On 5/27/2014 3:47 PM, John Goubeaux wrote:
Thanks guys,
Yes, I was aware that an exit code of "1" IS normal when No New
updates are available, But I assumed that the fact that this was going
on for so long might indicate another problem was occurring.
Good time for an update to the users list about the issue. The box that
processed the updates at the ASF collo failed catastrophically during a
power surge that took down some other boxes as ell. Unfortunately, while
the project requested backups in 2009, they were not implemented.
Since that crash, I've recovered a lot of the data and rebuilt several
of the services from the data recovery, rsync backups and svn data. I
also had the new box increased by 100GB in diskspace thanks to Jan
Iverson with Infra because I was spending too much time manipulating
data due to low space.
Yesterday, I spent some time as well and Joes4 from Infra agreed to try
to recovered the crontab/spools today though he is not hopeful.
Otherwise, luckily I have cron logs and I think I've identified most of
the scripts that run from cron.
So at this point, I will soon have exhausted all of the attempts to
recover without going to the next phase which is to try and reverse
engineer the cron jobs. The hardest part is that there are multiple
iterations of the various pieces of the masscheck system that have been
put in place so I have to figure out in some cases, which one is the
right piece.
And at the same time, I've been properly documenting the changes to the
underlying system so should I get hit by a bus, the system can be
rebuilt without me.
Apparently the sought.rules.yerp.org channel is also not being
regularly updated either ?
Sought is technically not a project ruleset but I think I now have
access to all the boxes to get it running again. Alex Broens has
offered to help so I hope to get him that info soon. It's a second
priority after the rebuild of the zones box.
Are there any other recommended rule channels to use ?
I would recommend this rule set though I do not publish it as a channel
though some (thanks Gushi) have attempted to help me do so:
http://www.pccc.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf
Regards,
KAM
