staughton.indypgh.org Info Page

Staughton is named after the US Labor and Civil Rights activist Staughton Lynd.

update

NOTE: the pentium pro system described below has been retired, after four years of dutiful service. (this took place gradually during the first half of 2007) its spirit lives on, but the information below is for historical purposes only.

old information:

Contact Information

• staughton is hosted by the Pittsburgh IMC (http://indypgh.org) and maintained by techs from pittsburgh and other IMCs. Pittsburgh techs can be reached at tech@indypghSTOPSPAM.org
• email staughton-tech-subscribe@lists.indypghSTOPSPAM.org to join the mailing list for this server. all hosted IMCs and sysadmins are welcome. see http://lists.indypgh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/staughton-tech for more info.

Hardware

• DEC Case/motherboard
• dual Pentium Pro CPUs at 200MHz
• 160MB RAM
• disks (old, donations welcome):
  • hda: FUJITSU MPC3032AT, ATA DISK drive
  • hdb: Maxtor 4D080H4, ATA DISK drive
• eth0 is a Digital DS21143 Tulip. connected via crossover cable to Walesa^?, the db server.
• eth1 is a 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx (aka xl). connected to the Internet via netgear 10/100 switch.

Software

• staughton runs debian linux (stable)
• webserver is apache 1.3.26-0.dotdeb.1, php version 4.3.10-1.dotdeb.0
• IMC sites are running sf-active (v0.94)
• rss_fetch.pl and associated perl libraries installed (see http://staughton.indypgh.org/~ski/us.htm for example)

Hosted indymedia sites

• http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org
• http://neworleans.indymedia.org
• http://cleveland.indymedia.org
• http://puertorico.indymedia.org
• http://valparaiso.indymedia.org
• http://miami.indymedia.org
• http://print.indymedia.org

Statistics

• http://staughton.indymedia.org/~toups/mrtg/
• http://greenbike.indypgh.org/munin/indypgh.org/staughton.indypgh.org.html
• webalizer is also available (note that like other IMC sites, staughton's IMCs do not log IP addresses in webserver logs)

Backups

• rsync
  • /www each morning to greenbike at 5AM local time (EST, GMT-5)
  • less frequently to friendship
  • soon: sdimc mutual backup arrangement

-- MattToups - 25 Dec 2003

• squid.conf: this is a sample squid conf which can be used to accelerate/mirror content on staughton. currently works with squid 2.6.4 -- mtoups 2006/11/11