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Pyzor can't grok

[Jessy L. <j.l...@zx...>]

Aloha !!!

After I installed pyzor I get :

Apr  8 09:06:57 postsmurf-III spamd[7357]: debug: Pyzor is available:
/usr/bin/pyzor
Apr  8 09:06:57 postsmurf-III spamd[7357]: debug: entering helper-app
run mode
Apr  8 09:06:57 postsmurf-III spamd[7357]: debug: Pyzor: got response:
Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr  8 09:06:57 postsmurf-III spamd[7357]: debug: leaving helper-app run
mode
Apr  8 09:06:57 postsmurf-III spamd[7357]: debug: Pyzor: couldn't grok
response "Traceback (most recent call last):"

What does It mean ?



Greets

Jessy

Re: Reporting all files in a directory...

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

for x in * ; do pyzor report < $x ; done

BTW, I'm not sure if it's your message, or my mail client (Pine), but my
mail client said there was a Quoted Printable formatting problem (that
there was a non-hexadecimal character in it).

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Reporting all files in a directory...

[Tim H. <ti...@fe...>]

Is there a simple way to report all files in a directory to pyzor?

Thanks!  =3D)

--TWH

about pyzor and spamassasin (freebsd port)

[Andrea R. <ml...@ne...>]

Hi folks,

I've a question about pyzor with spamassassin (system: freebsd 4.9 =
stable).
I've installed the port, type 'pyzor discover', then with 'spamassassin =
-D <
/dev/null' I've checked if it works correctly. I see:

debug: executable for pyzor was found at /usr/local/bin/pyzor
debug: Pyzor is available: /usr/local/bin/pyzor
debug: entering helper-app run mode
debug: Pyzor: got response: Traceback (most recent call last):
debug: leaving helper-app run mode
debug: Pyzor: couldn't grok response "Traceback (most recent call =
last):"

that's normal?
What I've to do?

thanks for your support
Regards
Andrea

Re: newbie-help installing pyzor

[Nils R. <ni...@ry...>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Frank Tobin wrote:

> Try "python2.3 setup.py build".

Thnx. That seemed to do the trick.

/N.

Re: newbie-help installing pyzor

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Nils Ryding, on 2004-02-15, wrote:

> python -V says:
> Python 2.1.3
> 
> hmm..strange. must be the version i apt-getted first(using debian btw -
> but couldn't find a python2.3.3-package to apt-get - so tryed so compile
> 2.3.3 by myself, guess it didn't work so well - looked good though).

Try "python2.3 setup.py build".

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Re: newbie-help installing pyzor

[Nils R. <ni...@ry...>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Frank Tobin wrote:

> Nils Ryding, on 2004-02-15, wrote:
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "setup.py", line 2, in ?
> >     import distutils.core
> > ImportError: No module named distutils.core
> >
> > have installed python 2.3.3. and python_gdbm, so it should work?
>
> That is very wierd; possibly when you call "python setup.py build" you are
> calling an older version of python?  Check with "python -V".

python -V says:
Python 2.1.3

hmm..strange. must be the version i apt-getted first(using debian btw -
but couldn't find a python2.3.3-package to apt-get - so tryed so compile
2.3.3 by myself, guess it didn't work so well - looked good though).

can't pyzor work with 2.1.3? what to do?

(sorry for being comfused. i'm a newbie _and_ a swede)

/N.

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Re: newbie-help installing pyzor

[Jo M. <jo...@me...>]

Am 15.02.2004, 22:01 Uhr
	schryb Frank Tobin <ft...@ne...>:

> Nils Ryding, on 2004-02-15, wrote:
> > ImportError: No module named distutils.core
> > 
> > have installed python 2.3.3. and python_gdbm, so it should work?
> 
> That is very wierd; possibly when you call "python setup.py build" you are 
> calling an older version of python?  Check with "python -V".

