Sysadmin To-Do List

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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Editing This Page 2 New Issues 3 The List 3.1 Legend 3.2 General 3.3 Accounts 3.4 Machine-Specific 4 Completed Items

Introduction

Just a place to keep track of all the network breakages we're aware of.

Editing This Page

Members are encouraged to report problems in the New Issues section; reported issues will be moved to the To-Do list as appropriate by the sysadmin(s). This is mainly so that we don't end up with a messy to-do list full of duplicate issues if, say, a small crowd of new members find they can't figure out how to work Pine, etc.

New Issues

• Replace "Password" with "Advantage Card"
  • Modify /phatdisk/httpd/html/register/register.php (lines 66-70, 114, 123) to refer to "advantagecard" instead of "password"
  • Add a new column called "advantagecard VARCHAR(20)" to the "people" table inside the "liedra" database.
  • Perform similar task to add "Advantage Card expiry" field to form and database
• Minutes Organisation
  • Merge the /phatdisk/httpd/html/minutes and /phatdisk/httpd/html/affairs/minutes directories, and update the includes in each to point to the right location,
  • OR, enter all from the above into the wiki and remove both directories.

The List

Legend

Priority (from highest to lowest): VH - H - M - L - VL

General

• (M) Progsoc mailing list archives are missing and don't appear to be updating.
• (H) Setup phobos to take over from orgo.
• Web
  • (M) Update 404 (and possibly other error pages) to point to the wiki, instead of the old site.
• ProgSoc Wiki
  • (L) Admin Groups
• (H) Automated failover
• (L) Setup training gear (Cisco)
• (L) Configure Trogdor

Accounts

• (L) Modify regd to auto-add new members to the DB
• (L) Modify shell.py & regd to accept all DB fields
• (L) Web Interface to manage DB entries
• (L) Add missing accounts
• (L) Lock unpaid accounts
• (L) Add order-by-expire to web interface

Machine-Specific

• Orgo Mk1
  • (M) Investigate stability issues

• Phobos
  • (M) Backups of machine configurations
  • (M) Replication (LDAP, Phatdisk)

• Incubus
  • (L) Kernel (3.6)

• Succubus
  • (H) Postfix

• Eidolon
  • (L) Soundcard

• Macs
  • Mysterious problems with NFS on:
    • Kali
    • Rani

Completed Items

• Installed Solaris on Trogdor (awaiting configuration)
• Fixed SSH logins on Eidolon
• Fixed SSH logins on Geryon
• Fixed home directories on Geryon
• Set up new Alpha server (the box sitting in the middle of the room for the last two months)
  • PAM and LDAP configuration now added to the Alpha server