Thursday 1st June 2006
Fuel Prices
Filled up the Micra at Sainbury's at Cheadle Royal. Petrol was 91.9p a litre, diesel 94.9p a litre. These are around 3p a litre cheaper than any other station that I visit regularly or pass on my usual travels. I wonder why that is?
Local Packages
Updated getmail to 4.6.1
Mail Server
I've been looking at my mail server configuration, trying to find out why so much spam was getting through, particularly for the MCIVTA rôle accounts. Turns out I still hadn't re-enabled spamass-milter after the reinstall I did for Fedora Core 5! I was passing my own mail through spamassassin via procmail anyway, so I still got some spamd log entries, which threw me off the scent. I'd turned off the milter because the load was killing my cripped post-upgrade system. In order to reduce the load in the future, I've whitelisted the Red Hat server that delivers most of the mailing list messages, so those won't go through spamassassin.
Fedora QA
Submitted missing buildreq bug-and-fix for SDL and clearsilver (not actually a missing buildreq issue).