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migration checklist

Monday, Sep 5. 2005  –  Category: Computers, OpenSolaris, OpenSource

Having learned from my migration of grommit.com from Linux to Solaris 10… here is a checklist for future migrations. Written down mainly as a record for myself, but hopefully it will be of use to someone else too.

Web:

• Apache/Apache2 SSL certificates/keys
• Gallery pam_auth PAM module
• SquirrelMail cp -rf/var/{lib|spool}/squirrelmail
• Webalizer Usage Tracker
• Uptime Daemon (ud)
• Planets (planet grommit, planetidentity)
• MoveableType
• WordPress see mySQL
• MySQL mysqldump
• PHP see [1] footnotes for configure flags
• __modrewrite_

Mail:

• imaps SSL certs/keys
• smtp/tls
• saslauthd
• Postfix
• pop3s
• Mailman migrate archives, list data, and subscriber lists
• SpamAssassin migrate user’s Bayesian token databases
• Fetchmail for user’s who want fetched pop mail

Other:

• Python needed for Planet
• Perl CPAN goodness for donuthore.pl
• identd IRC
• rsync directories rsync -avzx
• smf(5) SMF manifests for mailman, mysql, ud
• __pamauth_ PHP PAM authentication module, used for gallery
• cron jobs webalizer, jesse’s planworld mirrour, planet updates