Re: [Sks-devel] New wiki page: Peering

[Phil Pennock]

On 2009-11-28 at 09:48 +0000, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:
> You could explicit that you mean something like "make && make install" 
> or "aptitude install sks" as peering itself might be considered part of 
> the installation process.

I opted for "You are assumed to have installed the SKS program and to
[...]".

>     SKS basedir
> 
> Unlike many daemons SKS makes use of its current working directory as 
> its basedir.  It should be mentionned.

Done.

> Phil Pennock:
> > I'm not sure that membership_reload_interval is necessary any more, 
> > after Kim's improvements in this area.  I put it in anyway, to be safe, 
> > but would be happy to remove it again; Kim?
> 
> I am quite confident that this setting is not used anymore (and that the 
> code could do with a little cleanup regarding this).  So yes remove it.

Done.

>     The server is in The Netherlands.
> 
> Use a non existant country in the sample. The Neverland is nice.

I'm based in the USA and wary of trademarks; I strongly suspect that the
estate of a recently deceased pop star has a trademark on that.  I went
for "Foobarlandy (EU)".

>     Add the line to your config
> 
> Explicit mention of "membership file" would be better than config.

Done.

> Also a couple of words mentionning that SKS logs to db.log, recon.log 
> and generally *.log will help the new user.

Done.

> The "-disable_mailsync" option should be explained as it is a loose end 
> in SKS.

Done.

> in SKS.  Given the state of the PKS network it is perfectly acceptable 
> to use it.  At any rate if the mailsync file is empty it can be used to 
> keep the db process from spitting false alarms in the logs.  Mmm, 
> looking back at it these alarms are not completely false: it seems there 
> is a leak in the tqueue DB when you have no mailsync, I'll have to file 
> an issue about that.

Looking forward to the patch.  :)

> Kim Minh.
> 
> P.S.: browsing http://code.google.com/p/sks-keyserver/source/browse/ 
> does *not* show all source files, it stops at reconserver.ml.  Am I the 
> only one seeing this?

"Files 1 - 100 of 126"

It's not as clear as it could be.

-Phil

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