Re: VA System status

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
> > Some things I decided is that we're not going to mirror /.  It's just way
> > too ugly to do right now and it has some serious drawbacks should
> 
> Sounds good.  I had a feeling RAID / was going to suck in software.  The only REAL
> way to raid your boot device has always been hardware.  Image on sdb1 sounds good.

Well I just started getting replies from the linux-raid list.  Turns out
all the docs on RAID are horribily wrong as is RH 5.2 RAID implimentation.
I've got some good pointers of how to do it correctly as well as new
patches and raid-tools.  The good news is that there is a much better way
to RAID1 the / partition so we don't need to do that not-so-perfect dd
image solution.  I'll play with it some tonight.
 
> > I'm going to start getting MySQL and Apache ready on the system.  I assume
> > we want *everything* under /home?  Is there anything else someone wants
> 
> I prefer to see application binaries under /usr/local (Apache & MySQL, etc.) with
> all data residing in /home.  Wether this is done in configuration or via symlinks
> it doesn't really matter.  I'd do it via symlinks for MySQL (of which I will more
> than happily help set up if other things consume your time -- please put it in the
> /usr/local/mysql dir) and I'd do it via configuration for apache.  Personally
> anyway... :)  And these are all opinions.

Sounds good to me.  I'll let you play with the symlinks.
 
> > to tell me?  Jason, about RH SS... is it legal for you to give me a copy
> > of yours, or should we stick with mod_ssl (I think SS is mod_ssl??).  The
> 
> I was thinking we'd just donate our license if we wanted to use it here... we
> haven't started doing online transactions yet which we'll require it for... but our
> Thawte key won't do ya any good unles you wanted to re-route secure requests back
> through the ashtech.net domain ;) which I don't see us wanting to do... unless it's
> all internal work.  *shrug*  But whicheve you'd rather see... mod_ssl or RH SS.  6
> one, 1/2 dozen the other.

I think mod_ssl is the way to go.  We're only going to use SSL for the
admin pages and mod_ssl is stable.  I see no need for a special Thawte
certificate- we can generate our own which will do just fine.

> > one thing I wasn't sure of is if we want the Apache/MySQL binaries in
> > /usr/local.  Makes more sense, just more difficult to configure (but it's
> 
> Yes.  This is what I was saying above.  Definately the way to go.
> 
> > P.S. Jason, when's the next meet?
> 
> How 'bout Tuesday or Wednsday?  Which one would be better for everyone?

Wednesday is better for me I think.

> Thank for the updates Aaron.

No prob.  

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