1. Outpost info

Outpost is hosted at Tech.Coop to have a DNS server on a subnet different than our primary subnet.

It was previously a 64-bit OS, also at Tech.Coop, but hosted in UK @ Bytemark.

Now it is in the US and is a 32-bit Debian lenny.

1.1. Xen console

ssh to xen-seven.tech.coop as user hcoop

1.2. General Information

• Hostname : outpost
• Distribution : lenny
• Partitions : swap 1024mb (swap)
• / 10g (ext3)
• Image type : full
• Memory size : 512mb
• Kernel path : /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686
• Initrd path : /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-686

1.3. Networking Information

• IP Address 1 : 74.115.254.28 [MAC: 00:16:3E:5F:79:E6]
• Netmask : 255.255.255.224
• Broadcast : 74.115.254.31
• Gateway : 74.115.254.1

1.4. Access info

Login/pw are in standard HCoop password stash.

2. Setup Notes

2.1. Domtool

• Replaced outpost_ip in hcoop.dtl

• Readded outpost.hcoop.net (no other subdomains)

• Was not added as a nodeIp yet

2.2. Basic Packages

• Did not install lm-sensors, hdparm

• Also installed: emacs (ClintonEbadi is utterly incapable of using vi effectively), screen (for performing all admin work in a way that will survive connection loss), and build-essential

2.3. Basic Configuration

• Added root: logs@hcoop.net to /etc/aliases.

• Did not run any fs tuning operations
• Did not set sources.list to use peer1 mirror (for obvious reasons)

• Did not remove /opt (other lame directories were not present)

• Did not replace the kernel (naturally)
• Added lenny-backports to sources.list

2.4. OpenAFS

• Built openafs-modules-source from backports (1.4.12) using module-assistant

• Installed openafs clients and kerberos from backports

  apt-get install -t lenny-backports openafs-client openafs-krb5 kstart krb5-user
  dpkg -i /afs/megacz.com/pub/software/libnss-afs/libnss-afs_1.10_i386.deb  # saw nowhere else to get this!

  • Kerberos is only 1.6, but mire is running an older version.

  • Verified kinit && aklog work after reboot

2.5. Authentication

• Left PAM and nsswitch with stock configuration as the instructions appear to not be particularly applicable anymore given the configuration of fritz.

• Did not setup login.restrict (pending resolution of what to do about accounts / kerberos / nss &c)

• Did not create host principal for ssh
• Did not enable sudoers yet

2.6. Miscellaneous

• Set proper search domain in resolv.conf and added deleuze as a name server, but left the other two tech.coop DNS servers

• Setup hcoop-clean-tmp cron job

• Replaced exim with ssmtp based upon the configuration on mire

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