Thats it, I think everything is now moved from the sunbox to the mini itx box. I will shut it down the sunbox in the next couple days. The laptop is still using it for dns and I can’t work out why so I will give it a little time for the cache to expire.
I am also in touch with the company that hosts projectphotos.com. I just noticed they charge my credit card, but I hadn’t seen the email telling me they were doing it. My intention was to move it to my server so it will piss me off it I end up paying for another year.

Looks like its all gone tits up

Ok, not really but i am watching High Heels Low Life.
Microsoft patch tuesday was the usual. Nothing Critical either that or I am all jaded. Basically patch all the ones for the severs, then patch all the ones for the desktops. Denial of service against WINS servers, DHCP servers on NT 4 machines. Issues with word 6 converts. Some other stuff as well. You can look at www.microsoft.com/security if you really care.

Geek talk

cyrus, postfix, squirelmail, and I think mailman are all up and running. I switched imap and smtp over this morning after realizing that I was missing the myorgin= setting in postfix. Now everything is working. I have have virtual domains up and running and separated unix authentication from email authentication.
I did have to make a hack. When cyrus authenticates a user as domain=iwasdot.com it changes the sql to domain=griffon (griffon is the name of the machine) I haven’t been able to make it do anything fix this so I changed postfix to use smtpd_sasl_local_domain=griffon so it can authenticate against the sql database as well.
Its a hack but it works.


Worked on making the sensor config files configurable from the web interface of snortui. I have the website code working and can save setting changes. I need to work on loading the master conf file into the database and changing the sensor code to use it.

I am also working on moving my mailboxes to a new server that I have been testing for a few weeks.

I bought a christmas tree and I found a new toy for Sara. She is all excited about a bit of left over window screen spline. She is looking at me right now wanting me to play with her.

I took today off in leu of working saturday. I finished reading one of the harry potter books and started the next one. My achievement of the day was fixing the lock on the boot of my car. I have been putting it off till I had time to look at it put it back together then go to the dealer to pick up the parts I needed. Turned out that all I need to do was strip down the lock barrel degrease it rub off some corrosion on a couple pins then put it all back together. Once i worked out how to put it all back in the car I discovered that the car alarm would go off every time I opened the boot (thats trunk for you yanks). So after looking at it a bit more I worked out the microswitch in the lock wasn’t working, After pulling the lock out for about the 20th time I looked at the switch and saw that the wire had snapped. I didn’t think it was worth soldering so I made a trip to the dealer. $36 dollars later I have it installed and working. $36 dollars bought me a microswitch cost probably $0.10, a foot of wire $.20 and a connector $0.50. I have a feeling I could have replaced the microswitch if I had access to good electronic store, but this one had a couple holes in it for mounting onto the lock mechanism and I bet about $36 that they are not in the standard position. So now everything works as expected so mission accomplished. I can at least look on the bright side I didn’t pay for a dealer to make the repair, they would have just replaced all the parts for $100 plus at least another $50 for the labor.

I have been at work since 6am this morning, I left about 5;30pm I think. It was dark anyway when I went to work and dark when I came out.
I have been playing with an web frontend I wrote for snort while watching the end of PI and now I am watching Emma. Anyway It now daemonizes correctly which is very cool. I borrowed some code from spamd which it turns out is very similar to some examples on the web so I don’t feel any need to attribute it to spamd in the code. Eventually it will be published on https://sourceforge.net/projects/snortui/ there are just to many issues with it at the moment to release it to the public. It works very well but is a real bitch to set up.

Looks like I have another dying hard disk. I will need to check and see how many harddisks I have replaced in the last year. If this is the master disk then it is the original one from the computer. If it is the slave then I have no idea where it came from.

Unusual System Events
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Nov 17 11:04:40 sunbox dada: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0):
Nov 17 11:04:40 sunbox Uncorrectable data Error: Block 72e70
Nov 17 11:04:40 sunbox uata: [ID 606412 kern.warning] WARNING: timeout: reset bus
chno = 0 targ = 0
Nov 17 11:04:42 sunbox dada: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0):
Nov 17 11:04:42 sunbox disk not responding to selection
Nov 17 11:04:42 sunbox dada: [ID 107833 kern.notice] dad0: disk okay

I need to pay attention next time I use an ATM. I was saying the other day that it shouldn’t be hard to remember that I always use english and I want a receipt. Guess what I noticed at the top of the last receipt I got from using a Bank of America ATM> “Save time. Set your ATM cash, language and receipt preferences now.” I am not sure how to do it but I will look next time.