Some observations after a power failure at my office:
Just updated to FreeBSD 7.2 and I already like it. — Finally I can use IPv6 adresses for my jailed websites :-)
This week brought great news for my CRM114 plugin: The upcoming amavisd-new version 2.6.3 will completely support CRM114 (either standalone or as an SA plugin) so no more patches are required to include custom headers.
In addition Mark made several improvements to my plugin itself, so I am happy to release a new plugin version 0.8 (see the project page for the module, its documentation and additional notes).
Update: I just noticed that CRM114’s stable versions (those from 2007) do not support the “--report_only” option. Thus I made a last minute change after uploading and deactivated the option in line 653 (= line 607 in the SA3.3 version).
Today the RFCs for the new Syslog procol and transport were published:
~> date -f %s -j 1234567890 Sa 14 Feb 2009 00:31:30 CET ~> date; date +%s Sa 14 Feb 2009 02:08:28 CET 1234573708
Many systems send status e-mails from their periodic {daily,weekly,monthly} cronjobs. But just as with log messages you probably stop reading them because there are too many mails (one or two mails per day and host) and they are very repetitious (on healthy systems they should not change too much). — This demands automation.
A simple solution is to eliminate variable fields from the periodic output and only send an e-mail if the output is different from the expected or the previous output.
Due to the BLIT preparations I nearly missed the important event for my GSoC project: I made it into the NetBSD CVS. :-)
