Servers_Management

The LDP uses several servers. On nov 10, 2008, we have gabber (mailing lists), Reggae (wiki) and an account on ibiblio (tldp.org)

Reggae

Reggae (Reggae.metalab.unc.edu) is a virtual server built onto an IBM Hardware owned by the LDP and stored in the unc (University Of North Carolina at Chappel Hill, Ibiblio home, thanks to them).

If you have to become an admin of the wiki server (not to be confused with an admin for the wiki itself), ask on the discuss or staff list. You will be allowed to use ssh and sftp/fish. You will need an ssh passphrase and a local passwd. Then you can access root permission by "sudo su -".

• a inside infos (insides of the wiki install) for wiki server admin details

This page is closed (read/write only by admins) because it may hold sensible infos. I will use it also to hold detailed info about gabber and ibiblio account (jdd, october 2008).

Gabber

Gabber is a vserver, like reggae. It holds the mailing lists. Same system as Reggae.

This page is closed (read/write only by admins) because it may hold sensible infos. I will use it also to hold detailed info about gabber and ibiblio account (jdd, october 2008).

Ibiblio account

To access this account, you have to ask for using the ibiblio help form. You will be allowed an account with the group "ldp". You may access this account with ssh (simple passwd) or sftp/fish.

ssh <your login>@login.ibiblio.org

Your account will be at

/export/sunsite/users/<login>

And the ldp Web site is at:

/public/vhost/t/tldp/ (http://tldp.org)

But some other part is also at

/public/html/pub/linux/docs/ (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/)

(making a soft link to these folders in your account is a good idea).

The managing scripts are in the respective admins accounts, and this don't makes it easy to use them.

For example the scripts managing the subscribed docbook documents are here:

/export/sunsite/users/gferg/toolroot/ldp*

tldp.org

It's on ibiblio (see upper). Most pages are managed by hand. They have to be static, because the number of mirrors we have with various configs.

The best way to manage them is to copy the site locally (copy/paste with Konqueror, using fish protocol, to your own computer), modify the page locally and copy the new page to the web site.

Note that some pages are very old and have a wrong group (users or even linux). One have to *delete* these pages and copy the new one after that, because modifying them is not allowed directly.

Sam Varshavchik <mrsam AT courier-mta.com> is the maintainer for the http://tldp.org/manpages/ folder (and the ones under) ("I have a script that runs once a day from cron. It checks kernel.org for new tarballs, downloads them to the manpages directory, and updates the version file.") said sam.