Mismatch between report and actions

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 15:43:38 IST 2009


2009/6/29 Robert Lopez <rlopezcnm at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Glenn Steen<glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/6/29 Robert Lopez <rlopezcnm at gmail.com>:
>>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Glenn Steen<glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2009/6/26 Robert Lopez <rlopezcnm at gmail.com>:
>>>>> HP Prolient DL360 G5
>>>>> Two dual core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5450 @ 3.00GHz
>>>>> 8 G RAM
>>>>> Linux 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 02:45:36 UTC 2009
>>>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>> Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)
>>>>> MailScanner version 4.74.16
>>>>> Postfix version 2.5.5
>>>>> SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 running on Perl version 5.10.0
>>>>> (I know there are newer versions. These are Ubuntu apt-get...)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> (snip error...)
>>>>>
>>>> Do the upgrades needed ... MailScanner, possibly SA and Clam as well.
>>>> If this means leaving the Ubunto/apt thing behind, then so be it.
>>>> If you still observe the same behavior... Then we'll look at other things:-).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>> (snip)
>>>
>>> Thank you Glenn,
>>>
>>> Changing from Ubuntu is not my decision to make. My current project is
>>> comparing a system built with RHEL and files from Julians site to this
>>> one.
>>>
>> I didn't say "ditch Ubuntu", just the ubuntu packaging of
>> MailScanner;-). You could probably live pritty well with the source
>> tarball, for example.
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> -- Glenn
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>
> Again, Thank you Glenn.
>
> I have to attend to the root cause of the problem I wrote about. The
> issue you reply to is a policy issue upon which I have no influence. I
> was very happy with the test system built with tar files. My
> management is not.
>
Why? They will just get an added delay and no real benefit (stability
or otherwise) from sticking to more or less outdated "debianized"
packages. Sigh. Get a clue-by-four and start whacking;-):-) One cannot
fight bleeding edge malware/spam with trailing edge, or even sometimes
moderately modern (like this problem instance;), protection systems.

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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