23-Dec-2014

Forced restart
Not because it was needed for some reason, but the power dropped for a second and that’s something the hardware couldn’t handle…Since my disks are still not directly attached to the server, an automated restart will not occur: the disk server is far too slow for the server so it will fail to reach the system disk…Well, I’m at home so it’s easy to get the stuff running again. Just a few minutes offline – mainly because the disks are found in an unclean state so need to be verified – a process that takes some time.
But we’re up again.
WordPress update investigation
So I built up this Cent-OS 6 based system: Leona using an old PC. Installed MySQL, WP versions from 2.6.5 (my current one) to 3.8.1 (the latest I have set up), in order to do the transitions on that machine. But to investigate the databases, I also installeed MySQLWorkbench, but getting a dump of the database onto the machine was troublesome. Tried to setup VSFTPd on Leona, both as a client and a server, but moving files directly between Diana and Leona failed. So by using Helena, my Windows workstation, as an intermediate, I copied the script to an USB stick, switched system and read it into Leona. So I was now able to recreate the database and all blogs I needed, and next ran a reverse-engineer job to get the structure of the databases. Not all, of course, just the ones I used to check the WordPress installations, and thw SYSMGR blog. It turned out that the strcuture of teh database is the same, but I still have to check wether the basic data is as well – by examining the WP26 and WP30 databases.
If these are compatible, there seems to be no problem moving on.
However, the latest version (4.1) needs to be examined too, and if that one is compatible as well, I’ll do the transition in one go: Install WP 4.1 (must be done manually unless I set up the VMS box as if it were a Linus one – possible, but not what I want), and update directly. Next step will the be update PHP to 5.3 (or higher if that is available). And have a look to MariaSQL – a really free forl of MySQL, ported by Mark Berryman.
But that is next.

15-Dec-2014

“This is no SPAM”

The message tells me I can win a 500 Euro price, and it tells me that ”
“This message is sent to diy@infomusica-media.com and cannot be considered SPAM as is stated clearly by the sender. The recepient change or change his data”.

Literally:

Dit bericht wordt naar diy@infomusica-media.com gestuurd en kan niet
worden beschouwd als “SPAM”,
zoals duidelijk wordt geïdentificeerd door de afzender.
De ontvanger kan op elk gewenst moment de correctie of cancellation
van zijn gegevens

Deze nieuwsbrief is een dienst van Promo News, Av. de Berna, n º 31, 2 º dt º, 1050-038 Lisboa – Portugal
Afmelden voor deze lijst, klik dan hier

I TOTALLY disagree, as does PMAS:

X-PMAS-External: x68-170.retracka.com [91.126.168.170] (EHLO
x68-170.retracka.com)
X-PMAS-Software: PreciseMail V3.2-5 [141213a] (diana.intra.grootersnet.nl)
X-PMAS-REPUTATION_URI_NONSPAM: URI reputation check (0.000)
X-PMAS-VMF-OK: Envelope FROM: check: Source accepts mail for address (0.000)
X-PMAS-HDR-QP_ENCODED_SUBJECT: Subject line is quoted-printable-encoded
(0.000)
X-PMAS-HDR-FROM_INFO: Message is from a .info domain (1.500)
X-PMAS-URI-INFO_TLD1: Contains a URL in the INFO top-level domain (1.500)
X-PMAS-META-PRIORITY_NO_NAME: Message has priority setting, but no X-Mailer
(0.586)
X-PMAS-META-GET_OR_RECEIVE_02: Subject says you can get or receive something
(2.000)
X-PMAS-META-SUBJ_CLAIM_WIN: Subject suggests you can win or get something free
(4.000)
X-PMAS-META-CLICK_BELOW: Asks you to click below (2.000)
X-PMAS-Final-Score: 11.586
X-PMAS-Spam-Level: ***********
X-PMAS-Spam: Yes
X-Auto-Response-Suppress: OOF
X-PMAS-Quarantined: PreciseMail

DIY == Do It Yourself :). infomusica-media.com is a dummy domain, or is hacked. Accessing the site gives nonthing more as “coming soon”. but the address show is the same:

Infomusica Media
Av. David Mourão Ferreira, Lt 15.5C, Esc.B
1750-209 Lisboa – Portugal
diy@infomusica-media.com
Tel.: +351 21 753 07 10

but there is nothing likewise in the header:

