infrastructure September 2009

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Finally ready to get involved and applied to the Sysadmin group
by Daniele Catanesi 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hello all, as suggested while applying to the Sysadmin group I'm writing to let you know I'm finally ready to be involved actively in the project and I'm looking for someone to sponsor my candidature to the group. As I've written in a previous mail I think the groups will fit my skills would probably be sysadmin-noc and sysadmin-test as the tools/task used in these groups are in line with what I'm usually tasked with, but well one step at time :) Just in case it is needed again my FAS username is ccielogs, Thanks and see you Thursday on IRC, Daniele.

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CVS Outage Notification - 2009-09-29 04:25 UTC
by Jesse Keating 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

There will be a CVS outage starting at 2009-09-29 04:25 UTC, which will last approximately 3 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-09-29 04:25 UTC' Affected Services: CVS / Source Control Unaffected Services: Everything else. Reason for Outage: The CVS server will not accept connections so that we can mass-branch for Fedora 12. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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[OFF] About my collaborations.
by Davi Vercillo C. Garcia 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi, I'm writing this e-mail for explain why I'm away from the group, avoiding bad speculations about my collaborations to Fedora Project. When I've started to try to help this team, I thought that my knowledge was enough to do those things that you do. But I've discovered that I need more experience and technical knowledge to do that. To not leave the project, I tried to find something that I could do better. So, I joined to Ambassadors' groups and to the Brazil Infrastructure group. And, right now, I'm evangelizing the project for people from communities that I participate, and helping the Brazilian infra team with theirs web services. That doesn't means that I'll give up to try to help here, or leave this group. But now, I'm preparing myself, learning more about this project and this team, for come back and try again. Sorry about something that I did. Thanks, -- Davi Vercillo C. Garcia B.Sc. Student - DCC-IM/UFRJ Fedora Project Contributor http://davivercillo.fedorapeople.org/ "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

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Introduction
by Lee Williams 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi, Looking at the wiki it says to introduce myself. Well here goes... I'm married with 3 kids (aged 4, 2, 1 :D)... full time job but I do get time to spare surprisingly!!!! I love my family to pieces they mean the world to me. I've been working in IT for 10yrs now all in a Microsoft DOS / Windows based environment, starting with development in FoxBASE and FoxPro and moving through the versions to visual fox. I've not attended university but have never had a problem with reading / googlin' bits to learn new things; I do get quite a kick from picking up "new to me" technologies and helping to solve problems. Currently I work full time as a Visual Studio developer with Technology Management Ltd. in the UK developing .NET applications for the WinCE / Windows Mobile based mobile device market. Those applications are mainly written in C# but we do have a significant VB.net code base. Following the latest Microsoft based OS crash at home a rebuild has become necessary which I started this weekend - yesterday in fact, so I made the choice to make Linux my main OS; to be fair it should've been from when I dabbled with Fedora 7 and 8 thereafter... still... my foot has gone down, and my wife is scheduled a tour of Fedora at the weekend ;) I have recently bootstrapped myself to other languages C / C++ and php for web work I'm finding this interesting to say the least. I do have some experience with Apache and MySQL (obviously the strong knowledge I have in Internet Information Services and SQL Server have been somewhat transferable). It looks like I need to add python to the list of things to learn and this is something I've been mulling over so may just make that leap. >From all of that I'm hoping you can tell that whilst I have very little experience with 'nix environments I am keen to learn just need some guidance on where to go to pick that up. Away from PC's (if there ever is such time) I play guitar - well I play guitar, banjo, and mandolin to be honest. The last two I'm not so hot at but I can "hold my own" - to coin a phrase - on the guitar. I also love to read; and have - of all things - recently started dabbling in magic and performance thereof but... now I'm rambling :D I look forward to helping in whatever way I can. I'm looking for a good place to start, I'm obviously following the wiki, reading up when I can, and of course getting my own Fedora environment setup (although I do have one running in VirtualBox at work to satiate the 'nix desires whilst I'm at work :D). I'm am currently hoping to help in the sysadmin-devel FIG. So hello nice to "meet" and greet, and I hope you're well. Lee.

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Updating servers before the freeze.
by Stephen John Smoogen 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

We would like to get the servers updated to RHEL-5.4 before the freeze next week. The boxes will be updated with remote ones done first and then the ones inisde of PHX. First will be: bu1: people1 ibiblio1: app5 backup2 ns2 proxy4 publictest1 publictest2 publictest3 torrent1 osuosl1: publictest6 publictest7 publictest8 serverbeach2: asterisk1 collab1 ns1 serverbeach3: collab2 asterisk2 serverbeach4: hosted1 serverbeach5: hosted2 telia1: app6 noc2 proxy5 publictest14 publictest15 publictest16 smtp-mm1 tummy1: proxy3 publictest10 -------------------------------- xen14: app1 bapp1 cvs1 fas2 puppet1 xen9: app2 app2.stg db1.stg memcached1 proxy1.stg sync1 xen3: app4 cvs1.stg fas1.stg qa1 releng1.stg spin1 sync2 xen5: bastion2 fas1 kojipkgs1 noc1 proxy1 value1 xen6: app7 xen10: log1 memcached2 xen13: app1.stg ------------------------------------ xen1: koji1 xen2: koji2 releng1 sign1 xen7: app3 proxy2 releng2 value2 xen11: secondary1 xen12: db1 xen15: RHEL5-mpm db2 koji1.stg relepel1 sign-bridge1 db3 I think we can do this Sunday/Monday.. the last set I will avoid as it would most effect engineering. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

