[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Introduction
by Rino Mardo
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hello, i'm a relatively new fedora ambassador (almost a month now) and
looking to contribute more to the project.
i'm a network and systems administrator and have experience in
UNIX/Linux, shell scripts, ssh, server deployments, postfix (4 years
ago), Sun servers, firewalls, remote management. i'm still learning
python though i'd like to see it applied somewhere :-).
like many, my foremost problem is Internet connection (speed, ISP) so i
won't be able to join you guys in IRC for now (i hope the new ISP will
allow IRC).
looking forward to work with everyone.
cheers,
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17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Greetings!
by Rino Mardo
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hello, i'm a relatively new fedora ambassador (almost a month now) and
looking to contribute more to the project.
i'm a network and systems administrator and have experience in
UNIX/Linux, shell scripts, ssh, to name a few. like many, my foremost
problem is Internet connection (speed, ISP) so i won't be able to join
you guys in IRC for now (i hope the new ISP will allow IRC).
so, looking forward to work with everyone.
cheers,
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17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Getting packages for Infrastructure Servers
by Toshio Kuratomi
Hey guys,
Are we still requesting FE-3 branches for any Extras packages we need to
install on the Infrastructure Servers? I believe EPEL/RHEL/CentOS
branches are in the works but Jeremy hasn't been able to kick that off
because of the imminent release of FC-6.
-Toshio
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Introduction
by Giovanni P. Tirloni
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Hello,
I've been managing FreeBSD and Linux (Redhat, Fedora and CentOS)
servers for the past 6 years and I'd like to help the Fedora project in
this area.
My past job was at an ISP/ASP company and we did outsourcing in Unix
too. So I've experience deploying web/mail/db/file servers. I worked
there for 4 years (until the begining of this year).
In my current job I'm working as a production support analyst and my
environment includes Solaris, Oracle, PL/SQL, Python, PHP, Java, Shell
script, web services, Control-M, etc. Although the applications don't
run on Linux, all our support servers are RHAS and Debian and our tools
are written in Python, PHP, Java and Ksh.
My main interests are in *nix server deployment/management, grid
computing, web services, Java/Python and monitoring.
I've applied for an account at the website and created a GPG key.
Please let me know where I can be useful for the project.
Almost forgot, I'm from Brazil (Campinas/SP, timezone GMT-3).
Thank you,
- --
Giovanni P. Tirloni
http://www.tirloni.org
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17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Mirror stats
by Mike McGrath
I've been working on some scripts for mining information out of our
mirror logs. In addition to the awstats scipts I'm keeping a total
archive of all requests in a special format. This will allow us to
mine the information as we need to. The current plan is to keep the
archives as is until it becomes unmanageable. At present about one
months worth of logs gets reduced to about 50 M, about 5M after
compression.
In case anyone is wondering the logs are being kept on
fpserv:/srv/mirrorStats/stats.txt
The format is:
[08/Oct/2006:05:05:03 a05543977dc854b859da8e365de818b8 rawhide i386
its quick, and easy to run tools against. The second column is a md5
encrypted version of the ip address. Its not perfect but at least its
not plain text. I'm sure if someone really wanted to convert these
back to IP's they could create a rainbow table or some such silliness
but this should pre-empt anyones fears about us stockpiling ip's or
any personal information for that matter.
Eventually I'll write static frontend pages for this similar to our
awstats pages. For those keeping count there's been 17800 unique IP's
that have contacted the mirrors server looking for rawhide.
-Mike
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] IRC Meeting Log - 10/12/06
by Jeffrey Tadlock
This was a shorter meeting today. IRC Log attached.
--Jeffrey
16:00 < iWolf> Meeting time...
16:00 < iWolf> Who's here?
16:00 < skvidal> I am, for better or worse
16:01 * iWolf nods
16:01 < abadger1999> Sorta here
16:01 < Sopwith> Here
16:02 < Sopwith> (sorta)
16:02 * iWolf wraps up a phone call
16:04 < lmacken> wee.. </class><weekend>
16:04 < iWolf> OKay. Back.
16:04 < iWolf> Sorry.
16:05 < iWolf> PRobably a short meeting today. mmcgrath had something come up at work and dgilmore had a doc appointment.
16:05 < iWolf> The big thing mmcgrath wanted people to talk about was his officer/role email from earlier in the week.
