Excellent news, Richard, thank you so much. Is there anything any of us can do to assist at this point? Lisa On 1 August 2010 22:30, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:07:11PM +0000, Lisa wrote: >> Thank you Dave, for your help with this. There's been some discussion >> by the Board, actually, that both hardware and much of the software on >> Tux need upgrading. > > We have been donated a replacement for tux: Peter Sjoberg gave us a Dell > PowerEdge 1800 with two 250GB SATA disks (3GHz?, 2GB?). I've been > playing around with trying to get software raid 1/dm-crypt/lvm booting > on it. > > It is in my rack. > >> IMHO, this issue unfortunately shows that there is far too much >> complexity in our current setup. The difficulty we've had in >> determining who administers what, and emergency preparedness, for me >> has served as a disturbing wake-up call. I would be all for >> offloading some functionality to reliable outside sources as you >> suggest, and documenting as we go so we have a clear action plan in >> case things really go awry. >> >> I say the less items we have to stay on top of, the better. If we can >> offload the mailing list functionality altogether, or use a single >> piece of software to accomplish this along with other services/needs, >> all the better. >> >> Still reading... >> >> Lisa >> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Dave O'Neill" <dmo+oclug [ at ] dmo [ dot ] ca> >> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:55:48 >> To: Lisa L<exexpat2 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >> Cc: Prof. John C Nash<nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>; Brenda J. Butler<bjb [ at ] credil [ dot ] org>; linux<linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca>; Mike<kenziem [ at ] sympatico [ dot ] ca>; Eric Brackenbury<eric [ dot ] brackenbury [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>; R RENAUD<rjrenaud [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com>; John Sebastien Taylor<johnsebastientaylor [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender >> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 05:54:34PM -0400, Lisa L wrote: >> > I'll paste below the contents of the files John sent. To me, it >> > appears to be a Viagra ad coming from a host in Spain, with a link to >> > a website in Russia. What we're trying to determine is whether (1) >> > Tux has been compromised by crackers and is being exploited as a spam >> > relay, (2) we are receiving this message in error because Tux' mail >> > server has been configured to relay Board messages, and the error was >> > intended for the spammer, or (3) something went awry with Google's >> > Gmail servers. Note, 204.225.221.10 is Tux' IP. >> >> Based on the headers in that message, it looks like it's partly (2) -- >> the spammer is sending to board-members [ at ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca, and Tux is just >> expanding the alias and relaying the mail onwards. However, you're not >> receiving the rejection messages in error, exactly, because as far as >> Google cares, you're contributing to the spam problem by not blocking >> the original instead of passing it on. Servers that relay mail are >> responsible for the mail they emit, even if they didn't originate it. >> >> I'd suggest that someone needs to upgrade the spam filtering on Tux... >> if the header added is correct, you're running SpamAssassin 3.1.7, which >> is pretty much an antique as far as spam filtering goes -- it's almost 4 >> years old. Version 3.3.1 has been out since March 2010. I'm guessing >> that Tux is running something outdated (etch, or perhaps sarge), as >> stock Debian Lenny has 3.2.5, with 3.3.1 being available from backports. >> >> It might be possible for me to set up free hosted antispam for OCLUG >> through my employer, if you're interested. It would remove the need to >> have someone maintain cutting-edge-current inbound spam filtering on >> Tux. I can find out on Tuesday if this is possible (unless David is >> still reading linux@... and would like to respond). >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > slainte mhath, RGB > > -- > Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> > <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! > Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% > Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ > -- One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. -- G. Weilacher