[Deskaheh-sysadmin] deskaheh status

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake finn c. (finn at animal-liberation.org.nz) [22/02/05 00:47]:
: I've fixed these, and noticed another problem - curl refuses to execute
: http://hamilton.indymeida.org/cronmaster.php [used as a master cron 
: executor]. Wget also fails. I've disabled hamilton's cronjob
: until we can sort out what is wrong.

What is the actual failure?

: I'll have to individually go through the cronjobs and see what is causing 
: the problem, and then reenable hamilton's cronjob. Good to have finally
: located the cause of the mysql stress though.

I can offer some help here: sounds like a bunch of grunt work.

: PHP:
: PHP was compiled manually by Ski, and is now in need of an upgrade for
: security. I'm not really familiar with FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the
: best way to upgrade it safely. Any help would be appreciated, I don't
: really want to break this. :) 

I've done a number of PHP upgrades.  I've never done a manual PHP install on
a FreeBSD machine, though, as the ports have always been sufficient for my
needs.

Are there any specific reasons as to why it was installed manually?

: Can anyone point me towards the mysql configuration? I've had a good
: poke around the system, and I can't find it anywhere. Does it exist?

Run 'locate my.cnf'.  I forget exactly where it is, but that's the
configuration file.

: There's probably a whole lot more tuning that could be done, but I'm not
: going to mess with anything that ain't broke. Someone with more
: experience may want to take a poke through the configs though.

I'll re-offer some help here.  I'm not terribly familiar with IMC-specific
code, but I'm pretty good with FreeBSD: I've been administering FreeBSD
systems (3.x, 4.x, 5.x, -CURRENT) for about four years now.  All I need is
an account...

  - Damian