November 2006 Archives
Tue Nov 21 11:48:59 EET 2006
What happened during the last week
I've decided to use my blog in the
end. The Last week we were with Habib for some time. He is a nice
company we speaked about his Grand Father who did some miracles
through the power of 2 Gins. A lot of people with various diseases
were cured with the help of 2 Jins he has power over. P.S. In the
Quran Jins are spirits created from fire after God created the
Angels due to the quran Jins are spirits which are with free will
just like us humans and they could go for good or bad, From
Christian perspective so far as I'm Christian the Christians think
Jins for Demons but are they Demons or not only God knows, because
his Grand Father did a lot of nice things for the people was
praying and fasting a lot and was trying to love everybody, well he
was a muslim but I guess God can save everybody through Christ
Jesus in his own way. Then We talked about what the bible the life.
Habib explained something very interesting of what the muslim myth
says about why people do cough. Myth says that when God created in
the beginning everything he put (soul/spirit) when breading to the
body of soil, before that the soul was happily living with God in
Heaven and the soul is not being conforted by living in a dying
body because you know it can hurt, you feel cold stuff like that,
so often when a born to human being is being given an Angel from
God comes and puts the soul in the body through the nose then locks
the entrance to be sure the soul won't try to go out, and because
the soul tries to get out we cough :]]. In Friday night or the
Saturdays I can't exactly we went to mino with Mitko we saw
Gosho/Geni there he was drunk this time he did not repeat "on my
head" like a parrot, this time the saying was "baba yaga";]. I'm
thinking again about stopping the cigars but we'll see. Yesterday I
was in Mitko and we was able to run WarCraft 3 under GNU/Linux
Fedora Core 6. His brother was extraordinary happy he will be able
to play WC3 :]. During the day there was tons of work for me. There
were problems with one of our mail servers mail.design.bg. One of
the ValueWeb's Caching DNSes was down the other was resolving hosts
awfully slow. So I read some about djbdns as a caching DNS and
installed it on two of the servers on (backup-serv1.design.bg and
backup-server2.design.bg). then switched all the NSes our servers
in USA use to my new djb caching dnses, I was amazed djbdns is
really a nice bit of soft it's really a fast caching NS. I use it
for first time and I really like it from the beginning. I
experienced some problems before starting daemontools properly on
two of the machines because of the errorno-patch that redhats and
fedoras should apply to compile successfully daemontools. I thought
our problems with the mail server was mainly because of the slow
DNS resolves, but after setting up the new djbdns and configured
all the servers to use them still the response of the mail server
when there are connects to port 25 was very slow. I was able to
isolate the problem in the evening I spoke with a guy (greycat) in
irc.freenode.net in #qmail. About my problem and he pointed me to
the RBLs I use at my qmail-smtpd run. So using the method of
exclusion. Removing all the RBLs and started putting them one by
one I discovered one of the RBL Hosts I used was lagging
dnsbl.antispam.or.id (maybe due to slow DNS resolves). If you're
using it my advice is not to. When Removed it from my run file all
started working perfectly. The last days I'm doing a lot of stuff
around the qmail. I loaded some custom spam rules from SARE (SA
Rules Emposium) to reduce spam and wrote some my own custom rules
due to the spam I receive in my Mailbox. More and more I realize
how hard is to be a good mail server administrator. Oh yes I almost
forgot I ran my own qmailmrtg two days ago it graphs nicely lot of
very precious info about the mail server's load, queue, pop3
concurrency etc. etc. and I also ran qsstats nice qmail-scanner
statistics grapher program. Because of all the work I missed shool
yesterday. I need to read now about this business plan and know
more about it I can't even imagine how I'll graduate ever :].
Sun Nov 5 01:39:01 EET 2006
My First Blog Entry
Today we first met Habib (a colleague
from Holland College I study in). We took a newspaper and searched
for him a living place. We called from one bulphone to some of the
newspaper advertisements but was not able to find any suitable
living place for the price he could afford (60 or 70 leva). After
that we went to a coffee place called "Central". Then we went to
Mino's coffee and stayed and talked for 3 or 4 hours with Habib
mainly about Bangladej.He told us about different specific things
in Bangladej, like for example he explained us the attitude of
people to a local people who are musicians (I forgot the exact
Bangla's name of 'em), he told us Bangla's people will probably
think of us we're musicians if we go to Bangladej. He said the
people appreciate this people as fortune and the musicians live on
the hospitality of the people. I went home checked something on the
servers. It seems there is a new RC release of clamav 0.90rc2. I
installed the new release and tested it but it seemed it has some
problems with the clamd.conf's syntax and I've uninstalled the
0.90rc2 and installed the old one which is 0.88.5. Praise God I'm
spiritually okay. I'm going to have a sleep now but I'll first read
a little (The Bible).
Blessings in the name of Jesus Christ !
Blessings in the name of Jesus Christ !