April 28, 2003

Another Recruit

The newest member of the HOSTILE Army is now up and running. Please welcome Vetver.

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April 16, 2003

Simple Pleasures

I will probably go to hell for it, but this made me laugh out loud. <Via Jason Garrett>

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April 12, 2003

Get Thee To a Bloggery, Go!

About 7pm yesterday I took the box entirely offline and wiped the main hard-drive. Now, being a cunning little net.monkey, I had all of your files on a different drive (and a backup from a couple weeks back on my work computer too :) so we didn't really lose much. The virus actually only attacks programs (ELF binaries for you geeks) so I wrote a quick program that purged all programs from your directories. (This only effects Bud and Chili since they actually compiled stuff of their own.)

I put an entirely new version of Linux on the server, replicated what configurations I could, and rewrote the rest from scratch, got the new OS and the old drive working together (quick, is it /dev/hdb2 or /dev/hdc1 ???), and then just beat it with a hammer till it mostly worked. W3ME people we're held up the longest but at this time all services are back up.

There will be another reboot late Sunday when I finish updating to newest versions of some things. And we'll do better about that in the future so we don't get attacked again, promise!

What all this means to you is that you have all you old stuff safe, and some NEW STUFF TO PLAY WITH!



  • Want your mail in a browser when you are away from your computer? Try:
    http://www.hostile.org/webmail or http://www.w3me.com/webmail (both work for everyone, but if hostile is blocked by overzealous network people W3ME might still be usable.)
  • We're on Apache 2.0 now, which means mod_perl, mod_python, and PHP are all available in the core and PHP is turned on by default. Use PHP, see if I care, (well I do care, it sucks, but if you like it...) If you want cgi's or executable includes, I can set them to run as your user without security risks. Just ask if you want em.
  • MT people should be able to use ImageMagick tools now. Thumbnails for all my friends! Yay! Set up an image-blog if you want. (No pr0n, this is a family server. :)
  • Tired of telling me your new IP so you can send mail out through hostile? Try turning on Authenticated SMTP, use your same password. Worried about net snooping? SSL wrapped mail is coming soon. (Heck, I'll probably make sure hostile and w3me's webmail'er works in https too.) Ask me if you need help configuring you mailer. (If your local provider starts blocking your outgoing mail, we also are still running plain SMTP on port 125 as well as 25. Ask for help if you need it.)
  • Postgres or mysql can be turned on if you want real database access.
  • I'm working on webstats, so you guys can get proper statistics up to the minute on all the little stuff a web-bug style stat system can't tell you. When they work, I'll let ya know. Also, I'm going to try and get data throughput stats so we have some idea of how much bandwidth we're using.

    Stats:


    • Domains for web/mail: 12
    • Domains in nameserver (includes slaves): 25
    • Websites including virtuals: 25
    • Blogs: 14ish
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By Jove, I Think She Works!

Give her the full test and mail me at mark at xodiax dot com if the post system acts weird. No promises and mail is still wonky but I think it all works blog-wise. And yes, I started at 7pm and it is now 3:30am... I wanted to _play_ on the computer tonite, not fix some little shit's mess by doing a full reinstall!

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April 11, 2003

Dear Mark,

Oh how I love thee Mark,
let me count the ways,

you are so magnificient!

(ok, that's all the creativity I can muster up at this point)

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Hostile Hit, Has Hideous Hack!

Jade will go off air here in a bit to clean an exploit! We're going to do this at about 7pm now, since I'll need dinner and probably a good cry whilst curled up in a corner first. :) The exploit was via PHP, thank you very much, so we probably won't be installing that again.

What we will be trying to get going is the Image Magic stuff needed to make thumbnails and the picture manipulation features in MT work correctly. *sigh*

And in case you are wondering, it is a new exploit with an old, nasty payload that turns every binary program on the drive into a trojan. A mostly ineffective trojan, and I've blocked its access to the world for now so its teeth are pulled. One thing it does tho is prevent programs from shutting down properly; this explains the weird network reset issue, the shutdown hang from last week, and the webserver failures from last night. Lovely.

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Hostile Horks a Hoo.

We're experiencing weirdness again. I may have to do some sort of reinstall or possibly sacrifice a chicken. I'm hoping it just has computer indigestion. Assuming this site is up and you can read this, go visit Umamitsunami, and be amused with her gaming experiments. The Trance Vibrator for the game Rez is really fucking weird. The game rules, and one women we showed it to immediately turned to her boy and growled, "you need to get one of these!"

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April 05, 2003

Hostile Heaving Ho, Redux

Basically, the server was dead because I suck at server administration. When I rebooted the box a couple weeks ago, something didn't start up right. When I noticed it, I fixed the system and rebooted just to make sure everything was fresh.

Of course, I didn't make sure that things were set up to shut down properly so the box got freaked out when shutting down and just plain refused to do anything at all. I should have had one of the NOC guys at work reboot it, but I thought that it had gotten freaked out AFTER rebooting so I never guessed just flipping the power would be all that was required to fix it. Sorry, hostees.

It is once again answering for all IPs and all the sites it is supposed to be handling. It seems to be acting a bit sluggish but that might just be my imagination. Let me know if you see it doing something weird, try mark at xodiax dot com if my regular mail doesn't work!

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