[Sysadmin] filesystem layout and promoting me

John Handelaar john at userfrenzy.com
Sat Nov 22 12:41:20 CST 2008


2008/11/22 Dean Mah <dean.mah at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:28 AM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>
>>> Have we decided on exim4 or postfix?  And we decided to pull the
>>> mailman package from backports.org, yes?
>>
>> Did we?  Why?
>
> I thought that genghis wanted to go with packages for services but
> source for Web apps.  I might have misinterpreted that.

I did - backports was all you, though :)

But I agree with you on this one too.  Bugfixes++ , especially with
old crufty apps like mailman.


Re: Mediawiki --

I think an SVN repo may be useful for more than just that;  I just
watched mysociety.org's entire spread of sites  fall over today, and
they keep all their configs and pws for the remote rack hardware in a
protected wiki.  Which also went offline.  Oops.   Having William,
Dean, myself and $trusted_others[] able to keep the keys in a repo may
be a good idea.  Thoughts?

Seperately,

Is now a good time for me to suggest we stop using Apache?  Do we
really need to load a PHP interpreter into memory every time we serve
up a favicon?


jh



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