so i got my insurance bill today.
$1500 deductable + $1000 copay = im fucked.
there goes my savings account that has taken me like 5yrs to build.
i guess the surgery was worth it.
thats all.

devildriver – i could care less.mp3

So yeah. Unexpected outage on the server. Down for like 1.5 days.
Story: I ssh into my box on the 6th. I forget now what I was doing. Anyway I happened to do a ps aux to look at processes. I see some weird processes running. I basically figure my server must have been rooted. I work on it some more and figure I’m going to have to reload it. While I did want to reload it, I just didn’t want to do it at this point. So I start the process of making sure stuff is backed up. I finally make a backup of the entire server, copy it to the airolink web server, and then start working on reloading the box. I finally just decide to bring the box home where I can mash on it and get it done quicker than if I was at work getting bothered. I first try loading whiteboxlinux on it, which went well. I then tackle installing qmailtoaster devel rpms. The install script I used just would not work. Tried it several times. So I figure it must be whiteboxlinux not compatible with qmailtoaster. So I know redhat 9 is supported by the script, so I reinstall with redhat 9. The install script for qmailtoaster also fails. Posting this problem on the qmailtoaster mailing list, I finally get an answer to my question. The script was not up-to-date on the files it had to download. Ooops on both: I shoulda figured that out, and the author (tho very busy) should have updated it.
Anyway I got it installed, ran the server back to work, copied the file over (took like 3 hrs to copy 2gb of 2.2gb of the file, so something was wrong). I then hooked my server to the backup airolink lan, copied the 2.2gb file in like ~10mins to my server. Left work, went home, extracted the backup tar file. Copied over configs and got most of the services up in like 10mins.
Anyway, I got a nice qmailtoaster install, with spamassassin, tnef, clamav, and qmailscanner. Keeps all the virus ridden email attachments out and most of the spammers.
Today I finally figured out how the hacker got in. The script kiddie used some obscure php vulnerability and managed to get some backdoor code on the system. Then basically the server got hosed with trojans and an ircbot. Long story short, I’ve got data trail leading to another server. Hopefully something will come out of this.
Yes, I learned my lesson. Don’t trust the redhat rpms as they arent really up-to-date. Compile your own software from source or SRPMS.
Random thought: So I finally got a decent copy of this paris hilton video thats everywhere. What’s the big deal. Prono video that got stolen. Next time keep the video someplace safe. Or destroy it. Or *gasp* don’t make one at all. You got pwned. So sit down.

Meshuggah – Obsidian
best.song.ever.