[…] Novell has some other issues to worry about, such as this new incident: Novell Netdrive at MSU acts Flaky I decided to check back on the site today and I noticed that my PHP files were being displayed as text. WTF? I went back to the web interface, and sure enough – all the execute permissions were gone. I set them back, reloaded my page and… […]

Hey, Adam – if you are reading this, it happened again.

http://netdrive.montclair.edu/~maciakl1/

Why does it stop parsing php every few days?

Heh, I wonder how many MSU people actually read this blog.

Btw, netdrive is doing this again. My PHP is not getting parsed. :(

Luckily I haven’t noticed anything like this on NetDrive. Btw, now that Adam’s on the case, no worries. :)

Thanks Adam! It seems to be working fine right now btw. Perhaps I just witnessed some temporary glitch, or decided to update my page while something was rebooting or something. Who knows. :)

Hey Luke,
I’ll forward this page off to our Netdrive admin to see if I can dig up what’s going on.

Adam

They did send me an email that there was some issue with my account and they deactivated it for security reasons. I’m guessing it could have been one of these things:

1. unsecure php scripts with write access all over my public_html directory
2. my webpage being hammered with comment spam because of the above scripts
3. tons of downloaded and compiled 3rd party binaries – some of them very suspecious in nature (nmap, john the ripper etc…)
4. the fact that I was running a very computationally intensive multi threaded code 24-7 in the last month or two prior to graduation

Or maybe it was a combination of all of the above. But yeah, I hear they rarely delete your pegasus account unless there is an issue with it. :P

Strange that they deleted your account. I just double checked. Almost 2 years after I graduated, my account is still active, and all my “big” files I kept on it are still there.