Hi, we shipped one of the machines that HP had so graciously donated a while ago to Canada where UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering kindly agreed to host it. This machine, ravel.debian.org, will become the new people.debian.org machine, providing general shell services to DDs and the http://people.debian.org/~<user>/ webpages. We currently plan to switch the DNS entry late in September, details to be announced on the d-i-a list[1]. If you offer files on http://people.debian.org/~<user>/ that you wish to be available after the switch please make sure they are on ravel in their proper place in ~/public_html. We have a copy of most of gluck's /home filesystem as of a few days ago in /srv/gluck-home-2008-08 on ravel so you can just move the stuff from there to your new homedirectory and then do a quick rsync if stuff has changed (gluck still allows password based logins). Currently the userdirs on ravel are available at http://newpeople.debian.org/~<user>/. Once you are satisfied with the content on newpeople you can instruct apache on oldpeople to redirect requests to the new place. On gluck do the following: echo "RewriteEngine on" > ~/.public_html/.htaccess echo 'RewriteRule ^(.*) http://newpeople.debian.org/~'$USER'/$1 [R,L]' >> ~/.public_html/.htaccess The webserver on ravel will only serve static pages. Gluck's apache did PHP but a survey done by DSA showed that it is not really needed except in one or two instances (and those really are not people.d.o stuff but rather frontends for the services that happen to also live on gluck). The rationale behind this is obviously an attempt to gain a little security from badly written and/or completely unmaintained scripts (how about a nice gallery install from around 2003, never updated since?). Once the move has been completed we expect to make gluck restricted to the people operating the services that will remain on gluck, so please clean out your homedir when you no longer need it there. Ravel is a freshly installed system so there probably are a few packages missing that you might need. Please contact DSA at the debian-admin mailinglist with requests. Also, ssh logins are restricted to key based logins, password based logins are not allowed. Submit your keys to ldap as documented on http://db.debian.org/. Of the services currently running on gluck we expect to move at least cvs.debian.org also to ravel. The future of the other services is not yet decided. We also do not at this point know what we'll do with BSMTP. For DSA, weasel 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/
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