Something I wanted on the IRC channel was a bot that would keep the operator position and make allowed users operators when they log into the server. With Mozbot I have been able to do that. It sits there and makes me a operator when I ask it to instead of waiting for the operator to promote mt status. A operator is a user in the IRC channel that has control to manage the channel and to kick other users off the server if need be.
Mozbot Homepage
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
I’ve installed Hybrid IRCd server on Debian and now host the unoffical IRC channel for Kustom PCs. There are very few users on the IRC channel but I am hoping that this will grow over time. The service is currently limited to a maximum of 40 users to allow us to still play online games at home without to much lag. The server is ran from a domestic ISP but at the moment it doesn’t seem to be causing any problems.
I host a few wordpress web logs for my friends on my server to give it move or a point than only having my two sites on it. Keaton is one of them and he’s starting to personalize his wordpress web blog by adding a theme he found to it. I have this theme on that I am going to make small changes to here and there. The main thing I’m thinking about is the login button, I just can’t find it. Well I’m going to change some settings on my wordpress to see how things work so I can help Keaton.
This wordpress system has been online for just over a week now and I am starting to make it home. I’m sorting out pages and the content to go in them one by one. I’ll just keep reworking the text until I’m happy with it. Instead of having a just a site for news letting you know how the server is going and about down time, that since the Cron stuff the server has been online nearly all the time. The pages are about hosting as that is one of my goals yet to be achieved and my portfolio. The other goals where central file sortage and printing hub that I have manged to achieve this week. I have changed the look of the site to the K2 theme with it’s clean ans shape lines similar to my own personal site. One way you can tell if I am making a system for the masses more “homely” is when I go and edit the code. It’s a small change and I think many wouldn’t notice the difference but I have added a favicon to the site. This is the little “JB” in a blue square next to the URL or title if you are using tabs. I may make more changes to the server as I go along or find modifications that I like, we shell see.
When I installed debain, a print server was one of the options I selected along with the other stuff like file and web (which I ended up installing some parts manually). After following some guides and mucking around with my laptop, desktop and server I have managed to get the print server working with my HP Photosmart P1000 with my desktop and laptop. Panther on the otherhand didn’t want to play ball so it’s not using the print server but because it’s so close to the printer I could just get a USB cable for it. Tomorrow when I return from school I will set up the other two XP machines to be able to print to it. I might even sort out my laptop so I can print from out and about but I doupt I will.
After a lot of twiddling with the Samba configuration file I gave up and rewrote the whole thing from scratch so everything that was in that file I knew what it did. The file is now a lot smaller than the orginal but more importantly it works and allows me to access the server from over the network. Due to a difference in Finder between OSX Panther and Tiger I had to install the lastest verison of Samba onto the server which went very well and was much easier than I thought it would be. All that is really left for me to do is sort out ProFTPd and then I will start offering space.
I have been mucking around with a program on the server that runs other programs or scripts at a set time. Every one min past the hour a script updates the IP address for the dynamic DNS records. Simply it means that the server will be online a lot more than waiting for me to come home from school to fix it. So now if the server comes down it would come online within 10 mins. The main causes of server down time are, powercuts, ISP disconnections or me doing something with ther sevrer.