Server Administration¶

Platform hosting¶

• BDI-Wiki: How to setup a new CDM Server instance on EDIT Production
• CdmSearchIndexMaintenance
• Phycobank cdm-server on edit-production

Redmine¶

• Update Redmine

mysql¶

• MySQL FAQ and trouble shooting
• MySQL Maintenance Scripts
• MySql character set and collation

Drupal¶

• DrushTricks
• DrupalAdministrationWithDrush
• Updating Drupal multisite installations with Drush
• CdmDataportalRestoreDumps
• Multilingual set up of the Data Portal

Mail¶

• Exim 4 README at /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz
• Most files that control the default configuration are documented in the exim4-config_files(5) man page,
• Very extensive Upstream documentation: /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz
• exim4 cheatsheet
• Discard mail with exim4 using :blackhole: : define noreply: :blackhole: in /etc/aliases in
• How to configure local email addresses for integration testing, see #7280 for an example

Linux other topics¶

• how to rescan a scsi bus without rebooting
• Linux klonen mit rsync
• Install vmwaretools
• Server Monitoring Tools and Tips
• Server Backup and Rescue
• Securing a Linux Server
• Install the latest Oracle JDK on Debian Linux
• Downgrade php5.3 to php5.2 on Debian squeeze
• Install php5.3 to php5.2 in parallel

Logical Volumes¶

• sichern-und-wiederherstellen-von-lvm-partitionen-mit-lvm-snapshots
• how to rescan a scsi bus without rebooting
• extend a logical volume by adding a new disk