Thank you, Eric.
Ansible is pretty nice:
http://www.ansible.com/get-started <http://www.ansible.com/get-started>
Seems to be a good balance between simplicity and power.
I will probably end up using it to manage my QMT host(s) if I can, so I may
document my experience here in due course.
Angus
> On Dec 11, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Eric <ebr...@whitehorsetc.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Angus,
>
> I've never tried Ansible, I'll have a look at it.
>
> CentOS 6 is still installed via Github. Look through the list and you can
> find the procedure to install it.
>
> For CentOS 6 updates use the WHTC repo: # rpm -Uvh
> ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/repo/qmt/CentOS/6/current/noarch/whtc-qmt-1-1.qt.el6.noarch.rpm
>
> <ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/repo/qmt/CentOS/6/current/noarch/whtc-qmt-1-1.qt.el6.noarch.rpm>
>
> As for CentOS 7 there are two methods:
>
> <method 1>
> 1) Install CentOS 7 minimal install (I install both options under
> minimal install. One is development tools and I can't remember the other).
> 2) curl ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_prep.sh
> <ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_prep.sh>
> >qt_prep.sh
> 3) sh qt_prep.sh (Automatic reboot)
> 4) sh qt_install.sh
> </method 1>
>
> Or
>
> <method 2>
> 1) Install CentOS 7 minimal install (I install both options under
> minimal install. One is development tools and I can't remember the other).
> 2) curl ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_prep.sh
> <ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_prep.sh>
> >qt_prep.sh
> 3) sh qt_prep.sh (Automatic reboot)
> 4) curl
> ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_grp_install.sh
> <ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_grp_install.sh>
> >qt_grp_install.sh
> 5) sh qt_grp_install.sh
>
> <ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/repo/qmt/CentOS/7/current/noarch/whtc-qmt-7-1.noarch.rpm></method
> 2>
>
> Eric Shubert is still the lead for QMT. I will continue to do packaging in
> his absence. Eventually, I'd like to move all the work that I've done to
> GitHub. There are many people using and updating CentOS 7 and have been since
> near the beginning of this year with success. I'd say that its stable.
>
> EricB
>
> On 12/11/2015 8:15 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote:
>> I’ve been running a QMT server on a CentOS 5 VPS for a while, and I’m now
>> looking to migrate it to a newer host.
>>
>> What’s the currently-preferred platform? CentOS 6, or CentOS 7? Are there
>> any other special requirements?
>>
>> Also, I know that in the absence of Eric Shubart, Eric Broch has been doing
>> all the heavy lifting and maintaining the RPMs. Is there a document anywhere
>> that describes the current step-by-step installation procedure using the
>> RPMs on whitehorsetc.com <http://whitehorsetc.com/>? Is it essentially
>> unchanged from before, or are there new things we need to know?
>>
>> Final question: has anyone tried using Ansible to manage a QMT install? I’ve
>> just started to play around with Ansible, and it seems like a well
>> thought-out tool, so I’m wondering how easy it would be to use to automate
>> the process of getting QMT up and running.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Angus
>>
>>
>