16:05 < iWolf> And to take a vote on that.
16:05 < iWolf> Everyone familiar with the email?
16:05 < lmacken> indeed
16:06 < iWolf> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/fedora-infrastructure-list/2006-Oc...
16:06 < iWolf> Are most people okay with moving forward with what mmcgrath proposed?
16:06 < iWolf> dgilmore cast an absentee ballot for yes.
16:07 < iWolf> Obviously Mike thinks it's a good step forward.
16:07 < iWolf> And I'm in agreement with them. I think it is a good direction for us to head.
16:07 < iWolf> Other thoughts? Disagreements?
16:07 < skvidal> I'll go with it
16:07 < skvidal> sure
16:08 -!- lyz [n=lyz(a)dsl081-149-006.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net] has joined #fedora-admin
16:08 < lyz> meeting going on?
16:08 < iWolf> yeah.
16:08 < abadger1999> Yeah. We need officers to make day-to-day decisions, come up with new ideas, get people involved wit
h definitive tasks.
16:08 < iWolf> lyz: we are adding thoughts to mmcgrath's email earlier int eh week
16:08 < iWolf> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/fedora-infrastructure-list/2006-Oc...
16:08 < abadger1999> I'm all for it.
16:09 < iWolf> Good, sounds like the vote leans towards moving forward with mmcgrath's proposal.
16:09 < iWolf> Anyone else?
16:10 < iWolf> Okay, I think Mike's plan is to get a wiki page up to help define the roles, people listed in the email wil
l want to help define their role.
16:11 < iWolf> Once we have that, the plan is to put out another call for volunteers.
16:11 < lmacken> sounds good
16:11 < iWolf> So, be thinking of what projects would be good for a newcomer, even if they aren't on the schedule yet.
16:12 < iWolf> I think that was our issue last time, we didn't have a good plan for working them into the group. So feel
free to add to the schedule or be ready for tasks/projects for newcomers.
16:12 < iWolf> If no one else has anything to add to that, we can move on...
16:12 * iWolf pauses
16:14 < iWolf> Okay... On to the schedule. Since it is a light crowd today, speak up if you have something to report.
16:14 < lyz> |
16:14 < lyz> I'm done with the LDAP schema
16:14 < lyz> for the account system2
16:14 < iWolf> lyz: nice!
16:14 < lyz> It loads into openldap at least
16:14 < abadger1999> lyz: Cool!
16:15 < iWolf> lyz: are you adding to the wiki page with some of the info? And feel free to post to the mailing list on t
hat too.
16:15 < lyz> I'd like a box to test it on. Was that going to be a xen host
16:15 < lyz> iWolf, ok will do
16:15 < iWolf> lyz: Yeah, I think it will be a xen box. OS preference?
16:15 < lyz> Linux :)
16:15 < iWolf> :)
16:16 < lyz> RHEL 4 is good
16:16 < lyz> I need FDS though
16:16 < iWolf> lyz: okay. W've had some issues getting an RHEL to run as a Xen guest on Xen2. dgilmore has been working
on that.
16:17 < lyz> I'll try to get FDS on my FC5 box and start loading some test data up
16:17 < abadger1999> Is the xen machine going to be a test box?
16:18 < lyz> to start with yes
16:18 < abadger1999> Maybe we should setup a FC6 guest since those have been pretty trivial.
16:18 < iWolf> abadger1999: they have been much quicker to install.
16:18 < lyz> should work
16:18 < lyz> I think the version of FDS is what matters the most anyway
16:19 < iWolf> lyz: Cool, if we get the RHEL guest issue sorted out soon, then we can do that, otherwise get a Core6 guest
with FDS to at least get a test machine running for you.
16:19 < lyz> iWolf, it's a deal thanks
16:20 < iWolf> As for teh db upgrade....
16:20 < iWolf> We tried the RHEL install in a guest, which has been problematic. We did have a Core 6 box running though
where I tested the DB restores and started mapping out a more concrete plan.
16:21 < iWolf> The restores were smooth and I think I have tracked down everything using one of the databases.
16:21 < iWolf> So once we have a guest we are happy with I will be restoring the DBs to the xen guest and pointing the app
s at the new db2 server.
16:21 < iWolf> And then proceeding with the OS upgrade.
16:22 < iWolf> on db1
16:23 < iWolf> Let's see...
