Completely Removing BoxTrapper In cPanel

This is one of those things I just didn’t want to lose in case I need it again, but basically, if you have a cPanel server and you’re not using BoxTrapper (which you really shouldn’t, as it can cause your server to get blacklisted unnecessarily), follow these directions to get rid of it:

The first step is to modify /etc/exim.conf to remove the boxtrapper sections (there’s around 4 or 5 IIRC), and then run:

rm -rf /var/cpanel/version/boxtrapper

/scripts/eximup –force

/scripts/mailscannerupdate

rm -rfv /home/*/etc/.boxtrapp*

rm -rfv /home/*/etc/.boxtrapp*

rm -rfv /home/*/etc/*/.boxtrapp*

rm -rfv /home/*/etc/*/*/boxtrapp*

Also of note, I didn’t delete the boxtrapper sections out of exim.conf. Commenting them out seems to do the trick.

I was having trouble with some e-mail getting sent via my SMTP server, so I’m hoping that fixes the issue (it didn’t get bounced this time at least).

April 25, 2006

Being Buried In Snow Tends To Destroy Cell Phones

It’s always a joke around here in Sunriver (and Bend, too, but we do be more snow down here) that these large piles of snow that were created by the snow plows in the area are usually here until June. We had a pretty ugly winter down here, and there were some very tall piles of snow (some 10 feet tall, easily). They’re just now totally melting off, and one of our maintenance folks were out where there used to be a very tall one, and found this on the ground next to the driveway of one of our homes:

That’s the LCD of probably what used to be a decent Samsung SCH-A670 phone (photo taken with my the company’s new Canon Rebel XT that I bought for a deal). Needless to say, the thing doesn’t function anymore, as it’s probably been buried under there all winter long.

What I really need is a water balloon launcher or potato gun or something that I can launch this thing off the roof of my building and see what kind of abuse it can take.

April 25, 2006

Somebody Should Do This Through Bend

Back in the 70s, some crazy lunatic drove like a bat out of hell through Paris and filmed it (and yes, those are pedestrians he is nearly running over and one-way streets he’s going the wrong way down). The video was just and underground phenomenon until its recent release on DVD, and now it’s on Google Video.

Now, we just need to find somebody to attach a camera to their vehicle, and haul tail through Bend (the video would only be about three minutes). I nominate this local lunatic.

April 24, 2006

Air Force Hangar Fire Test Gone Bad

If you haven’t seen these pictures of the foam-filled Air Force hangar, you need to check them out. There are more photos here and a full story of the foam test here. Thanks several people for this.

April 24, 2006

Need A Bra In A Pinch?

Just make one out of a plastic grocery bag.

April 24, 2006

Why Thank You Captain Obvious!

Just in case you didn’t know, men and women are wired a bit differently.

April 23, 2006

I Don’t Know What’s Worse

That this crazy old guy went around trying to pass himself off as a doctor, or that women actually fell for it.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday.

One woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a purported genital exam without donning rubber gloves, investigators said.

Why the guy is a sick idiot, the women were equally as stupid for falling for it.

April 23, 2006

Pawning Your Goods To Pay For Gas

This is what we’ve come to: pawning off all the things we own just so we can fill up our car. Does anybody else see a problem with this?

April 23, 2006

Mapping Religion in America

I’m not reall a religious guy (this isn’t the place to debate that), but I do think these maps are fascinating.

April 23, 2006

There Are Better Ways To Kill Yourself

Nail guns are not one of them as apparently even when you shoot yourself with twelve nails, you still might live (linking to a KTVZ copy of the story, as the KGW version requires you to register and makes its a pain to use the BugMeNot extension in Firefox).

April 23, 2006