Traven info page

Traven documents

• TravenConfig
• TravenSetUp
• TravenMirInstall
• TravenMirrors
• TravenEncryptedPartitions
• TravenNetConfig
• TravenMemUsage - memory use has been odd since Mir was upgrade in November 2005
• TravenBackUp - how backups are set up
• TravenHostedSites
• EgretInfo

Background on Traven

ImcUk along with others needed a new MiR publish server as KosmosInfo is overloaded and slow, other IMCs involved include Biotech (possibly), Euskal Herria and Poland. This has been discussed on lists for several months, with acceleration of the energies put into this since the Ahimsa Seizure in October 2004. Finally, a decision was made to host a server at a colo in Seattle: see the UkRiseupServer page for more info on the location and the hardware.

"The creative person should have no other biography than his works."

B Traven was the pseudonym of a truly international author: he wrote in German, lived in Mexico, had spent time in an English prison and travelled extensively in Europe. But most of all, he delighted in his anonymity - the quest for who he was has fascinated some people as much as his actual writings. His notions of anonymity and freedom of speech seem to fit well with the ideals of indymedia - and particularly of the open-publishing to be hosted on the new server.

Purpose

The purpose of this server is

To host MiR publishing sites for collectives that have gone through the NewImc process

To ask for a site to be hosted please email traven-process.

Hosted sites

In addition to the primary function of hosting Mir publishing sites the plan is to also host some mirrors of Mir sites, see TravenMirrors and TravenHostedSites for more info.

Contact

• Tech: traven-tech at lists.indymedia.org
• Process: traven-process at lists.indymedia.org
• Physical access: stefani at riseup.net

Lists

There are several email lists:

• traven-process -- non-tech things like which IMCs are hosted on the server etc
• traven-tech -- general tech stuff, this is an open list
• traven-logwatch -- for email from logwatch, this is a closed list

Stats

• Traven Munin Stats

Hardware

[copied from: UkRiseupServer]

• Supermicro Superserver 5014C-T 1U P4 LGA775 SATA server - download pdf of User's and Bios manual
• Hitachi 400GB SATA 150 7200RPM 8MB
• Intel Pentium 4 530 800Mhz FSB 3.0Ghz 1MB LGA775
• KINGSTON KVR4002N3/1G DDR 2 1 x 4 Standard 128M X 64 Non-ECC 400MHz 240-pin Unbuffered DIMM (SDRAM-DDR2, 1.8V, CL3) data sheet
• Remote power management card AOC-IPMI20-E
• 3ware 4 port 9500S-4LP RAID card
• motherboard: P8SCi with Intel E7221 chipset

• lshw.txt: lswh output 25 Oct 2005

Software

• debian 'sarge' (testing)
• TravenSetUp information (including final partitioning)

Reference links

• Server:
  • UkRiseupServer

• Traven:
  • Wikipedia
  • The Anarchist Encyclopedia
  • B. Traven info at the voice of the slug

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