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 Changeover

This is about making the new system usable and (eventually) forgetting the old.

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Check that changing the key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts in the Cygwin environment allows ssh and startxwin to connect to the new system. Create ~/.ssh/known_hosts.new with the new key so that the two files are swappable according to which system is actually running.

Start working through any outstanding reminders which should precede the actual changeover (mostly recorded in BLFS and Other Software) - most can be left until actually needed.

Saturday, September 02, 2017

After another break, time to get into the changeover properly. This will be lots of bits and pieces that need recording in case of future problems.

• Full yakup backup of host (and copy to external drive).
• Stop the notmuch new cron job on host.
• Do a notmuch dump on host and copy to external drive.
• Install exim bootscript - exim will run from now on.
• getmail
  • Create /var/spool/getmail/log
  • Test each getmailrc.* - all OK
  • Copy getmail's crontab from host.
  • Include in logrotate.conf
• leafnode/slrn
  • Copy /etc/leafnode/config from host.
  • Copy /etc/leafnode/filters from host.
  • slrn works.
  • fetchnews works (immediate).
• Fix timezone in /etc/php.ini and restart php-fpm.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

• leafnode/slrn
  • Create cron jobs for fetchnews and texpire.
• DAViCal
  • Unable to log in - need change to httpd.conf so that php-fpm can receive authorisation headers:

            <Directory "/usr/share/davical/htdocs">
                AllowOverride None
        +       CGIPassAuth On
                Options None
                Options FollowSymLinks
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
                Require all granted
            </Directory>
    

  (this is not well documented!)
• incron
  • Copy incrontab files from host.
• postgresql
  • Install bootscript.

Monday, September 04, 2017

• samba
  • Add all users as per host, check that access works from all Windows PCs.
• mhonarc
  • Needed to remove some defined(%hash) (seem to remember doing this on a past occasion).
• httpd
  • /cgi-bin/ not working, further changes to httpd.conf:

             <IfModule !mpm_prefork_module>
            -       #LoadModule cgid_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_cgid.so
            +       LoadModule cgid_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_cgid.so
             </IfModule>
    
             <Directory "/usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin">
                 AllowOverride None
                 Options None
                 Options FollowSymLinks
            +    SetHandler cgi-script
                 Order allow,deny
                 Allow from all
                 Require all granted
             </Directory>
    

  • Copy/relink /var/lib/httpd/cgi-bin files from host.
• xapian-omega
  • Set up /var/lib/omega as on host.
  • Use copydatabase --no-renumber to update newsgroups database.
• fcron
  • Transfer remaining crontab files from host.
• Fix syslogd and logrotate configs.

Tuesday, September 05, 2017

• Copy /usr/bin/rem2html from host.

Wednesday, September 06, 2017

• notmuch
  • Do notmuch dump for tags, then rescan email collection (so database is now xapian glass instead of xapian chert).

New system now in use!

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