Back to SysAd work
Good day everyone!
I’ve been busy lately with all the new happenings in my life, with my new healthy baby and with my wife recuperating. Nevertheless, I find it very fulfilling and very rewarding. After all, my hard work and dedication has now flourished.
Even if my wife was still in the hospital I just can’t get my day right without having to peak in and hook-up online. Fortunately, I was able to get a signal from our room and the wifi is open :). Yeah, good thing it’s open. With that, I opened my backpack and there goes my laptop (parang inaamag na kahit days pa lang nde nagamit). I opened it and I was reunited with my laptop. I checked emails and stuff and read as many of them as possible. I visited my blogs and unfortunately I wasn’t able to post a message from there.
Since I already have a wifi connection from the hospital I started doing some tasks for some of my projects (even if I’m on leave hehe… just can’t resist the passion). I worked for a small sysad project which includes tweaking of configs, a little bit of scripting and the like. First thing, I managed to finished my task on cron jobs 
piece of cake. Next, getting rid of SPAM in the mailbox (postfix, dovecot, mysql & procmail). Well, it’s kinda hard though since my creative juices all dried up for quite some time but nevertheless I managed to escape (ala David Blane). My boss told me to get rid automatically of all SPAM emails, though I suggested that it’s not always the right thing to do because some of the good messages maybe tagged as such therefore if you automatically delete it, it can no longer reach the user’s mailbox (or probably be redirected to somewhere else). But he is the boss, so I managed to auto discard all [SPAM] messages as instructed. All the while I thought that my tasks were already completed when suddenly my boss rang me up and told me that there’s a problem in their server (about FTP and other services) and it caused the server to hang. Yes, indeed it was caused by FTP and unfortunately I’ve seen attacks from the logs so I stopped temporarily the FTP service because it will cause us to request a hard boot from our server provider :). Well, again good escape, thanks to David Blane :).
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