Installed Nagios on Alvis today. This way if Kulshan crashes, we will still receive alerts. The setup is almost identical. Got the cgi stuff working though so you can view cool pictures via the web interface.
First configured Sendmail on polaris today, and then decided to configure Postfix. Currently using Postfix. Seems to work pretty good so far. I can optionally use polaris to receive alerts from both Alvis & Kulshan, since currently Kulshan is our only mail server (i.e. if Kulshan crashes, mail reports are useless).
Also need to take a look at the configuration to make sure it will indeed text me when certain things happen. Maybe test it or something too.
I have started to put together a list of some of the things that need to be accomplished over the summer. Most of the list, at this point, is very general. Right now, everything works, but in an unorganized fashion. So some of our summer plans include cleaning up Kulshan, Odin, Vidar, etc. and the services they offer.
- Migrate Kulshan ?? – Possibly FreeBSD
- Upgrade Firewalls -—> OpenBSD 3.7
- Upgrade Depts – currently running 5.4-PRERELEASE
- Set up firewalls on servers for individual services
- Better backups
- Simple cleaning
– remove unused software, upgrade software, remove old accounts, clean filesystems, clean logs, organize backups, etc.
- Secure mail – we want secure SMTP kthx.
- Logging – already been working on cleaning up log stuff but continue
There was also talk of cleaning up the backend code but I am no code ninja so I’ll let the programmers decide what kind of changes need to be done as far as ipreg code goes.
Concert Saturday night was a blast. Went crazy during Academy, and then relaxed for Mae. When I was sitting up against the wall listening to Mae the lead singer for Academy Is walked up and was talking to some people so I shook his hand and asked him how long they’ve been around. He says 1 or 2 years.
Chance and like 6 of his friends drove up from New Mexico on their way to Alaska to work. Talked to him a bit; still Chance but more mature I guess?
Didn’t do much else this weekend. Got FreeBSD set up fine. Using xfce4 now. I still need to figure out what’s up with the ext2fs partition (/data) because it keeps causing problems everytime I reboot. Hopefully manually unmounting it will help. I also need to read the guide to securing BSD because I’m not really familiar with it.
Installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE last night. Didn’t get much sleep; skipped class today. Think I’m doing alright in school though anyway.
FreeBSD is pretty cool. A long time ago when I used it I was too young to appreciate it. Took me a while to figure out how it’s working but I think I’m getting it.
Installed gnome (took forever!), xfce (which I now use), mysql, wordpress, php, apache2, and so on. It’s kind of nice to set up a box even though it takes quite a bit of time.
Caught up on some work e-mail and added/modified some new accounts. Pretty tired now.