So I'm probably not going to do much this weekend concerning the slicehost (it is week 2 day 1! hrm!) I might even want to concentrate some effort on doing some tag rearranging here, but every time I say this, I get lazy. SO LAZY! All my mind wants to do is write lately.

Though it seems my creativity is at an all time high lately (except for Five Coils, hmm I wonder why...) I even started up another rpol forum, though just for game planning right now.

I posted something there I wrote up for the OVA game which is tentatively called "Rose Revolution Redux". Here it is, just so I have it on my journal too. ^^

I should be going to bed, but I'm not yet. It may be a form of self-torture when I stay awake even though my body is obviously weary.

Also, I don't really feel like lying down when I'm depressed. If I'm not tired enough to fall asleep immediately, I just think about negative things and I'd much rather fill my mind with things that make me happier, like playing my awesome rpol chars.

All complaining aside about my post load, I actually think rpol is all the happiness I have lately. Not so much for the GMing (though the recent Outcastes activity has made me happy, and Academy is starting to pick up despite past player losses), but for the characters I get to play - like Irina, my Viera Dark Knight, fast becoming one of my favorites with her headstrong attitude, brusque manners and tendency to lack tact at times.

Again, I'll probably do a more thorough RP post later when I have time. Below is my slicehost activity for the early morning.

I fixed it. It wasn't as bad as I thought. In fact it was pretty easy. Just a little bit of googling and I created my own iptables user chain and it seems to work ok. (I keep wondering if people who are better at sysadmin than me look at my posts and go "lol lightweight" or something. :P)

At least I have LAMP installed now - only part not tested is mysql, i.e. seeing if apps using mysql work on my webserver. I'm going to install phpMyAdmin for that, and maybe start my second week actually dropping Drupal in so I can start fine tuning mysql, php, etc.

Will at least get phpMyAdmin in after I eat. :3 (May update this post)

Jon and I are rewatching Utena while eating din din now. I'm hoping I don't lose my inspiration with the Utena game I want to do with OVA rules - I've just been soooo busy with so many things, so haven't been able to start it just yet.

Also: am hoping to run something with Jon and Selina. :O But, more about that later.

I've been unable to work on slicehost for a bit. Came back to it and did something pretty dumb with iptables. Now I know why there's iptables-save! :P Basically I stupidly executed "service iptables save" while I had iptables shut down. So... uh. Lost all the rules I had set up, because it saved the current active rules which of course were nonexistent. Darnit!!

Now I have to re-enter them and that means figuring out how to do it properly i.e. without direct editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables. I'm rather unhappy I messed this up. Ideally I should be writing a script to make this even easier, but man, laziness abounds. Also discouragement at being all linux dumb. D:

I think I should have just waited to work on it more, since I'm really, really tired and not thinking straight. Yes, it's mostly RPoL. Setting up the next big Festival event in Academy, trying to get Five Coils back on track (it's really stalled, sheesh), and I also finally got to a point where I could finish off the HUGE something like... 9 months arc in Outcastes. So I've been post post posting.

Well now I go to try and put my iptables rules back in. I don't even recall what most of them do now... *sigh*

Locking myself out with denyhosts is fun! Woo, I didn't realize how strict those rules were. *wince* It actually put my host on the denied list because I had to test once to make sure I couldn't log in as root. I only have denyhosts set up to protect sshd, though, so right now it's of... dubious use. Later I will fine tune.

Also I have to remind myself the denyhosts config file is in /etc, at least on Fedora. Bwaaah, I think of writing all this down, then realize that every Unix system I use will have it in a different place ANYWAY, so I might as well just memorize and retain. :P

As for the LAMP installing, I've done the Apache web server portion and need to edit iptables to let in port 80 (slowing down a bit here cause I am looking up iptables syntax - I want to understand what I'm typing, not just type it in cause a tutorial says so.) The rest really shouldn't take more than a few minutes to do (process is similar to Apache) and PHP pretty much is a oneliner other than editing some configs...

But, I'm stuck writing RPoL posts. n.n So, I will probably continue tomorrow.