[arch-general] General Linux Server Information Available

[Andrei Thorp]

Nice to hear about yet another convert :)

-AT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Jonathan Brown <jbssfl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Very nice-
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> btw are you related to Kyle Rankin of Linux Journal?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>
> To: Archlinux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:51:51 AM
> Subject: [arch-general] General Linux Server Information Available
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> Listmates,
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>    Just a general point of interest. Over the past 4-5 months, as time permits, I
> have made an effort to put up a site to capture some of the Linux notes, tips,
> etc.. that I have squirreled away over the years and make that information
> available to anyone that it might help. The site is 3111skyline.com and the
> top-level menu entries of interest are "openSuSE Howtos" and "Linux Tips &
> Tricks". Regardless of the main tab title "openSuSE Howtos", there is a bunch
> of stuff that applies to Linux in general, like the "openSuSE Server Setup"
> page, etc.., they are general enough to apply to any distro.
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>    Like tonight, I was using that page to setup and secure mysql, etc.. on Arch.
> The link to the "raw" information that has not been formatted into web pages is
> the "Linux Download Dirs..." link under the "Linux Tips & Tricks" menu. That is
> just a link to the directories for the website that has +Indexes enabled so you
> can just pick around and browse. There is a fairly cool collection of
> wallpapers, etc. in the directories that are not listed in the menus.
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>    Additionally, the complete 3-Column layout for the website itself has been
> packaged and made available for anyone who has thought about setting up a site
> themselves and wants a "go-by" to use to see how things work or to tear apart
> and take the useful/interesting parts from.
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>    All of the information is available under GPL3 (except for family photos, etc.
> that should be secured), so if any of the information would be useful to add to
> the Arch wiki, feel free to grab it and just copy and paste it to the wiki. I
> will try to add useful information to the Arch wiki, as time permits.
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>    Right now the site is hosted/mirrored on two openSuSE boxes sitting in my
> house. (I just change the external routing between the two depending on which
> one I am working on at the time) I am working to get my Arch install up and
> running on one of the boxes, so as soon as I pick through the apache configs
> and get apache and ssl configured on the Arch box, the site will be hosted there.
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>    That's it. No questions in this post. Just hopefully some help for anyone that
> can use some of the information I have squirreled away;-)
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