I spend some of my free time helping out with server administration and programming for the Swedish Pirate Party, Piratpartiet (look ma, X-Varnish), and we use Varnish for our caches. At the moment it’s just used on some of our projects, but we’re going to migrate most of our projects to be behind our Varnish caches.

The thing is though that we got two hosts running the exact same configuration, and we’d like to keep those hosts in sync. A quick search on Google gave me nothing for syncing varnish configuration over several hosts, or a farm as it were. So I took matters into my own hands and wrote varnishsync, a little bash script that uses rsync and ssh to sync the configuration folder and then to load and use the new configuration.

Yesterday I wrote a quick step-by-step guide for installing apache and setting your system up for Wikileaks mass-mirror project in Swedish and I’ve had requests for it to be translated into English.

This guide assumes you’re running Ubuntu or a Debian based system.

I’ve made a script that does all the steps below, feel free to use it!
The script: http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh
Usage: wget http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh && chmod +x wikileaks-mirror.sh && ./wikileaks-mirror.sh

Installing Apache and adding the wikileaks user #

# is the prompt as root:

A translation of this post is available in English.

En kommentar i Rick Falkvinges inlägg Fullt krig om informationen så efterfrågades en snabbguide för att dra igång en Wikileaksspegling i ett vanligt Linuxssystem.

Jag utgår från Ubuntu eftersom det är vanligt och vad jag själv använder.

Uppdatering 2010-12-05: Jag har gjort ett script som utför alla stegen nedan, använd gärna det!
Filen: http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh
Användning: wget http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh && chmod +x wikileaks-mirror.sh && ./wikileaks-mirror.sh

Installera Apache #

# är prompten som root:

I’ve so far in all my travels never found a terminal I like better than xterm, maybe urxvt, but I’ve had a problem disabling bold fonts for a very long time. Update: Seems this is a known bug for xterm.

There are a lot of X resource configuration options that makes you think you can disable bold fonts, but alas, I’ve had no luck with any of them. But if you set the same font for both normal and bold fonts it’ll work! This little gem of knowledge I found as an off-hand remark on a configuration page by Emil Mikulic, thank you!