How-To

Emergency operations

• Switch to Suda read only

Other operations

• RCS : how to easily keep track of changes made to configuration files.
• Screen : how to keep stuff running when you log out
• vim : how to enhance your vi experience
• Kernel howto : bitkeeper
• Adding an apache
• reattribute edits
• Make an email alias
• Alter mailman archives

Database:

• Searchindex update
• MySQL permissions
• adding a file in innodb
• Setting up a MySQL replica
• Checking MySQL replication
• Set Ariel as master db
• conversion to utf-8
• Make a database dump
• Compress old revisions

Wikifarm:

• Add a language
• Add a special wiki
• Add a server
• Upgrade PHP
• update wikitech with server inventory

Obsolete

Database:

• Lock wait timeout fix (Querybane takes care of this now)