16:23 < iWolf> Anyone else have something to add?
16:23 < iWolf> Something they have been working on? Something we should be working on?
16:24 < abadger1999> I'm working on a script to encrypt the password files in fedora-config with all the necessary keys.
16:24 < iWolf> abadger1999: oh yeah, that looked pretty nice!
16:24 < abadger1999> Have to get pygpgme through Extras review to make it happen.
16:25 < abadger1999> But it's otherwise pretty complete.
16:25 < abadger1999> iWolf: Thanks :-)
16:25 < iWolf> It should make keeping that file updated a little less of a chore!
16:26 < abadger1999> Yeah -- Much easier as we get more admins we want to have access :-)
16:27 < abadger1999> Speaking of packages - Do we still request FC-3 branches of Extras packages we need to run on the ser
vers?
16:28 < abadger1999> I think EL branches are waiting on jeremy to have time to set it up.
16:28 < iWolf> abadger1999: I am not 100% certain on that. I think that has come up in a meeting before, but I can't reca
ll the final thought.
16:28 < iWolf> yeah, that seems to be what mmcgrath has said (re. EL branches).
16:28 < iWolf> abadger1999: I would post that one to the list and see what comes of it.
16:29 < abadger1999> iWolf: k
16:30 < iWolf> I think that covers it for the people here.
16:30 < iWolf> If no one else has anything to add......
16:31 < iWolf> With that, the meeting is adjourned.
16:31 < iWolf> I'll post the log to the list.
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Bad email aliases
by Ahmed Kamal
Hi,
The following list of email aliases were found to be bad and will be
deleted from the aliases database
andré.proença.varão.nogueira
jasper.o'neal.hartline
robert.'bob'.jensen
ralf.corsépius
devrim.gÜndÜz
diego.búrigo.zacarão
máirín.duffy
michał.bentkowski
eduardo.villagrán.morales
frank.büttner
gérard.milmeister
guillermo.gómez
haïkel.guémar
hernán.pachas.magallanes
josé.abílio.oliveira.matos
john.(j5).palmieri
kristian.høgsberg
marius.l..jøhndal
mikko.virkkilä
michał.plaugo
pádraig.brady
rafał.psota
piotr.drąg
rômulo.de.barros.correia.jales
rick.l..vinyard,.jr.
radek.vokál
václav.míšek
sindre.pedersen.bjørdal
alexander.täschner
andrás.tóth
françois.obada.pathirannahalage
josé.nuno.coelho.sanarra.pires
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Wiki broken - help needed!
by Michael Schwendt
Somebody with the e-mail address <liangmeiairen\uff20163> has subscribed
to some Wiki pages and breaks them in several ways:
* Mail notifications are disabled. I no longer receive mails when
somebody edits such a page.
* Editing the pages gives a colourful traceback.
Happens with e.g.:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/FC5Status
--> -->
UnicodeEncodeError'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\uff20' in position 22: ordinal not in range(128) Please include this information in your bug reports!:
Python Python 2.3.4: /usr/bin/python
Linux fpserv.linux.duke.edu 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 13:38:27 BST 2006 x86_64
MoinMoin Release 1.3.4 [Revision 1.3.4 release]
Sat Oct 7 19:02:05 2006
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/request.py in run(self=<MoinMoin.request.RequestCGI instance>)
916 else:
917 try:
918 cgitb.Hook(file=self).handle(saved_exc)
919 # was: cgitb.handler()
920 except:
cgitb = <module 'MoinMoin.support.cgitb' from '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/support/cgitb.pyc'>, cgitb.Hook = <class MoinMoin.support.cgitb.Hook>, file undefined, self = <MoinMoin.request.RequestCGI instance>, ).handle undefined, saved_exc = (<class exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError>, <exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError instance>, <traceback object>)
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/wikiaction.py in do_savepage(pagename=u'Extras/FC5Status', request=<MoinMoin.request.RequestCGI instance>)
628 except pg.SaveError, msg:
629 # msg contain a unicode string
630 savemsg = unicode(msg)
631
632 # Send new page after save or after unsuccessful conflict merge.
