[mtasa://server:port ... but what about password]

Hi guys

The mtasa://server:port url option is quite cool, but what about password? How can I specify a password in the url?

Regards Stickybit

[Serverlog to webpage]

That's not an easy task - since MTA traffic is UDP - and the software is closed source. A reliable script for that purpose would have to come from the MTA team, or from some nasty hacker / cheater who has revese enginered the MTA traffic.

Regards Stickybit

[Serverlog to webpage]

Hi guys

I have updated the script to match MTA:SA version 1.0:

Click here to see an example.

Click here to see the sourcecode.

Grap a copy for your website.

Regards Stickybit

[Linux server as daemon]

Hi Guys

Great work .. very great work. No question about it. You MTA guys is the best.

A short question though: Is is possible to run the linux server as a daemon, without the interactive shell?

Regards Stickybit

[Server startup script]

Oh i wanted such a script but i just made one using other scripts and merged to enable auto reboot of mta server if it goes down. You close the server via admin shutdown button and ask ur hoster to run ur auto start script in background and tada it starts ur server after the time specified by u in script say 10 sec or 20 sec or more. Pretty neat huh?

Does this one of ur does the same thing ?

Nope.

or is it just a script for only linux root to run the server

Yes.

cause if people have shell access on a webhost they dont have root access u have to keep that in mind dude.

Nope. Only real sysadm's who has root acces - and who can handle root acces, should mess with daemons.

-Stickybit

[Server startup script]

K dude whats for latest version 5 got any script? just repace 0.4 with latest one right?

The script for version 5 is the same as for version 4. Just replace the version numbers.

and what about rebooting the server?

The script should be part of the init.d / rc.d scripts - and could then be automaticly started and stopped when entering / exiting specific runlevels.

and why root access only , cant u just password protect the directory , cause most webhosts dont give root access , so whats the solution to that?

This ain't a cgi script for a webserver, so password protected directory's isn't an option. Password protected diretory's isn't really security anyway - it's just a webserver feature. Only root should be able to start daemons, and daemons (especially 3. party daemons without sourcecode) should never run as root. That is the reason for the sudo'ing.

Just a note i tried ur script and all it does is give internal server error.

This isn't a script for your webpage. It's a plain perl script for shell execution.

-Sticky bit

[Serverlog to webpage]

The script has been slightly modyfied - so it matches version 0.5. Click on the "Bugfixed version" link in the above posting, to get the new version.

MTA team: Why do you erase the logfile when restarting the server? It would be nice if you just apended data to the logfile instead of emptying it on server starts.

Regards Sticky

[Serverlog to webpage]

I gues that you has got some wrapped lines after having copied the code to file. Remove these wraps, and give your webserver read permissions on the logfile.. and you should be up running.

Bugfixed version

Regards Stickybit

[Serverlog to webpage]

Nope .. you just visited the page while I was moving to another server. i works fine now.

Regards Stickybit

[Serverlog to webpage]

Click here to see the script in action.

-Stickybit

[Serverlog to webpage]

I see no problem in running the script on a PHP capeable IIS server... unless the Windows version of MTA server is using an other logformat.

Instead of executing wget.. you can use fopen to open the remote file in the mode needed.

-Stickybit

[Serverlog to webpage]

[Server startup script]

.. and for ver. 0.4 - pretty much the same:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use English;

die "\nYou must be root in order to start the MTA server.\n\n" if ($EFFECTIVE_USER_ID != 0);
die "\nUsage: $PROGRAM_NAME {start|stop}\n\n" if (!(($ARGV[0] eq 'start') or ($ARGV[0] eq 'stop')));

$action = $ARGV[0];
$user   = 'mta';
$dir    = '/opt/MTAServer-0.4/';
$bin    = 'MTAServer0.4';

CASE: {

  ($action eq 'start') && do {

     print "\nStarting MTA daemon.\n\n";
     chdir($dir);
     system('sudo -u ' . $user . ' ' . $dir . $bin . ' -b') == 0 or die "Fatal error while starting server.\n";
     last CASE;

  };

  ($action eq 'stop') && do {

     print "\nStopping MTA daemon.\n\n";
     system ('ps -C ' . $bin  . ' -o pid= | xargs kill -9') == 0 or die "Fatal error while stopping server.\n";
     last CASE;

  };

}

-Sticky bit

[mtastatus.php]

Hi guys

Would it be possible to get a copy of mtastatus.php for local use?

-Sticky bit

[Linux server: pid files / secure execution / directorys]

Hi guys

I have a few suggestions for the linux server:

1: An option for generating .pid files would be nice.

2: Force the server to run as a non-superuser - or include documentation on how to make a secure installation - or include a start script which starts the server in a secure way.

3: A default unix-like directory structure like this:

[installdir]/bin/MTAServer0.3

[installdir]/bin/SecureStartScript

[installdir]/etc/mtaserver.conf

[installdir]/etc/motd.txt

[installdir]/etc/banned.lst

[installdir]/doc/README

[installdir]/doc/CHANGELOG

[installdir]/var/mtaserver.pid

-Sticky bit

[Server startup script]

Hi Guys

Having installed the server program on a linux server.. i realized the the program needed some kind of startup script... so I wrote one: /sbin/mta. here is the simple code:

#!/usr/bin/perl


use English;


die "\nYou must be root in order to start the MTA server.\n\n" if ($EFFECTIVE_USER_ID != 0);
die "\nUsage: $PROGRAM_NAME {start|stop}\n\n" if (!(($ARGV[0] eq 'start') or ($ARGV[0] eq 'stop')));


$action = $ARGV[0];
$user   = 'mta';
$dir    = '/opt/MTAServer-0.3/';
$bin    = 'MTAServer0.3';


CASE: {

  ($action eq 'start') && do {

     print "\nStarting MTA daemon.\n\n";
     chdir($dir);
     system('sudo -u '. $user .' '. $dir . $bin .' -b') == 0 or die "Error while starting server.\n";
     last CASE;

  };

  ($action eq 'stop') && do {

     print "\nStopping MTA daemon.\n\n";
     exec ('ps -C '. $bin .' -o pid= | xargs kill -9') == 0 or die "Error while stopping server.\n";
     last CASE;

  };

}

Before you can use this script.. you must create a non-priveleged user called "mta"... and alter the content of $dir to reflect your MTA install directory. For increased security, I have set these permissions on the files:

-rw------- 1 mta mta 0 Oct 26 17:31 banned.lst

-rw------- 1 mta mta 1417 Dec 31 02:46 CHANGELOG

-rw------- 1 mta mta 49 Feb 8 11:02 motd.txt

-rwx------ 1 mta mta 178897 Dec 31 20:32 MTAServer0.3

-rw------- 1 mta mta 8489 Feb 8 11:00 mtaserver.conf

-rw------- 1 mta mta 3092 Dec 31 02:48 README

That was my 50 cent. Thanks for a great program.

-Sticky bit