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Linux-Announce Digest #566
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Tue Oct 14 17:13:11 2003
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Linux-Announce Digest #566, Volume #4 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Bogofilter-0.15.7 - New Current Release (David Relson)
Erni v0.41.0beta: replace "su -c" for your daemon accounts (QM)
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:19:07 CST
From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Bogofilter-0.15.7 - New Current Release
Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham
(non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content
(body). The program is able to learn from the user's classifications
and corrections.
The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and its use
for spam was described by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For
Spam". Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some refinements
for improved discrimination between spam and ham. Bogofilter's primary
algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the Fisher inverse chi-square
technique that he describes.
Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message as
spam or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter provides
processing for plain text and html, supports multi-part mime message
with decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and uuencoded text and
ignores attachments, such as images.
Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, RISC-OS, OS/2, ...
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Bogofilter-0.15.7 is available on SourceForge as the Current Release.
The project page is http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net and the download
page is at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6226.
The new release includes conversion of escaped html characters like
A to the corresponding character plus minor bugfixes and
enhancements. See NEWS-0.15 file for more info.
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BOGOFILTER NEWS
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Be sure to read RELEASE.NOTES-0.15 ...
0.15.7 2003-10-13
* Added decoding of escaped characters in html.
* Disable header line tagging when processing msg-count files.
* Revised mailbox processing so type recognition is now table driven.
* Include all tokens in bogoutil dump output (unless in maintenance
mode).
* Added support for ANT mailboxes.
* Made portability changes for OS/2 and RISC-OS
0.15.6 2003-10-02
* Fixed problem in bogoupgrade.
* Don't allow whitespace in SMTP and ESMTP tokens.
* Revised reference ouputs for SMTP/ESMTP change.
* Revised configure.ac to remove GLIBC-2.3 dependency and include info
for DOS-ish file in config.h.
* Bogofilter can now use GSL 1.0 to 1.3 as well as 1.4.
If your distribution splits GSL into a library and a developer
package (Mandrake and Debian Linux), remember to install both!
* Rebuild i586.rpm with GSL dynamically linked; source rpms
and bogofilter-static rpm not affected.
0.15.5.2 2003-10-01
* Rebuild of i586.rpm with GSL-1.4 dynamically linked.
Source rpms and bogofilter-static rpm not affected.
0.15.5.1 2003-09-30
* Added GSL-1.4 as requirement for binary rpm.
* Fixed up t.separate reference test and cleaned up t.degen,
t.split, and t.regtest.
* Man page and French FAQ revised.
0.15.5 2003-09-29
* Added '-H' (header-degen) option to aid transition to new
parsing. See RELEASE.NOTES-0.15 for more info.
* GNU GSL 1.4 has replaced DCDFLIB.
* VERPs (Variable Envelope Return Paths) now have their sequence
numbers replaced by a '#' for scoring.
* Fixed problem that caused auto-update ("-u") to not update
separate wordlists.
* Fixed processing of rmail files.
* Transaction code added for wordlist maintenance.
* End-of-header code revised to ensure that passthrough ("-p")
properly places the X-Bogosity line.
* Fixed logging behavior when scoring mailboxes, maildirs, etc.
* Timestamp code refactored and moved from maint.c to datastore.c
* Added support for OS/2's file system.
* Minor revisions of RISC-OS compatibility code.
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:34:37 CST
From: QM <qm100@brandxdev.net>
Subject: Erni v0.41.0beta: replace "su -c" for your daemon accounts
Erni v0.41.0beta is available for download at :
http://www.BrandXDev.net/
Download formats include:
- source code (tar.gz)
- RPM
- Solaris PKG
NEW FEATURES:
- Erni now supports supplementary (aka "secondary") group
memberships for the target user. These may be specified
on the commandline, or Erni can load the user's default
memberships from /etc/group (or LDAP, or YP, or whatever
the system uses).
- Erni is now available in Sun PKG format for Solaris systems.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Unix-like operating systems often use "daemon" or placeholder
accounts to run services (e.g. httpd or database). While it is
possible to lock the passwords for these accounts, often the
login shell must be valid such that the service may be started
using the ever-familiar
su - {daemon account} -c {start script}
which is typically called from system boot scripts.
For these daemon accounts to have a valid login shell, though,
makes them more susceptible to abuse.
Erni is a tool which permits systems administrators to bypass the
messy call to "su" by using system-level functions to safely assume
the identity of the daemon account.
Erni can be used to kick off daemon processes or run interactive
commands (such as a database query tool) as the target user.
Use of Erni removes one avenue through which your system's
daemon/placeholder accounts may be misused.
AVAILABILITY:
Erni is written in C and uses standard system calls. It should
therefore compile under most modern Unix-like operating systems.
Binary installer packages are available for RPM-based Linux
distributions and Sun Solaris.
WHERE TO DOWNLOAD:
Erni, and other quality BrandXDev software titles, may be downloaded
from the BrandXDev website at:
http://www.BrandXDev.net/
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