On 4/27/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
i am fine with acting as a sysadmin for Zedler with Solaris and leaving everything else (including database) to other people--in fact, that's pretty much what i do now.
if you (or DaB, or maybe someone else, if it's someone we can trust) is okay with handing over the login server, and running some form of Linux on it, i'm also fine with that. but in that case i won't be putting any effort into it at all (although i will continue to run the DB server.)
I'd be quite willing to take sole or nearly sole authority for it if it were running some form of Linux (I don't much care, are the rest of the Wikimedia boxes Fedora? I'm most comfortable with RHES and Fedora these days, but I've also admined Debian and SUSE boxes). However, I wouldn't want to do that unless I got support from another admin. I'm fully prepared to put in the work to support it, but I don't want to leave everyone with "Greg's science project" if I have a personal crisis and vanish for a while. :)
If Greg wants backstopping, I'm more than willing, and qualified, to help out (four years professional administration of Linux boxes). Mostly Debian, but also Red Hat and Mandrake.
Kelly