http://newswall.org.uk/news/ en-us 2007-03-06T16:08:22+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000731.html Obelisk went a bit odd (load average at 17 but not doing much) so it was rebooted. Seems okay now. A dependancy issue between postfix-relay and the domain keys filter has been identified. A task force is being assembled.... Outage gordonj 2007-03-06T16:08:22+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000730.html I've changed the spam checking script so it checks all inbound mail even if they already have 'X-Spam-Status' headers. It strips all exising X-Spam-Level, and X-Spam-Status headers before the mail is sent to SpamAssassin. Hopefully this will prevent some spam... General gordonj 2007-02-23T11:54:11+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000729.html clamav 0.88.3 -> 0.88.7 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-18.xml... Updates/Patches/Security gordonj 2007-01-15T16:52:49+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000728.html gzip 1.3.5-r6 -> 1.3.5-r10 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-13.xml... Updates/Patches/Security gordonj 2007-01-15T16:19:26+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000725.html Bind 9.2.2-r2 -> 9.3.2-r4 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-11.xml I have also made .com and .net delegation only.... Updates/Patches/Security gordonj 2007-01-15T16:15:59+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000724.html I've just added an extra gig of space to the mail filesystem.... Outage gordonj 2006-12-01T11:18:17+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000723.html It seems outbound mail for some domains was not working following the reboot test. This has been fixed, all queued mail should be sent shortly.... Outage gordonj 2006-09-23T13:42:21+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000722.html Reboot test has been completed sucsessfully. 300 days since the last one, nice. Hopefully should be ok whilst I'm on holiday now.... Outage gordonj 2006-09-21T12:44:04+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000721.html I will be performing a couple of reboot tests on Obelisk today and possibly tomorrow, to ensure that the server can survive a power outage whilst I'm on holiday.... Outage gordonj 2006-09-18T10:37:53+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000720.html Perl has been updated to 5.8.8. This means all relevent perl modules and applications linked to Perl have been rebuilt. Notably SpamAssassin has been updated to 3.1.3... Updates/Patches/Security gordonj 2006-08-05T21:06:55+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000719.html The Jabber MSN transport has been a bit odd today so I've updated it to 0.11.1. Details here if you're interested: http://delx.cjb.net/pymsnt/?page=news... Updates/Patches/Security gordonj 2006-08-02T14:24:43+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000718.html In order to improve the security of Obelisk I have enabled logging for bash. Please note this means all of your commands are logged, however I don't expect to review them unless I think the box is having problems.... Updates/Patches/Security gordonj 2006-06-22T16:21:31+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000717.html I've killed off the climate change experiment. Need the resources for other stuff.... General gordonj 2006-05-24T17:45:54+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000716.html A new backup policy has been implemented for Obelisk. It goes like this: /var/mail - Every night at 4:30 am /home - Mon, Web, Fri at 2am /var/www - Tues, Thurs, Sat at 2am / (excluding the above) - Sun... General gordonj 2006-03-30T15:24:11+00:00 http://newswall.org.uk/news/archives/000715.html I've started to run the BOINC based BBC Climate Change experiment on Obelisk, I'll keep an eye on how it's going regarding taking up resources, I know there's not a huge amount of RAM to spare as it is. I... General gordonj 2006-03-21T23:32:36+00:00