This area is intended to be a place for the GNOME sysadmin team to provide information about the services and facilities provided for the GNOME community.
For more information about the GNOME sysadmin team, how we are organised and how to get involved, please see SysadminTeam.
Services
What we've got, how it works, and any ideas we've got to make them better.
Servers - Summary of the servers involved
CVSRepository - The master CVS repository
AnonymousCVS - The anonymous CVS mirrors
Subversion - The Subversion source code repository (not live yet).
Sysadmin/FTP/Service - The master FTP repository
Sysadmin/FTP/Mirrors - The FTP mirror service
Sysadmin/WebSites - Web sites hosted
MailSystem - Inbound e-mail service and anti-spam/anti-virus measures
MailingLists - GNOME Mailing Lists
Sysadmin/LDAP - Organisational user accounts and groups
DNSDomains - Domains registered and hosted
Databases - Our bases of data
RequestTracker - Our request/ticket tracking system
Sysadmin/Backups - How we back up the servers
GnomeWikis - About the wikis we host.
What we're working on and how far it's got.
ServiceMonitoring - The experimental Nagios setup intended to identify and notify us of service outages.
ServerInstallNotes - Documenting the steps to take on receiving a new server to make it an official 'GNOME' server.
SubversionMigration - Describes our attempts to get GNOME switched from CVS to Subversion.
Policies and procedures
Things for applicants to consider when requesting new accounts etc, and things for sysadmins to consider when processing them.
NewAccounts - Requesting an LDAP account for access to GNOME services.
NewSVNRepos - Requesting a new Subversion Repository.
NewListRequest - Requesting a new mailing list.
GnomeWeb/NewWebsites - Requesting hosting of a domain or website on GNOME servers.
NewEmailRequest - Requesting a '@gnome.org' e-mail address or alias (or any other domain hosted on menubar).
UpdatingSSHKeys - Requesting new SSH keys or updates/removal of existing SSH keys.
UpdatingEmailAddress - Requesting an update of the contact details for your account.
NewBlogRequest - Requesting a new account on blogs.gnome.org
Additional information/links:
AccountNameFAQ - Answers to commonly asked questions about the gnome.org account policy.
ProjectPrerequisites - Basic pre-requisites for projects seeking gnome.org resources (e.g. CVS/web/lists etc.).
Other
Related.
SubversionFAQ - Things you should probably know about Subversion.
CVSFAQ - How to investigate and resolve/report problems using CVS via SSH (redundant - 2006-07-14)
Who we are, how we do things and stuff you should know to help make GNOME sysadmin tasks run smoother.
Sysadmin/Contact - Ways of contacting the sysadmins
Sysadmin/Policies - Our policies and procedures
HelpingSysadmin - How you can help the sysadmin team
Sysadmin/ToDo - Stuff we know we need to get around to doing
SysadminIdeas - Things we (or you?) can think of that might improve our services