Return-Path: Ym91bmNlZC0hLSEtd2lsbGVtPT1ncm9vdGVyc25ldC5ubC0hLSEtMzgzMTgxLSEtIS0xMjY1LSEtIS1wcm9tbz09YWxkYW5pdGkubmV0@aldaniti.net
Received: from DIANA.INTRA.GROOTERSNET.NL (192.168.0.2)
by diana.intra.grootersnet.nl (V5.7-ECO4, OpenVMS V8.4 Alpha);
Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:09:36 +0000 (UTC)
X-PMAS-MAIL-FROM:
Ym91bmNlZC0hLSEtd2lsbGVtPT1ncm9vdGVyc25ldC5ubC0hLSEtMzgzMTgxLSEtIS0xMjY1LSEtIS1wcm9tbz09YWxkYW5pdGkubmV0@aldaniti.net
Received: from x68-170.retracka.com ([91.126.168.170] EXTERNAL) (EHLO
x68-170.retracka.com) by diana.INTRA.GROOTERSNET.NL ([192.168.0.200])
(PreciseMail V3.2-5); Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:00:59 +0000
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:00:57 +0100
DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.4 x68-170.retracka.com 86E8DA8C1A1B
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=real-dance.info;
s=smtp; t=1418659257; bh=XKN39jPtwuPrq+8MbQr6Ot142HmwDSW+/yfpgw0IFuI=;
h=List-Unsubscribe:To:From:Reply-to:Subject;
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P5dSCYmnttLxByWC2eM9hD2ArMJrNx2BTYbPXqXI=
List-Unsubscribe:

To: willem@grootersnet.nl
From: Elise
Reply-to: mail@real-dance.info
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Win_een_waardebon_van_=E2=82=AC500?=
Sender: promo@aldaniti.net
Message-ID:

X-Priority: 3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="b1_50484e59db984aea18871e49f42e4233"

In Other words: BULLSHIT

05-Dec-2015

Setting up the testbed
Installed MySQL, PHP and Apache on Leona – the new Linux machine – , but there is still some configuration to do. In the mean time, I installed the WP versions that may be needed, if update from 2,6,5 to 4.0.1 in one go doesn work.
I also dowloaded FileZilla – it seems to be the latest version on nthe site (FileZilla.org) but I cannot het it to work:

[root@Leona ~]# alias filezilla="/usr/etc/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla"
[root@Leona ~]# filezilla
/usr/etc/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by /usr/etc/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla)

Checked what is installed:
The libstdc++ package contains a rewritten standard compliant GCC Standard C++ Library.

That’s Ok, but the version isn’t: libstdc++-4.4.7-11.el6 (i686)

Absurd.

One of those reasons I dislike Linux….

But I should be able to use FireFox as well. But without anything (Iḿ not sure how to do it on the URL) I end up in the anonymous FTP location. Thatś fine in itself, but I need to get elsewhere, so I found an extension. It works – but cannot connect to VMS or IBM – yet.

Ok, just install the regular old-fashioned FTP-client…Found gFTP – a graphical interface. It took some experrimenta but it seemed to work – but couldn’t retrieve the filenames…

04-Dec-2014

Regular maintenance
No problems:
PMAS statistics for November
Total messages    :   1530 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :    293 =  19.1 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1237 =  80.8 o/o (Files: 30)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :    609 =  49.2 o/o (processed),  39.8 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    319 =  25.7 o/o (processed),  20.8 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    128 =  10.3 o/o (processed),   8.3 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    119 =   9.6 o/o (processed),   7.7 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     62 =   5.0 o/o (processed),   4.0 o/o (all)

except that on one day, the number of relay attempts was hig – mainly from one address: smtp1949@sina.com. Checking this address revealed three possible servers:
 = freemx1.sinamail.sina.com.cn (202.108.3.242 (202.108.0.0/18, /17)
 = freemx2.sinamail.sina.com.cn (218.30.115.106 (218.30.96.0/19))
 = freemx3.sinamail.sina.com.cn (60.28.2.248 (60.28.0.0/15))

To be excluded access in the router.

WordPress upgrade
To test (and possibly execute) an upgrade of the blogs, I created a Linix machine, and here I will test the upgrade. It that succeeeds, it may be a matter of restoring that database on the main server (after, of course, activation of PHP 5.3 and getting WP to work – a separate activity) so I’ll be up and running the latest – and in that matter, it willl be easier to keep the whole lot up-to-date.