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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

John Howe writes:
 > I am working this weekend too, garr! Thanks for picking up my slack.

Shore thang!

 > > Hi there ibiblio folks,
 > >
 > > Our team happens to include two individuals with Unix sysadmin
 > > experience.  If you would be interested, we could begin development by
 > > doing a local install of the tools we need and run Zope on a high
 > > port.  This would allow us to begin development on ibiblio early on as
 > > well as get a better understanding/estimate of the sort of system
 > > resources necessary.  Later, if desired, Zope could be
 > > installed/integrated globally or simply started as root during init.
 > > Like any good server Zope will setuid() to 'nobody' or selected uid
 > > after binding the low port.
 > 
 > By default, Zope does run on a high port as a non-priviledged user. I use
 > apache as a front end using mod_rewrite and mod_proxy. Using this method
 > can also be used to pre-filter malicious content from getting to the Zope
 > instance in the first place ( Code Red, WebDAV scans, malicious payloads,
 > etc ).

Yup.  Eventually we may want to run it through ibiblio's apache
instead of ZServer (Medusa?) for all of the above reasons as well as
the performance gain.

 > On a side note, regarding the Bugzilla. They did mention we could run a
 > private instance of Bugzilla. The question is, how to get the CPAN
 > requirements installed ( there are quite a few ), and mysql access.

I suspect ibiblio is running MySQL for something and if not, given
sufficient quota we can do local installs.  I bet it would all fit
into less than 25 Meg.  Bugzilla is in Perl?

-- 
Chad Knepp
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