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Comment on Designing the next generation server by New: Global SpamAssassin Preferences (and some software updates) | Apis Networks Community Updates

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:45:17 +0000

[...] SpamAssassin rules have been introduced after the idea was introduced by a user in a previous blog posting. Global preferences provide a convenient way to change [...]

Comment on Designing the next generation server by Matt

Matt — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:32:18 +0000

Global repository:
PEAR is only possible by Apache running outside the filesystem jail. CGI applications would require a shared mount for each account that enrolls in such a service. I could strip the documentation and source from gem installations initiated through the control panel — that's a good suggestion that I can implement before the Fifth Generation is rolled out.

Dropping @domain:
I sense this will become the most requested change by May… Implementing a facility that allows logins without @domain for the primary user that also jails entails ditching Ensim's proprietary NSS and PAM modules. Possible, planned down the road, but basically too intensive to add to the work queue right now.

You can substitute '@' with '#'. Some clients, FTP come to mind, have difficulty parsing the URI if '@' is present more than once. A sufficiently newer OpenSSH may fix the warning with scp, but I would recommend rsync instead. More flexible in its options, accepts '#' in the login, plus faster in my experience. rsync -a foo#foobar.com@foobar.com:/home/abc or you could setup a function…

function remsync { ARGS=($@) ; LEN=${#ARGS[@]} ; FILES=${ARGS[@]:0:$(($LEN-1))} ; DIR=${ARGS[@]:$(($LEN-1))} ; rsync -a $FILES foo#foobar.com@foobar.com:"$DIR" ; }

(Well that sucks… no code or pre tag support with the comment system. At least it's only an ugly one-liner.)

Need to copy something over? remsync /my/files/a /home
rsync will recursively copy directory contents with the -a flag. You could add flag support with getopts to arbitrarily supply arguments such as -a…

Comment on Designing the next generation server by Matt

Matt — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:19:37 +0000

Test…

Comment on Designing the next generation server by Harith

Harith — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:52:58 +0000

Matt: great to hear it’s feasible. It would be very useful for at least one of the people I referred you to.

Comment on Designing the next generation server by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:00:34 +0000

Two suggestions, although I’m not sure about the feasibility of them both.

* Global repository of popular rubygems (and PEAR/python eggs?) as they can take a bit of space. I stripped 100MB of documentation from the gems installed on my site for example, and I don’t have a necessarily large gem collection either.
* SSH login without using username@domain.org username. The only reason for this is because scp thinks username#domain.org is invalid and the command-line syntax doesn’t accommodate @’s. I concede there’s probably a good workaround for this and I’m a bit of a shell amateur.

Comment on Designing the next generation server by Matt

Matt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:34:27 +0000

It is definitely something that I can either work into the next generation or integrate immediately. Accounts currently have access to global maildrop filtering through /etc/maildroprc. Account-wide rules would be implemented as a custom patch to SpamAssassin.

Comment on Designing the next generation server by Harith

Harith — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:39:25 +0000

Hey Matt,

Thanks for letting us give some input! This is one of the many reasons why Apis is one of the best hosts around.

I just have one query for now, and I apologize if this can already be done: site-wide spamassassin settings in one go, i.e. setting filters and scores etc. for every user.

Comment on ImageMagick 6.4 now available by Harith

Harith — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:38:57 +0000

Hey thanks! Now Gallery won’t complain about imagemagick being old and a security problem.

Comment on Esprit Update: user management changeover, error reporting facility changes by Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:58:57 +0000

Yesterday’s update has been rolled out on the servers again with a new bugfix for the Ensim pages.

Comment on Esprit Update: user management changeover, error reporting facility changes by Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:57:30 +0000

Temporarily reverting due to a conflict between development and production servers. Some old configuration that has remained unversioned is affecting a header. All of the files affected are pretty old complicating issues. I will check this out more in-depth tomorrow afternoon.

Pictures will have to suffice for now. Comments are welcome though, especially on the slider control.