savemsg undefined, unicode undefined, msg undefined
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/PageEditor.py in saveText(self=<MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>, newtext=u'== Fedora Extras for FC5 repository status ==\n\n ...at.com||perl-Razor-Agent||||\n----\nCategoryExtras\n', rev=184, **kw={'comment': u'sysprof - 1.0.3-4.fc5.ppc and amarok - 1.4.1-3.fc5.x86_64 will be gone', 'trivial': 0})
940 # send notification mails
941 if self.request.cfg.mail_smarthost:
942 msg = msg + self._notifySubscribers(comment, trivial)
943
944 # remove lock (forcibly if we were allowed to break it by the UI)
msg = u'Thank you for your changes. Your attention to detail is appreciated.', self = <MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>, self._notifySubscribers = <bound method PageEditor._notifySubscribers of <MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>>, comment = u'sysprof - 1.0.3-4.fc5.ppc and amarok - 1.4.1-3.fc5.x86_64 will be gone', trivial = 0
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/PageEditor.py in _notifySubscribers(self=<MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>, comment=u'sysprof - 1.0.3-4.fc5.ppc and amarok - 1.4.1-3.fc5.x86_64 will be gone', trivial=0)
580 emails = map(lambda u: u.email, subscribers[lang])
581 names = map(lambda u: u.name, subscribers[lang])
582 mailok, status = self._sendNotification(comment, emails, lang, revisions, trivial)
583 recipients = ", ".join(names)
584 results.append(_('[%(lang)s] %(recipients)s: %(status)s') % {
mailok = 1, status = u'Mail sent OK', self = <MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>, self._sendNotification = <bound method PageEditor._sendNotification of <MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>>, comment = u'sysprof - 1.0.3-4.fc5.ppc and amarok - 1.4.1-3.fc5.x86_64 will be gone', emails = [u'tchung(a)fedoraproject.org', u'ville.skytta(a)iki.fi', u'fedora(a)leemhuis.info', u'rdieter(a)math.unl.edu', u'ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net', u'Christian.Iseli(a)licr.org', u'sundaram(a)redhat.com', u'nman64(a)fedoraproject.org', u'michael(a)knox.net.nz', u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', u'flores.enrique(a)gmail.com'], lang = 'en', revisions = [184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172, 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, 165, ...], trivial = 0
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/PageEditor.py in _sendNotification(self=<MoinMoin.PageEditor.PageEditor instance>, comment=u'sysprof - 1.0.3-4.fc5.ppc and amarok - 1.4.1-3.fc5.x86_64 will be gone', emails=[u'tchung(a)fedoraproject.org', u'ville.skytta(a)iki.fi', u'fedora(a)leemhuis.info', u'rdieter(a)math.unl.edu', u'ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net', u'Christian.Iseli(a)licr.org', u'sundaram(a)redhat.com', u'nman64(a)fedoraproject.org', u'michael(a)knox.net.nz', u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', u'flores.enrique(a)gmail.com'], email_lang='en', revisions=[184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172, 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, 165, ...], trivial=0)
556 'username': self.uid_override or user.getUserIdentification(self.request),
557 },
558 mailBody, mail_from=self.cfg.mail_from)
559
560
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/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/util/mail.py in sendmail(request=<MoinMoin.request.RequestCGI instance>, to=[u'tchung(a)fedoraproject.org', u'ville.skytta(a)iki.fi', u'fedora(a)leemhuis.info', u'rdieter(a)math.unl.edu', u'ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net', u'Christian.Iseli(a)licr.org', u'sundaram(a)redhat.com', u'nman64(a)fedoraproject.org', u'michael(a)knox.net.nz', u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', u'flores.enrique(a)gmail.com'], subject=u'[Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Extras/FC5Status" by MichaelSchwendt', text='Dear Wiki user,\r\n\r\nYou have subscribed to a wiki...ion independent, disttagless, noarch packages):\r\n', **kw={'mail_from': 'fedorawiki-noreply(a)fedoraproject.org'})
85 return (0, str(e))
86 except (os.error, socket.error), e:
87 return (0, _("Connection to mailserver '%(server)s' failed: %(reason)s") % {
88 'server': cfg.mail_smarthost,
89 'reason': str(e)
_ = <function <lambda>>, cfg = <wikiconfig.Config instance>, cfg.mail_smarthost = 'mail.linux.duke.edu', str undefined, e undefined
