wiki:PuffinServer

Version 30 (modified by chris, 4 years ago) (diff)

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Table of Contents

  1. Munin Stats
  2. Console Access
  3. Barracuda Octopus Ageir
    1. Upgrading BOA
    2. CSF / LDF
  4. Backupninja
  5. Postfix
  6. Nginx
  7. Handy commands
    1. Vim config
  8. Migration Tickets

Puffin

puffin.webarch.net is a 4GB RAM, 14 CPU core Debian Squeeze virtual server which replaced NewLiveServer and DevelopmentServer for running the ​Transition Network Drupal sites. It went live in early 2013.

It was agreed to call this server puffin at the ttech meeting on 22nd November 2012, see ticket:463. The install and initial configuration of this server was tracked on ticket:466, see also the other PuffinServer#migrationtickets. Other services from the old server were migrated to PenguinServer.

Munin Stats

There are munin stats for the server available here

Console Access

There is a Xen shell available for console access, see wiki:XenShell.

Barracuda Octopus Ageir

The server is using ​Octopus to manage ​Ageir and also the updates to the Transition Network Drupal site, this system is installed and upgraded using ​Barracuda, the Barracuda Octopus Aegir combination is documented on the ​BOA wiki.

The BOA install script output has been saved on ticket:466#comment:22

Upgrading BOA

The steps are documented in ​UPGRADE.txt, see an example of running an upgrade on ticket:466#comment:25 and ticket:529.

To upgrade everything run these commands, this process can take around 30 mins: 

wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt
bash BOA.sh.txt
barracuda up-stable
octopus up-stable all

CSF / LDF

BOA installs ​CSF / LDF and automatically blocks IP addresses after too many failed SSH login attempts, if someone is blocked who shouldn't be then they can be unblocked like this: 

csf -dr 12.34.56.78

To check if a IP address is blocked: 

csf -g 12.34.56.78

Backupninja

backupninja has been installed and configured to backup to another server in the Sheffield colo, three backup tasks have been configured in /etc/backup.d/, 10.sys which does backups of system settings, like all the packages installed, 20.mysql which dumps all the mysql databases into /var/backups/mysql and uses /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for authentication and finally 90.rdiff which is set to backup all these directories: 

include = /var/spool/cron/crontabs
include = /var/backups
include = /var/aegir
include = /etc
include = /root
include = /home
include = /usr/local/
include = /var/lib/dpkg/status*
include = /opt
include = /srv
include = /data
exclude = /home/*/.gnupg
exclude = /home/*/.local/share/Trash
exclude = /home/*/.Trash
exclude = /home/*/.thumbnails
exclude = /home/*/.beagle
exclude = /home/*/.aMule
exclude = /home/*/gtk-gnutella-downloads
exclude = /var/cache/backupninja/duplicity

Postfix

Two changes were made the the default postfix install, it was set to send root emails out, see ticket:466#comment:23 and it was configured to use TLS with the transition network cert, see ticket:466#comment:25.

Nginx

The only changes made to the default nginx configuration was to move the key and cert it was using out of the way and symlink to the *.transitionnetwork.org ones, see ticket:466#comment:25.

Handy commands

There are some Bash aliases to quickly get around the system added by JK...

For root: 

alias cdtn='cd /data/disk/tn/' # cd to tn directory
alias totn='su -s /bin/bash tn' # log into the tn user

# show file usages
alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'

For tn 

alias la='ls -Al --color=auto'
alias lc='ls -ltcr --color=auto'
alias lk='ls -lSr --color=auto'
alias ll='ls -la --group-directories-first --color=auto'
alias lr='ls -lR --color=auto'
alias ls='ls -hF --color=auto'
alias lt='ls -ltr --color=auto'
alias lu='ls -ltur --color=auto'
alias lx='ls -lXB --color=auto'

Vim config

To make vim the default editor for root the following was added to /root/.bashrc: 

export EDITOR="vim"

To make config files nicer to read in vim the following was added to /root/.vimrc: 

syntax on

And a /root/.vim/filetype.vim files was created with the following in it: 

au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/mysql/my.cnf, set ft=mycnf
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/php5/fpm/* set syntax=dosini
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile /opt/local/etc/php53-fpm.conf set syntax=dosini
au BufRead,BufNewFile /etc/nginx/*,/etc/nginx/conf.d/*,/var/aegir/config/server_master/nginx/*/* set ft=nginx
au BufRead,BufNewFile /data/disk/tn/config/server_master/nginx/vhost.d/* set ft=nginx

And a /root/.vim/syntax/ directory was created and mycnf.vim was created in it by downloading it from ​http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/packages/vim-syntax-mycnf/ and nginx.vim was downloaded from ​http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1886

Migration Tickets

Tickets created during the migration of the ​http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ site from NewLiveServer to this server: