08 Nov 07 Landlord Visit.. Oh dear..

As many of you know, i have lived in this House since september 11th 2006. And my landlord has been up once, and didn’t come in that time. My mum rang me yesterday and pre-warned me that he was coming up so i was to make sure the House was tidy and free of dog stuff.

It hadn’t actually occurred to me, that the dude who owns the house may object to us having a dog, we have been so caught up in actually getting the house ready for one we didn’t stop to think!

Anyway, i gets home last night after driving VERY slow the whole way back, hoping id miss him. I pulled into my drive and he turned up. Ahh shit. I hate this kinda thing..

I went to unlock the door, and gem ran in and hid the dog bed and stuff. They both came in and sat down and started talking to us about our house rent and shit.

As it turns out, i didn’t need to worry as he was really sound with us, even though i owe him £700! He doesn’t mind if we have a dog, and doenst mind if we paint the walls and shit. I guess its saving him a job if/when we eventually move out.  he mentioned he will probably want to sell the house in about 3 years, and that if i was in a position to buy it he would offer it me first.

But he basically said all was good, we aint got nothing to worry about. AND we can have a dog!

WOOOOOO!

He did put the rent up, but gem and myself anticipated this and re-budgeted about a week ago including the rent increase. So its all good basically!

In other news, im watching the latest EP of season 3 of prison break tonight, thanks to my man woggo. Me and him are by far the undisputed PB kings!

Another post coming in a sec for new pics of our baby!

05 Nov 07 Say it with pictures..

Weird looking red sky over mansfield, Notts on Friday evening. The weather has really gone weird recently. Its like the seasons have caught up with themselves, and it is now actually winter.

This potato was alive. It spoke and everything. He said he name was jeramy, and he thanked us for removing him from the bag he was in. He complained of chest pains, and tat he was finding it hard to breathe. We chopped the shit out of him, and made him into mash potato, just like his brothers and sisters.. Muhahaha!

Jazmine played over at our house on saturday night, shes bigger than gem, she is massive! But she is the nicest dog ever. Just a bit lazy!

TTFN!

04 Nov 07 WHM - There was a problem creating the email account.

One of the chaps that hosts his files with us, encountered a strange problem with his email. First off, two email account he had created in cpanel had dissapeared. He could connect to them in outlook, but no mail could be sent to them. He also described how he could not create any mail accounts either.

He mentioned an error, and upon closer inspection i too experienced the error.

Add a New Email Account
There was a problem creating the email account.
Permission denied: /home/*insertusername*/etc/something passwd passwd

I tried creating mail accounts on one of our websites on that server, and they worked fine. So the problem was apparently only with his account.

I did a few google searches, and nothing really came up. I tweaked what i was searching for and stumbled upon a forum that shed some light on my situation. A chap on there spoke of this problem and someone told him the following fix;

Ask tech support to go into home directory of the account by logging into server as root and fire command
chown username.mail etc -R
It will fix the issue.

I tried it with andys account, and bingo. Another example of how a techies best friend really is the internet.

03 Nov 07 WHM account copy update

Well, the copy seems to be going ok. After my previous issues that were due to the disk space being maxxd out, i decided to watch this account copy with great detail.

I noticed that the disk space was running out again, as it was extracting the contents of the huge tar file with the maxd account in it. It just managed it, and got past the “Generating account” part which is further than its gone before.

It then did some other shit, changing IP addresses in config files, and then it moved onto something that said “Restoring files” - but wait a sec? I thought you’d alreadyextracted the files?

Anyway, the disk space was running out fast, so i removed the tar file that contained a copy of all the files that had been brought over, as i had already seen it extract everything.. so technically this file is now useless.

So far so good.. But it is slowley running out of room again. This is the final stage, and once this is done i can finally set the nameservers of the final domain to cross over, and i can be rid of my third server!

It has worked.

Praise JEEBUS!

I am now down to 14gig empty hard drive space on my server that was about to burst only a monent ago. All the temp files that were used to move the site over came to FOURTEEN GIGABYTES! That is literally twice the size of the account!

So the lesson here, is make sure you have SHIT loads of space on both servers if your moving a website from one server to another using WHM, if you dont have at least double the size of your account free on every server involved in the migration, then you might as well not bother.

Peace.

Im gonna chill out.

03 Nov 07 Moving an account using WHM

Ok, so this is a bit of a nerdy blog post..

Me and dave have a couple of servers that we run, one for our clients and one for our maxxd stuff. Well anyway, fairly recently i moved the maxxd stuff from a shared hosting package from a popular webhost, to a new Virtual Dedicated Server of its own. Unfortunately, i made the mistake of using nameservers i had used once ages ago, they were ns2 & ns3.maxxd.org. Now i have read and been told that there shouldn’t be an issue here, but i have had nothing but problems with it.

