[Hosting] Fatalpha proposal

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 21:45, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Mailman should move fine, though you wanted to move it to the new 
> mailserver anyway.... Mailman works best if it uses a local mailserver and 
> a local webserver, so where ever Mailman ends up it has to be on a server 
> with apache running.  The only caveat with Mailman is that it might fill 
> the logs after the move complaining about deprecated calls - since the 
> Python verson will have been updated.  A re-compile would stop that (but 
> blow away any special mods we've made).  Chris or I can take care of that 
> in about an hour.

It looks like the python in redhat 7.3 is 1.5.2 (Apparently, 2.2 is
available, but it's called python2).  The python on fatalpha is
1.5.2 also, so that should work fine.

> Quota's will need to be setup and maintained again - currently it is being 
> done automagically via some cron scripts.

Good point!  Thanks for mentioning that.

> The SSH key for the server will change, so folks will need to delete the 
> old one from their local key file (and automatically add the new one).

Actually, it won't need to change.  We can save it and restore it 
when we bring the new system up. :-)

> The Apache install of 7.2 defaults to Apache with Mod SSL so it would be 
> cool to generate a self-signed cert and have https available.

Yeah!  That would be cool.

> Its going to be quite a task to get done quickly....

Yeah, we might want to make sure we have a good chunk of time to do
this.

Tanner
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