Also, if you're using Debian, the distutils are in the
python-dev-Packages, not in the regular python-Packages

Other distributions may have similar distinctions.

	Jo.


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Re: newbie-help installing pyzor

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Nils Ryding, on 2004-02-15, wrote:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 2, in ?
>     import distutils.core
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core
> 
> have installed python 2.3.3. and python_gdbm, so it should work?

That is very wierd; possibly when you call "python setup.py build" you are 
calling an older version of python?  Check with "python -V".

-- 
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newbie-help installing pyzor

[Nils R. <ni...@ry...>]

Hi,

tryed to install pyzor and got this message when trying to python setup.py
build:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 2, in ?
    import distutils.core
ImportError: No module named distutils.core

have installed python 2.3.3. and python_gdbm, so it should work?

what am i doing wrong?

sincerly,

Nils.

Re: pyzor timeouts this morning

[Edward B. <ed...@ba...>]

Frank Tobin wrote:

> Ron E., on 2004-01-28, wrote:
> 
>>I've been having some serious pyzor timeouts this morning resulting in
>>quite some backlogs. I ran a discover but the timeouts continue. Anyone
>>have any idea what the cause of this is?
> 
> I haven't performed much analysis yet, but my first guess is that the 
> pyzor server starting to get too many requests...
> I'm going to have to implement randomly selecting servers or rate-limiting 
> for very heavy clients.

Hi Frank,

Thanks for all your work on Pyzor.  It's a great utility for a lot of 
people.

It would be great to see a mirror network of some sort develop for 
pyzor.  For those who have some bandwidth to spare, it would be a great 
way to contribute.  If there were a few servers to choose from, you 
could take something like the netselect utility for debian (for finding 
the fastest apt mirror):

http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/netselect.html

And customize it for use against a set of known pyzor servers.  I'm sure 
there are other utilities to work from as well.

What would be the resource requirements for hosting a pyzor server?  How 
much disk space and bandwidth would it require?  Even with all the spam 
out there, my guess is that all those signatures take up very little 
disk space.  Not sure about the bandwidth though.

Cheers,
Edward

antispam Re: pyzor timeouts this morning

[Roman S. <rn...@on...>]

Interesting enough, our own pyzor server started to filter out
some MyDoom messages before antivirus software...

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Frank Tobin wrote:

> Ron E., on 2004-01-28, wrote:
>
> > I've been having some serious pyzor timeouts this morning resulting in
> > quite some backlogs. I ran a discover but the timeouts continue. Anyone
> > have any idea what the cause of this is?
>
> I haven't performed much analysis yet, but my first guess is that the
> pyzor server starting to get too many requests...
> I'm going to have to implement randomly selecting servers or rate-limiting
> for very heavy clients.
>
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Re: pyzor timeouts this morning

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Ron E., on 2004-01-28, wrote:

> I've been having some serious pyzor timeouts this morning resulting in
> quite some backlogs. I ran a discover but the timeouts continue. Anyone
> have any idea what the cause of this is?

I haven't performed much analysis yet, but my first guess is that the 
pyzor server starting to get too many requests...
I'm going to have to implement randomly selecting servers or rate-limiting 
for very heavy clients.

-- 
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pyzor timeouts this morning

[Ron E. <re...@th...>]

Hi all -

I've been having some serious pyzor timeouts this morning resulting in
quite some backlogs. I ran a discover but the timeouts continue. Anyone
have any idea what the cause of this is?

The content of my servers file is 66.250.40.33:24441

Regards,

Ron

RE: Building Pyzor

[Maya C. <may...@tr...>]

Ok ....
I installed Python from scratch , downloading it, make && make test &&
make install .
No error, no question, no problem ...
Arghh.
Maya

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Tobin [mailto:ft...@ne...]=20
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:59 AM
To: Maya Condomitti
Cc: pyz...@li...
Subject: Re: Building Pyzor


Maya Condomitti, on 2004-01-19, wrote:

> Sorry to bother, I do not know Python and do not really know what to=20
> do there, I installed Python 2.3.3 and trying to install pyzor, please

> help me with below error.
>=20

> [root@ugly pyzor-0.4.0]# python setup.py install
> running install
> error: invalid Python installation: unable to open=20
> /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

I think your Python installation is invalid.  The file it's asking for
is quite standard; it's not even a file Pyzor is asking for;  Python's
distutils module is looking for the file.  Perhaps your distribution
didn't put everything in its Python installation.

