[dspam-users] thanks for dspam, my experiences on FreeBSD, suggestions

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:46:46AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:30:10 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:32:20AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:44:54 +0200
> > > Andreas Klemm <andreas at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:42:47AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > [ dspam-users at nuclearelephant.com dropped ]
> > > > > 
> > > > > What about a dspam-devel port ?
> > 	
	[[ ... ]]

> > 	Hope I am not highjacking this thread (at least not totally),
> > 	but is there any summary of things-to-do to get dspam running?
> > 	to get it in 'learn' mode??  No far I have created a list of
> > 	trusted users/groups.  Now what?
> 
> Without more details, we cannot help you.
> 
> Dspam's documentation should be rewrote, and it is on my to do list, but
> it will happen for the 3.x.
>  

		Hopefully your future documentation can give 
		explicit mysql cmds as examples of linking 
		dspam to mysql. I do have mysql setup for three
		message boards, but am not sure of how to
		configure mysql to work with dspam.
		
		I just sent test mails to my test acccount, 
		ran dspam_stats against it, and had this result:

root at tao:# dspam_stats test1
Could not init context: No such file or directory

		For people with little mysql || database bg, 
		I hope your future doc will be more tutorial-like.
		e.g:

mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 4.XY.ZA
  
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> create database dspamdb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> grant all on dspamdb.* to dspamdb_user at localhost identified by 'foo234';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

.
.  << whatever else >>
.

mysql> quit
Bye


		When the db config gets involves with tables-- well,
		that's over my head a bit.  Examples are worth their
		weight in gold, AFAIC.


> > 	Re a -devel port, my experience with most of the devel suites
> > 	is that they are risky (to put it politely:).  I would advise
> > 	anybody who installs a -devel port of anything to have the
> > 	stable/tested port around....   
> 
> Agree. For example the 3.x showed, where dspam has been rewrote, showed
> some regressions.
> 
> But since all new features are added on the devel branch and some people
> could make good use of them, this -devel port will help them. And it
> would give a chance for changes to be easily tested on FreeBSD before
> they are in the stable release. The bug in my PR is happening only on
> FreeBSD (it seems that our strsep(3) slightly differs from those on some
> linux, despite the their claim that it is from bsd).
> 
	Have you ever checked our Lars Wirzenius' publib string
	functions?  When I've stubbed my toe on Unix-compat problems
	as you'rehaving wth strsep(), I've resolved the issue by
	including the function (from wherever) in my code. Putting
	the FBSD strsep() code in there --- or something equally
	fuctional from publib --- might work.  Just a thought.

	gary


> 

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