SLUUG Wiki

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Current projects:

• Planning move from the buds to amber
• Building amber
• Bock 2018
• Bock Upgrade Debian 10 -> 11
• Replace Mailman 2
• Bock Upgrade Debian 11 -> 12

The buds

Everything below was specific to the installation to the buds and migration from AIX servers michelob and dark, but is still the best documentation for SLUUG configuration, such as services, when there is no later documentation.

Here are our current build documents:

• Goals – what we're trying to accomplish in building the new servers
• Basics – system names, etc.
• TODO – what's left to do before moving to production
• Timeline – order in which things need to proceed
• IPs – what needs to be changed when changing IP addresses and/or domains

Here's the order that the build should generally proceed:

1. Hardware – description of the hardware configuration
2. Debian – base OS installation and configuration (including hard drive partitioning)
3. Solaris – base OS installation and configuration
4. Firewall – we're using Shorewall to configure iptables
5. SSH – a more secure remote access method
6. Sudo – a good way to allow users to run commands as root
7. Misc – miscellaneous packages installed
8. Security – security changes to base installation (primarily SSL certificates)
9. IMAP – Courier IMAP email access
10. Mailing Lists – mailing list server (Mailman) and web archival (Pipermail)
11. Users - how to add/migrate users to the new systems
12. MySQL – database required by most Open Source projects
13. Postfix – email transport (SMTP MTA)
14. SpamAssassin – spam filtering
15. Apache – installation and configuration of Apache web server, including PHP, virtual hosts, etc.
16. Logging – what is logged, to where, reports, and to whom
17. Wiki – DokuWiki
18. DNS – caching-only name server (using BIND 9 in a chrooted environment)
19. NTP – Network Time Protocol configuration
20. Backups – how we back up our important data
21. Domain Names – how authoratative DNS for SLUUG.ORG is handled (hosted externally)uild
22. Private Network – how our private network at Primary is configured

The following are works in progress:

• OpenLDAP – integrating LDAP into all services requiring user authentication
• Webmail – browser access to email
• Content Management System – Drupal
• Kernel – our custom kernel build (no longer using custom build)
• Web Calendar – Plans calendar or other calendar
• Webmin – Web-based system administration
• Web Forum – Online web-based forums to dicuss various topics (similar to DISCUSS mailing list)
• Blog – currently testing WordPress, to see if we can use it as a CMS
• PostgreSQL – database required by some Open Source projects
• USENET – NNTP/USENET server inn from isc.org
• Cloud Storage – Various experiments in cloud storage options