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bringing a new grommit online

Sunday, Jul 10. 2005 – Category: Musings

i’m bringing up a new grommit box… this time running Solaris 10. so far, it’s been an…interesting experience. it’s definitely given me an appreciation for all the packaging efforts Red Hat has done into making sure RHEL/Fedora come with all the packages you could ever need.

i’m finding that Blastwave has almost all the packages i want, except that they’re always missing one or two things. Postfix is there… but without SASL support. PHP is there… but without Apache2 support.

sigh. so i’ve been compiling a lot of things from source. so far, i’ve got UW-Imap running imaps properly, Apache2+PHP+MySQL, and i’m very very close to having Postfix+SSL+TLS working.

those will have been the hardest parts. from here on, it should be easy stuff: SquirrelMail, SpamAssassin (slight trepidation there), Mailman, etc.

I’m thinking about installing WordPress and migrating the blogs over from MoveableType. I wonder how that will go…

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Geoff Arnold Says:
July 10th, 2005 at 08:05
Anything you need us grommit-dwellers to do? Or not do? And can we all put “Powered by Solaris” logos on our blogs when we’re done?
I’m not interested in moving off MovableType unless it’s guaranteed lossless. And MarsEdit will have to work. I’m rather fond of the notion of durable URLs, especially after watching the b.s.c fiasco. On the other hand I might be persuaded to move to MT3…..
steve Says:
July 10th, 2005 at 08:13
nope – everything should hopefully be transparent. i’m bringing it online here at home to test everything before i make the switch. the only things that come to mind that people will notice are:

1) SSL certificates will change (https/imaps/smtps)

2) shell users will have to update their profiles/rc-scripts to update their PATH so they get all the utilities they were used to

i’m hopeful that everything else should remain unaffected. and yes, you will then be able to put “Powered by Solaris” logos on the blogs

Geoff: not to worry, your blog is running off your own install of MT, so it will be untouched. everyone else on grommit uses a central installation of MT, which i’ll probably move over to the new box and keep. i’ll try migrating my own personal blog to WordPress to see how lossy/lossless the conversion is. once that’s done, I’ll still probably keep both around so people can stay with MT if they’re comfortable with it already.