26 Oct 2003 -- Now hosted in Los Angeles. 10 Nov 2003 -- Mail server locked down tighter on spam. Spamassassin and procmail ran on every incoming message to tag spam that slips through RBLs. (use .procmailrc to filter it into various folders) Pine installed! It's a special version that supports maildir/ 22 Nov 2003 -- X11 and xmove and xmovectrl installed! 24 Nov 2003 -- ntp client enabled. clock rolled back about 10 minutes 25 Nov 2003 -- changed mutt sort default to set 'date-received' (spammers were faking dates and scatting spam in my mailbox on the standard default of 'date') 13 Dec 2003 -- irssi installed (with perl support disabled) 30 Dec 2003 -- QEMU installed for developers who are working on kernels. 4 Jan 2004 -- Trying to get traffic shaping (cbqinit) under control. Sorry for any connection problems. (email orange@mainecoon.net if they persist). [update 2004.1.5] I guess traffic shaping wasn't a good idea. I broke ssh. 5 Jan 2004 -- Emergency system reboot (thanks wazm). Yes brk_poc exploit does work on this kernel. 6 Jan 2004 -- Added rrdcollect daemon. see http://rm-f.net/stats.cgi for the output of this daemon 22 Jan 2004 -- Put a 30 minute sleep timeout on rarely used drives in /mnt 5 Feb 2004 -- Sending email no longer works, mutt will just hang. Sorry I don't know how to fix it. 6 Feb 2004 -- email/mutt works again. Had to restart postfix after an update 12 Feb 2004 -- mail from *.ipt.aol.com will be rejected (mail properly sent through AOL mail servers should still be okay. see /etc/postfix/client_checks for a list of other domains we are rejecting) 14 Feb 2004 -- mounted an 80Gb partition at /pub .. moving a lot of things off /home and /usr into it. /pub means it's public so users are free to poke around in there. 6 Mar 2004 -- installed xmove-2.0b2 (for info 'man xmove' and 'man xmovectl') 11 Mar 2004 -- POP3-SSL works. WebMail-SSL works too. https://mail.rm-f.net/ 16 Mar 2004 -- ftp installed (from NetBSD) enjoy. 17 Mar 2004 -- Epic4 2.0 installed. previous version sucked. 28 Mar 2004 -- For some reason we cannot access SMTP on several mail servers out there. Using a system on another network works fine though. If you use rm-f to send mail you will probably get mail delivery failures a few days later. So don't bother using email on rm-f anymore. 9 Apr 2004 -- email still does not work. Local mail delivers okay. If you want to help me set it up get ahold of me on AIM://OrangeTide1 or YahooMsg://OrangeTide and we'll work it out. 10 Apr 2004 -- email works again. I redid the postfix configuration from scratch. There are no more junk mail controls at this time though, I leave it up to each users to deal with .forward and .procmailrc files themselves. 15 Apr 2004 -- OpenCM source control software installed. http://www.opencm.org/ 20 Apr 2004 -- TWiki installed. Open to the public. http://twiki.rm-f.net/ 21 Apr 2004 -- talk/ytalk installed. fixed wrong ip in /etc/hosts so things work better now 27 Apr 2004 -- vimspell feature disabled. It's a pain to reconfigure to be disabled by default so I removed it entirely. the default of dark red on black wasn't very pleasing either. (although you can change the colorscheme to only underline the word and not apply color attributes). 28 Apr 2004 -- installed 'z'. A generic front-end to tar,gz,bz2,zip. (it removes the archive after it's decompressed it. which is kind of annoying. feel free to edit the script and email it to me.) 5 May 2004 -- fixed some errors with man page cache permissions. 6 May 2004 -- email filtered with RBL from dsbl.org, Anomy Sanitizer(for stripping out email trojans/viruses), SpamAssassin(should only mark messages as spam, does not filter by default). 7 May 2004 -- CounterStrike server running. contact cstrike@rm-f.net for info 8 May 2004 -- SpamAssassin modified the header of mail that appears to be spam. Also you can use X-Spam-Level: header generated by SpamAssassin to do filtering in procmail if you would like. 16 May 2004 -- Some people with old accounts had ~/Maildir/ rather than ~/.maildir/ which was preventing from some thigns from working smoothly. I moved what ones I could over. 20 May 2004 - Installed lots of Java development stuff. ant, gcj, javac, ... 