[volunteers] qualified success installing new server

[Paul Reiber]

Greetings, SVLUG volunteers,

Mark Weisler and I installed our new server over at Via.net today!

Many thanks to Mark Merlin, Rick Moen, and Daniel Gimpelevich
for providing hardware and help. (Daniel worked some SCSI voodoo
on the unit at the last CABAL meeting - much appreciated!)

The 1/3 terabyte JBOD drive array didn't come online correctly -
the server complained about a termination problem when we
tried to use it... so, for now, the external JBOD drive array is
mounted in the rack there, but turned off and not plugged into
the main server.

Between now and when we run out of disk space, someone's
going to have to take a look at the unit.  Alternatively, maybe
someone will donate a 500GB drive or two that we can simply
add to the main server rather than using the loud and power-
hungry JBOD array.

The machine's barely configured right now.  It's got a baseline
debian install with SSH on top, nothing more.

I'm able to contact it via ssh 157.22.20.228

I got basic networking going by hacking on /etc/network/interfaces
and /etc/resolv.conf - I'm sure I missed something though, because
I'm not able to contact it by hostname - brie.svlug.org - only by
IP address.

Rick's got the root password, and will be working his magic on it
sometime soon.

So... we now have the resources we need to move ahead with our
server plans!  We'll undoubtedly have MoinMoin running sometime
soon, as well as better spam filtering, and a few other surprises.

Best regards, and I hope to see you at the installest on Saturday!
-Paul Reiber
http://svlug.org/~pbr