Re: Projects

[Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Aaron D. Turner wrote:

> > Not necessarily. AFAIK, ht://dig can also index remote sites. I could test
> > this, if you want.
> 
> Yes it does support remote indexing, but it's slower and you have to deal
> with broken links.  We really should strive to do as much local mirroring
> and then index that as possible.  

OK. Hard disk space will hopefully be sufficient for this :)

> > > System Configuration
> > > 	Partition Sizes & design
> > 
> > As soon as we have the real hardware on hand. But this should be worked
> > out real quick :)
> 
> Chris expected to get back to me sometime tomorrow.  I asked for a 3000c
> box, siteing the RAID capablities as a key feature.

Neat!

> > > 	Basic patching/locking down of system (TCP Wrappers, Tripwire,
> > > 		ssh, turning off ftp/telnet, etc)
> > 
> > Well, the usual things. Disable all unnecessary services, maybe set up
> > some firewalling rules, use ssh...
> > Do you see an urge to use tripwire?
> 
> I figure we will all have some hand in managing the box.  And no
> matter how good people try to be, they always forget to send an email
> out stating the changes they made.  TripWire makes a good logging
> tool, not to mention increasing security.

I agree on the security issue. But didn't we agree on using CVS for making
changes to the site? This would also include a change log feature.

> > > 	Do we run DNS on this machine too?
> > 
> > Would it be necessary? I don't know. Anyway, DNS is not a performance hog.
> 
> Maybe we can get SEUL to be primary DNS?  NaviSite would secondary.

If this is fine to you - go ahead :)

Bye,
	LenZ

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