Matthew Botos

If you get internal server errors from WordPress and see PHP errors like this in your CGI log:

PHP Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.savepath is correct (/var/phpsessions) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown(): open(/var/phpsessions/sess0454ff9df62216c3011888851ae9cdd1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

You may need to add something like this to wp-settings.php:

sessionsavepath(”YOURHOMEPATH/cgi-bin/tmp”); session_start();

(Courtesy of the PHP Session article in the PureHost KnowledgeBase.)

My spam actually seems to be dying down this year, and Thunderbird is being reasonably effective in catching it:

Thunderbird is actually the second step in my spam solution; SpamAssasin runs at a relaxed level on the server first. There are a small number of false positives, but not enough that I track them.

This analysis is another fine work of Perl that parses the dates of spam messages caught in Thunderbird’s Junk folder and those I manually move to the Missed Junk folder.