Rabelais Configuration

This page documents the configuration of rabelais.socialtools.net, a server named after François Rabelais. Unless otherwise noted, it is configured as in ServerConfigStandard.

System changelog

Software upgrades and configuration changes should be noted in the changelog. Any change that isn't a simple upgrade (with no configuration changes) should also be documented in the relevant section below. If it's generally useful, it should be added to ServerConfigStandard instead; see DevProcess.

• Changelog

Overview

• Brief overview of the server

Local Network

• Hardware
• ADSL connection

OS Installation

• Disk partitions
• Initial Debian installation
• Kernel configuration
• Users and groups
• RAID and LVM
• Config files in /etc
• STAC (Software Tools Automated Configuration) (TODO)

Software Installation

• apt-get package manager
• BIND DNS server
• NTP Network Time Protocol daemon
• Apache web server
• Postfix mail transfer agent
• CVS version control system
• Courier IMAP mail server
• Tomcat Java servlet engine
• Speedy CGI making open-org wiki being served faster

Additional Configuration

• Restricting Bots - geting web bots to do what's useful, by limiting useless

Backups

• Backups from newt.southspace.net