[Sysadmin] Migrating to ServerMatrix

[David A. Ulevitch]

On Jun 18, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Dean Mah wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:05:19PM +0100, William Anderson wrote:
>> Dean Mah wrote:
>>> With the decision of what to get settled, I think that we should get
>>> ready for how to get it there.  Let's start with a list of software
>>> that we need to install and any lessons learned from the previous
>>> migration.  I think sysadmin feels most comfortable with supporting
>>> Debian so we can skip the O/S consideration.

+1 on Debian.  Unless someone here works on debian fulltime (I mean as 
a developer, not sysadmin) I am probably one of the most experienced 
debian users here.  I've built a couple of debian distro's from scratch 
for various organizations -- some using their installer, some not.  I'm 
a huge dpkg fan, so if there are every any questions....feel free to 
ping me.

>>
>> I've just done a qmail+mailman install on a woody box, which was 
>> evil, but
>> I'm up the learning curve on it :)  I also have a vaguely sensible 
>> build
>> script for Apache if we go that route, but I'd suggest we go for 
>> Debian 3.0
>> woody with key backported packages from backports.org, unless 
>> performance
>> demands we recompile packages for fuller optimisation.

That's largely a myth.  You won't get performance benefits from 
recompiling on your own hardware -- (see http://funroll-loops.org/ -- 
not for gentoo fans...but funny as hell)

> It should be noted that since qmail does not allow "milters" we will
> need to recompile it with the DNS and SPF patches.
>

there's no such thing as a qmail binary.  also I put up one of my qmail 
on debian notes here:  It's basically cut-and-paste because I do it for 
so many people at this point: http://david.ulevitch.com/notes/  I 
didn't add the SPF patches but that's a trivial thing.   My notes 
include vpopmail+qmailadmin+clamscan (antivirus)+qmail-scanner.

-davidu

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