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Spammers hit again

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

One more time I had problems with our company’s mail server caused by spammers (I’m sick of this guys!).Probably there is some new spam programs on the net which open a lot of connectionsto mail servers and tend not to close it. My qmail “timeoutremote” and “timeoutsmtpd”values were set to the default (1200 seconds) which actually is pretty much.Tons of infected machines trying to send spam were making connections to the mail serverkeeping the connection open forever a lot of qmail-smtpd processes were forked and stayedidle. When reaching more than 145 qmail-smtpd processes the qmail-smtpd service stoppedto respond to any connections. This happens approximately every 5 minutes. So on 4 minutesI had to do qmailctl restart until I catched the problem lays at *timeout* values(Praise the Lord)! 🙂 forhelping me solve this. After I have fixed that I went to the college and ate in the College Restaurant.My grandma come home and invited me on a breakfast tomorrow :). Lily called and we went togetherfor a fast coffee with her little son (Evelin). In the early evening a friend of mine called to seeeach other Damqncho. As usual Damqncho was with Steliancho. Damqncho is 18 years old where Stelianchois 16. Damqncho is from a family which are very poor they sometimes doesn’t have money even for bread ..And somedays they ate only bread (this is all he and his parents could afford), hope this would change.Steliancho is even in a worse positiong since he is a homeless kid whose parents, doesn’t not give adamn for him and he is sleeping on The Street, he also has problems with his kidneys and is pissinghimself (I mean literally) :|. I bought them some food and tried talking to them. It’s sad thatnobody cares for people like this. If I had the power/money to help this ppl and ppl like them I would.But probably God has some special intention (to test) us who have a Big Houses, food and protected placeto lay our heads at night. If somebody reading this is interested helping this kids the best way to helpthem is to pray God to bless him with a good job, they really need this because most of the time theycan’t find any good job, and gain too little money only when there is something to help to someone.They need a regular job which would provide them with firm amount of money each month.After 20 minutes or so I’m going to bed, cause tomorrow I have to stand up and go to myGrandma’s apartment cause she has invited me on a breakfast I’m going to eat (macaroni) :).The day was quiet as a whole (Thanks to God). This week is going to be a loaded one.On Wednesday we have Defense of a “Marketing research project”, a survey (questionary) and analysis ofthe results. The defense is going to be a presentation. After that in Thursday we have anotherpresentation at culture and I have to speak about “Bulgarian Heroes”. Well I suppose that’smost of what’s going around me. Night :)END—–