mu.nu - "My Tamagotchi!" she said. "It has to poop."

October 08, 2006

FIXED!

Okay, the reason for the spam is the same as the reason that comments weren't working: The blacklist got corrupted. Why people could still spam when I couldn't comment at all, I don't know.

I've realoaded the blacklist now (I quickly trimmed 4000 unnecessary entries first), so we should be back in business.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:41 AM | Comments (44) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

SPAM

Anyone else getting hammered with spam since tonight's move?????

What's worse is they don't have the de-spamming tagline on them.

I'm getting about one a minute, so I should have about 500 by morning when I get up. Oh joy, something to look forward to!

Posted by: Old Cloots at 06:39 AM | Comments (36) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Moved!

If you can see this post, you are in the right place.

You should be able to post now your own blogs now - but you have to go to the right copy of MT. blog.mu.nu for most mt blogs; blog2.mu.nu for Ace of Spades only, blog3.mu.nu for The Jawa Report only.

That will probably persist until we move to Minx.

There is something strange going on with comments, though. I'm working on that now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:13 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 06, 2006

Trickle Posting

Trickle used to work wonderfully for me, but has long since seemed to have stopped and I keep forgetting to ask -- is it still working for anyone? Is it still an option? As I reach popping status on Baby #4, I would really like to be able to set up some posts to keep things alive on my blog while I'm not there/not sleeping/not thinking/etc.

Posted by: Jordana at 08:18 PM | Comments (59) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

It's On!

The move to the Land of Happy Servers is on this Sunday, October 8th, starting 2AM GMT. There will be some wobblage for a few hours while I reload the databases and redirect all the DNS, so be prepared to do some normal life type stuff instead of wasting your weekend blogging.

Update: Test test....

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:03 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 05, 2006

E-Mail Notification On The fritz

UM, me again! Is anyone else's e-mail notification not working? I went back into the template and re-entered the info and it still is down. Any ideas??

Posted by: Old Cloots at 01:18 AM | Comments (29) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 04, 2006

Leetle Mail Problem

Hi everyone.

Mail coming out of Yuri (where most of the blogs sort of live) is delayed at the moment. I got a complaint about spam originating from the server, so I have the mail queueing up until I can check it. I'll release the buildup periodically.

If any of you have installed anything new in the last week or two, let me know. There are a number of scripts out there that have loopholes that spammers can sneak through - either by accident or by design.

Or it might be something old with a new-found bug, so I'm having a little bug-hunt as well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:58 AM | Comments (43) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 03, 2006

All Screwed UP

Hey Pixy. I messed something up. I had that problem yesterday with my archives, and now when I try to post anything I get this message.


Building entry 'Why I hope the Republicans Lose this Falll' failed: Build error in template 'Date-Based Archive': Error in tag: You used an without a date context set up.

Can you help me?

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 12:49 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Error in Posting

I've been having a problem posting or amending entries. I keep getting this:

An error occurred:


Renaming tempfile '/home/golddoor/www/index.php.new' failed: Renaming '/home/golddoor/www/index.php.new' to '/home/golddoor/www/index.php' failed: No such file or directory

Anyone klnow why or how to fix this???

Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Old Cloots at 04:27 AM | Comments (52) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Error on Posting

Okay, I've tried several times and now have my entry saved as a draft. But I can't post to my blog. It twiddles about for a while, thinks a bit and then tells me that the renaming of temp files and the renaming of new files to my home directory simply can not be done because the directory doesn't exist. Help please.

If you need the entire error message I can certainly try a repost and get it to you. Thanks much.

Posted by: Teresa at 04:19 AM | Comments (43) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

October 02, 2006

Need to delete blog entry FAST!

This guy keeps e-mailing me about a picture I put of him on my blog. He is really pissed and wants the offending entry removed. I tried to delete it, but it keeps showing up. Please help me cleane it entirely.

http://ageofreason.mu.nu/archives/011191.html

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 09:58 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Unable to access SactoDan Blog

Tried to get into my blog to delete it and it denied access.

Posted by: Sactodan at 05:45 PM | Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 30, 2006

Bandwidth! Argh.

Not sure if the error message is due to the move or if I really have exceeded bandwidth (did receive a "heads up" message a short while back).

But just in case you don't get a notification. Would ya please? When you get a chance.

Posted by: Gary at 11:04 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Moving Day

Update: I think it all worked, but due to the time taken - 18 hours for the main copy alone - and the need to test things, I'm going to put off the move until next weeked. The old servers are already paid for until the end of the month anyway, so I don't want to risk a screwup just to try to make it happen today instead of next Sunday.

But at least if the old servers suddenly explode, we have a full working copy of everything, ready to go.

Update: Okay, I've started copying stuff across. This takes a loooong time (12 or 15 hours), so what I'm doing is two passes - an initial copy, and then an update of anything that's changed while the copy was running. You can keep right on posting and commenting while the copy is going, up until the time comes for me to switch everything across.

