Re: A few things

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Catching up on backlogged mail... sorry for the delay in replying to this:


> 1) Jason- Did you turn off relaying in Qmail?  I'd hate to find out that

Yes.  Relaying is disabled in Qmail.

> eat bandwidth and CPU.  I think we should have NaviSite limit ICMP to
> those hosts/networks which we come from.  I would take the existing list

Agreed.  Makes sense to me.  Same hosts I mailed ya before... my access is working
fine.

> 3) Virtual Hosts.  We've got a lot.  Do we need this many?  Should
> "linuxkb.org" = "www.linuxkb.org" ?  It doesn't currently.  I assume
> "admin" is for the administration pages (CGI's, documentation, etc) for
> the site.  This should be bound to the loopback device and we should use
> the ssh hack to access it.

Yes.  We need dev, tst, and www (linuxkb.org can = www.linuxkb.org... I just didn't
do it that way at the time).  I have no problem binding admin to loopback... can ya
refresh me on the ssh hack?  I lost that mail that described it when I blew away my
/home :(.  I want to keep devel.linuxkb.org seperate from admin.linuxkb.org as
devel will be publicly available development information eventually...  thoughts?

> 4) Ht://dig DB.  How many?  One for each CVS module?  One that's shared?
> One for production one for development trees?  (I'm only talking about the
> actual tables and the content therin.)

One for each cvs module.  tst, dev, and www.

> 5) MySQL DB.  Same questions.

Same answer... I'm working on implimenting the other two... the DB for linuxkb.org
has been implimented.

> 6) User policies.  So the box is primarily our web server, but I don't
> think it's unreasonable that each of us is allowed to store/read mail
> locally on it and stuff like that.  (Right now I see local mail spool
> readers like pine/mutt/elm allowed.  IMAP and POP3 are a security risk.)  

I have no issues with this.  I personally won't store mail on the box... I'm
forwarding all mine to my other box... but as long as it's local readers only and
we open up no additional ports... I say it's a non-issue.

> I forsee a lot of email being generated to aturner@linuxkb.org and I'm
> already pushing the limit of storage space at my ISP.  Web pages too?  

Amen.  Prolly a lot of mail... 

> Kinda like allowing people who use the site to put a face to the
> developers.  Web space for any software we write that's placed under the
> GPL license and stuff like that.

Yup.  No problem with that either... encouraged actually.  Web space for GPL
software... great... we can't be acting as a mirror for gnome or anything ;) but
any GPL we write... sure.  Unless of course one of us is the author of the next
greatest thing in Linux and the server starts getting HAMMERED with downloads... in
that case we'd obviously need to re-locate the package :).  Watch out... Dan is
just that kinda guy :)

Jason