Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Friday 02 September 2005 22:34, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for the quick fix.
>>
> 
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> 
>>My ideas about a todo list:
>>
>>I'd like to change the distination of the ftp to something under /srv.
>>
> 
> 
> No problem with that. Just change the home directory of the "ftp" user 
> in /etc/passwd. You also need to move the /storage mount to somewhere else.

Done. moved to /srv/ftp (which is FHS compliant).

>>Than use the multidisk array to create a beter raid (raid 5 and not 0),
>>over that to have LVM for the base filesystems.
>>
> 
> 
> You can re-arrange /storage as long as you first move its contents to the new 
> IDE disk. I'd hate to lose them.
> 
> 
>>I'd like to seperate some filesystems to have better use of disk space
>>(/tmp & /home).
> 
> 
> That's doable. There's currently 50% use in the /-partition. We have some 
> other partitions on the old SCSI disks, which belonged to the old RedHat 
> configuration, which we may be able to use now. Just be careful and consult 
> us first.
> 
> 
>>clean the server packages. There are many interpreters:
>>main/interpreters        libxml-rss-perl
>>main/interpreters        libdate-calc-perl
>>main/interpreters        libtemplate-perl
>>main/interpreters        python2.1
>>main/interpreters        libdate-manip-perl
>>main/interpreters        libcgi-application-perl
>>
>>Do why really need them all?
>>
> 
> 
> All the Perl modules are in use by the Jobs and Consultants Applet. (which 
> I'm 
> maintaining). Some of them are in use for other things. As for the python 
> package, from a quick locate command, I could not find anything 
> written-in-Python that is still in use on the server.
> 
> I also do not preclude that we'll make use of something Python-related in the 
> future.

Removed. Python2.3 is there for bittorando (which I use to get some
files for the mirror).

>>same for development packages (libc6-dev, kernel-headers, gcc). Did
>>someone used the server for his developemnt station? Or to build source
>>code? I don't think that the way stuff should work on production.
>>
> 
> 
> It seems you forgot the fact that I told iglu-web that I used it to compile 
> the relevant source code of chkrootkit, because I suspected a rootkit was 
> installed on eskimo. I suppose they can be removed now. However, in the 
> not-so-far future I may need them (or at least just make) to compile CPAN 
> Perl modules that are not present in the Debian packages' pool using 
> dh-perl-make.

Well, the server isn't a development station. Build them on your
computer and upload the binaries to the server. Even better is to build
a custome package and install it on the server (I can gladly help).

-- 

Regards,

Lior Kaplan
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