More news as it happens!

Hi everyone.

We will be moving to new servers this Sunday, the 1st of October. I'm working to minimize the downtime, but there will be at least a couple of hours where people might get sent to the old servers instead of the new ones.

This should fix all of the problems we've been having lately. We've had some network glitches and hardware problems, but the main thing that's making life difficult is the mess created when I was trying to recover from the DDoS attacks back in June. I had to move everyone from one server to the other, and back again, and in some cases back to the other one. CPanel didn't like that a whole lot, which left us with problems with CPanel itself, email, and web statistics.

The easiest way to fix all this is just to get a new server with a not-messed-up copy of CPanel, and that's exactly what I've done.

The new servers are a bit faster, though not a lot, but they come with more bandwidth and a better network.

Once we are happy on the new servers, I'll open things up for new munus again. I haven't really added anyone since everything went kerplooie in June, so we have a bit of a waiting list.

On another note, we're planning to launch The New Site in late November. This is a commercial blogging-and-other-stuff site, using software I'm developing. The same software will be used to run mu.nu, eventually replacing Movable Type and Wordpress (and CPanel and Awstats and everything else).

You don't have to make the move to the new software right away; everyone will be able to choose if and when they are ready. And you'll have a lot of input into how it develops.

Regardless, mu.nu will remain independent. The new site will have ad-supported and paid options, but that doesn't mean anything to mu.nu. Your sites keep going just as before, but with shiny new software. I will be looking at creating a link between the sites to allow Munuvians and Newsiters to share stuff easily, as long as that doesn't put any restrictions on mu.nu.

I'm hoping to give each munuvian a bunch of invites to hand out for free "paid" accounts on the new site; I have to get that past the money peeps, but I think they'll go for it.

I have a couple more things to clean up first, but I start working full time on the new site from Wednesday of next week. That was supposed to happen in July, but I got run over by a bus.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:44 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 28, 2006

MT mandatory security update

I came across references to this mandatory Moveable Type security patch. I'm not sure that affects us, but I thought it wise to broach the subject here.

Posted by: USAdave at 12:13 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 27, 2006

Monthly Archives SNAFU

I don't normally look at my monthly archive pages. However, this morning I noticed that when you view any given monthly archive on my site, my sidebar is pushed all the way down to the bottom and the width is compressed.

I haven't made any changes to the format that I'm aware of. And any other view - main, individual post or category archive - looks normal. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Posted by: Gary at 05:32 PM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 26, 2006

Eh? Too

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'wp_comments.MYI' (errno: 144)]
SELECT comment_author, comment_author_url, comment_type, MAX(comment_ID) as comment_ID, SUBSTRING_INDEX(comment_content,'strong',2) as trackback_title, SUBSTRING_INDEX(comment_author,' » ',1) as pingback_blog, SUBSTRING_INDEX(comment_author,' » ',-1) as pingback_title FROM wp_comments WHERE (comment_post_ID='1358' AND comment_approved = '1') AND (comment_type = 'trackback' OR comment_type = 'pingback') GROUP BY comment_author, comment_author_url ORDER BY comment_ID DESC LIMIT 50
Peace Be Upon Vinnie | General |

WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'wp_comments.MYI' (errno: 144)]
SELECT COUNT(comment_ID) FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = 1358 AND comment_approved = '1';

Posted by: Vinnie at 01:35 AM | Comments (1047) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 25, 2006

E-mailed comments

Today there have been numerous comments left on our blog; however, none were e-mailed to us as we had set up in our preferences (since day one). Checking our e-mail is how we read and respond to comments. It's important to us.

Has there been some tech hassle involved in this?

Posted by: Rhodey at 09:40 PM | Comments (34) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Eh?

The wife is down with the same message:

WordPress
Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host's database server is down.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

If you're unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
-----------------------------------

The other MuNu blogs, like this one, on the same server are up.

Posted by: Vinnie at 05:48 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 22, 2006

Awstats

For the last two weeks, or so, I get the following message when I click on the Awstats link in cPanel:

Error: Couldn't open config file "awstats.yourdomain.com.conf" nor "awstats.conf" after searching in path ".,/home/usadave/tmp/awstats/,/etc/opt/awstats,/etc/awstats,/etc,/usr/local/etc/awstats": No such file or directory

- Did you use the correct URL ?
Example: http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=mysite
Example: http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=mysite
- Did you create your config file 'awstats.yourdomain.com.conf' ?
If not, you can run "./../../tools/awstats_configure.pl" from command line, or create it manually.

Check config file, permissions and AWStats documentation (in 'docs' directory).

In the past this has happened off and on, but usually only lasted a few hours or a day. Now it happens every time I try to look at my awstats.

Is any one else having this problem? Does anyone know how I can fix it? Or is the fix only possible if our generous and talented Pixy Misa does it?

Please help?

Posted by: USAdave at 07:42 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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