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Very large logfile on torrent1
by Stephen John Smoogen 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

So it looks like bttrack did not properly rotate its log in late August and had been writing to an old inode for a month. This filled up / to 85%. I cat'd the inode to /srv/tmp/oldlog for perusal.. I then grep '2./Sep/2009:' /srv/tmp/oldlog > /var/log/bittorrent/bttrack.log to get the last 4 days (500 mb of stuff) and started up bttrack again. I then did grep '2./Sep/2009:' /srv/tmp/oldlog > bttrack.log.20090919 and gzipped that into /var/log. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

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Freeze on Tuesday!
by Mike McGrath 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Just a reminder we'll be pre-release frozen starting on Tuesday the 29th. Get the changes in while you still can :) -Mike

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Meeting Log - 2009-09-24
by Ricky Zhou 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

20:00 < mmcgrath> #startmeeting Infrastructure 20:00 < zodbot> Meeting started Thu Sep 24 20:00:57 2009 UTC. The chair is mmcgrath. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00 < zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:00 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: (Meeting topic: Infrastructure) 20:00 * ricky 20:00 < mmcgrath> #topic Who's here? 20:00 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Who's here? (Meeting topic: Infrastructure) 20:01 * nirik is around. 20:01 * collier_s is 20:01 * a-k is here 20:01 < Ccielogs> good evening :) 20:01 * SmootherFrOgZ is 20:02 < abadger1999> Hello 20:02 -!- mikaellundberg [n=mikaellu(a)81-233-188-46-no87.tbcn.telia.com] has joined #fedora-meeting 20:02 * bochecha is here 20:02 < SmootherFrOgZ> abadger1999: hey ;) 20:02 < smooge> here 20:02 < mmcgrath> Ok, lets get started 20:02 < smooge> between sneezes 20:02 -!- _buno_ [n=bernd(a)nrbg-4dbe7b51.pool.mediaWays.net] has joined #fedora-meeting 20:02 < abadger1999> :-) 20:02 < mmcgrath> #topic Meeting Tickets 20:02 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Meeting Tickets (Meeting topic: Infrastructure) 20:03 < mmcgrath> Ah, I see no tickets :) 20:04 -!- azneita [n=azneita(a)121.97.177.169] has quit Network is unreachable 20:04 < mmcgrath> soo 20:04 < SmootherFrOgZ> :) 20:04 < mmcgrath> #topic Beta release 20:04 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Beta release (Meeting topic: Infrastructure) 20:04 < mmcgrath> The beta release will be in a few weeks. 20:04 < mmcgrath> that means we're going to be change frozen starting Tuesday next week. 20:04 < mmcgrath> So if you've got something to get in, get it in ASAP. 20:04 < mmcgrath> also, if you've got any major changes to do. Please try to get it in before the beta is done. It's hard to make changes between the beta and final release. 20:04 < mmcgrath> at least it has been in the past. 20:05 -!- krichard [n=krichard(a)cpe-024-211-252-120.nc.res.rr.com] has joined #fedora-meeting 20:05 -!- rishi [n=rishi@gnu-india/supporter/debarshi] has quit Read error: 145 (Connection timed out) 20:05 < smooge> no changes I know of at the moment from me. 20:05 < mmcgrath> K, any questions or comments on the upcomming freeze? 20:06 < mmcgrath> Allrighty 20:06 -!- cassmodiah [n=cass@fedora/cassmodiah] has quit Remote closed the connection 20:06 < mmcgrath> #topic Our first mirror 20:06 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Our first mirror (Meeting topic: Infrastructure) 20:06 < mmcgrath> So I finally setup our first mirror 20:06 < mmcgrath> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/ 20:06 < mmcgrath> I'd like to get it serverbeach branded at some point since they're paying for the whole thing and they've been good to us. 20:07 < mmcgrath> But it should start showing up in our mirror list soon if it's not there already. 20:07 < mmcgrath> we'll get a lot of interesting metrics from this, like package info. 20:08 < smooge> cool 20:08 < smooge> how much disk space did it take and how is it set up? 20:08 < mmcgrath> it's setup just like a normal mirror, only pulling in 10, 11 and EPEL. 20:08 < mmcgrath> excluding debug, and ppc for the moment 20:08 < mmcgrath> and we have 20:09 < mmcgrath> used about 150G and have 225G more available. 20:10 < mmcgrath> any other questions on that? 20:10 < smooge> not at the moment 20:10 < SmootherFrOgZ> nope 20:10 -!- mikaellundberg [n=mikaellu(a)81-233-188-46-no87.tbcn.telia.com] has quit 20:10 < smooge> It will be intersting how it handles release 20:11 < mmcgrath> probably not very well, it's not a very beefy box in that respect 20:11 < smooge> and to see if disk layouts and schedulers will affect it 20:11 < mmcgrath> only so much you can do with a two disk raid1 array as a mirror :) 20:12 < mmcgrath> but I too am curious how it will behave 20:12 < Ccielogs> :) 20:12 < mmcgrath> Ok 20:12 < mmcgrath> really that's all i have for this week. 20:12 < mmcgrath> so I'll open the floor 20:13 < mmcgrath> #topic Open Floor 20:13 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Open Floor (Meeting topic: Infrastructure) 20:13 < mmcgrath> anyone have anything they'd like to discuss? 20:14 < mmcgrath> no one has anything? 20:14 < mmcgrath> sweet, short meeting :) 20:14 < skvidal> I had a question 20:14 < SmootherFrOgZ> pxe move ? 20:14 < skvidal> oh nevermind 20:14 < SmootherFrOgZ> oops 20:14 < SmootherFrOgZ> phx move ? 20:14 < SmootherFrOgZ> any news ? 20:14 < smooge> mmcgrath, well then it should be as good as the old RH mirrors from 2001. 20:14 -!- JSchmitt [n=s4504kr@fedora/JSchmitt] has joined #fedora-meeting 20:14 < mmcgrath> SmootherFrOgZ: still going on AFAIK. I've put in a purchase for 4 new servers for PHX2 that will get installed early 20:14 < mmcgrath> that way we can test network out and all that. 20:14 < mmcgrath> as well as have some services migrated over prior to shutting PHX down 20:15 < mmcgrath> not sure when they'll get delivered though 20:15 -!- dwmw2_HIO is now known as dwmw2_gone 20:15 < SmootherFrOgZ> k. i can't remenber if our cloud infra will move also ? 20:15 < ricky> I thought those were already in PHX2 20:15 < mmcgrath> SmootherFrOgZ: nope, it'll stay 20:15 < mmcgrath> and be on a different network 20:15 < SmootherFrOgZ> nod 20:16 -!- RodrigoPadula [n=RodrigoP(a)189.106.7.117] has joined #fedora-meeting 20:17 < mmcgrath> Well, anyone have anything else? 20:17 < skvidal> not worth discussing 20:17 < skvidal> :) 20:17 < smooge> skvidal, did you have a questions still 20:17 < smooge> ok nm 20:18 < mmcgrath> hah 20:18 < mmcgrath> k 20:18 < mmcgrath> then we'll close the meeting in 30 20:19 < mmcgrath> #endmeeting 20:19 -!- zodbot changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Channel is used by various Fedora groups and committees for their regular meetings | Note that meetings often get logged | For questions about using Fedora please ask in #fedora | See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel for meeting schedule 20:19 < zodbot> Meeting ended Thu Sep 24 20:19:13 2009 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . 20:19 < zodbot> Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-24/fedora-meeting.2… 20:19 < zodbot> Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-24/fedora-meeting.2… 20:19 < zodbot> Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-24/fedora-meeting.2…

