Main Page

Guide to TechDocs for administrators and content creators

Overview

• New world versus Old World
• conform gives way to cfengine

Subject categories

Management and operation of systems	Individual systems, applications and services	Teaching tech
Home and shared directories Virtualisation and cloud Policies and principles Networking Host and server installation and setup User session and account management Configuration management and operation with cfengine Software package management and Debian	MediaWiki Monitoring - nagios, graphing, auto-configuration by update_hosts Email Old UDB New UDB bandleader maillard PostFix Printing Kerberos LDAP podman pandoc	Examine the SyntaxHighlight extension from the point of view of demands on the host (suggested by AndrewT, see also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250763) Controlling Resources & Privileges with Linux namespaces, cgroups & limits

Grab-bag of unsorted topics

• conform - nodeinfo
• Pages yet to be created

Page categories

• Pages needing work

Configuration management (cfengine)

The cfengine hub.

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MediaWiki installation leftovers

MediaWiki has been installed.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki