Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 21:12:45 -0700 (MST) From: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow-up to FreeBSD documentation team status report. Message-ID: <199612140412.VAA23370@hemi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961213105726.7340X-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Dec 13, 96 11:15:05 am
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> * Server config file arrangements. The lastest apache port puts > config files in /usr/local/etc, log files in /var/log and such. > We may not want log files there as they get very big very fast. > Also need to arrange for rotating the logs. (this has to be > done by root) Easy to change fortunately. How far back are logs usually kept ? I noticed on freefall we have access and error logs since October. I see rotate_logs moving and gzipping the logs but I don't see it ever erasing anything. =-) Total size, 33mb, so that's not too bad. > * Syncing with CVS. Since the repository is on a different > machine, this mechanism will change. Maybe just move the www CVS tree to spatter ? Solves a lot of problems. > * CGI scripts. Some of these may have to continue living on > freefall. ... How often are the mailing list archives updated ? db/text shows the last update was three days ago. Which program(s) append new mail to the archives ? Also, I noticed from dmesg that waisq was dying with signal 11s. Is this fixed? Btw, I suppose you guys noticed: | sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:13b2d0 asc:14,0 Recorded entity | not found, retries:4 on freefall. Last time I got that my hard drive didn't live very long afterwards (cooling problems, seagate barracuda.) Will... you still run a www server on freefall then, to support the cgi ? Or move the cgis over to spatter as well and simply have them access nfs-mounted data (cvs/mail archives) from freefall ? Lastly, all these cgi scripts probably should be rewritten in Perl 5 using -w, strict, and taint checking. I'm sure there's a security hole in one of these Perl 4 scripts somewhere. =-) > * Automate update and build. This is currently done by > /usr/local/www/bin/webupdate. Make any appropriate tweaks > and then hand it off to cron. It doesn't look like there needs to be any changes if the CVS tree is moved into spatter's ~ncvs(?). I can't seem to find any references to webupdate from /etc/crontab or /etc/daily. Is this called from someone's crontab right now ? Thanks, -Ade ps. thanks for that rsync page, I was able to build a mirror (freebsd.hemi.com) pretty easily. I read the old version and almost got cvsup instead. =-) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - <http://www.hemi.com/>; -------------------------------------------------------------------
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