[Administrators] Update on new calypso box (new mail server)

[greg pryzby]

If you are interested in doing the mailman work, you are welcome to be the
main admin.

Someone installed the version we are running and I simply took the old dead
stuff and recreated the lists. I also wrote a script to send the list
members to the list owner on a weekly basis so in case of failure, the list
could be created with current members.

ping me directly and I can get you access if you are interested.

On 2/13/08, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephenjturnbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is really old stuff, but what with recent outages and confusion
> about XEmacs configs, I'd like to follow up and try to get our portion
> of the system in better order.
>
>
> gregory pryzby writes:
>
>   > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:58:59PM -0400, David A. Cafaro wrote:
>
> > > This will give us a single machine to handle all mail related tasks
> (such
>   > > as ssl imap, smtp, mailing lists, etc..).  This box has two 160GB
> Hard
>   > > drives setup in a raid 1 configuration.
>
>
> Has this machine been put into service elsewhere?  AFAICT calypso is
> still running on a box with a total of about 20GB.
>
>
>   > so mailman is moving from calypso to gwyn (or whatever the new machine
>   > is named)?
>
>
> Yeah, inquiring minds would like to know.  I believe the thread
> continued by saying that no, the new box would assume the calypso
> identity, but that pretty clearly hasn't happened (yet).
>
>
>   > I would like to have at least 1 person step up as a backup to me. Only
>   > thing I have had to do create a list and maybe reset a password since
>   > I recovered the lists.
>
>
> I would like to see Mailman upgraded to 2.1.9, at least, and maybe
> even the current 2.1.10 prelease.  The 2.1 series has been extremely
> stable; I have not heard of a problem with a source-to-source upgrade
> since 2.1.1.
>
> I'd also like to see a little more discipline from some of the other
> list owners:
>
> turnbull at calypso:/var/lib/mailman$ ls data/*yhslug* | wc
>    1195    1195   33926
> turnbull at calypso:/var/lib/mailman$ ls data/*dclug* | wc
>     260     260    7280
> turnbull at calypso:/var/lib/mailman$ ls data/*ma-linux* | wc
>     199     199    6169
>
> I would be happy to help with Mailman stuff.  I'm a regular on the
> Mailman lists and pretty familiar with Mailman internals, although
> I've not contributed directly to development.  As far as contributing
> to Tux goes, I could be useful.  This year I'm on California time
> (until August) but normally I'm on Japan time which gives middle of
> the night coverage (Tux time).  I run a Mailman installation for my
> classes and advisees, and usually run the latest release or release
> candidate there (since all users are physically in the same place and
> have each other's phone numbers as well, reliability is not as
> crucial), which would be helpful in deciding when to upgrade.
>
> For some additional stuff that we do with our pipeline, Sam gave me
> the site password (I forget what that was needed for) and sudo (for
> restarting), already.  I've been pretty discreet about using them,
> though.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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