[Server-admins] CrossWire Server

[Jonathan Marsden]

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> There are a number of things which don't work right and I'll list a few
> here and more when I think of them.

Can I suggest that you/we make each of them a bug, so progress can be
tracked as they get fixed?

> o    when we get mediawiki updates from our occasional yum update, the
> wiki stops working (like right now).

Details on "stops working" would help with this... what error msgs get
logged, what are the symptoms an end user sees, what does the admin end
up doing to restart the wiki?

> o    mailman does not send admins admin notices ...

> We are currently using exim at the suggestion of Daniel Glassey, which
> has worked well in the past, but if someone wants to own this, I concede
> to switch to whichever smtp daemon they are willing to administrate.

I'm not really in a good position to take on a long term committment to
this right now, but I can probably help with specific issues.
Unfortunately my experience with Exim is very small indeed, zero in
production use.

If I *were* to try and rework the mail server, my personal preference
would be Postfix.  That's based on what I know and what I currently use
for "real work", more than on any kind of "X is better than Y" malserver
comparison -- all the well known open source mail servers can be made to
run well by a knowledgeable admin.

Do you have some basic usage statistics on the system -- "we run X
mailman lists with an average of Y subscribers and Z mailing list
posts/day, and we get P web hits/day to our static web site and Q web
hits/day to the wiki"?  Just so we all have some idea of how big a task
we are looking at here?

Other than web, wiki, mailing lists, and FTP, (and SSH access for
admins) are there any other services this machine provides?

Jonathan