[okfn-discuss] sysadmin questions

Mon Dec 5 12:12:38 UTC 2005

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:48:08AM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Dear Martin (and anyone else who has relevant knowledge),
> 
> The OKFN systems are currently hosted on a dedicated server in texas. 
> The machine is running debian and has installed (roughly):
>   * Apache 2.0 + fastcgi
>   * Exim 4 + Courier
>   * Mailman
>   * Postgresql
>   * Mysql
>   * Drupal
>   * Moinmoin
> 
> I was wondering whether you had any recommendations about:
> 
> a) Securing the machine

Run a script which automatically emails you about Debian security
fixes, if you aren't already. There's a package called cron-apt which
does this (although it is a bit weird to configure), or Martin and I
both have ad-hoc scripts for it.

Francis

> b) Monitoring the machine
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rufus
> 
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