This document is a how-to for installing a Fedora scripts.mit.edu server. * Check out the scripts.mit.edu svn repository. Configure svn not to cache credentials. * cd to server/fedora in the svn repository. * Run "make install-deps" to install various prereqs. * Create a scripts-build account, and set up rpm to build in $HOME. If you just use the default setup, it will generate packages in /usr/src/redhat. * Use the Makefile to build the scripts.mit.edu-specific Fedora packages. - export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin - make download - make setup - make all - openafs-devel is a build-dependency of accountadm, so you'll need to install it by hand when that fails. Then install all the packages as root. * Rebuild mit-zephyr on a 32-bit machine, like the one at Joe's home. * Run "make suexec" and "make suexec-install" to overwrite /usr/sbin/suexec with one that works. The one installed by the newly-built Apache RPM is misconfigured. * Check out the scripts /etc configuration, which is done most easily by - svn co https://scripts.mit.edu:1111/server/fedora/config/etc - \cp -a etc / * Copy over root's dotfiles. * Install various dependencies of the scripts system, including syslog-ng, glibc-devel.i386, python-twisted-core, mod_fcgid, nrpe, nagios-plugins-all. * Disable SELinux and NetworkManager. * Figure out why Zephyr isn't working and why the openafs /usr/vice/etc <-> /etc/openafs mapping isn't in sync. * Install the full list of RPMs that users expect to be on the scripts.mit.edu servers. See server/doc/rpm and server/doc/rpm_snapshot. (Note that this is only a snapshot, and not all packages may in fact be in use.) * Install the full list of perl modules that users expect to be on the scripts.mit.edu servers. See server/doc/perl and server/doc/perl_snapshot. - export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 - Run 'cpan', accept the default configuration, and do 'o conf prerequisites_policy follow'. - Parse the output of perldoc -u perllocal | grep head2 on an existing server, and "notest install" them from the cpan prompt. * Install the Python eggs and Ruby gems and PEAR/PECL doohickeys that are on the other scripts.mit.edu servers and do not have RPMs. - Look at /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages for Python eggs and modules. - Look at `gem list` for Ruby gems. - Look at `pear list` for Pear fruits (or whatever they're called). * echo 'import site, os.path; site.addsitedir(os.path.expanduser("~/lib/python2.5/site-packages"))' > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/00scripts-home.pth * Install the credentials (machine keytab, daemon.scripts keytab, SSL certs). * Attempt to check out server/fedora/config/etc into /etc. The easiest way to do this is to create a checkout of etc in another directory and mv -f this on top of /etc. - If you are setting up a test server, pay attention to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and do not bind scripts' IP address. You will also need to modify /etc/ldap.conf, /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, and /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost_ldap.conf to use scripts.mit.edu instead of localhost. * Install fedora-ds-base and set up replication (see /mit/scripts/doc and /mit/geofft/Public/fedora-ds-enable-ssl-and-kerberos.diff). * Install nslcd / nss-ldapd, which, unlike nss-ldap, doesn't crash every few hours. Add /sbin/service dirsrv start and /sbin/nslcd to /etc/rc.local, or better yet package nss-ldapd properly. * Make the services dirsrv, postfix, and httpd start at boot. * Run fmtutil-sys --all, which does something that makes TeX work. * (Optional) Beat your head against a wall. * I recommend setting noatime for the root filesystem in /etc/fstab. * Possibly perform other steps that I've neglected to put in this document.