Squawks of the Parrot

The internet is full.

And so's my /var partition. 6G just doesn't go as far as it used to.

I apparently made a big mistake back when I set this new server up -- I told Amavis to quarrantine mail it decided was infected rather than flat-out deleting it. (Though I don't auto-reply. Now if we could just get other systems to not do that too...) You never know, right? Viruses used to infect real files, so there was the real possibility of someone sending on a useful file with a virus attached.

I suppose that could still happen, but if it does, well... too bad. I last swamped out the quarrantine directory (checking nothing, honestly) May 10th. 45 damn days ago. In that time I got 6G of identified virus mail in. The directory file was 9.8M and there were who knows how many files in the thing. (I didn't count--there were far, fartoo many files for the shell to wildcard expand, so I blew away the directory and recreated it)

This is why I'm waiting for multi-megabit DSL to get rolled out in the US. Not so everyone can go snag warez, pr0n, or pirated AVIs. (Or even so my FTP, web, and bittorrent servers have reasonable upload speeds) No, it's so I've bandwidth left over after the spam and virus crap...

Posted by Dan at June 24, 2004 02:34 PM | TrackBack (0)