INFO-VAX Mon, 26 Feb 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 114 Contents: New OpenVMS Testimonial (American Idol related) Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Re: RENAME/QUEUE again RMSBUG ASBALLFAIL in proces STARTUP (7.3.1.) Re: RMSBUG ASBALLFAIL in proces STARTUP (7.3.1.) Re: RMSBUG ASBALLFAIL in proces STARTUP (7.3.1.) Re: SpamAssassin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:05:05 -0500 From: "Main, Kerry" Subject: New OpenVMS Testimonial (American Idol related) Message-ID: All, Thought the list might be interested in this new testimonial: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/announce/cust_statements.html +++ LogicaCMG helps the world's top network operators, service providers, and content aggregators increase revenues, enhance customer loyalty, and capitalize on opportunities offered by convergence. 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With HP Integrity BL860c Server Blades and the OpenVMS operating system supporting our newest SMSC release, we can provide our customers the next major advancement in flexibility, capacity, and high availability-all at a highly competitive price."=20 Henk de Boer Senior Vice President, Messaging LogicaCMG +++ Regards Kerry Main Senior Consultant HP Services Canada Voice: 613-592-4660 Fax: 613-591-4477 kerryDOTmainAThpDOTcom (remove the DOT's and AT)=20 OpenVMS - the secure, multi-site OS that just works. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:44:05 GMT From: Alfred Falk Subject: Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Message-ID: "Doug Phillips" wrote in news:1172186990.536079.208890@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com: > On Feb 21, 6:47 pm, b...@instantwhip.com wrote: >> I continue to be amazed at how people here continue to state >> the flawed fact that another solution is cheaper and better than >> vms ... >> >> WRONG! >> >> when you take that higher initial investment and divide it over >> decades >> of virus free 99.9999 uptime enviroment your TCO on vms wins >> overwhelmingly ... >> >> also, they should be using vms to save money because they are >> broke running a socialized healthcare system the same one Hillary >> Clinton and the democrats are and have been pushing for years ... >> >> look at Canadas broken system and think about that the next >> election ... The brokenness of Canada's health system is much exaggerated, mostly by those with agendas to further for-profit health care over the taxpayer- funded system. Certain provincial governments have been accused of intentionally underfunding health care in order to further that agenda. If by "broken" you mean that the well-off cannot jump queues ahead of the poor... well, I don't count that as broken. (And I qualify under StatsCan definitions as "wealthy".) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:37:42 +0100 From: Michael Unger Subject: Re: RENAME/QUEUE again Message-ID: <54g6shF20mdehU1@mid.individual.net> On 2007-02-26 04:04, "Stephen Hoffman" wrote: > [...] > > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freewarev50/fixque/ | Page Not Found | | The requested document | "http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freewarev50/fixque/" | was not found on this server. | | Please start at the main page of the OpenVMS systems site. > http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware60/kp_clustertools/ Michael -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Feb 2007 05:05:09 -0800 From: fkburrie@gmail.com Subject: RMSBUG ASBALLFAIL in proces STARTUP (7.3.1.) Message-ID: <1172495106.911529.167360@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Hello, Some of our nodes fails to boot with error: %RMS-F-BUG, fatal file condition (FFFFFFFA), process deleted We run OpenVMS 7.3.1. Most of the nodes running the same application software do not have this error (6 out of 40 have problems). With enforced a crashdump by the conversational boot: >>> b -fl 0,1 Sysboot> set bugcheckfatal 1 Sysboot> c In the resulting crashdump we found with clue crash (did some typing): Bugcheck Type: RMSBUG, RMS has detected an invalid condition CPU Type: Alphastation 255/300 VMS Version: V7.3-1 Current Process STARTUP Current Image: Failing PC: FFFFFFFF.8325B808 RMS+53808 Failing PS: 00000000.00000009 Module: RMS (Link Date/Time: 22-MAY-2003 16:57:44.80) ... R2 = FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFA ... RMS Internal Bugcheck: Code = FFFFFFFF.FFFFFFFA Msg = ASBALLFAIL, couldn't allocate an asb (rm0stall) Someone has a clue of the problem? Thanks, Frank Burrie. