[mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...

[John Johnson]

My condolences, I do feel your pain.

For what it's worth, I use PuTTY to hook up to my Myth box remotely.
I connect to my SmoothWall router on port 222.PuTTY (on Windows) is 
setup to tunnel
port 80 to 192.168.1.x:80. On my laptop at the hotel, I then go to 
http://localhost
and see my Myth box. This keeps it safe and secure on the green network,
but still allows me to use it remotely. This setup also works for ssh, 
vnc, etc.
I imagine WinMyth would work too, but it crashed on me repeatedly, so I 
went to bed :-)

Regards,
   JJ

On 13-Jan-2005, at 11:11, tommy wrote:

> Ok, so this is pretty tragic, it's also amusing if you're a sick 
> bastard like
> me, I'm sure a few of you are and will get a laugh out of it so I 
> thought I'd share
> my story of what _not_ to do with your mythbox...
>
> For xmas santa claus bought me an Athlon 64 3000 to replace my refurb 
> emachine
> mythbox. So I spend three days setting this thing up, I go out of my 
> way to
> migrate my tv from the emachine to the new amd, moving the database, 
> setting
> up all my remote controls, basically customizing the machine to my 
> liking.
> Finally I get it up and running, life is good, really good...
>
> I have just setup a smoothwall box with the red/green/orange 
> interfaces,
> pretty cool stuff, now what to do with all this technology??? Well, I 
> have the
> refurb emachine laying around, I should put that on the orange 
> interface and
> set it up as my mail server/web server, what a good idea...
>
> So now I have a web server but nothing to put on it... How about I 
> replicate
> my mythweb interface on the web server realtime so I can see whats 
> going on
> from work.. cool... So I hack up a little cgi script that looks like 
> so:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs
> /usr/bin/wget -r http://vector/mythtv/status.php -q
> cat /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgi-responses/mythtv-status.html
>
> and boom, I can now see my mythtv status from outside without putting 
> the
> machine on the internet, thats pretty cool, how about what I've 
> recorded, that
> would be even cooler! so I hack up another cgi-script, but instead of
> status.php I get recorded_programs.php, should work right??
>
> Well, I attempt to access the cgi script and it looks like my network
> connection goes down, I cant access the mythbox any more, wtf? It 
> finally
> comes back and I'm looking for the cause, wtf just happened? I start 
> top and
> see sqld is going nuts, the throughput of wget is down to 3k/s on the 
> local
> network, wtf? wtf? I don't know, I'm going drinking, I'll let it sort 
> itself
> out I'll figure it out when I get home...
>
> I get home from the pub only to find my room mate bitching that there 
> is
> something up with the mythbox... Well, I've had a few beers, there's 
> nothing
> wrong with it I tell him, you're on crack and off to bed I go...
>
> Well I wake up this morning and look for the news and can't find it, 
> well I'll
> look for something else to watch, then I look a little closer, the 
> listing has
> changed, wtf?
>
> Well my friends, I'll tell you WTF!!!!! remember yesterday when I ran 
> the
> recorded programs version of the cgi script? well it seems wget 
> spidered the
> links on recorded_programs.php, sounds innocent enough until you 
> realise that
> the last link on every line is DELETE!!! Yes my friends, the script 
> went
> through and deleted my ENTIRE BOX!!!
>
> Over half a terrabyte of television GONE!!!
>
> The entire season of Rescue Me, GONE!!!!!
> A couple of seasons of The Sheild, GONE!!!!
> Every episode of Lost, GONE!!!!
> a couple of seasons of Enterprise, GONE!!
> You get the picture...
>
> bash-2.05b$ ssh -l root -C -p 23 ?????.dyndns.org
> Password:
> Last login: Thu Jan 13 08:22:59 2005 from bulwark.??????.com
> perigee root # rm 
> /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/mythtv-recorded_programs.cgi
> perigee root #
>
> It's just way too powerful of a script to have laying around...
>
> That my friends is what not to do to your mythbox... Beware the 
> darkside of
> wget...
>
> Feel my pain...
>
>
> Machine information
> Disk Usage:
>
>    * Total Space: 1144,000 MB
>    * Space Used: 29,233 MB
>    * Space Free: 1114,767 MB
>
> This machine's load average:
>
>    * 1 Minute: 0.53
>    * 5 Minutes: 0.71
>    * 15 Minutes: 0.24
>
> Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2005-01-13 03:13 and ended on 
> 2005-01-13 03:13. Successful.
> There's guide data until 2005-01-25 22:00 (12 days).
> DataDirect Status: Your subscription expires on 02/20/05 23:57:57
>
>
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