[TriLUG] Re: status of TriLUG server blitzkrieg

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 17:31, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> [Copied to trilug at trilug.org but in-depth discussion probably belongs on
> sys at trilug.org (mailing list for discussion of TriLUG hosted services)]

Actually, sys is the list for people who have sudo access to
the trilug boxes so we can inform people if we make a change
of something.  hosting at trilug.org is the mailing list for discussion
of TriLUG hosted services.  Just because it hasn't had much traffic
yet doesn't mean it has died.  Besides, hosting is a public list
while sys is restricted to only those with sudo access.  So, please
direct any replies to hosting at trilug.org.

Tanner
[ rest of original message follows ]

> Tanner & I just completed another few hours of work on the donated
> hardware.  While we did have some disappointments, overall I am pleased
> with the outcome of this weekend's work.
> 
> What we have accomplished:
> * We have a working Kerberos/LDAP server (moya.trilug.org).  UID/GID,
> shell preference, home dir, and other info is kept in LDAP.  Passwords
> are kept in Kerberos.  To answer one concern that was expressed about
> this, no, LDAP does not proxy password requests to Kerb.  The login
> process hits Kerb directly for password authentication without going
> through LDAP.
> 
> * We have a mirror server (dargo.trilug.org).  Because the size of the
> disks used was small (9GB and 18GB), and all of the content therein is
> just mirrored stuff from other sites, we made the decision to not use
> RAID but to stripe the drives without any parity.  So we need to make
> sure nothing unique & important gets put here.  It's got a basic OS on
> it right now and is not actually serving anything yet.
> 
> Neither server is in the rack yet.  Both are in Tanners car.  We're
> hoping to have moya hooked up early this week.  Dargo is a big brute of
> a server and will take some more time, so he may come online later.
> 
> Other TriLUG servers will need to be modified to use moya.  Also we need
> to migrate member data from MySQL, /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on
> fatalpha to Kerb/LDAP on Moya.  Admin scripts for the SC to
> add/remove/modify members needs to be adjusted to use LDAP & Kerb
> instead of MySQL, /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow.  Fatalpha needs to nfs
> export user home dirs.
> 
> Mail server is not coming soon.  We have a dead 60GB drive which may
> take some time to get replaced.  It sounds like we might need to
> regroup, figure out what hardware we have, what it is currently doing,
> and whether or not any of it can be leveraged for mail server purposes. 
> Right now if anyone had LARGE scsi hard disks to donate, I'm confident
> we could use one of the existing systems as a mail server.
> 
> For the ftp mirror server, we need to either bring in or develop
> expertise in Logical Volume Management.  We've got a few drives (two
> logical drives via RAID 0, one physical drive) that we'd like to apply
> LVM to and then start the mirroring scripts.
> 
> Getting the RAID controllers going took awhile because #1 they did not
> come with any disks and #2 the server had a bum floppy controller.  We
> had to (*ick*) boot from a Win98 CD and then pop in a CD-R which had the
> Mylex tools on it at which point we were good to go.
> 
> We have one piece of unused server hardware, not sure where it will fit
> in.  It is a Dell PowerEdge 2200 with dual Pentium II 333 processors,
> 128MB of RAM, dual 4GB scsi hard disks, SCSI CDROM, dual fast ethernet
> cards.  I suppose we could just get the OS going on the internal drives
> and NFS mount everything else.
> 
> 
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