[Admin] Re: [Administrators] Update on new calypso box (new mail server)
David A. Cafaro
dac at cafaro.net
Wed Feb 13 10:13:48 EST 2008
Ok, sorry about that.
Here are more details. We have a completely new machine that's got
the following specs (sorry I put the wrong HD size down before):
Pentium 4 processor (don't remember the Ghz, think it was like 2.8 or 3)
2 GB of RAM
2x 160GB Hard drives setup as RAID 1 for 160GB of space
Latest Debian installed
Currently it's not online, but we can probably get it online
available via SSH within a day or so.
Work on it pretty much came to a stand still as people just didn't
have time to work on it. I got the initial install going, Greg did
some work on mailman, but that's about it. I'm now dealing with full
time job, grad-school, and a sick 6 month old.
I've been real slack on the leadership of this project, that's my fault.
We need someone (or several) who is experienced or at least confident
they can figure out how to do the following with email:
Setup Postfix with Virtual Domains to host multiple email domains,
and make sure it works with mailman
Setup dovecot or courier imap/pop3 with SSL encryption, no
unencrypted email connections for email access
Setup https access to SquirelMail for webmail access (squirelmail
will basically use local imap connection)
I forgot I actually have some nice how-to's on this bookmarked at
home, I can send them later. Uses mysql to handle account management
(which I do on my production server).
Beyond that we also need to setup DNS services on this machine, to
match what calypso currently handles.
Once all that is done, we can then schedule a maintenance window
where we can migrate the old data off of calypso.tux.org onto this
new machine and let it become the new calypso.tux.org. This first
migration would consist of mailing lists and DNS.
After this swap is done we can then schedule a second maintenance
window to migrate all email services from gywn to calypso.
Calypso will not have shell account access to users, those users who
wish to have a shell account to access email will continue to use
their current shell account and setup their terminal email program to
access email over imaps or pop3s on calypso. This may be a slight
inconvenience, but modern software regardless of it being command
line based or GUI should be able to handle this. The reason for this
is we want this machine to be super stable and secure. Only
administrators should have shell access, we don't need any rogue
processes by accident.
Anyways, that was the plan that I haven't been able to implement.
I need active volunteers who are willing to do the work. I can
provide "some" help and guidance, but my clock cycles are pretty well
booked.
Thanks,
David
On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:30 AM, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'll give a status and current state of the machine soon as I get
> into work this morning, about to leave now.
>
> For now,
>
> Machine with RAID 1 250GB storage, new box that will be drop in
> replacement for calypso has a fresh install of debian on it waiting
> to be configured.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:20 AM, greg pryzby wrote:
>
>> If you are interested in doing the mailman work, you are welcome
>> to be the main admin.
>>
>> Someone installed the version we are running and I simply took the
>> old dead stuff and recreated the lists. I also wrote a script to
>> send the list members to the list owner on a weekly basis so in
>> case of failure, the list could be created with current members.
>>
>> ping me directly and I can get you access if you are interested.
>>
>> On 2/13/08, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephenjturnbull at gmail.com>
>> wrote: This is really old stuff, but what with recent outages and
>> confusion
>> about XEmacs configs, I'd like to follow up and try to get our
>> portion
>> of the system in better order.
>>
>>
>> gregory pryzby writes:
>>
>> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:58:59PM -0400, David A. Cafaro wrote:
>>
>> > > This will give us a single machine to handle all mail related
>> tasks (such
>> > > as ssl imap, smtp, mailing lists, etc..). This box has two
>> 160GB Hard
>> > > drives setup in a raid 1 configuration.
>>
>>
>> Has this machine been put into service elsewhere? AFAICT calypso is
>> still running on a box with a total of about 20GB.
>>
>>
>> > so mailman is moving from calypso to gwyn (or whatever the new
>> machine
>> > is named)?
>>
>>
>> Yeah, inquiring minds would like to know. I believe the thread
>> continued by saying that no, the new box would assume the calypso
>> identity, but that pretty clearly hasn't happened (yet).
>>
>>
>> > I would like to have at least 1 person step up as a backup to
>> me. Only
>> > thing I have had to do create a list and maybe reset a
>> password since
>> > I recovered the lists.
>>
>>
>> I would like to see Mailman upgraded to 2.1.9, at least, and maybe
>> even the current 2.1.10 prelease. The 2.1 series has been extremely
>> stable; I have not heard of a problem with a source-to-source upgrade
>> since 2.1.1.
>>
>> I'd also like to see a little more discipline from some of the other
>> list owners:
>>
>> turnbull at calypso:/var/lib/mailman$ ls data/*yhslug* | wc
>> 1195 1195 33926
>> turnbull at calypso:/var/lib/mailman$ ls data/*dclug* | wc
>> 260 260 7280
>> turnbull at calypso:/var/lib/mailman$ ls data/*ma-linux* | wc
>> 199 199 6169
>>
>> I would be happy to help with Mailman stuff. I'm a regular on the
>> Mailman lists and pretty familiar with Mailman internals, although
>> I've not contributed directly to development. As far as contributing
>> to Tux goes, I could be useful. This year I'm on California time
>> (until August) but normally I'm on Japan time which gives middle of
>> the night coverage (Tux time). I run a Mailman installation for my
>> classes and advisees, and usually run the latest release or release
>> candidate there (since all users are physically in the same place and
>> have each other's phone numbers as well, reliability is not as
>> crucial), which would be helpful in deciding when to upgrade.
>>
>> For some additional stuff that we do with our pipeline, Sam gave me
>> the site password (I forget what that was needed for) and sudo (for
>> restarting), already. I've been pretty discreet about using them,
>> though.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
>>
>
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