{Spam?} netiquette on "wiki" website

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Apr 14 19:23:43 IST 2005


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Ah, give me a nice IRIX box any day. Finding all the new versions of
configuration files for the packages you have just installed by just typing
    versions
and it lists them all. No hunting .rpmnew files all over the place. No
problems with silly little filesystems that have list-based directory
structures instead of adaptive tree-based systems. Dynamic relinking so
you rarely need to reboot even after library upgrades. Now there's a
decent OS.

Oh, and you remember the program they used in Jurassic Park where they
flew through the filesystem with lots of pillars representing files and
directories on different planes and all that? Well it was real, we used
to run it. It wasn't fake at all.

Ah, now *there's* an OS that rocks.

Steen, Glenn wrote:

>Mandrake... er.... Mandriva (Oh how silly that feels to type) has/had some tool like that specifically for fixing up rpmnew/rpmold files... Seems to be a part of MandrakeUpdate (gtkperl script... perhaps one can borrow:-). Nah.
>
>Better look at kdiff3 or xxdiff. At least kdiff3 seems to do what you want.
>
>-- Glenn (who oc course don't use these.... The terminal is my first love:-)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   MailScanner mailing list on behalf of Ed Bruce
>Sent:   to 2005-04-14 19:45
>To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Cc:
>Subject:        Re: {Spam?} netiquette on "wiki" website
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>
>
>>Ed Bruce wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Take a look in your ~root/.spamassassin directory. Remove any files
>>>>
>>>>
>>with
>>
>>
>>>>whitelist in their name.
>>>>And go into /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf and disable the
>>>>auto-whitelist functionality.
>>>>"man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" for more help on what the setting is
>>>>called.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>When I did the last upgrade seems my spam.assassin.prefs.conf was
>>>changed more then I thought. First the path I used for bayes was changed
>>>(and lots of spam started getting through, CEO was pissed) and also AWL
>>>functionality was turned on. I need to slow down a little when upgrading
>>>and really notice the differences.
>>>
>>>
>>Something is wrong in that case. The spam.assassin.prefs.conf file
>>should not be overwritten if you have modified it, you should just get a
>>.rpmnew version of it as well.
>>
>>
>>
>I did get the .rpmnew and did a quick diff between it and my file. I
>didn't notice any great difference, because I was in a hurry, so used
>the rpmnew, my mistake. Like I said, I need to slow down a little when
>changing my files.
>
>Somewhat offtopic, there was a great gui diff tool with SGI IRIX. Does
>anybody know of a good GUI based diff for Linux. What I liked about the
>IRIX one was I could go through the differences and choose from which
>file to keep. Then when I was done it would save out a new file with all
>my choices. I tried to get the IRIX version working once, but it didn't
>use OpenGL.
>
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