Services

From Freehackers

This page described the services on freehackers.org, and how to access or use them. Both for casual users and from a sysadmin point of view.

[edit] Users

Whenever you get an account (say, "login") on freehackers.org, you automatically get the following:

• ssh access with "ssh login@freehackers.org"
• Home dirs are located on a RAID-1 array.
• A homepage www.freehackers.org/~login : You need to create a ~/public_html, and tell me about it, because we use a virtual server for web hosting and this won't appear automatically. Php is available, as well as mod_python. There’s also a Mysql base running, if needed.
• A mail account "login@freehackers.org". You can either forward it (you can change your forward in webmail, or in the file ~/.forward), read it through the webmail (http://mail.freehackers.org) or connect to it through your usual mail reader (Outlook, thunderbird, kmail...) using the following configuration:
  • incoming server: mail.freehackers.org
  • protocol: pop3-ssl (port 6995, Warning : this is not the standard port) or imap-ssl.
  • login or account : the login you have on freehackers.org

Notes:

• ssh is not on the standard port "22": you should configure your software (winscp, rsync, scp, ...) to use port 2223
• Mail delivery is done through maildrop, so you can configure the file ~/.mailfilter to filter and sort your mail.
• To send mail through freehackers.org, you can use the authenticated smtp, from any place in the world, using the same login/password as for login and the default port, 25.
• Incoming mail is scanned by spamassassin, which set some header flags, that you can use to filter spam.
• I can create mail aliases (other fh mail addresses whose messages are sent to your login)

If you have some big data that needs not be on RAID, such as svn checkout, big temporary data, or backups, you should ask for a directory /unsecure/<login>, and store it here, using symlinks as needed.

[edit] Sys Admin

• There’s a low traffic mailing list about fh administration
• fh can be either master or slave DNS.
• fh can be either primary or secondary MX.
• fh hosts web sites using apache virtual hosting.
• fh hosts subversion and mercurial repositories(and can do CVS if you really need).
• fh hosts mailing lists : to create one, ask here ("create list, once connected").
• fh hosts rsync repositories.