I'm retarded
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May. 31st, 2008 | 07:47 pm
mood: 
bitchy
At the insistence of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
oddigy I guess I shall make an update.
Nothing much new in the world of hostwitdamost.. Just been tinkering with the server.
Oh yeah.... I installed a week or so ago Rsnapshot
Which is a pretty cool thingy. Makes my older backup solution look like crap. This takes a snapshot of my server every four hours and rsyncs it over to the 2nd hdd. What's so cool about it, is after it took its initial big arse snapshot during installation -- all the following hourly/daily snapshots are just incremental. Rather, it will only save the files that have changed since the last snap.
Also rblsmtpd is pissing me off. Don't know if it's a Plesk thing or if I'm just being anal. Ever since updating Plesk to 8.3 (screw updating to 8.4, just look at their forums) whenever rblsmtpd is triggered the plesk panel gives the appearance that Qmail shuts down. But in shell, a "Service qmail status" gives it an ok saying it's running. I think I should just stop going into plesk and refreshing the services status thingy so much... Matter of fact, I don't think I ever did it this much since upgrading to 8.3.. So, therein is my problem I guess. I'm anal. I noticed this behaviour once -- and now I'm fricken addicted to watching it repeat itself. Even though there are no apparent problems with Qmail itself. And I'm not overburdening the server with multitudes of RBL's just spamcop and sbl-xbl.spamhaus.
And I guess to aggravate the situation.. This morning I got an email from a client who's co-webmaster was having problems sending via SMTP.. I thought, "Well maybe there is a problem with Qmail"........ Turns out (as i found out later) this co-webmaster had just changed ISP's (the fricken day before) and was simply being blocked by spamhaus because the previous owner of their IP was quite naughty... I got their IP delisted and all is well now.
Enough to make someone go crazy, eh?
That's about it.....................Must.....Not.....H
oddigy I guess I shall make an update.Nothing much new in the world of hostwitdamost.. Just been tinkering with the server.
Oh yeah.... I installed a week or so ago Rsnapshot
Which is a pretty cool thingy. Makes my older backup solution look like crap. This takes a snapshot of my server every four hours and rsyncs it over to the 2nd hdd. What's so cool about it, is after it took its initial big arse snapshot during installation -- all the following hourly/daily snapshots are just incremental. Rather, it will only save the files that have changed since the last snap.
Also rblsmtpd is pissing me off. Don't know if it's a Plesk thing or if I'm just being anal. Ever since updating Plesk to 8.3 (screw updating to 8.4, just look at their forums) whenever rblsmtpd is triggered the plesk panel gives the appearance that Qmail shuts down. But in shell, a "Service qmail status" gives it an ok saying it's running. I think I should just stop going into plesk and refreshing the services status thingy so much... Matter of fact, I don't think I ever did it this much since upgrading to 8.3.. So, therein is my problem I guess. I'm anal. I noticed this behaviour once -- and now I'm fricken addicted to watching it repeat itself. Even though there are no apparent problems with Qmail itself. And I'm not overburdening the server with multitudes of RBL's just spamcop and sbl-xbl.spamhaus.
And I guess to aggravate the situation.. This morning I got an email from a client who's co-webmaster was having problems sending via SMTP.. I thought, "Well maybe there is a problem with Qmail"........ Turns out (as i found out later) this co-webmaster had just changed ISP's (the fricken day before) and was simply being blocked by spamhaus because the previous owner of their IP was quite naughty... I got their IP delisted and all is well now.
Enough to make someone go crazy, eh?
That's about it.....................Must.....Not.....H