[Arm-dev] Three in production - Re: Progress on C7-armv7

Fri Feb 10 15:09:02 UTC 2017

No German understood here.  I'm dyslexic and had a hard enough time with 
English...

Give me FORTRAN.   :)

On 02/10/2017 09:26 AM, arm_ml at rirasoft.de wrote:
> Am 2017-02-10 15:09, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>> Andreas,
>>
>> On 02/10/2017 08:56 AM, Andreas Reschke wrote:
>>> Am 10.02.2017 um 14:38 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>>> Maybe not so much to brag about, but I now have 3 Cubieboard2 servers
>>>> running Centos7-armv7.
>>>>
>>>> Medon    Webserver
>>>> Rigel        Internal DNS
>>>> Onlo        External DNS
>>>>
>>>> I am leaving Valeria and Merido alone for now, as they are test 
>>>> systems.
>>>>
>>>> Next is my mailserver.  I will see how far I can get without
>>>> perl-Log-Log4perl; please fix its dependencies soon!
>>>>
>>>> The other item I need to work with for the mailserver, is do I keep it
>>>> on the 2-core CubieTruck, or do I get a 4-core CubieTruck Plus. 
>>>> avmavis
>>>> really beats up those 2 cores.  Sometimes imap clients suffer.  If I
>>>> could limit avmavis to 3 cores, that would leave one always available
>>>> for other important tasks.
>>> Hello Robert,
>>> I've a running a Cubietruck 3 with CentOS as a Web-, Mail-, and
>>> Nexcloudserver for my family.
>>> Software:
>>> CentOS incl. EPEL: apache, mariadb, postfix, dovecot, amavis, clamav,
>>> spamassin, mailgraph
>>> from Fedora:fail2ban
>>
>> Do you use postfixadmin?
>> I run a virtual mail environment for a few domains.
>> I also have roundcube that is occasionally used. (my daughter in
>> Manchester UK, and my son in Baltimore)
>> You have spamassassin, mailgraph and fail2ban that I do not have.
>>
>> I would be interested in seeing your configuration steps.  I have used:
>>
>> http://www.campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php/LinuxServersCentOS/Cent6VirtMailServer 
>>
>>
>> As my guide in the past.
>
> Yes, my enviroment is nearly the same. The basic Howto I've used is from
> https://dokuwiki.nausch.org/doku.php/centos:mail_c7:mta_1
>
> (all in German language)
>
> I've searchd the missing rpms at normal CentOX (noarch) and EPEL. Only 
> fail2ban comes from Fedora
>
> Nextcloud: I must stay at 10.0.3 (stable) because of PHP 5.4
>
>>
>> What I see on the current CubieTruck RSEL6 setup (running for a couple
>> of years now) is that 2 instances of amavis are going, checking out
>> the mail, and pretty much pegging the CPUs (as reported by top).
>> Meanwhile, at times when I go to send mail from Thunderbird, it
>> reports it is waiting on my mailserver.  I assume that the server is
>> too busy at the moment to take the mail.
>>
>> Right now I am going to write up all I have done for a basic Cubie
>> Centos7 setup.
>>
>> Separately I would like to learn a bit about nextcloudserver.  I run a
>> ClearOS6 Samba server here.  I am looking for alternatives, but
>> serving MS shares with client login is needed.
>>
>>>
>>> There isn't any problem with the RAM or CPU
>>>
>>>> On 02/07/2017 01:03 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>> I switched medon.htt-consult.com to another Cubieboard2; I took 
>>>>> one of
>>>>> my test systems (which was off anyway, the middle one of the tower),
>>>>> put the C7 uboot mSD and HD, and booted up.  I also switched over to
>>>>> the new kernel.  So far it has been up for 6 hours, longer than
>>>>> before.  We will see how it goes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have set up a DNS server and letting it 'sit' for 24 hours to test
>>>>> for stability (not crashing).  This is an internal DNS server
>>>>> (rigel.htt-consult.com).  If all is well tomorrow I will put it into
>>>>> production, and start on migrating the production DNS server
>>>>> (onlo.htt-consult.com).  And I have to learn how to config DNSSEC...
>>>>>
>>>>> I am holding off on any more work on the mailserver replacement
>>>>> (z9m9z.htt-consult.com) until my one epel  dependency is fixed. The
>>>>> delay 'buys' me some time to figure out if I will buy a Cubie5 (4
>>>>> core) for the new server.  avmavis regularly eats up 2 core on my
>>>>> current RSEL6 mailserver.
>>>>>
>>>>> So progress.  Thanks for the code to make this possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Arm-dev mailing list
>>>>> Arm-dev at centos.org
>>>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Arm-dev mailing list
>>>> Arm-dev at centos.org
>>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
>>> Greetings
>>> Andreas
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Arm-dev mailing list
>>> Arm-dev at centos.org
>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Arm-dev mailing list
>> Arm-dev at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
>
> Greetings
> Andreas
> _______________________________________________
> Arm-dev mailing list
> Arm-dev at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
>