--=20
Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

Re: Building Pyzor

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Maya Condomitti, on 2004-01-19, wrote:

> Sorry to bother, I do not know Python and do not really know what to do
> there, I installed Python 2.3.3 and trying to install pyzor, please help
> me with below error.
> 

> [root@ugly pyzor-0.4.0]# python setup.py install
> running install
> error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

I think your Python installation is invalid.  The file it's asking for is
quite standard; it's not even a file Pyzor is asking for;  Python's
distutils module is looking for the file.  Perhaps your distribution
didn't put everything in its Python installation.

-- 
Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

Building Pyzor

[Maya C. <may...@tr...>]

Hello,

Sorry to bother, I do not know Python and do not really know what to do
there, I installed Python 2.3.3 and trying to install pyzor, please help
me with below error.

Thanks, Maya

[root@ugly pyzor-0.4.0]# python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
creating build/lib/pyzor
copying lib/pyzor/__init__.py -> build/lib/pyzor
copying lib/pyzor/client.py -> build/lib/pyzor
copying lib/pyzor/server.py -> build/lib/pyzor
running build_scripts
creating build/scripts-2.3
copying and adjusting scripts/pyzor -> build/scripts-2.3
copying and adjusting scripts/pyzord -> build/scripts-2.3
changing mode of build/scripts-2.3/pyzor from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-2.3/pyzord from 644 to 755
[root@ugly pyzor-0.4.0]# python setup.py install
running install
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

Re: Pyzor reporting

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Alan Munday, on 2004-01-17, wrote:

> I posted the message below to the SA group where there were reports of
> similar difficulties from the group.

> I have today tried to report ~400 spam of which 24% failed.

The timeouts are definitely becoming an issue; this occurs due to
increased load on the server.  The protocol issues occur generally right
after a timeout error, when the responses come back late, and the second
query gets the response for the first.  I'll be able to solve this by
implementing having Pyzor use different source addresses each time it
starts.

Thank you for telling me about the situation; I don't follow the SA 
forums, so sometimes I'm out of the loop.

-- 
Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

Pyzor reporting

[Alan M. <py...@br...>]

Are there any known issues with Pyzor reporting?

I posted the message below to the SA group where there were reports of
similar difficulties from the group.

I have today tried to report ~400 spam of which 24% failed.

Alan



-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Munday
Sent: 09 January 2004 21:51
To: 'spa...@li...'
Subject: Pyzor reporting



Is anyone finding pyzor reporting a bit hit and miss?

Reporting using:

$ formail -s spamassassin -r < /var/spool/mail/spamtrap

Gave a pyzor error for each of the messages:

Pyzor -> report failed: Exited with non-zero exit code 1

Running:

Pyzor report --mbox < /var/spool/mail/spamtrap

Came back with multiple timeout errors, protocol errors and occasionally
(200, 'OK').

I found I needed to run  pyzor report 6 times before it went through OK.

Alan

feature request

[Rob B. <rbo...@no...>]

To hook pyzor into qmail (so that it runs before anything even gets into
the queue) I have to use a wrapper script to make it return the proper
exit code.  Can you add an option to the script to make it return 31 on
detecting a spam, or to return arbitrary error codes (-x error, for
instance)?  Also, it doesn't seem to report anything to syslog when it=20
does block email, and I don't see anything in the man page on how to
make it do that - so my wrapper script also has to do that.

