Tag: networking

Spam increase due to SpamAssassin Bayes database not available for scanning

For approximately the past six weeks or so, I’ve noticed an uptick in the amount of spam getting through (and delivered) on my primary mail server. At first the increase in false negatives (meaning spam not getting flagged as such) wasn’t all that bad, so I didn’t think much of it. However, starting last week …

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Amavisd crashes immediately on start with little in the logs

Recently I was updating amavisd and other portions of the mail stack on one of my mail servers (running Gentoo Linux). This particular set of updates didn’t go as smoothly as I would have liked primarily due to the acct-user/amavis package being created on Thursday, 13 February 2020 as a part of the ongoing effort …

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Linux firmware for iwlwifi ucode failed with error -2

A couple weeks ago, I decided to update my primary laptop’s kernel from 4.0 to 4.5. Everything went smoothly with the exception of my wireless networking. This particular laptop uses the a wifi chipset that is controlled by the Intel Wireless DVM Firmware: #lspci | grep ‘Network controller’ 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N …

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