21 May 2004 - Updated the Acceptable Use Policy. http://rm-f.net/aup.html 21 May 2004 - IRC Server up and running. rm-f.net:6667 mail irc@rm-f.net for help or bugs 23 May 2004 - Reclaimed drive space used by back-ups of old RM-F home directories. If you didn't ask for your data by now, it's way too late. 26 May 2004 - Enabled PAM in sshd_config and pam_limits.so to place memory and process limits on all accounts. see ulimit -a to display your current limits. If you have a problem with the limits I've set please email root@rm-f.net 8 Jun 2004 - IP address for rm-f.net changing soon. I will try to make the change over process as painless as possible. This is being done to get off SPEWS spam black list. 16 Jun 2004 - smartd installed to log and report S.M.A.R.T. status of all drives in the system. This should allow us to catch drive failures before it becomes catostrophic. 22 Jun 2004 - Our IP changed: 66.249.132.40. I will keep up the old IP for as long as I can. But DNS has been updated as well. 23 Jun 2004 - Upgraded to Linux 2.4.26-gentoo-r2 24 Jun 2004 - Removed hardened gcc. There are some incompatibities with it and gdb when running a kernel without the hardened patches. Once I put those patches in I'll move back to hardened gcc. 9 Jul 2004 - centericq works correctly again (yahoo and aim login works) 10 Jul 2004 - Upgraded SquirrelMail to 1.4.3a (visit https://mail.rm-f.net/). Automatic redirection from http://mail.rm-f.net/ to https://mail.rm-f.net/ works. 14 Jul 2004 - Changed default mutt Sent mail location to .Sent folder in INBOX. This allows you to access mail sent by mutt inside of WebMail and IMAP. Also some users had .procmailrc files that pointed to Maildir, we use .maildir/ now. I went through and fixed as many as I could. If you aren't getting email make sure you either delete this file or change it. 15 Jul 2004 - MySQL setup and enabled. Anonymous accounts are disabled, contact root@rm-f.net for access. 20 Jul 2004 - DEADLINE for users who once had an account, but not longer have one, to request their old home directories is set for AUGUST 1st. Contact the adminstrators before then or your data is gone for good. 21 Jul 2004 - disabled mail sanitizer because it annoyingly renames attachments even though most of us don't run shitty exploitable mail clients like MS Outlook 10 Aug 2004 - Chicken 1.22 : Scheme to C compiler Installed 12 Aug 2004 - Bigloo 2.6a : Scheme Compiler installed 17 Aug 2004 - Spamhaus.org RBL added to reduce spam 31 Aug 2004 - Graphviz 1.15.20040901.0430 Installed 3 Sep 2004 - Added cgi counter for everyone to use. Just set an img link to http://rm-f.net/cgi-bin/countess.xbm?username123 where username123 is your username appended by a number (if you want multiple counters) 7 Sep 2004 - for USians: $100k sweepstakes for voting in this election. http://jm184z.VOTEorNOT.org . You might want to use http://spamgourmet.com/ for email redirection to prevent spam on this one. 13 Sep 2004 - TikiWiki installed. Much fancier than the old wiki. Can be configured to visual host, so if you need a wiki/blog/forum/etc on your own site just contact me and I'll set you up. 14 Sep 2004 - Upgraded to PHP 5.0.1 .. This might break older php pages, so please check pages and report any problems. 23 Sep 2004 - nvi installed. vim users: you will now get nvi if you type 'vi' or 'view' 21 Oct 2004 - Valgrind 2.2.0 installed 21 Oct 2004 - Upgraded to glibc 2.3.4.20041006 22 Oct 2004 - Rolled back to glibc 2.3.4.20040808-r1 ( /lib/libNoVersion-2.3.4.so had no symbols on 20041006 ) 23 Oct 2004 - We're exceeding bandwidth allocations. I will be randomly killing bittorrent clients for amusement. Run bittorrent on your own network. 25 Oct 2004 - sc 7.12 - installed (it's a spreadsheet program) 28 Oct 2004 - Upgraded to gcc 3.3.4+gcj and gdb 6.2.1+tui 4 Nov 2004 - Installed tcc 0.9.21 9 Nov 2004 - Installed tcc 0.9.22 10 Nov 2004 - symlinked .screenrc for some users to /etc/screenrc.fancy 10 Nov 2004 - put 'user-domain=rm-f.net' in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf 12 Nov 2004 - System died around 3:06PDT and was restarted at 8:30PDT. Not sure of the cause of the crash. (the log files do have a bunch of null characters in them at the point of crash, if you were writing files at this time they may also have junk in them) 26 Nov 2004 - Box seemed to have died at around 3:04PDT. Rebooted at 11am. Still not sure what causes the crash, but I'm seeing a pattern emerge here. 6 Dec 2004 - QEMU 0.6.2 + VNC patches installed 7 Dec 2004 - qemu uninstalled. not even 0.6.1 works right 20 Dec 2004 - rebooted machine. ethernet card seems to die after a while. 