2007-08-12: Hurd Wiki Has Moved!
Today we moved the
http://hurd.gnufans.org wiki to its new location at
http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/ (on a Hurd Machine!). We say thanks for this time and good luck to Thomas Schwinge and the Hurd community.
2007-03-07: No mail?
Yesterday we had an automatic upgrade of
ClamAV go bad. This caused the mail server to reject almost everything as containing VIRUS. Hopefully we have fixed this now.
Contact your sysadmin, over phone or other media if any problems should persist. /
Jocke
2006-07-04: No news is good news?
Wow, almost a year has passed since the last entry. I guess it is like they say after all; "No news is good news". Almost, there are some bad news worth mentioning:
- we are slowly but surely running out of disk
- the spam problem continues to hit us hard
I hope we can replace/upgrade the disk soon and if you feel the spam problem is getting too bad you can try out
Mozilla Thunderbird, which has a built-in spam-filter, or try a completely different kind of e-mail:
http://mail.google.com. If you want a Google mail address send me an e-mail.
Otherwise, have a good summer and a great year!
/Jocke
2005-08-14: Are you having email problems?
You may be affected by spam. Without even knowing about it some of your friends emails may have been caught by our
SpamAssassin.
Next time someone says; "Didn't you get my email?" Think about mailing your sysadmin at vmlinux.org.
Thanks for your attention.
2005-05-22: Change your password in the Webmail
The vmlinux
webmail now supports changing password. Click on "Options", in the top bar, and then select "Change Password". At the bottom of that page a long list of random passwords are suggested — pick one, some are actually easy to remember and probably a lot safer than you can figure out yourself.
2005-04-02: Project management
We finally setup a first shot at a proper SCM and project management tool,
Trac. It is a quite flexible tool actually, integrating functionality such as per-project wiki and version control using
Subversion with issue tracking.
Our projects are available at
http://vmlinux.org/projects/
2005-03-02: Webmail, Issue Tracker down
Due to a mishap in an automatic nightly software upgrade all PHP4 packages were removed, affecting the webmail and issue tracker services. This is now fixed.
2005-02-15: Server HW Upgrade
Yes! Today we finally upgraded ye ol' PII hog to a flashy new AMD Sempron w/ 1GiB RAM. Things are a little bit snappier than before.
A
huge thanks goes to
Moggen for all the help.
2005-01-18: SpamAttack?
You might have noticed a slight increase of spam in your INBOX lately. This was caused by an update to the vmlinux
SpamAssassin program. It seems the new Debian version did not like the format of both the configuration file and the spam database. Work is in progress to fix this.
Update: Jan 23rd, 2005 — This should be fixed by now, anyone still experiencing problems should contact the sysadmins.
2005-01-17: Sending email was broken
Sending mails from vmlinux.org was broken today between 08:00 and 10:59. Mail to vmlinux.org was
delayed but should arrive sometime today.
2005-01-07: Shoreline Firewall Installed
Today the vmlinux
ShoreWall firewall went online. Please report any problems with access to your sysadmins.
Update: Jan 12th, 2005 — Remember that regular IMAP access is not allowed, you must use
secure IMAP (IMAPS). The logs reveal someone (IP# 213.100.4.21) trying to connect to regular IMAP. If you are that someone and cannot read your email, this is why. See below for configuring Mozilla Thunderbird on howto setup your email client.
2004-12-12: CSS Fixes
The
vmlinux.org style sheet,
CSS, has been fixed to let IE display the pages better. Enjoy!
2004-11-23: Cannot send mail anymore?
It seems we lost SMTP over TLS mail sending on the 23rd. This just happened to coincide with a server reboot and went unnoticed until late on the 24th. Sorry!
Update: Nov 25th 00:34 CET — This is fixed now. It turned out that the SASL authentication daemon could not be reached by our chrooted Postfix. This is fixed now.
For future reference, the SMTP/SSL method always works due to it running on a completely different port (465) than SMTP/TLS (25). In Mozilla Thunderbird this means changing the SMTP server settings from TLS to the SSL radio button under Account Settings...
2004-11-21: Hurd Wiki h4x0r3d
The
GNU/Hurd wiki was hacked today. The perpetrator used a known exploit in the TWiki engine the local
sysadmins had not yet fixed.
The Hurd wiki will be unavailable until a fix has been deployed and tested.
Update: Nov 21st 18:30 CET — Reenabled the Hurd wiki after patching the hole, testing the system and audited logs.
2004-10-16: Exim to Postfix migration day
Today is
MTA migration day. We're moving to
Postfix from our old stale
Exim3 installation. This will cause a
temporary mail stop on vmlinux.org, gnufans.org, alesand.com and moggen.org tonight between 21:00 and 03:00 CET.
Update: Oct 17th 22:45 CET — Remote SMTP access has been restored. Clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, can once again connect using TLS over port 25 or SSL on port 465. Buggy clients, such as older versions of Outlook Express, are now also supported due to the upgrade from Exim to Postfix as mailer.
Do report problems to your sysadmins, especially if you are co-located on vmlinux.org and rely on our free "virtual domain" hosting.
2004-10-07: Apache2 transition complete
Today was the big transition from apache and apache-ssl to apache2. So if you experienced any problems that was probably it.
Why did we do this, why did we leave the safe harbor that is apache 1.3? Well, it's not only to run the latest and greatest in webserver software, but also to be able to kick out apache-ssl.
Previously we had two sets of webservers running on vmlinux. One for regular http requests and another for secure transactions, https, usually only the webmail used this. This took up a lot of server resources and with apache2 we can now run everything under one "roof", so to speak.
Please alert the system administrators if you discover any problems.
2004-09-28: New design
The new web design has been put into place, finally. The old pages never really felt finished, and as a result nothing new ever got published.
Now the web is based around the TWiki engine with a lot of fancy style sheets and SSI work on top.
I hope you like it.
/Jocke
2004-09-20: How to read your email
There are mainly three ways to read your email on vmlinux.org:
- The webmail
- Login with an SSH client, like putty, and then use mutt.
- Download a mail client, for example: Mozilla Thunderbird
The webmail has been upgraded and could be a bit shaky, please alert the system administrators if you discover any problems.
Using Mozilla Thunderbird
Once known as Mozilla/Netscape Mail, Thunderbird is a very user friendly mail client with support for multiple accounts and spam filtering. It is the recommended mail client to connect to vmlinux.org.
- Download and run the Thunderbird installer.
- Use "vmlinux.org" for both incoming (IMAP) and outgoing email (SMTP).
- For incoming email use IMAP and check SSL (secure connection) but not secure authentication.
- Check the TLS option for outgoing email (SMTP/TLS).
- For both IMAP and SMTP you need to supply your login name.
- When done with the configuration wizard you will be prompted for your password.
See
this howto for more detailed help, use "vmlinux.org" instead of "mail.phidelity.com" and you should be fine.
Also, your login name is not the alias "firstname.lastname", or "somebody@vmlinux.org", but the short form "somebody".
2004-07-01: Sysadmin presentation
Hello!
My name is
Joachim Nilsson and I am one of the local sysadmins here at vmlinux.org:~/>. If you’ve never heard of me before then you may have had conctact with the other sysadmin,
Jakob Eriksson. If you have any questions or comments regarding vmlinux.org in general or your login in particular then we are the ones to ask.
Take care!
/Jocke
