[volunteers] brie

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Lisa Corsetti (svlug at flygirl.com):

> We have THREE machines?  Ah... I think I understand now, but
> let's see if I am right:
> 
> (1) The current webserver (I am unaware of its name)

svlug.svlug.org (aka, for the moment:  "www", "svlug.org", "lists", and
some others)

> (2) Brie

AKA, for the moment:  newwww.svlug.org

> (3) The virtual machine at Linnode

"gruyere" (AKA ns1.svlug.org)

> As for the skinning of mailman, I can look into that once the
> machine is set up.

After which, things like parting the Red Sea will be easy.  ;-> 
(Legions of Mailman users will be grateful for anyone who can 
improve its aesthetics and integration).

> As for name-based virtual WEB servers, assuming we can set up
> the DNS properly (where *is* the master DNS server?  is it on
> svlug.org?)

On grueyere.  

DNS daemon package "NSD" is used, employes BIND-format zonefiles,
hashed to improve performance and save RAM.  It's a little different,
but not very.  The main thing is re-running the zonefile compiler
("zonec") after changing a zonefile, and then "nsdc restart" (IIRC) to
HUP the daemon.

I need to write a short recipe for that, and put it somewhere central,
probably /usr/local/ .  Which is where other sysadmin stuff on gruyere
has been accumulating, such as my recipe for compiling an Ubuntu .deb of
Lighthttpd, and my working files for same.

The guts of NSD are in, of course, /etc/nsd/ .



> I'm just waiting for things to be up and running and then
> there's a few things I can do....  I sure would like, for
> example, to have svn running rather than RCS.

Perhaps you would consider "git"?  svn is of course serviceable (and
easy for cvs users), but "git" keeps getting more and more and more
people backing it as a superior solution.  The latest it Ted T'so:
http://tytso.livejournal.com/29467.html