Creating a new repository in Subversion

For no other reason than 'I can never remember', this entry is being created. Most of my projects are ongoing, and rarely do I find the need to create new repositories. So when the time comes to run svnadmin create, I often find myself pondering the correct logistics of the svn import commmand.

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Debugging MailScanner: cleaning messages

Last week I did a short post on testing MailScanner to be sure it was scanning properly. An alert reader pointed out that I missed the easy solution, which was to simply use 'MailScanner --lint' to check if MailScanner was running properly. Since I wrote that article, I found that my MailScanner was again hogging the CPU. Last time it was an issue with f-prot interaction, this time it is a problem apparently with MailScanner. Here is what I did to debug this issue, and here is the post that helped me learn more about MailScanner.

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