Server Upgrade Project
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Perform server infrastructure upgrades.
Description
A Holiday project to upgrade the computing server infrastructure of the Deos group. There are three servers; mydeos, nayak, and chino. Presently the servers are a mixture of Gentoo and various versions of Red Hat. Some of the server software is getting dated and should be upgraded.
News
- I'll bring Nayak offline sometime Saturday morning, December *16* (thanks Stephen). I will move the existing hard drive to a different mount point and use a fresh drive for the new install. That way, we'll have the old drive's content to refer to for configuration and restoration. I'll send a message when it's ready for the rest of the team to step in and get their chores done. I'll be using the Ubuntu, 6.10, 'Server' distro.
- This effort kicks off on Saturday, December 16 with an upgrade of Nayak. After that, MyDeos will be brought down on Tuesday, December 19.
Jaded volunteers for the effort
| Handle | Long Name | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| AL | user:Aaron.larson@honeywell.com | Either the week of the 10th, or 17th. Prefer prior to 12/21 in case we run into problems. |
| MD | user:Matt.diethelm@honeywell.com | Either the week of the 10th, or 17th is fine with me. |
| SPS | user:Stephen.smith@honeywell.com | Either the week of the 10th, or 17th. |
| TT | user:Thomas.taranowski@honeywell.com | Doesn't matter. I have no life. |
It now looks like I'll be out the week of the 10th (Georgia). I suggest that we (i.e., not me) start on nayak sometime (late?) the week of the 10th. Assuming that goes well, then I'll do chino bring up the next week and we can all start on mydeos.
Tasks
MyDeos
| MyDeos Task Description | Volunteer | Percentage Complete |
|---|---|---|
Ensure latest backups successful and archive results offline.
|
MD | 100% |
Bring server up to Ubuntu 6.06 or 6.10
|
MD | 100% |
| Install and configure SSH server | MD | 100% |
| Create user accounts and add to sudoers list. Make sps's account "steves" to match his account on nayak. | MD | 100% |
Install and configure MTA (sendmail)
|
SPS, MD | 100% |
| Install and configure Apache2 with PHP | MD | 100% |
| Install and configure MySQL. Which version 4 or 5?/td> | TT, AL, MD | 100% |
Install and configure Subversion
|
AL | 100% |
Manual install and configure Bugzilla
|
AL | 100% |
| Install and configure proftpd | TT | 100% |
| Install and configure an Mailman (Edgy comes with 2.1.8, mydeos is running 2.1.5, and 2.1.9 is the latest release. I didn't look at the release notes, but our demands are low, so I suggest sticking with the package released in Edgy, namely 2.1.8) Note that Aaron has made changes to mailman that will need to be re-integrated. See below. Also ref this description of moving mailman from one machine to another [1] | MD | 100% |
| Install and configure Mediawiki (Edgy comes with 1.5.8. Mydeos is currently running 1.5.6. 1.8.2 is the current release. Suggest 1.5.8)/td> | MD | 100% |
| Install and configure viewcvs. | AL | 100% |
| Install and configure Swish. | AL | 100% |
| Recover and configure https://deos.ddci.com/changeSvnAccounts/. | MD | 100% |
| Install and configure phpMySQLAdmin | TT, MD | 100% |
| Install and configure custom scripts (backup, etc.) | MD | 100% |
| Put /etc/ADMIN-README into scm | AL | 100% |
Nayak
| Nayak Server Task Description | Volunteer | Percentage Complete |
|---|---|---|
| Mount previous drive at /media/old | MD | 100% |
Bring server up to Ubuntu 6.10, "Edgy," Server Distro
|
MD | 100% |
| Install and configure SSH server | MD | 100% |
| Create user accounts and add to sudoers list | MD | 100% |
| Install and configure an MTA (postfix) | SPS | 100% |
| Install and configure proftpd | MD,AL (filling in for TT here) | 100% |
| Create Open SSH version 2 keys on build machine and make sure that the B.M. can log into the deosMaint account on sslp-nayak. | SPS | 100% |
Install and configure custom scripts (backup, etc.) deos2cygwin-wrapper installed. Following still need resolution:
|
AL | 100% |
| Put /etc/ADMIN-README into scm | AL | 100% |
| Re-enable mydeos ftp-mirror script. | MD | 100% |
Chino
| Chino Server Task Description | Volunteer | Percentage Complete |
|---|---|---|
Bring server up to Ubuntu 6.10
|
AL | 100% |
| Install and configure SSH server | AL | 100% |
| Create user accounts and add to sudoers list | AL | 100% |
| Install and configure an MTA (postfix) | SPS | 100% |
Install and configure custom scripts (backup, etc.)
|
AL | 100% |
| Put /etc/ADMIN-README into scm | AL | 100% |
=== Services Needed / Proposed Tasks ===
- Repartition hard drives.
- Bugzilla: Version 3.0 is due out in Q107, so no version upgrade suggested. Significant customization required. According to the Bugzilla status page "mod_perl Support", requires 1.5GB of RAM! Note Bugzilla developers have found a number of version incompatibilities we'll need to watch out for.
- Subversion: New version suggested.
- viewCVS: New version suggested, minor customization required.
- proFTP - sftp comes free with default install of ssh server
- Backups
- Perhaps add FTP mirror on chino? (No - This has been deferred)
- Cross distribute server config scripts? (No - this has been deemed unnecessary)
- SWISH
- Mailman: New version available, minor customizations made.
- MediaWiki: New version available, minor customizations made.
- Apache: New version available, any mods?
- PHPMysql
- Someday, we need to move Deos VSS content from Honeywell share to Deos team controlled share.
Presumably we don't need to enable:
- moin wiki.
- jabber
Tips
- As installation notes discovered and gathered, keep them in SCM, preferably under /maintainer-tools/<utility>.
- The list of packages and versions available in Ubuntu can be found at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/
Mailman Changes
mydeosbash$ pwd
/usr/local/mailman
mydeosbash$ for f in $(find . -name '*~'); do echo $f; diff $f ${f/\~/}; done
./move_lists.sh~
diff: ./move_lists.sh: No such file or directory
./rm_unused.sh~
9d8
< rm pending.pck
./Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py~
129a130,132
> welcome.append('''<p>To search the archives visit <a href="http://%s/search">http://%s/search</a>.</p>'''
> % ( hostname, hostname))
>
./Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py~
96c96,98
< msg['Precedence'] = 'list'
---
> # AL: this used to be 'list', but M$ outlook ignores list, but appears
> # to honor 'bulk'. Go figure.
> msg['Precedence'] = 'bulk'
./Mailman/mm_cfg.py~
44a45
> ARCHIVE_HTML_SANITIZER = 3
\ No newline at end of file
./Mailman/Defaults.py~
86,87c86,87
< DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'sslp-kuhhirt.cas.honeywell.com'
< DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'sslp-kuhhirt.cas.honeywell.com'
---
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mydeos.htc.honeywell.com'
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mydeos.htc.honeywell.com'
./move_list.sh~
12,13d11
< set -x
<
./templates/en/archtocnombox.html~
11a12
> To search the archives visit <a href="https://deos.ddci.com/search">https://deos.ddci.com/search</a>.
mydeosbash$
