Archive for 2006Page 3

Spamassassin Changes

Due to performance issues, I had to clean out everyone’s spamassassin learning (bayes) database and migrate it to a new server. As a result all spamassassin training has been reset and you may notice more spam making it into your mailbox. If you would like help re-training, I have made a quick and dirty page […]

Unexpected Downtime

At about 2:45pm Thursday August 31, our primary mailserver failed causing all access to Gustavus email to stop. Email service was restored at about 3:05pm. As a result, some of you using non webmail based email clients may notice some messages are now marked as unread that were read just before the server failed. To […]

Power Outage

So, a tornado nearly hit Gustavus again. Apparently it just missed us. Some homes and power lines to the west and east were not so lucky. Here are some images: http://pics.smarp.us/main.php?g2_itemId=11509 Once the power went out, the generator that powers Olin hall and the server room is supposed to kick in. Well, this time it […]

Wildfire Updated

Over the weekend I upgraded our Wildfire Jabber server to the most recent version.  Now I believe that using our LDAP based groups will work much better.  Now if we could just get more people to use our own  Jabber IM server instead of AOL, MSN, or Yahoo…

Wireless update for International

We added a couple more wireless access points to International yesterday to give the East side of that building better coverage.

Wireless in Complex

Last Friday, Ethan, Alison, and I finished up installing a grand total of 12 new wireless access points in Complex.  Now North, Gibbs, and Sorensen all should have decent wireless internet access.

Southwest Hall Wireless

Wireless is now in place in Southwest hall.  Yesterday Ethan, Joel, and I finished installing a total of 14 802.11g wireless access points, about 2 per floor per wing.  Initial testing shows that there is now good wireless coverage in most if not all of the dorm.  I was able to take my WIFI VOIP […]

Wire for Wireless

We just finished pulling more wire to places in Southwest hall where we are planning on putting wireless access points.  There will be 14 access points in all which will hopefully cover the entire dorm in a nice coating of 802.11g.

SpamAssassin Upgrade Again

Well, it was bound to happen.  Since I just recently finished upgrading SpamAssassin to version 3.1.2, they released 3.1.3 to fix a security hole.  So, SpamAssassin has been upgraded once again.  Here’s hopeing that this version is a good one.

Spamassassin Upgrade

This morning I upgraded our version of Spamassassin from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2.  No major changes with this release that I can see.  I also ran sa-update to get the most recent patterns and stuff.  Hopefully this will help it catch even more of those stock spams we are seeing these days.