[Novalug] Admin help

Rich Goodwin Rich.Goodwin@cox.net
Sat Jan 8 17:51:27 EST 2011


That was one question asked of the group.  The Tux-Admins got together
after NOVALUG and we will update the LUGs on services actually being
used which might surprise some folks - like NTP, DNS, FTP.

Your question points out we need to communicate some things better.  For
that - Thanks.  Now I met a New years resolution .... be nice to
Jay!  ;-)

Rich

On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 14:39 -0500, Jay Hart wrote:

> Just as a devil's advocate, what can Tux.org do that I can't do for myself? 
> Why is it felt that tux.org needs to provide anything other than mail lists,
> and the meeting info stuff?
> 
> Jay
> 
> > In an "enterprise" with a budget, the solution is simpler using your
> > words - buy/hire more as the budget may allow.  We are not in that
> > situation.  Our solutions need to be far more creative.  We may
> > (emphasis on may) need more people to help since all are volunteers.  We
> > need to document - really document, so new volunteers can jump in as
> > needed.  We need to revisit everything we do and redesign/architect some
> > of what we do.
> >
> > You point to H/W - that is limited, rather limited... We need to think
> > far broader.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 02:41 -0500, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> >
> >> It's not clear how many resources/money you have, or how much data you
> >> have, or how fast it changes but....
> >>
> >> In the general case, the solution is really quite simple: duplicate
> >> hardware.
> >>
> >> More specifically, clone your disk.
> >>
> >> Don't mirror it realtime...use rsync.
> >>
> >> Given a pair of machines, rsync Host A's Disk 1 to Host B's Disk 2 and
> >> Host B's Disk 1 to Host A's Disk 2.
> >>
> >> JIM
> >>
> >> On 1/4/2011 7:48 PM, Rich Goodwin wrote:
> >>
> >> > Over the holidays there was an outage on GWYN.  Some of you may have
> >> > understood the impact - some may not.  Bottom line is we, tux.org,
> >> > had some issues that impacted services some in the community are
> >> > used to having.  The Tux Admins, normal folks who are willing to do
> >> > what they can to help are meeting Saturday after the NoVaLUG meeting
> >> > at Panera on Rt 7.  We need to talk about what happened and what can
> >> > be done to avoid future outages.
> >> >
> >> > We could really use help.  This is an opportunity to learn new
> >> > things and build up your resume.  If you can help, please let David
> >> > Lesher and/or I know.  Truly - any bit, regardless of how little,
> >> > will be a help.   The after lunch talk will give us all an
> >> > opportunity to figure out what we can do ...
> >> >
> >> > Rich Goodwin
> >> > tux.org
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