This week, we:

• got 15,751 messages from 307 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,911 sessions from 1,047 different IP addresses.
• received 154,477 connections from at least 38,870 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 9 connections being checked at once.

This is all about the same level as last week , or at most down a little bit.Oddly, we show a bit of a volume

As a followup to an an earlier entry , here's what I've worked out abouthow to use the standard Gnome automount and other stuff in your owncustom environment. All of this is based on Fedora Core 5, but I thinkit's probably generic to any modern Gnome-based system.

The Gnome automount stuff is done by gnome-volume-manager , which runsas the user and communicates with the system HAL daemon to do all theactual work. This just mounts things when they'

; cat foobe+c 1be+f 2bed  3; look bed foobed  3; sort -o foo foo; look bed foo || echo failedfailed; cat foobe+c 1bed  3be+f 2; echo $LANGen_US.UTF-8

Locales are intrinsically a user interface issue; you want to presentinformation to the user in their specific local format. The Unix $LANG approach is intrinsically because commands have no idea whether they arepresenting information to the user

Last week Securityfocus, home of a number of reasonably active mailinglists that our users like getting, changed their nameservers from theSymantec corporate nameservers to UltraDNS. And then the Symanteccorporate nameservers promptly stopped giving useful answers to queriesabout the securityfocus.com domain (instead returning the standard 'Ihave nothing to do with them' results of a referral to the root zone).

Since the mailing lists are reasonably active and we do check to makesure that the MAIL FROM domain actually exists (much like most of the