This is documentation for the typical tasks done to operate the organization.
Tasks for operating Lidmug
- Announce the meeting to the mailing list the day before the meeting
- At the start of the meeting, edit the front page of website to set date for next meeting
- During meeting, edit Meeting Minutes page to add minutes directly
- Approximately every two weeks, run 'yum update' on the server as root for security updates
- In between meetings, during the month add stories to the "Pending" stories available to discuss
(I find this easier than trying to prepare a list of stories a day or two before the meeting)
- Periodically update the PmWiki software on the server as a "wikifarm"
Instructions for how to do this are on the server in /usr/local/share/wikifarm/README.update
Steps:
- Download new PmWiki tarball
- Expand new PmWiki version via 'tar -xvf'
- 'chown -R root:root' the newly untarred PmWiki version
- Make softlink from 'pmwiki' to new version directory
- Periodically read "logcheck" email from Lidmug server to look for system log anomalies
- If there are logs being emailed that are not actionable such that they aren't terribly useful to see,
then edit logcheck filters in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local-<filename> to add filters
to filter out the messages
- If there is abuse occurring that needs to be mitigated via automatic firewall rules, then
add Fail2Ban rules into /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
- Periodically consider upgrading server OS and/or migrating the system to an updated OS
- CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise do not officially support OS upgrade-in-place,
whereas Debian-based OSes such as Debian and Ubuntu do
- Periodically examine email logs and consider whether additional email filtering is needed.
If so, add additional rules to /etc/exim/exim.conf and test email system to insure proper functioning
- Periodically update Dada Mail and make modifications to the software
to remove marketing added to outgoing emails
- Periodically update the Bitcoin node software and configure for "pruning" to reduce local storage used
- Periodically consider new functionality for the website
