[freshports-coders] Getting started with FreshPorts admin

[Dan Langille]

> On Aug 3, 2023, at 1:53 PM, Jesse Smith <jessefrgsmith at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. I'm Jesse, a long-time FreeBSD user, occasional ports
> maintainer, and a big fan of FreshPorts. I currently run a handful of
> FreeBSD servers, mostly for websites, database, and e-mail. Basic AMP
> (FAMP?) stuff.
> 
>> 
>> What's up first: learning the structure and getting things updated.  Just 'pkg upgrade' and 'freebsd-update fetch install'.  Those commands are straight forward, but knowing which services to shutdown when updating the database server, etc... that's the kind of information which needs to be passed on.
>> 
> 
> 
> This sounds like a good place to start. Count me in!
> 
> 
>> Others will need to take the lead on this. I'm happy to answer questions, but I cannot devote time to driving the delegation and discovery. 
>>> We have a host we can practice on, without affecting production:
> r720-02 - it's at NYI.net in New York.
> 
> I'd like to get a sign-in for this test server and get familiar with it
> and the processes.
> 
>> 
>> First step: speak up, tell us you're here. Nobody will be asked to do stuff they aren't comfortable with. I'm happy to run screen share sessions over Zoom/Google/etc to demonstrate and teach.
> 
> Hi, I'm here. Ready to dive in and do some basic maintenance - ideally
> on the test server first. But I'm looking forward to getting involved in
> whatever ways can help FreshPorts.


OK, everyone email me their ssh-keys if you have not already.

This may be helpful in your ~/.ssh/config file:

Host r720-02 r720-02.unixathome.org
  ForwardAgent yes
  user YOURLOGIN
  Hostname r720-02.unixathome.org
  Port 19541

Then try 'ssh r720-02' and you should be in.  That's the main host.

If that works, try this:

host r720-02-nginx01
  ProxyJump r720-02.unixathome.org
  HostName 127.163.0.80
  ForwardAgent yes
  user YOURLOGIN
  port 22

Then try 'ssh r720-02-nginx01' - that's the jail running a copy of FreshPorts. It can be found at https://r720-02.freshports.org - once I get it running. :)

Cheers.
— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/