Those should be fairly simple things to do, but I don't know python from
a hole in the ground yet. :(

--=20
Rob Bos, rbos@{novylen.net,constainia.net}, urban bumpkin

"Existence precedes essence."
	-- Jean-Paul Satre

Re: Feature request

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Thomas Guettler, on 2003-11-22, wrote:

> 1. Auto Discover:
>    If the Pyzor Server fails, there should be some URL
>    which have links to other pyzor servers.

This is definitely in-planning.

> 2. Cache Server:
>   pyzor clients should be able to conntact
>   a pyzor cache first. If the cache
>   does not know the answer, it will contact
>   the primary server.

This also has been requested, and is a good idea.

-- 
Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

Re: I broke pyzor discover

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Mark Nienberg, on 2003-11-21, wrote:

> After about a month of successful pyzor usage on RedHat 7.3, if I run "pyzor 
> discover" now I get this:
...
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/__init__.py", line 458,
>        in from_str fields[1] = int(fields[1])

Somehow your ~/.pyzor/servers probably got corrupted.
Simply removing it and re-discovering should be fine.

-- 
Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

Feature request

[Thomas G. <gu...@th...>]

Hi!

I have two feature request:

1. Auto Discover:
   If the Pyzor Server fails, there should be some URL
   which have links to other pyzor servers.
   Example: 
    http://pyzor.sf.net/servers
    and (fallback) http://pyzor.foo.org/servers
   have a List of available pyzor servers
   If the pyzor server fails, the client
   checks these URL automatically and updates the
   IP if the pyzor server

2. Cache Server:
  pyzor clients should be able to conntact
  a pyzor cache first. If the cache
  does not know the answer, it will contact
  the primary server.

 thomas


-- 
Thomas Guettler <gu...@th...>
http://www.thomas-guettler.de

Re: Lost filtering

[<lar...@fl...>]

Ok, since Nov 17th pyzor start to catch mails again.
Thanks,
Lars 

Lars Holmstr=F6m writes: 

> I submit between 100 and 150 a day. Even thogh some of them come back =
 few
> days later, so I suspect there is a problem somewhere anyway.  And I a=
lso
> notice that since the 4th not a single message has been catched by pyz=
or.
> But I will wait-n'-see a few days more. 
> 
> /Lars
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Frank Tobin" <ft...@ne...>
> To: <pyz...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Lost filtering 
> 
> 
> Lars Holmstr=F6m, on 2003-11-11, wrote: 
> 
>> I have successfully run Pyzor on Linux for several months. This softw=
are
>> really helped our users a lot. In the past I trapped a minimum of 50-=
100
>> mails per day.
> 
> One possible issue is that the old database was lost; however, I suspe=
ct
> that this is not a significant factor since spam has a short lifespan.
> Another issue is that some of the bigger reporters might have not move=
d to
> reporting to the new server. 
> 
> -- 
> Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/ 
> 
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I broke pyzor discover

[Mark N. <ma...@ti...>]

After about a month of successful pyzor usage on RedHat 7.3, if I run "pyzor 
discover" now I get this:

downloading servers from 
http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/inform-servers-0-3-x
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 4, in ?
    pyzor.client.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 934, 
       in run ExecCall().run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 178,
       in run self.servers  = self.get_servers(servers_fn)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 393,
       in get_servers servers.read(open(servers_fn))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 123, 
       in read self.append(pyzor.Address.from_str(line))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyzor/__init__.py", line 458, 
        in from_str fields[1] = int(fields[1])
IndexError: list index out of range


If I manually create a valid .pyzor/servers file, then pyzor 
works fine.

A couple of things changed the day before this started 
happening.  Since I don't use kde I uninstalled the following 
rpm packages:
kdelibs
kde2-compat
unixODBC-kde
Also, I installed an upgrade from arkeia 5.1 to 5.2.

Is it possible that I have to reinstall one or more of those 
rpms? I tried reinstalling pyzor, and it installed cleanly, 
but didn't fix my problem.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Mark