I belive that somewhere there are cached IP addresses pointing to the old server i had months ago, and with some ISP’s people were having to refresh the page 10 times before anything would load up, even i had issues accessing the site, and there was nothing apart from some random IP addresses coming up in DNS reports that was obviously wrong.

I felt the only option was to, once again, move servers. Start a fresh with a new domain name i had never used as the main nameserver domain, nicely updated system to copy the accounts over for HOPEFULLY the last time.

So, i started copying the accounts over using WHM’s built in account copying option, i did bulk lots of 4 or 5 and most of them went without a hitch, once they were over i switched the NS and a few hours later they were up and running on my new server.

In fact, every account went without a hitch, apart from one.

The Maxxd.com account.

I kept getting this error.

Sorry, the copy failed. Unable to find the cpanel user file. Is the archive missing (cwd: xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx)?
Account Restore Failed…

Obviously i removed the name of the file, but you get the gist. I did a bit of a google search for it, with a few adjustments every so often to widen my search, i stumbled upon a forum where a few people had experienced the same issue, and one chap commented that he had seen this happen before, on servers where the HDD was maxxd out while creating the archive used to move the files from one server, to the other.

I tried the copy again, but this time watching the hard drive usage, and noticed it crept up slowly, and sure enough it went to 100% and it hadn’t finished making the archive. I connected to the server after the copy had failed, and pruned the server of all crap, old accounts that had already been copied over to the new server successfully, until i was left with ONE account, the main maxxd one, that is ONE site on a server with 20gig hard drive space and shit..

Tried the copy again, and…

It failed… again!

So now im sat here after upgrading BOTH servers to 30gig hard drives, trying to copy one site over so that i can cancel my old server. I had to UPGRADE it before i could cancel it..

Work that one out!

Hopefully this will be the last time ill have to look at this god damm copy account screen, as i would say i have probably seen this screen more times this week than ive seen my girlfriend.. I hate moving servers!!!

But i would probably bet that Maxxd.com is one of the highest “moved from server to server” website in existance! It has to be, im sure its on its tenth server. I must be.

Anyway, off to sit and watch paint dry.. well. i’ll be watching this account copying.. tarballs and archives.. n’ shit

02 Nov 07 The best spam email ever

I have about 3 million email addresses, ands have to deal with more spam you can think of. This has got to be one of the funniest ever!

“How do you do?
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. “

I dont know WHAT the fuck the point of it was, there was no link, its just another one of them emails that takes the fucking piss and clogs up our shit.

Fuck you spammin’ mother bitches!

02 Nov 07 Bizzarre Madeleine Mccann Theory

Ive not blogged about this subject for a while, as to be honest - dispite the fact a little girl is still missing, im just getting a bit tired of it all, aren’t you?

But after a quick google search to update myself on the current goings-on in the case, i stubmled upon this little gem of information, probably a pile of shit, but i guess you cant rule anything out at this stage, no matter how much it sounds like a movie script..

“Kate was used to incubate the fertilised egg of a government experimental human clone. The McCann’s were allowed to raise her as their own but the government body was concerned for the welfare of their experiment clone because they found out that the McCann’s were sedating her while they went for drinks at the Tapas Bar. The government sent in a stealth team who snatched Madeleine on the evening of May 3^rd which, says my neighbour, would explain why Kate cried out “they’ve taken her” because she knew who ‘they’ were, but then later changed her wording when she realised she had nearly given the game away. The McCann’s don’t appear to be upset because they’re not, they know where Maddie is. Everything Kate and Gerry have said and done since the ‘abduction’ has been a charade to cover up the top secret experiment and the government in turn are protecting the McCann’s to ensure the secret is kept under wraps. “

Hahaha, wow. I guess that would make a decent film! But in regards the truth of it all, i very much doubt  this is anything like the actual story behind what happened to maddy.

Im sure in time the truth will emerge, until then im sure we’ll hear of more “evidence” found, more suspects, and probably a few more instances where jerry and kate mccan are accused of murdering her, or selling her to the circuis to be used as the human cannanball.

I doubt ill blog about this again until something really juicy crops up.

I do hope she’s found OK though, but the further and longer this is all dragged out, the less likely i think that will happen.

01 Nov 07 Mannnnnnnn im pretty!

It was only yesterday when i proclaimed wiggy to be, the uk’s answer to the big JB.. Johnny bravo!

 

And then wiggy stumbles upon this gem on wikiquote.org! Its like they’re listening to us…