On 11/09/2011 19:40, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > This period of time where we discuss migrations would be a good time for > us to discuss any wholesome changes we might like to implement. We can > start off with a new server and a clean slate instead of blindly > replicating the current setup and methods without any thought to it.
Hi Gerard, nice to hear from you again! I know it's always nice to 'eat your own dogfood' and all that, but for what amounts to a production server without, as far as I know, a dedicated admin, I'm not sure that putting an LFS build on it is the right thing to do. With a number of high-profile server compromises recently, I'd much rather I was able to ensure the relative security of the server by being able to do something like 'yum update' than having to keep abreast of software vulnerability announcements/fixes and then manually compiling and installing them. With the multiple uses that quantum is put to (I understand it has non-LFS related services running on it), I am wary of upgrading anything in case I break something for those users. Yes LFS folks, you can infer from that that I couldn't care less if I break stuff for you :) I realise that *.linuxfromscratch.org may not be on a hackers top priority list, but you never know where the next script kiddie may end up! Aside from that, apart from a general update of software like subversion and trac, I have no particular requirements of a new server. Hmm, maybe moving webmail access to https would be a nice to have. Unfortunately, I can't offer any assistance in terms of hardware hosting and such like, having no knowledge or experience of that. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
