[TriLUG] Server Maintenance

[Joseph Tate]

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Look into Yum: http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum for keeping your server up 
to date with the latest patches.

Logwatch (which is part of the RH distribution) is easy to set up and 
modify for daily log checking.

For rescue disks, keep Knoppix or Tom's Root boot around as well as your 
7.3 installation CD.

For Backups look at amanda or just tar.  Probably the easiest thing to 
do would be to set up a samba mount to your windows server which is 
being backed up, and tar up everything that you want to back up onto 
that.  Minimal I'd keep /etc /home and /var regularly backed up.  Maybe 
/usr/local/ if you've got a lot of stuff there.

For disaster recovery, nothing beats the notes that you took when you 
set up the system the first time.  You have those I presume.

Congratulations and good luck,
Joseph

Hite, Danny wrote:

|Good news. I have finally got Linux (2 Redhat 7.3 servers) implemented 
in my
|work environment. *dancing* w00t!!
|
|Question: Could you guys and gals give me some recommendations on
|maintenance? Here are some of the things I was thinking about.
|
|Disaster recovery options, Backups, Security Updating, Daily log checking,
|other tips, rescue disks, etc...
|
|These are things I of course do on the M$ side, but what are some ways to
|approach this in Linux?
|
|Server 1 is used for a www.phpbb.com installation and apache of course. It
|also uses sendmail to delivery email messages RE: the phpbb forum. This
|server is on the DMZ/SSN of my firewall with only port 80 forwarded from
|external to DMZ/SSN. SMTP is enabled outbound ONLY for sendmail.
|
|Server 2 is on my corp intranet running as a Jabber server. There are no
|external connections, besides web surfing, on this server.
|
|The backup software I use is Veritas' NetBackup. I do know that there is a
|client for *nix so I will probably look into that.
|
|Sorry if I am asking WAY too many question in this email, but in the end I
|guess that I really am asking is 'What is the best way to keep a Linux
|server "purring like a kitten"?'
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