Re: new servers

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christer Edwards
> <christer edwards gmail com> wrote:
> > Team -
> >
> > I've had these new servers for a few weeks (my apologies for not
> > getting them back out the door faster!). I think I've got them ready
> > to go, I just wanted to throw out the basic install specs and see if
> > anything wanted to be changed before we lost our physical access:
> >
> > R310 :
> > hostname "orchid"
> 
> Hmmmmm why not try to fit with the existing (and unofficial) naming
> spec. I'm in favor of functional names (webapps, master, etc) or
> sticking to the existing standards. Most (if not all) of the existing
> stuff is made up of gtk widgets or function.

Servers are indeed named after widgets. It is documented somewhere on
sysadmin.gnome.org. Just find a widget which somewhat resembles the
purpose and use that. For VMs it generally doesn't make sense to use a
widget. Better to give VMs a real name IMO.

-- 
Regards,
Olav