Nothing really witty to say

Frustrating that I never got it to work with PC BSD, but running windows VISTA I could build up a vm server on the AMD platform.

Next weekend I will try to use Ubuntu desktop to act as my VM server platform. If that works I will have many changes to do here.

rebuild a vm bsd7.x box and migrate all mail web and smb to

build a pcbsd vm for my desktop application

purchase one more 500g drive raid1 it on the ubunto desktop migrate data from the bsd box (music video)
move the 2 500g drives to the VMserver box and dump data back


after that is all done, then some more of the fun stuff begins.

build a freebsd DNS DHCP and raduis server.
I have more and more wireless connections in the house so going raduis tends to make a lot of sense to me.

More to come when I have time....

Ok we all know that downloading illegal software and movies is bad!

but if you have to do you can go cheaply and use torrents. Or you can use the news groups.

Personally use both, but I am going to talk about using the newsgroups.

Most isp still have a newsgroup service now a days. But to save on bandwidth they either change the retention to almost nothing, or they cripple the connection to their server.

Thats why i don't mind spending the 20 us a month to use giganews .

Now that just the back end, there is still more you need to do.

Find a web site that can issue nzb files , I am using www.nzb-pro.com.
You have to register to use it but it's a free registration.

After that, you will need the file part. A news group read client. Or software that can read the news groups.
What I found what works is grabit found at www.shemes.com.
The free version works well for what we want to do.
just make sure to tell your computer to associate nzb extension to this software.

So after you download grabit, we still have to configure it.
simple enough, you have your freshly created account from giganews. If you need help with this, you really shouldn't have a computer!.


OK, what was I thinking. why am I using windows for this kind of stuff

on your unix box, install nzb get, par2 unrar
follow the man pages and you are up and running.

repairing pars from the command line is so much faster than it is on my windows box.
running unrar again from the command line works better than winrar.

I watched both par and rar eat the cup usage up to the point my windows box (not the fastest out there) is useless. On my unix box, it barley even put a dent in cpu usage,


for saftey sake run screen, then run nzbget in -d -s mode and just dump your nzb into the directory you wanted to download and walk away.

From now on if you want to look at the gallery you will have to jump through some hoops!

Since there are kids on my gallery, I didn't like the idea of the yahoo and googlebots slurping down photos from my gallery, so they can populate Google images.

Now you have to be registered user, and you have to anwer a skill testing question.

Again I would rather be careful than not when it comes to my friends and my family.

this only affects thegallery.ofcam.com

How do you explain Zombies and Children and Parents to someone who has no clue what you are talking about?

My head hurts over this one. I had an incident at work that no matter what I did to get rid of a running process it didn't release itself from the main application.

So in a nutshell, a child process that is dependant of a parent process died and didn't go away clean. Therefore it became a zombie.
No matter how hard you would try to kill it it would keep attached to the same PID tied to both it an the parent. Short of rebooting the machine and hoping that it comes back you would have to find out what the child is attached to and kill the parent to get rid of the zombie.

And yes there is a command in 'nix called kill.

So in a nutshell, you have to kill the parent to kill the zombie to allow the child to respawn.

after reading that, it does sound kinda of creepy.

No nasty little hackers trying to get at my box this morning.

Next project. procmail.
this takes a lot more coffee to deal with.

I use both a web-client and application to get mail. I would much rather have the mail server sort my mail to imap files than my clients do it.

Procmail was simple to set up. Once I did the RTFM thing, it hurt less than useing clueX4.

this is all I had to do.
install from ports
look for the /share/doc/procmail directory
cp the forward to /~.forward
cp the procmail samples to my /~.procmailrc
edit it to the way I like it.
add the milter to sendmail
stop and restart sendmail

the fist test was to tag anything that spamd said it was spam and move it into a file called spam.box

From hoffmann327@surfer.at Sun Apr 6 08:05:14 2008
Subject: *****SPAM***** Les meilleurs prixes, Viiaaaagra... - 1.01 Euro!
Folder: spam.box

anything else was just left in my mbox

going to set the rest of my rules up later.

SO need to get a course under my belt on how to use this thing!

I have done ok so far, but I do need to do the whole RTFM thing

thekult.ofcam.com
useing the serendipity port, Check it out, it's easy to config and maintain. After all I am a lazy sys admin.

thebook.ofcam.com
it's useing PHPBB3,
so much simpler to use than it's earlier version, install and configue was a snap.

mail.ofcam.com
I don't care what anyone says, horde and imp suck, I use squirrelmail

music.ofcam.com
Yes there area few things out there I use that are not bundled into the BSD ports tree. Jinzora is one of them, a nice lightweight media server that can run MPD and either stream music to any machine on the net or to play it over the web,


thegallery.ofcam.com
it's another quick and easy install. gallery2 with a sql back end is nice way to organize your photo albums.
I really don't like the idea of of posting fotos on facebook or other such web sites, once they are on a server you don't have control over, they are considerd public domain. here I can choose who gets to see what and the full screen slide is a nice touch.

calendar.ofcam.com

Ok it's not the best, I could of used squirrelmail with the outlook and sql calendar back end, but I have supported brim since it's first version. I thought it was hillarous to use it on my other domain when it was call booby, booby.cybernipples.com still makes me giggle.