22 Dec 2004 - rebooted machine. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out I would recommend backing up data in your accounts. I don't know how we're going to replace the ethernet card. Mike is the only one anywhere near the colo and he's rather busy. I may have to have rm-f shipped to me and taken off line for a long time. 22 Dec 2004 - nsx recommends that I pass full_duplex=1 to the tulip driver. Next time the box gets rebooted I will do that. Hopefully I pass the options correctly, it's a one-shot thing. 29 Dec 2004 - System rebooted for no reason 29 Dec 2004 - Upgraded to irssi 0.8.10 + silc plugin 6 Jan 2005 - bumped up ulimit to 100 processes, but locked the address space down to 256MB 7 Jan 2005 - Please don't run elflbl.c, it's more likely to lock up the box than give you root. 7 Jan 2005 - Upgraded to centericq 4.12.0 14 Jan 2005 - Some albanian girls hacked my webserver using rootedoor, r0nin and bindtty.c 17 Jan 2005 - MRTG data available at http://rm-f.net/mrtg/eth0.html 26 Jan 2005 - Set file size ulimit to unlimited (was 2gb) 27 Jan 2005 - Upgraded to mutt 1.5.6i 14 Feb 2005 - Upgraded centericq to 4.20.0. Happy Valentine's Day 23 Feb 2005 - Upgraded htmltidy to 4.8.6 9 Mar 2005 - Fixed https://mail.rm-f.net/ to go to the webmail 11 Mar 2005 - maildrop 1.8.0 installed 13 Mar 2005 - ssh available on port 2222 incase you're behind some anal firewall. 2 Apr 2005 - rm-f back online. No idea what caused the massive spike in up traffic that lead to rm-f being removed. We're going to try and tighten things down so it's less likely to happen again. 2 Apr 2005 - We're getting rid of apache. If you have things that are apache/php specific, tell me. I will give you my sympathy for your stuff not working anymore. 4 Jun 2005 - recoil put back online. shogun.rm-f.net has been collecting your mail in the meantime. If you want an account on shogun I can enable your account if you'd like. 10 Jun 2005 - aolserver and exim put up. rm-f.net now points to recoil. Copied mail from the backup server back onto rm-f. You should have a lot of unread spam in your mailbox. 23 Jun 2005 - bumped the default ulimits down drastically. cranked up the ulimits for users group. Removed unixODBC and replaced with IODBC package. 2 Jul 2005 - some of you have .forward files that used procmail that don't work. I've changed them to work. This seems to be a side-effect of installing exim. 14 Jul 2005 - Installed crystal. A very basic MUD client. 27 Aug 2005 - Removed tons of packages to free up disk space. 26 Sep 2005 - I put apache back up and got rid of aolserver, aolserver is just too much work for such a small site. If you wrote any aolserver adp scripts, tell me. I'll help you get them running with apache. 4 Oct 2005 - Added subversion client and server. enjoy 21 Dec 2005 - Installed console sudoku. http://www.laurasia.com.au/sudoku/ 17 Jan 2006 - Inferno installed to /opt/Inferno20050720. 25 Jan 2006 - added pal and ical2pal, a command line calendar (iCal supported). Also added esearch for doing portage searches quickly. 5 May 2006 - We now run a local DNS server because the server we used to use often goes down. 22 Feb 2006 - Upgraded to SpiderMonkey 1.5 (javascript library) 17 Feb 2006 - TcpForwarding option enabled in sshd 14 Feb 2006 - redirect port 8080 to port 22 for those of you behind nasty firewalls. 26 Sep 2006 - new server equipment set up. waiting to ship it to colo. 30 Sep 2006 - recoil.rm-f.net back up. HOORAY! 1 Oct 2006 - copied the SSH keys from the old system to the new one. 2 Oct 2006 - Installed IMAP-SSL server, ImageMagick, and sox. 3 Oct 2006 - nvi installed (vi clone that is more like vi than vim) 4 Oct 2006 - MRTG network graphs at http://www.rm-f.net/mrtg/eth0.html 6 Oct 2006 - qemu and sharutils installed 7 Oct 2006 - installed sqlite3 (database) and joe (a text editor) 15 Oct 2006 - I am running some number crunching loops; although you may see my processes using lots of CPU and RAM they are not infinite looping and I am attending to them to make sure they don't run away. Thanks for not killing these. :) -mj 15 Oct 2006 - mingw32 installed (cross compile windows apps). use i586-mingw32msvc-gcc to compile. 