Re: decommissioning parisc-linux.org

From: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
To: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, taggart@lackof.org, bame@riverrock.org
Subject: Re: decommissioning parisc-linux.org
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:16:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+DQjFhKZiuxcoHJYcpDBUJW3xNNTDQhfm=d3trWG3u8DARtXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120208143347.GB22903@dannf.org>

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM, dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> wrote:
> As Paul noted[1], parisc-linux.org was running a vulnerable
> apache which got the attention of HP's security audit team. I've been
> doing most of the maintenance of the OS on this machine for a while,
> but that has just meant apt-get upgrading when cron-apt told me to for
> a few years. Turns out apache-ssl was obsolete (an etch version!), so
> no amount of upgrading was going to fix that.
>
> At this point I've removed apache-ssl. I tried installing apache2 to
> see if any web pages would magically work - it didn't, so right now
> the website is 404 farm :( I didn't spend much time trying to handle
> that since.....
>
> parisc-linux.org is running the last stable release of Debian that
> supported hppa ('lenny'), and its life is now expired. As such, I
> think we really need to migrate the site to another maintained
> distribution and/or architecture. I'm willing to help migrate services
> for the next month or so - let's just say 2012.03.14 for a good round
> (heh) date - after which I plan to halt this system and let HP know
> the hardware can be put to other uses. From what I can tell, we
> originally installed this system almost exactly 9 years ago - ah,
> rememember its predecessor dsl2? Good times. Anyway -
>
> *************************************************************************
> *** If you need any data off this machine, now's the time to grab it! ***
> *************************************************************************
>
> If you'd like to take over longterm hosting the website/domain, please
> get in touch with taggart or I. If you'd like to continue using the
> machine and/or HP's network to do the hosting, I can probably find a
> contact for you there - though I wouldn't bet on it.
>
> In the meantime, if anyone wants to get the website working on apache2
> for the remainder of the system's lifetime, please let me know.

Hi Dann,

What's the status of @p-l.o email addresses? I'm receiving a fair bit
of email on this domain, and I think others do too, if we need to move
on elsewhere it'd be nice to have a little headstart... ;)

Thanks

T-Bone

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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/