Hi eskimos!
Here are some more tasks we need to do or think about.
1. I need to make a cron job to purge old job entries from the job tracker.
2. The passwords of the MySQL databases are currently stored in world-readable
files. Thus, anyone who has a shell access can sabotage the databases.
Perhaps we need to hide them in a better way. For PHP or Perl it is possible
to slurp a file containing the passwords into the variable.
3. Backups, backups, backups!
Hearing about computers that suffered a hard-disk failure makes me paranoid.
I'd like to backup all the MySQL databases. A good option would be for them
to be dumped using mysqldump and then stored in a restricted place in normal
and gzipped format. The normal is to make sure they can easily be rsynced,
and the gzipped is for them to be more quickly scp'ed.
I can assign a group to the people with backup permissions, and I and others
can run a cronjob on our computers to copy it there. We can also use beak if
it's possible.
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Please let me know what you think on the above.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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