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Feb 2007 08:04:15 -0800 From: "Volker Halle" Subject: Re: RMSBUG ASBALLFAIL in proces STARTUP (7.3.1.) Message-ID: <1172505855.888464.290500@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> Frank, this is some kind of internal resource problem within RMS itself. The current process will be terminated, if this problem occurs. How far into your system startup do the nodes get ? Which DCL procedure is running, when the RMSBUG happens ? What was run most recently ? Did you change any system parameters (e.g. PIOPAGES) ? Volker. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Feb 2007 08:18:30 -0800 From: "Volker Halle" Subject: Re: RMSBUG ASBALLFAIL in proces STARTUP (7.3.1.) Message-ID: <1172506710.564280.270100@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> What's the value in R0 ? Volker. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:29:46 +0000 (UTC) From: david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Message-ID: In article , helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes: >Does anyone here have experience with SpamAssassin? Do you recommend >it? > >Rather than refining anti-spam measures at my end, I am considering >having my dynamic-DNS provider scan incoming mail for spam. I can let >it all through, with spam tagged as such, or cause it to be dropped if >the spam-score exceeds a certain threshold (which I can set to whatever >I want). > >What is the lowest threshold to make sure that all legitimate (i.e. >non-spam) email gets through, even at the cost of letting some spam >through? (I would assume that in this case most of the spam would still >be filtered out.) > Since noone else has responded I'll have a go. Basically the answer is there is no such threshold. No content scanning anti-spam product is 100% accurate. The best will only claim 98% accuracy. Which at first sight sounds a lot but really means it gets it wrong for 2 out of every 100 mail messages. Those mistakes will either be false positives (mail which is mistakenly considered to be spam but isn't) or false negatives (mail which is spam but is missed). The threshold just changes the ratio of false positives to false negatives. The only way you can guarantee that all legitimate mail gets through is to set the threshold to a ridiculously high level in which case all mail (including spam) will get through. (In fact 98% accuracy is probably an over estimate for lots of people since certain types of mail (mail from mailing lists, newsletters etc) tends to look very similar to spam. Hence it is usually best, if the product allows it, to whitelist mail from such addresses so that the anti-spam product always allows them through. Similarly it is a good idea to whitelist the addresses of all those you regularly receive legitimate mail from. This whitelisting obviously needs to be done on a per user (on your system) basis. ) I've never used Spamassassin and hence can't comment on it's usual threshold levels. I do use PreciseMail Anti-Spam from process on my VMS systems which uses very similar rules but with it's own scoring system. With PMAS the default recommended values for thresholds are :- Tagging as Spam : 3.000 Quarantining : 5.000 Discarding : 50.000 On my systems I just have tagging turned on and allow users to turn on quarantining and discarding if they wish. Users can turn all three options or any combination and can alter the threshold values from their defaults. (quarantined mail is held on the central mailhubs and may be viewed and released by the user through a GUI interface. If it isn't released then it is automatically deleted after 14 days). Even with a threshold of 50.000 we strongly recommend people not to turn on Discarding since this leads to silent loss of messages which might still occasionally include legitimate mail. Quarantining or tagging is much to be preferred. Many mail clients can use the tagging to move the mail into a spam folder so that the user only looks at it occasionally to check for mistagged mail. >The main advantage for me is: if I choose to drop the spam, then I don't >have to have an ALPHA always have the cluster alias, but a VAX (with >TCPIP 5.3) would be OK. (A lot of spam is email to non-existent users. >These generate bounces which, because the sender is often faked, bounce >back. With 5.4, I can reject email to non-existent usernames (at least >if they are valid VMS usernames, which most of them are), but that runs >only on ALPHA.) > Unless your Dynamic-DNS provider has a list of all your valid email addresses then no anti-spam product it runs can determine that a message is for a non-existent account on your systems. If these are hobbyist systems then I would consider getting PMAS (and probably also PMDF) which are free to hobbyists from Process and run on both VAX and Alpha (and now Itanium). David Webb Security team leader CCSS Middlesex University ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.114 ************************