[webdev] Re: Next steps

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale W Hodge wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: webdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:webdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
>>Of Tom Hull
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>>I think the big
>>thing to do there is to come up with a plan for organizing
>>content, and secondly define a set of roles for updating the
>>website. Probably the best way to do that would be to get
>>a meeting together and do some brainstorming.
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> Our next Monthly Aclug meeting on July 8 is currently scheduled to cover
> organizational 'stuff', so we could have some time to ask our members for
> input on what they want to see on the site. Otherwise, we need to schedule a
> meeting.
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>>One bug I found (haven't put into bugzilla but should) is
>>that the procedure that rounds up all of the static pages
>>doesn't follow symlinks, which is a problem given the way
>>the website files have been broken into openacs/aclug chunks
>>and stitched together using a symlink. I'm not sure whether
>>to just fix the tcl code, or rethink the way the website is
>>put together.
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> To me, that's a big bug, at least in the way I currently do my sites.
> Mostly, that's because I want some of the same content available across
> multiple virtual sites.
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>>I'm not sure where we stand on backups;
>>the postgresql db is being dumped, bug we also need cvs and
>>bugzilla and probably /usr/local/aolserver and some other
>>odds and ends
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> Hum... I could probably figure out a script to tar them up and run it as a
> cron job. What files/directories need to be included, and where do you want
> them dumped?
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Maybe do the daily or weekly backup from the cron.daily scripts? Since 
it needs to be done regularly and does not really require a separate 
crontab entry for that.

If the system has adequate backup space could keep 1 to 4 of the most 
recent backups similar to the way logrotate does it.


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>>also log rotation is a potential problem
>>with aolserver.
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> How does RedHat handle log rotation?
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Cron looks in /etc/cron.daily
               /etc/cron.hourly
               /etc/cron.weekly
               /etc/cron.monthly
and executes all the scripts listed there at the appropriate time

The routine log rotation is daily, and the script can be modified or a 
new script written to do the rotation.
/etc/logrotate.conf is where the individual packages are configured for 
rotation and a stanza can be written for each log file, or any files in 
/var/log that are owned by a package and have a config file in that 
directory can be tailored for our needs.

Specifically, what is the problem with aolserver and log rotation?
I can work that out if I know what you want. (and have either root 
access or sudo access)

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>>and setting up ssl.
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> It shouldn't be too hard to set up ssl. Just need to generate a key and set
> the options in the config file, IIRC.
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>>The main page needs a bugzilla link in the developers
>>section, and the events notices connected. We need a
>>privacy statement, a copyright statement, a mail list
>>page. Some modules are probably easy to set up and
>>useful -- class ad is one that comes to mind.
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> Some of this we can pull from the current site, the rest we'll have to sit
> down and draft ourselves.
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>>We need a link from the old website to the new one. (I've
>>written John Goerzen about this, and suggested some wording
>>if he'd be kind enough to do it.) We need the activities and
>>presentations people to start using the events system.
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> I don't know if John has done this. If I can find the time, I'll sit down
> and figure out how to do it myself.  It isn't hard, it just tends to be a
> bit obscure.
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>>I'd like to see a spec for the RSS news feed thing -- this
>>was on Dale's request list and is something he's been looking
>>into. I'm more interested in how it would be used than just
>>how to do it.
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> The "how" is that it would allow us to be a portal, perhaps people's home
> page, somewhere they come first to learn about what is going on in the Linux
> world. While the links do lead off site, we get the opportunity to show them
> what we have to offer first.
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> --dwh
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> Dale W Hodge - dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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