15 Oct 2006 - tinyfugue installed. (run tf). mutt's default configuration set to use Maildir. 18 Oct 2006 - Merged all old .maildir directories into standard Maildir, so you should be able to see your old email in mutt and IMAP. awstats installed at http://rm-f.net/awstats/awstats.pl 21 Oct 2006 - installed gcc 3.4 (use gcc -V 3.4 otherwise you get 4.0). g77-3.4 also installed. 24 Oct 2006 - fixed race in Ubuntu between logrotate and awstats 1 Nov 2006 - installed a better identd/auth daemon. man oidentd.conf to configure your response. nmap, whois and finger installed. 2 Nov 2006 - Neverwinter Nights server running at nwn.rm-f.net:5121 3 Nov 2006 - unrar-free installed. 9 Nov 2006 - pdftotext installed. 10 Nov 2006 - at 2:17am a voltage drop(brown out) resulted in a server reset. 19 Nov 2006 - FastCGI dev libaries installed. (libfcgi0) 21 Nov 2006 - Installed g++ 4.0.3, pkg-config, libxml2-dev, libxslt1-dev, libfreetype2-dev, libpng12-dev, libming-util, libming-dev. see man pages for: swfmill, makeswf, libming-util 22 Nov 2006 - gcj, javac, gij and gnu classpath installed. enjoy Java! 27 Nov 2006 - in an effort to reduce spam, greylisting has been activated. 29 Nov 2006 - ant, mmake and proguard installed. 6 Dev 2006 - security updates applied to: cpio dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dpkg dselect gnupg imagemagick info libmagick9 libpq4 lvm2 mutt python2.4 python2.4-minimal screen tar 14 Dec 2006 - installed libevent liblua50-dev liblualib50-dev lua50-doc lua50 15 Dec 2006 - installed graphviz gsfonts gsfonts-x11 24 Dec 2006 - trac installed. a webbased bugtracking and wiki tool. 1 Jan 2007 - Happy New Year. epic4 installed. 6 Jan 2007 - cdecl and c++decl installed. 17 Jan 2007 - started seeding bittorrent for vmware linux disk images. more info at: http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ 23 Jan 2007 - installed asciidoc utilities 30 Jan 2007 - DocBook and xsltproc installed 28 Feb 2007 - zomg project moved to http://zomg.rm-f.net/ 3 Mar 2007 - Icarus Verilog installed 8 Mar 2007 - pfe Forth interpreted installed. 20 Apr 2007 - dist-upgrade to ubuntu 7.04 feisty. 21 Apr 2007 - reboot. installed kvm utilities for virtual machines. 15 Jun 2007 - ssh now available on port 21 and 2222 20 Jun 2007 - git installed 8 Jul 2007 - closed off some external ports in named, etc. 13 Jul 2007 - sloccount installed. measures source code metrics. 16 Jul 2007 - LLVM installed. http://llvm.org/ 30 Jul 2007 - ssh limited to 8 connections per minute 10 Aug 2007 - xauth installed so X11 ssh forwarding works. 1 Dec 2007 - fastcgi enabled. upgraded like 100 packages 7 Dec 2007 - disabled 'git clean' command 11 Dec 2007 - installed dict 12 Dec 2007 - changed vhosts in preparation of IP change. moved all public git repos to /var/git. added http://git.rm-f.net/ and git-daemon. try git clone git://git.rm-f.net/bot.git or git clone ssh://git.rm-f.net/var/git/bot.git 21 Dec 2007 - ran out of disk space on /home but moving stuff to /private 26 Dec 2007 - installed GNU indent. installed vmware-server 9 Feb 2008 - expect installed 12 Feb 2008 - deleted all accounts that have exploits in them 15 Feb 2008 - moved mysql database to partition with more free space 25 Feb 2008 - asn1c and most installed 28 Feb 2008 - doxygen installed 3 Mar 2008 - pork instant messaging client installed 25 Mar 2008 - installed process accounting 31 Mar 2008 - webmin and usermin installed. https://rm-f.net:20000/ 4 Apr 2008 - ran out of space on /var for a while. deleted extra logs 7 Apr 2008 - email was failing because the RBL relays.ordb.org is gone. 13 Apr 2008 - Sun JDK 1.6 installed 8 May 2008 - upgrades to latest feisty 8 May 2008 - finch and centerim installed 27 May 2008 - Installed ksh-93 28 May 2008 - installed javadoc (gjdoc) 29 May 2008 - If your ssh keys aren't working, try ssh-vulnkey to check. 17 Jun 2008 - upgraded libgnutls13 openssl-blacklist spamassassin spamc tzdata 23 Jun 2008 - be advised - upgrading to Hardy 8.04