[Sysadmin] filesystem layout and promoting me

[Dean Mah]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:19 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> Adrian Simmons wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It's gone awful quiet again, I know Dean's been up to stuff because
>> he's been on #evolt. I'd like to help out, but in the past haven't
>> been on the sudoers list, would you all be ok with me helping out
>> more? I'd happily tackle Drupal, Apache and maybe SVN setup.
>>
>> Dean mentioned on #evolt the possibility of using FHS to layout the
>> filesystem, is this something everybody wants to do, or will we just
>> stick with the debian defaults like /var/www? Going with the defaults
>> would, I assume, be less work - and I'm all for that.
>
> I'd suggest installing as much as possible (apps running under apache
> aside) to the debian package defaults, it's much, much less trouble to
> debug that way.  I'd also suggest putting all our stuff under /local,
> e.g. web data, drupal install, mysql data, yadda yadda.
>
> /local
> /local/mysql
> /local/web
> /local/web/hosts
> /local/web/hosts/browsers.evolt.org
> /local/web/hosts/wiki.evolt.org <- mediawiki install from svn
> /local/web/hosts/www.evolt.org <- drupal install
> /local/web/logs
> /local/web/<etc>

mysql was installed from the repo and lives in /var/lib/mysql which is
the package default.  Do we want to move the change the existing
setup?

The apache package installs a default site with docroot in /var/www.
Do we want to change the config to /local/host/tron.evolt.org?

Is there much difference between mediawiki's svn release and their
stable release?  Is there a big advantage to running on the latest
checked in version?

Have we decided on exim4 or postfix?  And we decided to pull the
mailman package from backports.org, yes?

Dean