[RULE] Athens server timing & logistics

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 18:14:57 PM +0300, Richard Kweskin
 rkwesk at hellug.gr  wrote: 
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:53:39 -0600
> "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> 
> > All I intended to communicate is that, in order to ensure that the
> > domain is accessible and modifiable (is that a word?) at all
> > times, that we should modify the contact information, or even
> > transfer it to another registrar where Marco can manage it freely.
> > 
> > The point is to ensure that I am not the only one able to make
> > changes to it. However, these changes can be made at any time and
> > will not affect functionality or operation in any way.
> 
> Hello All
> 
> I have returned to Athens, but others are returning in the next
> several days. A gathering has been scheduled for Saturday, Sept
> 10. It will be easiest for me to use the opportunity then so the
> transition from Guatemala to Greece can go ahead smoothly.

Thanks a lot! I will be out of town from monday sept 5th to sept 13th
included, but this should not slow down in any way your setup work.

WRT what Rodolfo said: I *understand* (more or less) the problem he
mentions, but I don't know in detail all the procedures to do what he
says. My best suggestion on this (pending advice from the contrary
from Rodolfo) is that you forward his whole original email to the LUG
guy in charge of setting up the server and transfer the domain. I'm
sure he'll understand Rodolfo better than us.

On to the other points:

> To start this off, it looks like mysql, php and CMS SPIP are
> required.

More in detail: spip 1.8.2 from www.spip.net. I forward to you any
requirement about specific versions of php and/or mysql after I've
asked directly to the spip developers.

> I presume that their use of Debian (most of the techies
> here seem to prefer it) is not an issue.

No, it shouldn't be.

> Also, the mailing list(s?) (in addition to our public list I seem
> to remember a reference to another list for website tech things.)
> Does it matter what software is running the list(s)?

What we must do to the mailing list is:

1) move all the archives of the this one to the new server
2) same as 1) for the archives of the first 2 years of the project,
   which are still hosted on the savannah.gnu.org server
3) subscribe automatically all the current users to the new server.

I will do 3) myself when everything else is working. To make 1)
simpler it would be easier is we use mailman as today (see footer to
all list messages...) but I don't think is mandatory. Doing
2)... we'll worry about that after anything else (assuming that's not
mailman too, I don't remember).

> Rodolfo has pointed out (above) the need to broaden the domain's
> (rule-project.org) primary access. Certainly Marco should be such a
> primary individual. Who else?

You mean access to the official records saying that
www.rule-project.org is at ip-address-soh-and-soh, or something else?
Probably the other contact should be either you or the actual LUG guy
who is the sysadmin over there. I'd ask his opinion on this too.

Oh, and of course I (and you, I'd say) will need an ssh account on the
server. On it, I'd just need bash, wget and perl, but they should be
there anyway.

I can't wait to get back on track. I have some interesting news on
mini-kde to upload.

Thanks again for your help.

-- 
Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/

They can't stop us... we're on a mission from God!
                -- The Blues Brothers

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