/usr/lib64/python2.3/smtplib.py in sendmail(self=<smtplib.SMTP instance>, from_addr='fedorawiki-noreply(a)fedoraproject.org', to_addrs=[u'tchung(a)fedoraproject.org', u'ville.skytta(a)iki.fi', u'fedora(a)leemhuis.info', u'rdieter(a)math.unl.edu', u'ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net', u'Christian.Iseli(a)licr.org', u'sundaram(a)redhat.com', u'nman64(a)fedoraproject.org', u'michael(a)knox.net.nz', u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', u'flores.enrique(a)gmail.com'], msg='Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"\nMIME-V...LCBkaXN0dGFnbGVzcywgbm9hcmNoIHBhY2thZ2VzKToNCg==\n', mail_options=[], rcpt_options=[])
679 to_addrs = [to_addrs]
680 for each in to_addrs:
681 (code,resp)=self.rcpt(each, rcpt_options)
682 if (code != 250) and (code != 251):
683 senderrs[each]=(code,resp)
code = 250, resp = 'Ok', self = <smtplib.SMTP instance>, self.rcpt = <bound method SMTP.rcpt of <smtplib.SMTP instance>>, each = u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', rcpt_options = []
/usr/lib64/python2.3/smtplib.py in rcpt(self=<smtplib.SMTP instance>, recip=u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', options=[])
462 if options and self.does_esmtp:
463 optionlist = ' ' + ' '.join(options)
464 self.putcmd("rcpt","TO:%s%s" % (quoteaddr(recip),optionlist))
465 return self.getreply()
466
self = <smtplib.SMTP instance>, self.putcmd = <bound method SMTP.putcmd of <smtplib.SMTP instance>>, global quoteaddr = <function quoteaddr>, recip = u'liangmeiairen\uff20163 .com', optionlist = ''
/usr/lib64/python2.3/smtplib.py in putcmd(self=<smtplib.SMTP instance>, cmd='rcpt', args=u'TO:<liangmeiairen\uff20163>')
323 else:
324 str = '%s %s%s' % (cmd, args, CRLF)
325 self.send(str)
326
327 def getreply(self):
self = <smtplib.SMTP instance>, self.send = <bound method SMTP.send of <smtplib.SMTP instance>>, str = u'rcpt TO:<liangmeiairen\uff20163>\r\n'
/usr/lib64/python2.3/smtplib.py in send(self=<smtplib.SMTP instance>, str=u'rcpt TO:<liangmeiairen\uff20163>\r\n')
313 except socket.error:
314 self.close()
315 raise SMTPServerDisconnected('Server not connected')
316 else:
317 raise SMTPServerDisconnected('please run connect() first')
global SMTPServerDisconnected = <class smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected>
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17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] offline/vacations
by Christian Iseli
Hi folks,
I'll be completely offline from now til Wednesday, and then probably
semi-offline for the rest of the week. I'll try to catch up on email
on Wednesday, but then I dunno what kind of network connection I'll be
able to find...
I most probably won't be able to attend the meeting on Thursday.
See you in a week...
Cheers,
C
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-infrastructure-list] NewAdmin process
by Ahmed Kamal
Hi,
Reading the IRC meeting log, I understand you guys want to work on a
process to make it easy for new volunteers to start joining FI smoothly.
Being a new volunteer member, I thought I would share some problems I faced,
hoping to stir more thought leading to a good process in the short run.
Let's define what we'll probably need:
1- Network layout: Being a new member, I have no idea what the network
topology is, what are the server names, external/internal IPs ... Some form
of a document (wiki drawing of the network?) would be extremely helpful IMHO
2- Xen-guests: In the near future, it seems everything will be running in
Xen guests! A new technology, most new admins will not have mastered yet! I
guess we need a quick intro to installing/handling Xen guests in the FI
network. This should explain whatever templates/KS-files you guys use.
3- Server Access: Having registered myself and submitted my SSH/GPG keys, it
is totally unclear to me what kind of access this gives me! Please make it
clear to the new volunteer, what he can access to start working on. Perhaps
some (playground) Xen-guests, for testing new deployments would be helpful?
4- Breaking down tasks: I think volunteers are more suited to working on
longer term tasks, rather than immediate attention tasks. We might need to
start defining longer term goals, and break those goals into smaller
tasklets that many volunteers can start working on. As time goes on, natural
leaders will emerge to handle managing those micro-projects.
Ok, those are the points I could think of (well it is 3:30am here!), I just
hope to get this new process going soon.
Best Regards
17 years, 6 months
