Server Administration

Backups

Backups are being done with Bacula. It deserves its own page.

DNS

We are running the default bind9 installation from debian. Domains are each in a separate file in /etc/bind/ named after the top-level domain (finkmirrors.net, finkdeveloper.net, etc.) and are editable by anyone in the bind group (or root).

To add a finkmirrors.net record, do the following:

1. edit /etc/bind/finkmirrors.net
2. change the Serial to today's date
3. add a distfiles.AIRPORT.STATE.CONTINENT record in the "distfiles (source tarballs) mirrors" section
4. add a AIRPORT.STATE.CONTINENT record in the "bindist (.deb package) mirrors" section
5. save the file
6. restart bind: /etc/init.d/bind9 restart

Mail

We run a mail server. It really really needs to be documented. (In particular, we are running squirrelmail, websieve, and god knows what else.)

In particular, the following URL's are useful:

<https://www.finkdeveloper.net/squirrelmail/src/login.php>

<https://www.finkdeveloper.net/cgi-bin/websieve.pl>

Authorized persons can restart the mail server with sudo /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 restart

Creating New Users

1. add the user to LDAP
   • details go here
2. create their SVN experimental directory
   • svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/lib/svn/users/username
   • chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/svn/users/username
3. create their .users.finkproject.org web site
   • add to /etc/bind/finkproject.org
     • 2006XXXXXX ; serial
     • username.users IN CNAME finch
     • /etc/init.d/bind restart
   • add to apache2 config
     • sed -e 's,@USER@,username,g < /etc/apache2/users/user.template > /etc/apache2/users/username.user
     • /etc/init.d/apache2 restart