Re: sa-update NOT updating.

[Thomas Schulz <sc...@adi.com>]

If they have not yet put the disk drive from the failed machine in the
trash, there are data recovery companies who can usually get the data
off of a fried disk drive.

> 
> 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 I would recommend this rule set though I do not publish it as a channel 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
> 

Tom Schulz
Applied Dynamics Intl.
schulz@adi.com

Re: sa-update NOT updating.

["Kevin A. McGrail" <KM...@PCCC.com>]

On 6/2/2014 10:11 AM, Thomas Schulz wrote:
> If they have not yet put the disk drive from the failed machine in the
> trash, there are data recovery companies who can usually get the data
> off of a fried disk drive.
Of course but I doubt that's in the stars at this time.

regards,
KAM