[Moin-user] Problem with BadContent

[Steven W. Orr]

On 09/04/09 05:50, quoth Thomas Waldmann:
> Hi Steven,
> 
>> [Thu Sep 03 23:44:42 2009] [error] 2009-09-03 23:44:42,827
>> MoinMoin.security.antispam INFO 1252034082 *BadContent too old, have to check
>> for an update...
> 
> The update check happens if someone does a page save. It just wants to
> make sure that it has the latest antispam patterns before it checks the
> new content against them.
> 
> Your BadContent seems to be fresh enough, though, see there:
> 
> http://master18.moinmo.in/4ct10n/info/BadContent?action=info
> 
> There was no update since July. But your wiki can't know that without
> checking periodically.
> 
> BTW, the log level is INFO, this is just informative, it is not an
> error. The "[error]" likely comes from apache who received this output
> on stderr, which is the default logging output of moin.
> 
>> Can someone please tell me what to do?
> 
> Just ignore those messages. If you can't live with them, raise your
> logging level to WARNING.
> 
> BTW, you only need antispam for wiki reachable from the internet.
> If your wiki is intranet only or heavily protected by login / ACLs, you
> rather don't need it.
> 
> For spam protection please also consider using TextChas, see
> HelpOnTextChas. If you configure some site-specific and not too easy
> questions, they are a better protection than antispam secpol.

Thank you Thomas. I wanted to close the loop for future people who have the
same question. One concern I had was that the fetch might be happening from
another port besides 80. I saw some funny port numbers that were being dropped
by my firewall. Closer inspection showed it was the script kiddies usual games.

Also, thanks for the TextChas. I initially got drowned in Asian ads for ground
up endangered animal parts. Most of that stuff was halted by the TextChas.

-- 
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individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net

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