[volunteers] Election deferred

[Mark Weisler]

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Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Luke S Crawford (lsc at prgmr.com):
> 
>> Ok,  I think keeping that up to date (and seeing to it that emails are 
>> sent to the proper mailing lists)  is pretty important if a speaker 
>> cancels or changes, we need to get the word out to everyone who planned 
>> on showing up, so having more people able to do that is probably
>> a good thing, assuming you trust me not to screw it up too badly.  
> 
> The Web server's document-root files (PHP, mostly) are kept checked into
> svn, FYI.  It's all documented on the Web Team page.
> 
> Sending out e-mails to the proper mailing lists doesn't take any special
> access, though approving posts to svlug-announce does require someone
> with the listadmin credential.  (FYI, the mail svlug list is subscribed
> to svlug-announce, so mailing the latter implicitly reaches the former.)
> 
> You're welcome to have the listadmin password, though people who have
> that really _should_ be subscribed to mailing list "mailman-owner", 
> where the admin-attention-needed notices go.  There should be several
> people watching for those notices, and there's only me.
                                                 ^^^^^^^
I've corrected this situation, at least a little. I'll watch for this
mail traffic as I have sometimes in the past when you (Rick) were on
vacation. Your mention of the correct list to subscribe to invited me to
subscribe again.

> 
> http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/ mailman-owner/
> (URL broken up to interfere with spambots doing harvesting.)
> 
>> Also, do we have any backup systems that are better than a straight
>> rsync?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Mark Weisler and Lisa Corsetti said at one point that they were doing
> some sorts of backups of datasets from our two servers.  (Before
> my forced server rebuild in April, I had two reasons I couldn't
> really help with that, lack of disk space and my house being at the
> extreme ADSL distance limit from the telco CO; now, only the latter
> obstacle applies.)
I made rsync backups every few months but have not done so in about five
months. Lisa has a backup and there was one taken a few months ago when
there was more active work on setting up a newer server.

It's a good job to run to my office systems in the middle of the night.

I (or someone) should put that on a cron job.

> 
>> So the other question is do we have anything super secret on that box
>> you don't want spread about and/or do we have some kind of legal risk
>> mitigation document retention policy.  
> 
> There are things that are at least a little sensitive, e.g., the /root
> directory on the Web server box houses data such as the
> domain-administration passwords for Joker.com that were deemed too 
> sensitive to live in the regular site-docs directory where anyone with a
> shell account can read them.
> 
> That's the only directory with data _that_ sensitive that I can think
> of.
> 
> 
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> 
Mark
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