Dual Monitors with Ubuntu 7.04 Fesity Fawn and nVidia Video Card

It is so easy to do it is almost mac-like. Install the Restricted Drivers, then from a terminal, issue the following command:

gksudo nvidia-settings

It will pop open a GUI for the Video card. Click on the X Server Display Configuration, and select TwinView, or Separate X Screen. Select the resolution and orientration. Twinview works well, but I don’t particularly like how windows pop to the middle of two screens broken in half. I prefer to use Separate X screen.

Copfilter Spam Filter Problem Resolved

Apparently the ix blacklist provider used by Copfilter, which is used if you choose the Razor, DCC, DNSBL option on the antipam settings, had a DDOS attack this year and as a result closed their service to non-registered users. The effect this had on my copfilter installations was the antispam scan times went from 3-6 sec to 50+ seconds. On a busy system all those scan jobs would effectively be a DDOS attack on your inbound mail. Disabling Razor, DCC and DNSBL would enable mail, but also allow through a large % of previously identified (in our case deleted) spam.

The resolution is to modify one text file manually:

/var/log/copfilter/default/opt/mail-spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

What I did was copy it locally so I could cut and paste (plus make a backup of it). Then I copied it back to the firewall. You need to comment out and move the two sections about ix in the file to below the line # COPFILTER END – SPAM_SCAN_SPEEDUP

# http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam/
# http://www.heise.de/ix/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=6404906&forum_id=48292
#header NIX_SPAM eval:check_rbl('nix-spam', 'ix.dnsbl.manitu.net')
#describe NIX_SPAM Listed in NIX_SPAM DNSBL (thanks to heise.de)
#tflags NIX_SPAM net
#score NIX_SPAM 2.0

# ftp://ftp.ix.de/pub/ix/ix_listings/2004/05/ixhash.pm
#loadplugin iXhash ixhash.pm
#body IXHASH eval:ixhashtest(‘ix.dnsbl.manitu.net’)
#describe IXHASH This mail has been classified as spam @ iX Magazine, Germany
#tflags IXHASH net
#score IXHASH 1.5

Then add in this known good blacklist provider:

#SPAMHAUS blacklist
header RCVD_IN_XBL_SPAMHAUS_ORG rbleval:check_rbl('relay', 'xbl.spamhaus.org.')
describe RCVD_IN_XBL_SPAMHAUS_ORG Received via a relay in xbl.spamhaus.org
tflags RCVD_IN_XBL_SPAMHAUS_ORG net
score RCVD_IN_XBL_SPAMHAUS_ORG 4.00

If you add that in above the END – SPAM_SCAN_SPEEDUP line, it will be enabled/disabled with the others via the GUI. Then just restart the copfilter services and all is well again.

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