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Self introduction Daniele Catanesi
by Daniele Catanesi 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hello all, my name is Daniele Catanesi and I've been thinking to subscribe to the infrastructure list for some time now. I'm an Italian Network and Systems Engineer with around 9 years of experience, I've been using Linux since 1999/2000 as my main Operating System and on various infrastructure servers in my actual company, even if their/our job is mainly geared toward MS stuff, with the responsibility to administer and keep them up and running. My main skills are in the networking area even if I feel confident in the administration and troubleshooting of Linux based servers, which to be totally honest is what I like more. I already participate in the Fedora project with the Italian L10N team localizing packages in my native language and I would like to participate in the infrastructure project for two main reasons, the first and somehow obvious one is the need to give back to the community, the second one is I think there is no better way to help than doing what I like which can be a good way to refine my skills. I have a permanent lab that could be easily used for testing purposes and proof of concept (measure twice and cut once) and I would be more than glad to use it to benefit the community. Ok I hope I did not "talk" too much, I'm going to read the various Infrastructure Wiki section the get a better view of the entire process. Thanks, Daniele. P.S. Working on the Fedora Project I've already created an account, of course, and signed the CLA so I guess I can skip this section. I know this could sound silly but I prefer to be sure.

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Re: Wiki account removal needed?
by Jon Stanley 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like the user "Georgia10" just inserted spam on that page. > Aiyiyi. What's our procedure for deleting/disabling a rogue FAS account? It appears that the account in question was just created today, probably for the express purpose of spamming the wiki and then disappearing. I would like to think that only a human could create an accounts, there's a variety of steps involved. But maybe some sort of CAPTCHA on the signup page could reduce this in the future?

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