Moving the mailing lists to a different machine would be fairly easy to do. The only troubles that might arise (that I foresee) are these: * We have limited rack space in the colo. All of our current servers are either 1U or 2U rackmount servers. A standard tower-type server would be a bit of a squeeze in there... * we are almost out of IP addresses in our current block of allocated IPs, I don't recall how easy it is for us to have another block routed to our cage. * our remote power control unit is nearly full. This is currently our only means of rebooting a machin that has lost internet connectivity (aside from a 200 mile drive by your truly). Of course, this isn't necessarily a deal-breaker, just a thought. If anybody has a IP based KVM switch available... :) * come to think of power, I'm not sure how many watts we have going into that cage either. Of course, this is also something that can be fixed if our current setup doesn't have enough power. That's my piece... Jason Richey Daniel Mayer wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:00 am, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote: > > aparently, the wikipedia server is down. This hasn't been reported on the > > list, although this might have been because the email server is down too. > > You might be surprised to know that the Wikipedia encyclopedia and the > Wikipedia mail server are both on the same box. > > Could all the mailing lists work just fine on a separate cheapo AMD K6-II 500 > MHZ Linux box with two 4 gig hard drives, 256MB of SDRAM and a couple network > cards? If so, I hereby donate such a dinosaur to serve as a mail server (of > course I'll have to test these components to see if they still work so the > specs may change - somebody else will have to configure the mail server part > though). > > Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't > exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia. > > -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:40:12AM -0700, Jason Richey wrote: Linux can be set up to use a serial console. The most PCs still have two serial ports. If you assign the console to port A, port B can be used to access the console of another server. Having two servers would allow us to set them up in this way. If the web server hangs with "Give root password for system maintenance mode" you can connect to the server using e.g. minicom and fix it. High-End solution would be the use of a terminal server, but this is much more expensive, uses rack space and require an additional IP. KVM's are for windows users ... :-) Regards, JeLuF _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l