Soumplis' Personal Web Site

Today is my birthday... OK, no big deal for anyone else except me, my family, Ktz (a.k.a. Jane) and maybe some friends. However I wanted to use this internet corner to Thank them all for just being there for me all the time... ...

Today I decided to update my Spacewalk server to the latest version (0.8 on today's nightly build). In case you have never heard of Spacewalk before, "Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived". Personally I use it as a central update server for all my CentOS server (more than 40 systems at the moment). I follow spacewalk since version 0.2, so one can easy understand ...

Well it happened to me today a strong fight against a spammer on one of my servers. I had a very hard time tracking down the originator of the spam as it was a shared hosting server and the spammer had gained, among others, ftp access to the exploited account. Thus it was easy to hide the spam sending code within a legitimate and ordinary looking php script which implemented its own SMTP engine. This way there where no logs on my Exim SMTP server log files and I had to examine Apache log files ...

I am trying to bring this page online since the last three months... Nothing great but i so desperately out of time that I could not give my attention to this. Hopefully now that it's all set I'll update this blog with news, information, solutions and generally anything that it may be of interest to all of you out there. Some times I will also post stories of my personal life just a depressurisation pump for my self. My psy-doctor adivces me to share my thoughts with others :-) Greetings to ...