .nl domains are cheap … [Read more...] about IEDR – comreg again
Dracula – Stoker and Coppolla
I finally got my DVD of Coppolla's Dracula back. I'd lent it out to Ashley about 3 years ago! I'd forgotten how dark a film it was, though I must admit that some of the cast were a little weak. Keanu Reeves' accent really grates on me, but Winona Ryder et al more than make up for it :mrgreen: Of course, to truly appreciate the film you should read the book: When I was about … [Read more...] about Dracula – Stoker and Coppolla
SA3 – RC3
Julian released a set of scripts to install Spam Assassin RC3 yesterday for both rpm and non-rpm based distros. You can get them here and maybe you'll have more luck with them than I did :mrgreen: I couldn't get it to work on the Whitebox machine I was trying to install it on, as it would not overwrite the contents of /usr/share/spamassassin After trying to rectify this in a … [Read more...] about SA3 – RC3